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Such a very poignant episode. 👏
More than anything else, I felt awful for Akash today. His behaviour was no longer following the nefarious dictates of his opportunistic wife in order to gain the material comforts that Scindia house had to offer. He had another agenda altogether and behind all the bluster and the arrogance, there was a very hurt child calling for help. And as though it was the most natural thing in the world, Yash, who is no more than a few hours older than Akash slipped into the role of a strong, resilient parent. On the surface, what Akash did today was to humiliate Yash, but on another level, it was him striving to effectively express the world of pain he had lived all his life.
His only confidante all these years has been Radha, and far from share his pain with her, he would have been trying his best to protect her from her share because that is the kind of person we know him to be. Now when he most needs it, he has lost the comfort of even Radha's guiding, maternal hand and finds himself alone in this crowded house, though he has technically been accepted as a member of the family. So in all his nastiness, I see him desperately trying to communicate with Yash: "can you begin to understand what I have been through? Do you really think I can be one of you confident, secure brothers after I have lived a life of poverty, humiliation and slander? Take one day in my place and see what it is like... you won't be able to handle it!" I am guessing that everything he said to Yash and made him do today was something he had faced himself, over and over again which is why it came out with so much angst and venom. Akshay was FANTASTIC in this scene, depicting the two layers of Akash's outburst.
Akash is scared. Everything he asked for has been given to him unquestioningly and somewhere deep down he is an honourable man, as we have been shown; he is afraid of not living up to it. In the end what he really wants is not this material wealth, which he sees as the attractive means to a specific end. He wants acceptance and validation and he is downright terrified of removing his mask of cavalier arrogance and pride, for the very simple fear that the Scindias will not be able to accept him for who he is: a lower middle class man with humble claims to such things as education, manners and general know-how of the elite. That is why he is drawn to Ishita's plotting and planning despite the fact that he can see right through her. She appears to him the only lifeline that he has, the only one connecting him to this alien world he has been thrust into.
However, because of Yash's unwavering patience, Akash is opening up to him in spite of himself and I think Yash does sense this. That is why he is not retaliating... somehow, he can read the pain behind the taunts and the infliction of pain and humiliation and is allowing Akash to get it all out of his system. In a lot of ways, it reminds me strikingly of Yash and Ansh's relationship at the beginning of the PV. Ansh too dreamed of material thinks when he dreamed about having a father, a big car to go to school in, toys, clothes and sports day trophies. That is the mould he tried to push Yash into at first. When Yash innocuously superceded the mental limits that Ansh had set for him by asserting his authority and a right to Aarti, Ansh started to react badly.
I see Akash's behaviour at the moment as a very adult version of Ansh's hairpin stunt. Akash, like Ansh is afraid to surrender his emotional independence and didn't picture his acceptance into the family past the material. Now that Yash has given up the material things and the relationship development has to move to the next level, Akash is panicking and pushing the Scindias away. For Ansh, it was Yash rescuing him from the kidnapping despite his outward declaration of rebellion by running away from school that allowed him to trust Yash and recede back into childhood comfortably. The segment shows us that a similar incident is coming up for Akash, where Yash saves his life, despite the fact that he has been humiliating Yash and his wife was the one trying to do away with Yash altogether. We will have to see if it has a similar, pivotal effect for his integration into the family and the needful surrender of himself to the love that some of them really want to give him.
Ishita represents all the material perks of Akash's acceptance into the Scindia house. He is simultaneously allured and repulsed by what he sees. He likes to assert his right over it, but tells her, which I assume is true for the wealth, that she can leave any time she wants. He doesn't need her nor does he have any real attachment. Yash, on the other hand, represents actual familial acceptance and love, something that Akash wants so badly it scares the living daylights out of him. In a way, he too is testing Yash, "see what I really am and then if you still say I am worth accepting, I will make an effort." In short Akash is playing very safe and testing the waters. He is not convinced by the Scindias and I see Gayatri and Yash being the only ones who both perceive and want to improve the status quo... Yash is doing what perhaps, Gayatri could not in giving a chance for Akash to vent.
How far our Aarti and Yash have come! There was once a time not so long ago when Yash liked to wallow in self-pity solo, and Aarti thought it was imperative somehow that Yash only see her smiling, supportive face, never any sorrow or burden, thereby enabling the aforementioned solitary wallowing. But it was a different story today. Aarti couldn't bring herself to comfort Yash when she herself felt so distraught and so she walked away instead of pretending and did what she feels like doing whenever the situation is abject: she stood in front of god and cried her heart out. Lo and behold the difference it makes to Yash. He feels the need to go over and comfort her, her need makes him act and not only does it make him feel strong and able, but he sees that there is no shame or weakness in shedding a tear or two for the depressing situation, and letting go of some of the burden on his heart, in before he picks up and moves on afresh. This is precisely what didn't happen with Arpita's mourning. Yash tends to go into emotional inertia unless someone needs him or he is somehow forced to face his emotions: he did both today and by the time he emerged from his tryst with Aarti, he was a new man, ready to face the next challenge!
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