Today's take - Moves and countermoves

Posting before Dia today too... she will post later tonight ! IST times don't suit Dia😉

Uff – another power packed episode…. UB makes her moves…..totally unexpected… how will CC and Maanav counter it or should they go with the flow?

The episode starts where it left off yesterday with UB and CC still in the gazebo. UB talks of protecting the foundation of her house and how she sees CC as a threat to those foundations…. CC says that even roots need fresh air and while she may aspire to fly , she is realistic and can be grounded. She is not that bahu who wants to take control nor the bahu who will remain under control and not protest or change things. UB tells CC that she knows she is not bad ... she cares for Manav ... but her home and her ideals are important!

And UB cries ( crocodile?)…. Maybe real!! CC tells UB that she realizes her intentions and the reasons behind her actions and will therefore not need any proof against her (poof … the video….Why oh why. …does this happen to bitiya all the time… she loses or destroys evidence😡

CC tells UB that they both wish the same thing , their ideologies and methodologies are different .

UB tells CC that she cannot run the house and keep it together based on her principles… its only her principles and ideas and rules that keep the house and family together and walks away!!

CC swears that she will be able to gain UB's thrust and also allow her ideas to be used in the house!!

Manav in the meanwhile is looking for his mother and his wife and chances upon CC in the gazebo… CC tells him that his mother had come to see if she was OK or not!! Both relive their first gazebo moment😳

Cut to the morning , the bahus are in the temple to complete the vrat… missing UB…. Kaumudi officiates ….they return and find the BS parivar at the breakfast table … they are about to rush off to get lunch and the tiffin boxes ready but Dadaji stops them and………the first winds of change blow…… the bahus sit down to breakfast and are served by their husbands

UB is still missing and as everyone is wondering where she is , she comes back , gives her bahus and daughter gifts for their vrat…… and the drops the bomb!! She has gone to get their old house cleaned… because someone is moving out of the house…. CC and Manav ……( what a move!!)… Why? She feels that there should be no more room for misunderstandings like the one CC had voiced the previous day to the whole family ….

Understandably , everyone is zonked/shocked/gobsmacked…. They ask why… didn't she forgive CC for what she had thought… but UB is obstinate….. she wants them to go…….. Manav and CC are shocked …. Dadaji objects … but UB is firm… MAthilal as usual is the henpecked husband …. And "without mathi"!!😆

Meanwhile the sisters in law all have their issues with the move …. Actual one SIL doesn't – Sanjana J😛…. She can't think anyway… so hubby is thinking… he thinks that it is a partition and that Manav has the house…

Ranjana is jealous imagining the freedom that Manav and Cc will have in the house … and their romantic moments😃… Manek silences her.

Kaumudi is sure that CC and the family will miss each other… she feels she is thinking for the family but UB isn't it… Mukut again snaps at her , asks her to worry for the family and everyone else but him… and then spend her time in the kitchen ( Is that his issue…? She doesn't understand his work as she is uneducated , she has no time for him as she is attending to the family all the time??... only time will tell)

CC and Manav are worried too… CC apologizes to Manav for the whole fiasco… but Manav supports her and says she has not done anything wrong …. He will talk to his mother and fix it!!

CC wants to talk once more to UB… and requests Manav for his permission to do so…

Precap : UB tells CC that they have lost mutual trust and this is the best way to ensure that they co-exist , CC says that UB has cut them off completely and is avoiding the issue. The episode ends as CC tells UB that she will prove that her ( UB's decision) is good for not only Manav but for everyone else (?)).

So UB is trying to cut out the relationship and safeguard her kingdom rather than solve it and CC wants to build the relationship and save the family ( did UB see this happening with her MIL too… when her BIL asked for batwara…?)… Is she right? Is CC right in destroying the evidence ( satyanaash)…. or is UB again upto her old tricks...playing on CC's goodness... thinking that possibly the prospect of Manav being cut off from his family will make CC give him up?😕

Only time will tell!!

Diya's take!

Chhanchhan rebuts ... Umaben refutes, retreats ... but refuses to bow. Is this new move a retreat? Or is it a counter-attack?

There is a story about at oak and a slender birch. The oak was proud of its strength, its height, its stature, and mocked the slender birch. She was weak, he told her, she swayed with every breeze, while he stood tall and upright, not bowing, not bending to anyone or anything.

Then came a fierce storm. Winds raged and roared. The birch swayed with the winds, while the oak stood tall and firm. But the storm was too strong ... and soon the oak felt his roots being torn out of the ground. Uprooted, he crashed and fell. The birch swayed with the changing winds, and when the storm had passed, she stood firm and upright again.

Umaben is like the old oak. Standing proud and firm, confident that her roots give her strength, she is unbending. After all, she has withstood many storms in her life and survived them ...even more important, she has led her family through the storms safely.

But has she really? Or has her unbending nature actually weakened the roots slowly over time? Does she need to emulate the birch ... a slender Chhanchhan, who is willing to move with the times, because she knows that in life, the only constant is change ... and to bend is not always to admit defeat. Chhanchhan is willing to bend to the rules in her new home, to go along with them, because this is her home, her family and she wants to keep it safe too. Her roots are as strong as Umaben's, but she can move with the winds of change. Or maybe because her roots are so strong, she is able to move safely and withstand all the storms that come her way.

And Umaben, the old oak does not like change ... her roots are weakened by constant attack, and are pulling out from the ground. She fears that one day they will be ripped out totally. Before that happens, she wants to divert the storm along a different path altogether ...

Episode starts with Chhanchhan showing Umaben proof of her perfidy. Umaben sheds crocodile tears and tells her she can show the proof to the family and shred her image to pieces. Chhanchhan tells her to wipe her tears as she is the one not seeing clearly now, while she has seen Umaben's thinking ... have you really, Chhanchhan? Am not too sure about that one ... 😕

Chhanchhan tells Umaben that yes, she wants to fly, yet can stay grounded ... the mind boggles at the mental picture this conjures up 😆... she doesn't want control of the house, but neither does she want the freedom of others to be curtailed ... their fight is not personal, but that of two different streams of thought ... however she will neither let Umaben's image be sullied, nor will she let her be separated from the family, especially not from her son ... Chhanchhan deletes the video ... WHY, CC, WHY??!!! 😲😡

Umaben has to respect Chhanchhan, although grudgingly ... but feels that Chhanchhan's new ways can never keep the family united ... for that, it needs her rules and regulations.

Left alone in the gazebo, Chhanchhan disagrees ... a family needs not rules, but love to stay united ... the freedom to find their own paths in life ... the freedom to try their wings to fly ... and she will prove that to Umaben.

Manav finds Chhanchhan alone in the gazebo ... since his life is on even keel, with mom and wife both happy with each other, he gets back to his primary aim in life ... romancing his biwi ... who is quite happy to oblige! 😳

Next morning, Kaumudi takes Mansi, Chhanchhan and Sanjana to the temple to do some rituals for their fast, they all wonder where Umaben has disappeared early morning.😲

Return home, the men are hogging breakfast ... this family eats a lot!😆 Dadaji stops Kaumudi from rushing to the kitchen and decrees that the men will feed their fasting wives.

Dadaji is an example of tradition bending to the needs of the family and its members ... to hell with tradition if the women's health gets affected!

Manthan's face was a picture ... he was like ... hey, I was with the women, I'm fasting too! 😆

So the men feed their wives ... Manav and Manthan happily, Mukut with very bad grace ... is this man just a male chauvinist pig of the highest order, or is there some other reason for his perpetual disgust with his poor wife? 😡

More discussion on where Baa has disappeared ... does this woman not even tell her own husband what she plans to do?!😲

Umaben reappears with vrat gifts ... why did Sanjana get the smallest one? Manthan was the keenest for his wife's gift.

And Umaben drops her bombshell ... Manav and Chhanchhan are to move out of the house. 😲

Umaben makes it clear, fairly subtly, that she doesn't think Chhanchhan is adjusting within the house and family ... and that's why she's giving her her freedom. Both she and Chhanchhan know the real reason ... is this another challenge? A counter-attack?

For once, the family does not agree ... except for babuji, who really is without any mati of his own! And the cracks start appearing ...

Dadaji is worried that history is repeating itself ... there will be another division in the family ...

Manthan is worried about the same thing ... division ... added grudge, the division is unfair ... he is getting shaded. Sanjana is happy with the gold sikka ... No wonder Umaben chose a simpleton for Manthan ... given a smarter wife, he would have demanded his share years ago!

Ranjana is frankly envious of the good time Chhanchhan will have alone in her own house ... lots of privacy, lots of freedom, lots of romance ... Manek is only worried about his anek bimaris, and that his brother is going to live separately ... how will he manage?

Kaumudi is more worried ... but about Chhanchhan. How will she manage alone? And how will they manage without her? Mukut is a grouch as usual ... his wife only worries about family and food, never about him ...

Manav and Chhanchhan equally worried ... CC decides to confront Umaben again ...

So Umaben, in her quest to keep the family together, is actually driving the members further and further apart ... will Chhanchhan manage to stem the rot?

I really don't know why she deleted the video. And what is Uma trying to do? She's basically kicking them out of the house, and how is this in the benefit of the family? Now that will only cause more misunderstandings and fights between the SILs and brothers. So Mukut actually wants some attention, toh biwi ko ghar se bahar le jana yaar. Ghar main bichari saara din ya to cook ki duty deti hai, ya nanny ki. Just take her out, but obviously, he's too scared to do anything that could possibly anger his Mummy. I actually like nuclear families. My mum has 4 siblings, and my dad has 6- all of them live in their own independent homes. There's lesser friction, as they're not in each others' face all the time, there's more privacy, and as a result- better relations. And it's not as if we never meet- we meet almost every week, not to mention hour long phone calls and chats, Skype, etc. Less drama, more unity. Plus, now Chhanchhan and Manav can actually romance without Uma barging in everytime.

Originally posted by: SS88

I really don't know why she deleted the video. And what is Uma trying to do? She's basically kicking them out of the house, and how is this in the benefit of the family? Now that will only cause more misunderstandings and fights between the SILs and brothers. So Mukut actually wants some attention, toh biwi ko ghar se bahar le jana yaar. Ghar main bichari saara din ya to cook ki duty deti hai, ya nanny ki. Just take her out, but obviously, he's too scared to do anything that could possibly anger his Mummy. I actually like nuclear families. My mum has 4 siblings, and my dad has 6- all of them live in their own independent homes. There's lesser friction, as they're not in each others' face all the time, there's more privacy, and as a result- better relations. And it's not as if we never meet- we meet almost every week, not to mention hour long phone calls and chats, Skype, etc. Less drama, more unity. Plus, now Chhanchhan and Manav can actually romance without Uma barging in everytime.

Why did cc delete the video. Is she crazy or stupid or just naive

Originally posted by: Newbiesoapfan

So you want them to go stay by themselves? What does she hope to achieve... unless she is again playing on CC's goodness!!

Originally posted by: nadiak14ever

Why did cc delete the video. Is she crazy or stupid or just naive

I really wanna appreciate the dialogue writers today 👏

Originally posted by: Newbiesoapfan

So you want them to go stay by themselves? What does she hope to achieve... unless she is again playing on CC's goodness!!

@ Bold- Nope, I was just stating a preference, while giving the example of my family. In this instance, however, this would be counter-productive, as Chhanchhan will be effectively cut off from the family. So there's no way she'll be able to influence them or Uma. The upside, of course, being that the husband and wife will have more freedom- something that Ranajana is griping about. I don't understand how Uma's mind works- what she hopes to achieve. In fact, nothing she said yesterday makes sense if you look at it practically.