Jyo, thanks for the lovely update. I hope your nails are okay.
At first I thought Papa Dubey is such a week spineless character. But then I realized I feel that was because I was comparing him to Shobha.
I feel Dubey's feelings today was 'normal'. Not that I approve of it but most parents would feel the way he felt- wanting to give their offspring one last chance to rectify his/her mistakes. But Shobha on the other hand, has elevated herself as a parent and a human being to such a level that it is really hard to compare her reaction to Dubey's. Also, with Shobha I wonder if she feels so strongly because she is a woman and she was able to put herself in Aarti's shoes and live Aarti's pain. Not all women can do this especially with a daughter in law. It must have taken her a lot of self reflection to get to this point. It's one thing to empathize with someone's pain and it is another thing to actually live their pain along with them. I don't think Dubey can ever understand the pain Aarti went through as a woman, as a wife and as a mother. But at least now we all know where Prashant gets his traits from. 😕
Coming to Yash's scene. Now I get my answer to a question that plagued me since the Ganesh pooja episode. I noticed that during and after the pooja Pratik, Paridi and Aarti were all holding their palms and praying to God. But Yash never did. And I wondered why because I certainly felt that the creatives had a reason for Yash not praying and today Yash answered that when he explained that he had lost faith in God with Arpita's death.
Samana, I agree with you, I totally knew that Aarti was dreaming Prashant's repentance. But today I felt for Aarti. She really was so completely fooled by Prashant that theirs is a janam janam ka rishta. No wonder she feels like Prashant's betrayal could probably be just a small anomaly and everything could be rectified.
Today acting wise, I think the award goes to Shobha for portraying her pain and sense of betrayal that Dubey could think the way he did and her feelings of failure as a parent towards Aarti. And Kratika did a fantastic job today. Aarti's pain, her confusion, her struggle to make sense of the reality was so evident and so fantastically portrayed.
I am not sure if Yash and Aarti are going to see each other in the temple but they are going to go back resigned to the fact that they both are indeed destined to journey together on this long road ahead of them.
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