@Mira: Girl, I feel your pain but shows are not made to cater to one type of audience, so there is no way each viewer is going to be unequivocally happy every day. I do hope they focus on the leads though, like you said and that you stick around, because we like you! 😃
I have to disagree on some of your points, though. We are not saying Yash has to come and save the day because Aarti is now a silent bahu, you said that. What we have been discussing is that the Dubeys by initiating the karz talk and all the forced lying and hiding and agreeing to ridiculous things have sent Aarti over some sort of edge. To me, she was not agreeing to go without Ansh exactly, but expressing her anger and pain and letting the Dubeys know that they had broken her and their relationship completely, through that passive aggressive remark, reiterating the karz.
The same way Papa Dubey blackmailed her into this marriage and Shobha supported him by not dissenting, she is blackmailing him and Shobha into fighting for Ansh, which works on Shobha, I might add. All that warmth, that impulsive action, wearing her heart on her sleeve has been stomped out of Aarti and she is playing the game now. The only exception is Ansh and if the Dubeys take that away, she is showing them a glimpse of the result. A barely recognisable, cold, calculative Aarti that has no love to give because her heart is completely broken. Her enormous capacity to love was her greatest strength and character trait. But she has been forced to kill this love instead of nurturing it. How much can she fight when she is standing all alone and feels that Dubey will just throw the karz in her face again, and she will have to go through the pain? Instead she has put her broken, vulnerable heart on lock down and the passive agressiveness is nothing but a defense mechanism.
What we are hoping is that Yash, with his superior understanding of relationships will, consciously or unconsciously, protect that last ember of the real Aarti that we all love by taking Ansh with them. We are hoping that he will stay true to his responsibility and stand as her partner to face the complications. Such acts of heroism are possible from every man, every day and that will make it all the more endearing if it happens.
@M_n_h: Welcome, welcome! 😃
Wow! I am so ashamed of myself after reading your post! I never considered Payal and Palak as two different people! That was an excellent observation. It seems that Payal is the one who has more hostile feelings towards Aarti. Interestingly, she is the one that made that comment about their mother in the first episode and it has been her instigating ever since. She stuck her tongue out both times, and didn't interact with Aarti at the mall, like you mentioned. Also it was her that made the comments about the step mother directly to their dad.
Palak seems like her dad. She fought with Ansh at the mall when she thought there was an injustice being done. More than being possessive of her dad, she was bothered that Ansh was "lying". But as soon as the situation was explained to her and it was justifiable, she accepted it with open arms and heart. She is a very fair little person.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Payal is the older one?