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Weekly Summary
23rd April 2012

Payal and Palak see the clay and ball and ask Yash if the gifts were for them. When Yash states that the gifts were for Ansh, Payal and Palak tell him that boys like to play with toy guns. Yash understands his folly.
Yash immediately rushes to the toy shop and buys a toy gun for Ansh. He comes home and gives the gift to Ram Dulare to hand it over to Ansh. Ansh gets elated to receive the gift and immediately starts playing with it. Yash gets happy to see it.
At the dinner table, Ansh starts playing with the cutlery again. Yash softly reprimands him. Ansh immediately apologizes and promises to behave henceforth. Aarti is relieved while the rest of the family is pleased.
Aarti goes to Payal and Palak's room and tidies it up. She sees some sketch pens lying down and bends to pick them up. She crawls below the table to pick up all the pens.
Yash sees Payal and Palak's room neat and tidy and thinks that Ram Dulare must have organized it. He sees the girls' scribbled note lying on the floor and bends down to pick it. He is stunned to see Aarti below the table.
Aarti is unable to utter a word in front of Yash.
24th April 2012
Aarti and Yash think in their hearts that they should thank each other for their role in keeping each other's children happy. They are about to talk to each other when Ansh comes into the room.
Ansh goes up to Yash and thanks him for bringing him the toy gun. Ansh gives him a peck and says that he was the best father. Payal and Palak too come into the room. Ansh requests Yash if he could sleep with him that night. Payal and Palak too make the same request. Yash accepts it and sleeps with all the children on his bed.
The following morning, Gayatri tells Aarti that she had to attend the parents-teachers meeting in Payal and Palak's school. She asks Aarti to ready herself to leave in a while. When Aarti looks worried, Vidhi relieves her by saying that she would drop Ansh up to his school bus while she was away.
Aarti wears high heeled sandals on Ansh's insistence. Ansh makes Aarti promise that she would wear those sandals as she looked good in it.
Aarti struggles with the high heels while leaving for school. Gayatri stops her and asks if she was going to school or for a fashion show. When she asks Aarti to change into simple footwear, Aarti politely refuses saying that she had promised Ansh and could not break it. Gayatri feels offended but does not say much as Yash comes by.
Gayatri decides to keep Aarti under control lest she became more rebellious.

25th April 2012
On the way, Aarti realizes that she does not know in which standard Payal and Palak were studying in. She decides to enquire with Yash about it. At that moment, Yash too turns to say something to Aarti.
Yash gives Aarti an opportunity to say what she wanted. Aarti learns from Yash that
Palak was studying in the second standard while Payal was in the first standard. She also learns from Yash that he too wanted to tell her the same thing before they reach school.
Yash asks Aarti to go and meet the principal while he goes to park his car. On meeting the principal, Mrs Lobo, Aarti learns that both Palak and Payal were academically brilliant however they were socially reserved. Aarti also learns that Palak and Payal also get into arguments with their classmates.
Mrs Lobo begins to complain about the girls' upbringing. Just then Yash enters the room and clarifies that Aarti was Palak and Payal's stepmother. He adds that Palak and Payal's mother died when they were infants. He states that he was the sole person responsible for takes Palak and Payal's upbringing. Before leaving, Aarti promises Mrs Lobo that she would take good care of Palak and Payal and would not give her reasons to complain in the future.
Gayatri believes that Mrs Lobo must have praised Palak and Payal during the parents-teachers meeting. Yash points out to Gayatri and Suraj Pratap that Mrs Lobo complained that both Palak and Payal were socially reserved and did not get along with classmates.
In order to alter their behavior, Yash decides to personally talk to both his children. He also decides to admit them in hobby classes wherein they would interact with children of their age.
Aarti interrupts Yash and states that she wanted to take care of Palak and Payal's responsibility. She adds that there must be a flaw in their upbringing because of which Palak and Payal were socially reserved.
Aarti believes that Palak and Payal do not socialize with other children as they were bound by strict rules and discipline. Yash refuses to agree with Aarti. He states that it was not correct for Aarti to state that there was a fault in Palak and Payal's upbringing.

26th April 2012
To end the argument, Yash tells Suraj Pratap that he was going to office.
Gayatri begins to scold Aarti for stating that Palak and Payal do not socialize as they were bound by strict rules and discipline. She states that Aarti must control Ansh before passing remarks about Palak and Payal's upbringing.
While going towards her room, Aarti meets Prateek. Prateek has a friendly chat with Aarti. Just then Suraj Pratap calls out to Prateek. Aarti stops Prateek and wipes the lipstick marks off Prateek's face. Prateek thanks Aarti as he believes that Suraj Pratap would have got angry at him if he had seen Paridhi's lipstick marks.
Pankaj is upset with Vidhi as she does not have enough time to spend with him.
Aarti believes Yash was upset with her for offering to raise Palak and Payal in her way and commenting on the upbringing the family had given them.
Ansh enters Aarti's room and demands a toy car that he had got as gift. Aarti goes inside the room to find the car. Just then, Yash goes to the other side of the room to answer a phone call.
Aarti gives Ansh the car and asks him to sleep after playing. Meanwhile, Ansh takes Aarti's hair pin and places it on the sofa in such a way that it would prick Yash.
Yash sits on the sofa and as expected screams in pain. Ansh smiles on seeing the success of his prank.

Keeping Yash's injury in mind, Aarti asks Yash where the first aid box was kept. Yash informs her that it was kept in the washroom. Aarti does not find the first aid box and brings a perfume bottle instead. She explains that a perfume acts as an antiseptic solution and hence he must apply it. Aarti asks Yash if she could help him out. Yash clearly refuses.
In the middle of the night, Paridhi tells Prateek that she was bored sitting at home and so wanted to resume her job. Prateek fears it would be risky to bring up the topic in front of Gayatri and Suraj Pratap.
Aarti readies Palak, Payal and Ansh for school in the morning. Gayatri enters the children's room and orders Aarti to come at the dining table to serve breakfast to everyone.
At the dining table, Paridhi quietly goes next to Prateek and asks him to talk to Suraj Pratap about her job. Prateek tries to build up the topic and begins talking about women empowerment.
Suraj Pratap directly ignores Prateek's statement and states that the women of their family should concentrate on the needs of the family.
Gayatri addresses Aarti as 'Arpita' and asks her why Yash was taking long to arrive at the dining table. Aarti informs Gayatri that Yash was still asleep. Gayatri asks Aarti to wake up Yash.
Aarti goes to her room and tries to wake Yash from his sleep. In his sleep, Yash believes Aarti was Arpita and pulls her close to him. Aarti pushes Yash away and points out that she was not 'Arpita'.
Aarti realizes that Yash was burning with fever. She decides to go and inform Gayatri about it. Yash feels awful for not recognizing that he was embracing Aarti and not Arpita.
credit:Jyoti
Dialogue of the Week
Credit:samanalyse
This week I didn't choose a male and female dialogue because this one stood out so far above the rest that I thought it should get its own tribute. And here it is!
"Mein kisi ki jagah lena bhi nahin chahti, Yashji. Mein to sirf aapko jagaane aayi thi"
I loved this dialogue for two reasons. One because it showed that Aarti was not at all interested in taking Arpita's place, and two because it showed the future of the AarYa relationship. Aarti is not here to do something as mundane as filling Arpita's shoes, she is here to wake Yash up from his long sleep, where in his half-conscious existence, he could convince himself that Arpita was still with him, still around. But now with Aarti here, just being herself and totally different from Arpita, Yash will find that he cannot stay asleep, just like she prevents him from sleeping properly at night. She has come to wake Yash up and make him live again!