@Aparna: Totally agree. Their marriage is the flakiest thing right now and I actually have to give a shout out to the writers for that, the way they pulled the rug out from under their and our feet. With the whole wedding planning assistance thing, they had built up such a grand picture of what the Aarti-Yash relationship had become, and yet they were not afraid to change the perspective on it cold turkey when the need arose. Aarti and Yash, when compared to their own families, and the minister and his wife, are great parents, and unfortunately, the most functional couple out of all right now. But that doesn't automatically mean they are doing a great job. I am so glad they introduced a third party, first in the negative form of Bua, and then in the positive form of the principal to show just how easy it was for there castle in the air to vanish in a puff of smoke. They need to make their operation airtight.
@Abby: Ansh didn't feel bad about Palak's stage fright either! In fact he taunted her and shot her just as many dirty looks as she shot him. I don't think it is fair in this situation to blame her more than Ansh. Both of them were equally wrong, of course goaded by the uninformed actions of their parental influences.
@Indu: Your last line said it all. They need to be parents, which neither of them ever learned to do as a team activity. Yash has now been a single parent to Palak and Payal longer than, or at least just as long as he was a joint parent with Arpita. Even then from what we saw, he was not terribly proactive and they were babies. It is he who has dealt with their growing up, dealing with their grief and their problems, and although they have their fair share of problems, they are also essentially good kids, so I don't write Yash off totally as a parent. Aarti of course, never had Prashant around and Ansh was not only her child but her identity. Even now, they are each taking responsibility for one kid, merely crossing over. When will they converge and stay that way? Like you said, it is a rebirth for them as parents, rather than as mother and father.
@Red: I think Mrs. Minister needs an appointment with Mr. Lobotomy.
But to be honest, I think the principal was not asking about the gory details of their marital life persay, but just if they create an environment of love for their kids. If we consider the family of five as a circle, with each member passing love to the next, as long as Aarti and Yash have no love between them, or do not show it, the circle is incomplete and the love cannot flow freely. Aarti was able to answer in the affirmative because she has created that environment around Ansh, praising and justifying Yash, whenever he fell short and covering up his flaws. Aarti wasn't in love with Yash at that point, but with her special skill of dream-weaving, she created that feeling for Ansh. I felt like Aarti knew what the principal meant and so answered him, while Yash is caught off guard, mired in his one dimensional definition of love.
I wish they had mentioned that Payal was doing much better, socially. Aarti deserves some credit for that, as well as Payal herself, right?
@Kirthi: As I said in my reply to Red, even if Yash and Aarti are not in love, it is important for them to create that feeling in their kids, even if they have to fake it. Kids this age don't know anything much about the relationships between men and women. Their thoughts about love are mostly platonic and innocent which is why Ansh couldn't understand why his dad wouldn't kiss his mom, now that he had Ansh's permission. Yash and Aarti don't need to have a sexual relationship to project love between each other onto their kids. It is more than enough at this point if they act like friends, tease each other, take care of each other, visibly in front of the kids...like Pankaj and Vidhi. They are also having problems in their personal equation but Pankaj maintains a cheerful demeanour in front of the kids, does not ever cross a Vidhi-rekha and keeps the kids firmly outside their problems. Frankly, I think that is what the principal was asking. Do you treat each other with love, visible to the kids?
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