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A good take on the whole lot.
I think the CVs did a good job of establishing the main characters earlier with little scenes and nuances thrown here and there that clearly outlined that even though the maids and employees of the house are treated like equals, they are at the end of the day, still employees. There was a similar incident earlier in the show where ARI then gifts R with his watch to placate him.
In a sense, this is what Tunveer has taught ARI...that each and every person can be bought.
So when S threw his money back in his face, and later accepted all his challenges rather than kowtow to him, he fell in love with her.
Which is also why he has a hard time reconciling that S with the S Tunveer presented to him - one who took money to marry him.
His brain is warring with his heart.
CVs are definitely taking into account IF member ranting (even from previous shows😉), and with similar scenes are trying to present a balm to sooth the outrage. Other than the comment about her weak English, which definitely hurt her, all his other words were complimentary to her - in the way his friends took it; even the one about her owning a diner.
But men are prone to publicly lashing out when they are hurt, scared, angry, or jealous, and ARI was at least three of the four.😕
The completion of the pool-side scene felt a little odd...I wish they had shown her asking, "Can't you do this much for me?", in that episode itself.
Then the follow-up of his throwing the bottle would have worked well...but, oh, well...better late than never.
But I agree, he was a bit too rough...in his speech as well as his actions.
And yes, I noticed the bruises, too...I am hoping for a bed-side scene of him applying cream on the bruises like he did with the kitchen burns...😃
Tunveer definitely is on a short leash anymore. Any small thing may set her off. I do wonder if ARI will behave that way in front of her, though...usually he is pretty quick about mollifying R and soothing ruffled feathers. He does have a conscience and it rears its head all too often.
Our boy is more white than gray, methinks.😃
I think R behaves the way he does with Tunveer - disapproval of her ways, yet secretive about her - because she is his mother.
I have noticed this in real life, too... boys and their mothers, and girls and their fathers.
Boys, especially, are very protective. No matter what the mother does, especially to them, they still protect and cover for her. A kind of societal brain-washing?
Children do not come from the womb learning to love their mother...they attach themselves to whoever feeds/nurtures/protects them.
But the concept of mother and motherhood, even introduced later, takes root because it is pushed in so many ways and in so many forms, and they cling to that idea.
R is clinging to it, too, but he may become disillusioned soon.
(At least I hope so, and not that he instead turns gray 😕)
And lastly, yes, ARI definitely has a head on his shoulders but again, sons and their mothers...he so desperately wanted a mother figure that the first person who 'saved' him from his father's beatings and professed motherly love became his mother, his security-blanket.
But, as you say, he is an independent thinker, and he has already had insightful questions about her decisions, behavior, etc., but like most boys, he is still stubbornly attached to the hope of motherhood.
Once he is sure of S's love, he may allow those blinkers to fall off his eyes a little more easily, but alas...he won't have time to be cement that love from S first...all indications are that he will receive the shock of his life soon.
And after the whole lead-up to the wedding, this is the track to wait for.
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