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Some Thoughts on Pyal and Palak
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Some Thoughts on Pyal and Palak
I think that before they even have a track with the unit of five, they
need an event that will sort of break in the Aarti-PayPal relationship. I
want to see a track with as much focus on PayPal's issues as we have
now seen with Ansh's, ie his insecurities about losing his mother to
another man, his fear of dark rooms, Gayatri's favouritism and bullying.
We were saying even before marriage that the track will shift more to PayPal after marriage but that hasn't been the case. I am not saying this is a problem, but it will become one if they don't do something soon. Like Indu said, it is not nice to show kids in a negative light and just let that lay unresolved for so long. With Ansh everything has been going so fast, with every loop being closed then and there. But they have been teasing us with more depth for PayPal and not delivering, especially with what the principal said and the subsequent encounters with Ansh that we witnessed.
I am not saying all the problems have to be solved immediately but I would love to see some positivity for those two highly insecure little girls. And I do think they need a big event for PayPal to open up to Aarti, like the kidnapping for Yash. It obviously does not have to be as dramatic, but can be as simple as the scene I imagined a few days back with Aarti allowing them to be near Yash when Gayatri refuses.
I also loved that the dam of Yash's emotions just broke in this whole Ansh kidnapping thing and I want to see the effect that has on his interactions with Payal and Palak too. I so want a scene where the girls break down and cuddle up to their dad because they are so scared of seeing him like this, and Yash soothing them... and then them confessing what they said to Ansh which reinforces to Yash how much they all need an Aarti in their lives.
Finally, I think there was some significance to the flashback on Friday when she remembers Yash saying he married so that his daughters could have a mother. Somewhere it is hitting her that she has not fulfilled that expectation he had and I just hope it is foreshadowing of more PayPal in the days to come. A week dealing with their issues would be swell, CVs!
We were saying even before marriage that the track will shift more to PayPal after marriage but that hasn't been the case. I am not saying this is a problem, but it will become one if they don't do something soon. Like Indu said, it is not nice to show kids in a negative light and just let that lay unresolved for so long. With Ansh everything has been going so fast, with every loop being closed then and there. But they have been teasing us with more depth for PayPal and not delivering, especially with what the principal said and the subsequent encounters with Ansh that we witnessed.
I am not saying all the problems have to be solved immediately but I would love to see some positivity for those two highly insecure little girls. And I do think they need a big event for PayPal to open up to Aarti, like the kidnapping for Yash. It obviously does not have to be as dramatic, but can be as simple as the scene I imagined a few days back with Aarti allowing them to be near Yash when Gayatri refuses.
I also loved that the dam of Yash's emotions just broke in this whole Ansh kidnapping thing and I want to see the effect that has on his interactions with Payal and Palak too. I so want a scene where the girls break down and cuddle up to their dad because they are so scared of seeing him like this, and Yash soothing them... and then them confessing what they said to Ansh which reinforces to Yash how much they all need an Aarti in their lives.
Finally, I think there was some significance to the flashback on Friday when she remembers Yash saying he married so that his daughters could have a mother. Somewhere it is hitting her that she has not fulfilled that expectation he had and I just hope it is foreshadowing of more PayPal in the days to come. A week dealing with their issues would be swell, CVs!
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What a way to start a week of episodes, showing that sweet sleeping pose of Aarti and Yash and then just as the warm-fuzzies settle in, you swallow the tray of ice that is G3's menacing face! My brain is officially scarred for life! 😕
I never get tired of saying how much I love that the Scindias, though they are typical bigoted, dogmatic and blind sighted elders of a traditional family system, they are forced to interact with a developing social norm in which their way of thinking is not the accepted model! Today it was the nurse who simply could not wrap her head around why people were storming into a patient's room and raising a storm against the one person who had sat up with him all night. Seeing it from the nurse's eyes, the whole situation was so absurd and I love that we had that outside perspective looking in on the cooky Scindia women. And the way Bua reacted to her would be termed by my mother as "slum" so I don't know where these people get off trying to tell others how to live.
But what really baffled me was that Bua and Gayatri were so jollily tromping along on their power trip that they paid no heed to Yash's well being! First of all the nurse told them that shouting was disturbing the patient, but the Bua paid no heed and then she dispatched the nurse herself with that feral outburst! If you really wanted Yash to get well, would you send away the trained professional that could prevent his raw wound from festering...I think not! It is just a testament to how much venom Bua has inside her, just waitin to burst out. Very scary but not hard to believe.
SP today was defined by one word. AADAT. He has been saying since his kids came to him, he is not in the habit of changing his decisions. Well, let me tell you something Mr. Scindia, smoking is also a habit but that certainly does not mean it is good for you! SP needs a 12-step program ASAP! Megalomaniacs Anonymous, anyone?
Today I forgave Dubey again, and I realise I might be alone on this. He is not a bad man, just a cynical, jaded pragmatist who believes in doing whatever you have to do to get the right thing done. His only mistake is expecting his faith to be restored in the exact way it was taken away, with his son coming back and redeeming himself. He is simply not as magnanimous as Shobha, who sees that the world took away her son to give her a daughter and sees the goodness in the world because of her vision of the bigger picture. For her there is no shame in asking for what is right, no matter how many times she has to do it. The Scindias went below the belt so many times and Shobha is just too determined to see the good in people and appeal to it to see a lost cause.
Aarti was just brilliant today! I forgive her for not saying these things when the kidnapping was going on because it made so much more sense now. Aarti, with her unbound grief for Ansh, broke something within Yash that allowed him to be the parent he had always wanted to be. And now, Yash's action of saving Anshs life and fulfilling his father's duty (note she didn't say ehsaan, she said pita ka farz...eee!) has broken something within Aarti, and that is her trust barrier. Now she wants with her whole heart what she was weary about accepting earlier, believing herself to be doing this only for Ansh. Now SHE, Aarti, the aurat that was buried under the mother and daughter, wants her children, wants her husband and wants her family and that is a beautiful transition the CVs have brought about. And a beautiful irony that she wants this most as it is being taken away from her and believes in it when there is nothing solid to believe in!
Vidhi and Prateek were definitely there and speaking for a reason and their words had SP visibly shaken, which made him stiffen his resolve even more. But this can't go on for much longer. The minute the oppressed learn that they are in fact, oppressed, they will not be able to stay they way they were. It only takes one stir of the pot, one incident.
I think it has been clear from the start that Prateek is more in awe and more respectful of Yash than his parents; in fact Yash is his real parent. That is why Prateek is so attached and cannot imagine his happiness without that of his brother's. It also means that he knows his brother remarkably well, well enough to suggest his twin soul mate as his wife any way! 😉 And he knows that Aarti is not a mistake and she is not just any girl...she is "the one". So I felt his remark to Gayatri was sort of a veiled threat to her, which she read and returned with one of her own. These Scindias work in complex and convoluted ways! My point is that Prateek is not going to be quiet, because he is much more loyal to Yash than he is scared of his parents or at the very least, this is a test of that loyalty.
VISHWAS!!! 😃 I loved Aarti's saree, which perfectly reflected her mother goddess/Durga vibe. She is fighting for her marriage just by believing in it, instilling that belief in her son, and quashing the naysayers! It was clear that after Shobha got over her initial shock at hearing the word vishwas come in all earnestness out of Aarti's mouth, she was proud as punch of her girl!
So finally, Yash opens his eyes and Gayatri thanks god (savour your joy while it lasts, witch!). The first thing that Yash really sees when he opens his eyes are Payal and Palak, very fitting. And I think these two have this inherent trust that adults can fix everything because they don't seem in the least bit worried. I am looking forward to see how they take their characters forward now. Then Yash sees his father...I think it was like a moment where he did everything he would have regretted not doing if he had died, showing his affection to his kids and feeling their love, apologising to his dad. It came almost as a reflex as though his very being had been waiting for it. It is only when Bua started talking that Yash suddenly realised that everyone was there...except Aarti and Ansh. I think it is really awful that they are not at least telling him that Ansh is OK, given everything he went through. But what I loved was that he asked Prateek and Vidhi and not his parents. It was as though Buas comment reminded him of everything that had transpired before the gunshot, the general tone of the house he left, and he knew who he could trust and who he couldn't. You keep going with that thought, Yash! You will need it tomorrow!
No matter what the Scindias think, they did not force Yash into this marriage. He would have backed out at the last minute if he thought there was the smallest chance that Aarti wasn't the perfect mother for his kids. They are going to get a huge reality check when they realise what commitment means!
I never get tired of saying how much I love that the Scindias, though they are typical bigoted, dogmatic and blind sighted elders of a traditional family system, they are forced to interact with a developing social norm in which their way of thinking is not the accepted model! Today it was the nurse who simply could not wrap her head around why people were storming into a patient's room and raising a storm against the one person who had sat up with him all night. Seeing it from the nurse's eyes, the whole situation was so absurd and I love that we had that outside perspective looking in on the cooky Scindia women. And the way Bua reacted to her would be termed by my mother as "slum" so I don't know where these people get off trying to tell others how to live.
But what really baffled me was that Bua and Gayatri were so jollily tromping along on their power trip that they paid no heed to Yash's well being! First of all the nurse told them that shouting was disturbing the patient, but the Bua paid no heed and then she dispatched the nurse herself with that feral outburst! If you really wanted Yash to get well, would you send away the trained professional that could prevent his raw wound from festering...I think not! It is just a testament to how much venom Bua has inside her, just waitin to burst out. Very scary but not hard to believe.
SP today was defined by one word. AADAT. He has been saying since his kids came to him, he is not in the habit of changing his decisions. Well, let me tell you something Mr. Scindia, smoking is also a habit but that certainly does not mean it is good for you! SP needs a 12-step program ASAP! Megalomaniacs Anonymous, anyone?
Today I forgave Dubey again, and I realise I might be alone on this. He is not a bad man, just a cynical, jaded pragmatist who believes in doing whatever you have to do to get the right thing done. His only mistake is expecting his faith to be restored in the exact way it was taken away, with his son coming back and redeeming himself. He is simply not as magnanimous as Shobha, who sees that the world took away her son to give her a daughter and sees the goodness in the world because of her vision of the bigger picture. For her there is no shame in asking for what is right, no matter how many times she has to do it. The Scindias went below the belt so many times and Shobha is just too determined to see the good in people and appeal to it to see a lost cause.
Aarti was just brilliant today! I forgive her for not saying these things when the kidnapping was going on because it made so much more sense now. Aarti, with her unbound grief for Ansh, broke something within Yash that allowed him to be the parent he had always wanted to be. And now, Yash's action of saving Anshs life and fulfilling his father's duty (note she didn't say ehsaan, she said pita ka farz...eee!) has broken something within Aarti, and that is her trust barrier. Now she wants with her whole heart what she was weary about accepting earlier, believing herself to be doing this only for Ansh. Now SHE, Aarti, the aurat that was buried under the mother and daughter, wants her children, wants her husband and wants her family and that is a beautiful transition the CVs have brought about. And a beautiful irony that she wants this most as it is being taken away from her and believes in it when there is nothing solid to believe in!
Vidhi and Prateek were definitely there and speaking for a reason and their words had SP visibly shaken, which made him stiffen his resolve even more. But this can't go on for much longer. The minute the oppressed learn that they are in fact, oppressed, they will not be able to stay they way they were. It only takes one stir of the pot, one incident.
I think it has been clear from the start that Prateek is more in awe and more respectful of Yash than his parents; in fact Yash is his real parent. That is why Prateek is so attached and cannot imagine his happiness without that of his brother's. It also means that he knows his brother remarkably well, well enough to suggest his twin soul mate as his wife any way! 😉 And he knows that Aarti is not a mistake and she is not just any girl...she is "the one". So I felt his remark to Gayatri was sort of a veiled threat to her, which she read and returned with one of her own. These Scindias work in complex and convoluted ways! My point is that Prateek is not going to be quiet, because he is much more loyal to Yash than he is scared of his parents or at the very least, this is a test of that loyalty.
VISHWAS!!! 😃 I loved Aarti's saree, which perfectly reflected her mother goddess/Durga vibe. She is fighting for her marriage just by believing in it, instilling that belief in her son, and quashing the naysayers! It was clear that after Shobha got over her initial shock at hearing the word vishwas come in all earnestness out of Aarti's mouth, she was proud as punch of her girl!
So finally, Yash opens his eyes and Gayatri thanks god (savour your joy while it lasts, witch!). The first thing that Yash really sees when he opens his eyes are Payal and Palak, very fitting. And I think these two have this inherent trust that adults can fix everything because they don't seem in the least bit worried. I am looking forward to see how they take their characters forward now. Then Yash sees his father...I think it was like a moment where he did everything he would have regretted not doing if he had died, showing his affection to his kids and feeling their love, apologising to his dad. It came almost as a reflex as though his very being had been waiting for it. It is only when Bua started talking that Yash suddenly realised that everyone was there...except Aarti and Ansh. I think it is really awful that they are not at least telling him that Ansh is OK, given everything he went through. But what I loved was that he asked Prateek and Vidhi and not his parents. It was as though Buas comment reminded him of everything that had transpired before the gunshot, the general tone of the house he left, and he knew who he could trust and who he couldn't. You keep going with that thought, Yash! You will need it tomorrow!
No matter what the Scindias think, they did not force Yash into this marriage. He would have backed out at the last minute if he thought there was the smallest chance that Aarti wasn't the perfect mother for his kids. They are going to get a huge reality check when they realise what commitment means!
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