Corpse bride-3rd march

Coming to today's episode...

Sulky Sue Chipkali is sulking in her dark room and Astha enters the room, switches on the light and there is a photu of baby bear in the background (not in Sulky Sue room but in the corridor outside). Sulky Sue Chipkali refuses to eat bhajiya because she is sad that she was going to snatch Astha's place by lighting the lamp. Astha tells her to calm down and that just following some rituals does not make a person husband and wife. What Astha said was true...there is more to a husband wife relationship than just following rituals. When sulking Sue Chipkali asks her whether she trusts her relationship, Astha reaffirms that she is because the base of trust is a clear mind. True again and Shloke cannot trust because his mind is clouded by fear and issues. By the way if Sulking Sue Chipkali thinks that she can make Astha jealous then she might be barking up the wrong tree. Astha has been projected as a secure person and usually people who are secure in themselves do not get jealous that easily. Sulking Sue Chipkali tells Astha that she should also have a clear mind where she is concerned because she will not betray Astha. Well in order to have a clear mind regarding anyone, doesn't one need to know a person? Does hioneypot know sulking Sue chipkali? Then in Shloke's bedroom, Astha makes a very romantic declaration of her apology regarding disturbing Shloke. She did realise that she might have gone over the top with the lamps but before she could rectify her mistake, Shloke enters the room and Astha goes to lay down on her mat, acting as if she is asleep. Shloke looks at the lamp lit message of sorry and then with a very desolate expression on his face, he washes away all of Astha's romantic notions/removes any attempt of any light entering his life...but them looks at her to see whether she has got his message. Despite her mind telling her that she does not love Sholke, deep inside she still does. Shloke and Astha have a tough time going to sleep with Shloke fidgeting and turning. Ultimately they both go to sleep facing each other. ...but he kept the night light on. Wonder whether it is because Astha is scared of darkness? Also what are Astha's ornaments and maku things doing on baby bears table? Also there things are carelessly thrown around and there are no boundary separating their personal items.

Next day Miss Chipkali is no longer sulking but is acting as if she is the DIL of the house and she has decided to hammer a hook...let's see... since all the subtle messages was not going to Astha, hence now hammering is needed. Astha does teases her regarding Chipkali already taking away things that belongs to her and then gets side-tracked to find the hammer so that Chipkali can hammer the hook in her head. Honeypot goes to search in the store room and stumbles on the cloth wrapped guitar which has been miraculously placed strategically on the floor. So did Chipkali in her night stroll as Lalchari strategically place it so Astha stumbles and then she can start her hammering? Astha realises that it is Baby bear's guitar and Chipkali lands there and declares that she can rectify the guitar and that it just needs some fine tuning. Now does it mean that baby bears head needs a fine tuning? But to what end? Chipkali caresses the letter S written on the guitar and Astha mutters to herself that this guitar is Swati's. Chipkali is adamant that Astha has to give this finely tuned guitar so that Shloke gets in touch with his emotions (she did not say that but that's how I interpreted it). Chipkali also plays the tune that will make Shloke get closer to his emotions (she actually looked as if she is in some other place when she was playing the tune). Astha gets the shock of the life that it is the same tune as the one that plays when the diary has been opened but Chipkali covers herself up. Astha is sceptical that since the guitar has been in the store room for such a long time, maybe Shloke does not need it but Chipkali is sure that Shloke will be so over whelmed by his newly woken emotions that he will be singing tr...la..laa... Although apprehensive Astha listens to Chipkali and takes the guitar to the bedroom.

In the bedroom, honeypot started getting apprehensive that she might have taken the wrong decision and decides to hide the guitar but Kavya lands there and starts playing it. Shloke listens to it and comes in search of the source. He catches Astha trying to hide the guitar and he takes it from her and smashes it to pieces. He thundered at Astha that this is the importance of the guitar in his life and that she by her actions always messes with his mind and he hates her (Chipkali did fine tune his emotions by her actions). So one more relic of his past destroyed because he does not want anything around him that reminds him of Swati. He also tells Astha that she messes with his mind...really baby bear? In what way...I mean if I can ask? That you are forced to face your past when you want to hide in the darkness? Astha has tears in her eyes and she left saying that she knows that he hates her and his past and is left wondering that what has happened that has filled him with so much anger? She ends up cleaning the mess left behind by the broken bits of a relic of his past. Astha was reading the diary to find some answers and to bring him out of his past...but now the diary has been left aside and it is Chipkali's actions that is again bring the past back to Shloke...It is also making Astha more curious about what happened between him and Swati. But she is getting distracted by Chipkali...and she might end up emotionally hurting herself.

Anyway coming back to Shloke...he goes out in the corridor and smashes a vase in frustration regarding Astha getting to know of things from his past. So scared are we? I mean Shlokie baby? Then he remembers that Anjali is the only person who knew about the guitar. Ahh so something that is so close and personal to him is only known by Anjali? Not by his dada or baba? This shows that at one time Shloke was very close to his mother and that is why whatever he thinks that Anjali has done regarding the Swati situation has hurt him the most. So he goes to blast Mrs. Agnihptri that she has told Astha about the guitar. When Anjali negates his charge, baby bear is back to his favourite grudge that all women in the world are after him (that they are but in another way) and that they cannot be trusted. I liked Anjali's reply that since he does not trust himself it is useless trying to give him any explanation. It is true...one needs to have faith/confidence/trust in oneself before he or she can trust or have faith in others. It shows his insecurity where personal relationships are concerned. He does not trust himself maybe because the one whom he chose to love betrayed him. And all this gets covered under a false aura of bravado where personal relationships are concerned. Anjali tells Shloke that Astha must have found the guitar by herself. She is his wife and hence wants to know about his likes and dislikes. Shloke tells Anjali that she is one who knows why he has problems with relationships. Astha enters the room with tea...Shloke glares at her and walks away. Anjali throws away the cup of tea in frustration and shouts at Astha regarding looking into Shlokes past because if she does so then she will only get difficulty/pain in return. Although she did stand up for Astha in front of Shloke but her warning to Astha was that let past be where it is...and she probably did that out of frustration.

Usually people who lack something in their personal lives or have difficulties in their personal life make up for this by being high achievers in their professional lives. This is one of the ways how they might be able to overcome their deep seeded insecurity issues and balance their lives. It looks like Shloke is one of those individuals... and knowing Neeranjan he might want to keep it this way. His professional empire gets strengthened. He might think that Astha might try to cope with this by becoming the perfect housewife...and the shadows of Neeranjan and Anjali will live on.