What another great episode

It's now clear to us and Aditya that he has feelings for Jhanvi. And he wasn't really surprised at the fact either.

IMO ever since Jhanvi came back after he had gone to her house drunk, he has been thinking, unsettled about what their relationship could possibly mean.

Babasa voiced it clearly to him and he thought about it further. He denied it to babasa, but internally he was very well aware of the possibility and started seeing things in that light only. Hence the way he was looking at Jhanvi when she bandaged him, and his reaction to Babasa when he saw that Babasa had seen them. Aditya's awkward silence wasn't a denial or telling Babasa stop with your imagination. It was more of a 'I know what you are thinking, but I don't want to talk about this.'

With this in his mind, it's why he was so restless and bothered at the fact that someone else may be in the picture. There is no surprise or wondering from him on why he's bothered. He is curious and he knows it. It's like, when the first stages of possible romantic interest, possibility came, suddenly oops, there may be another guy in the picture.

His wish at the shed clearly wasn't really about tea, but something which was there but he couldn't voice it, address it or bring up. 1) because it's not completely settled for him yet regarding Jhanvi and 2) because she's giving hints of another guy in the picture

It's becomes completely clear to him with his dream sequence (and it had to be his dream sequence, I was waiting for it to be his dream sequence that if it were shown to be Jhanvi's I would have been like' W*F), and he's not really that surprised after he's brought out of his dream. The question of his feelings becomes settled for him after this. And so, he continues to look at her and admire her, accepting it, even if not sure about what Jhanvi feels on her end.

He sees that Jhanvi has remembered his birthday. Now the question is if the last part is a fake out by the makers to us, or if it was real. It very well may be real, but even if it is, he may backtrack, especially due to not knowing about Jhanvi.

Let's see what happens tomorrow. And that gift was obviously for Aditya, so will Jhanvi get the chance to give it to him? And if so, he should obviously realize that there is no guy. Plus the birthday party the family have planned would be the perfect excuse for her secretive calls and lies to him about the calls.

Jhanvi has perfect excuse to explain away her lies without admitting to him that it was all her and Babasa's ruse.😆

Actually, more likely they'll get interrupted than Aditya backtracking.

Oh you got to the episode before I did, but now that I've watched I have quite a few things to say as well.

Heh, no complaints from me on 'rambling.' It was a great read.

You always bring the symbolic aspects, and you did it again. The juxtaposition of Nisha and her Birthday surprise and the cake with Aditya'and Jhanvi and their setting and mock cake.

Yeah, I had complained last week about the 'illogical' characterization of Adi and the 'creepiness' of Jhanvi and Babasa, because I didn't trust a show to not go by the 'text' but by the subtext. What I mean by that is, textually Aditya told Babasa he and Jhanvi are just friends nothing more, Jhanvi and Jhanvi's mother kept saying the same--that Aditya sees her as a friend and just hasn't realized the love yet. But that is only if you go by the actual spoken lines, whereas if you look at it overall, there was more to Aditya than what he said out loud. That's the beauty of it, and the show handled it beautifully both last week and this week, where it's confirmed.

And yes, the way it played out and what Aditya said today showed that it wasn't too quick at all for Aditya. He's been suffering for so long and finally now he has something that breathes life back into him. It's really sweet and beautiful.

I hope he doesn't backtrack either, and I too am pretty sure there will be an interruption.

I hadn't seen the precap or known what it was when I wrote the topic. In fact, it was only after seeing your reply I just went and watched it. I know it's too much to ask for, but at least let Jhanvi give him that present even if she isn't able to confess. I don't know what to think of the show, because yeah they probably would throw something in the way to stop a confession. But at the same time, this show move at a refreshingly fast pace, so I don't know...

About the shadow. I'm just really hoping it's not Raj (or Neha). Or maybe he's doing it for some secret, good reason. But still...

Episode was superb. I loved it.

Originally posted by: Tacker_Holic

Beautiful analysis made by KhatamKahani and of course Athene! You guys have taken the words out of my mouth! 👍🏼😆

It was indeed a perfect episode. One thing I would say is though we had our complaints about Babasa rushing Jhanvi to be his DIL it has indeed been led in a mature way. Babasa is proding Adi to think towards Jhanvi but he is doing it all by himself.

You have summed it up succinctly in three sentences. :) @Bold especially, as Athene said credit goes to SS and his acting plus those behind the camera as well for showing it the way they did.