Just managed to catch up on watching the episode....
Deffo had much better narrative flow than most recent episodes of the show.....it almost feels weird after seeing months and months of every random event being dragged for a whole week at the minimum
.....now they are suddenly showing two events in one episode only....lol singing competition got wrapped up today and Janmashtami already started.
Hope they can maintain this pace hereon out if they have finally figured out what narrative they want to go with
....atleast it doesn't feel like we have to snooze through most of the epi. Really thankful Muskaan was in the background of this epi too...lol
Singing competition part was quite nicely done and had very warm vibes and interactions between all characters....deffo the highlight of the epi.
As for the Abhira argument....lol have to say it just felt weird for Ak to say 6 years ago they only lost Neil....has she actually forgotten she lost a baby that day too?
.....Abhi only made a general reference to 6 years ago and the outcome of her carelessness.....but Ak filled in the blanks herself to presume he was blaming her for Neil's death....if she remembers death blames, how come it's only Neil or Sirat death blames? She's totally forgotten her other baby?
This scene could have been written better even if they wanted to revisit the WD blame game drama.....and Ak should be the last person saying "jo baat dil mein hoti hai, woh zubaan pe aa jaati hai" cuz she still keeps pretending every other day like Abhi is not Abhir's father
That said, the Janmashtami scenes when Abhi was trying to talk to her to clear up the matter did give roothi biwi vibes from Ak's side
....not sure if it was intentional from makers but that is how it was coming across that Ak is more roothi hui rather than her usual levels of bitter anger and Abhi was running after her like a husband trying to pacify his naraaz biwi
That is an improvement but like you said don't know what the Makers are going for with Akshara she has become such a Question Mark ❓️ at times. Or we just so use to the bitterness and anger we are just shock when she isn't as bitter and angry in a scene we expect her to be