Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour
I'm overthinking, I know, but Raghav's behaviour between bailing Kirti and Jaya and defaming Pallavi was more erratic than his usual mood swings.
When Jagadish's unnamed son told Raghav that Pallavi had sent him to deliver Kirti's photos to Jaya's house, Raghav didn't believe it. Why not? When Jagadish's son delivered the parcel to Jaya, he said that it was from Pallavi. Wouldn't Jaya have told Raghav what the messenger said, and that the "obscene" photos were hidden behind legitimate photos from Pallavi's photo shoot? Wouldn't Raghav think back to when he went to court to bail Jaya and Kirti, and Pallavi stood in his way, saying that she wouldn't let him win? Had Raghav forgotten about Pallavi telling him that she would punish him, and that he would cry when someone dear to him suffered what her sisters had suffered?
To be fair to Raghav, other details of that scene didn't make sense either. Farhad said that he identified Jagadish's son from the CCTV near Jaya's house, and he always walks home along this road. How is it possible to identify one man out of all of Hyderabad just from a CCTV recording, let alone access his GPS location history? If Jaya's neighbourhood is so run-down that Raghav wasn't surprised that she got food poisoning, whose CCTV is it? And if the CCTV caught Jagadish's son going to Jaya's door, why didn't it catch him talking to Sulochana just a few steps away, with her car window rolled all the way down? Moreover, when Jagadish's son told Raghav to ask the office for the sender's name, Raghav said that he already checked, and the name and address were both fake. Since Raghav was able to trace the parcel to the office and get information about the sender, wouldn't that be the easiest way to find the messenger, not by CCTV?
Back to Raghav's erratic behaviour ... When Jagadish's son insisted that Pallavi wanted revenge for Raghav's offence against her sister, Raghav fired his gun into the air, yelling "Pallavi Deshmukh!" Yet the next episode began with Raghav in his bedroom, hallucinating Pallavi and saying that he knows she could never do this; in all of their fights, she never stooped so low; Jagadish's son lied; someone is framing Pallavi. Well, Raghav, you recently caught someone framing Pallavi. Who was it? And if Pallavi never stooped so low in your fights, did you just admit that she didn't drug your food so that Anjali could violate you?
That scene ended when Farhad found Raghav clutching air as he tried to choke Pallavi. The very next scene was Raghav with Farhad in his den, throwing knives instead of darts at a dartboard, where they miraculously rearranged into an X on a photo of Pallavi that hadn't been there. Raghav insisted on calling Jaya to ask when those photos were taken of Kirti undressed. Why? Wouldn't Kirti have told him already that she wasn't assaulted or seduced, just spied upon as she changed sarees at Pallavi's photo shoot, from which the other photos in the parcel came?
Then Raghav asked Farhad, what's Pallavi's assistant's name? Raghav had known the answer when he told Farhad to call "Krishna" to Dr. Kanika's office. Ostensibly, Raghav went to meet Krishna to tell her that he respects Pallavi, he wants to say he's sorry, he wants to support her ... lies that he could have told to Pallavi directly, but never did. It would have been a throwaway scene, except that Krishna for no reason told Raghav about the fake accounts, and instead of his usual three-piece suit, Raghav was luckily wearing an untucked shirt so that he could slip the "fake accounts kā book" inside. Shouldn't Raghav have looked for the "asalī accounts kā book" instead?
No matter what tricks Raghav had planned against Pallavi, how could he think to convince her of his sincerity while acting carefree and gracious when they met, as if his sister and mother weren't going through the worst experience of their lives? Raghav believed that Pallavi knew that Kirti and Jaya were taken to jail, and that embarrassing photos of Kirti were being ogled on Photogram, because it was Pallavi's revenge and her intention was to hurt Raghav. Wouldn't Raghav imagine that Pallavi expected him to be in a bad mood, even if he didn't suspect her?
And from Raghav's point of view, why wouldn't Pallavi expect Raghav to suspect her? Kirti's disgrace matched Pallavi's promise to teach Raghav a lesson. Even if Raghav didn't know that the parcel was delivered in Pallavi's name, as if she was proud to claim responsibility, did Raghav have a reason to believe that Jagadish's son hadn't warned Pallavi that he had told Raghav her name? The last time they had met, Raghav had almost struck Pallavi in the face, and he had actually shoved her out of his way to Jaya's and Kirti's bail hearing. How could Raghav smile at Pallavi, offer her orange juice, sit quietly while she read the contract, shake hands with her, and not expect her to find it suspicious that he wasn't devastated by her revenge?
It's amazing that the creative team was able to assemble any kind of story, considering that scenes shot in Kolhapur (e.g. Raghav and Krishna in the saree shop, Raghav drinking in the RR mansion after Pallavi's party, Kirti finding Pallavi outside the saree shop while Vijay was having a heart attack) had to be juxtaposed with scenes shot in Hyderabad (e.g. Pallavi meeting Raghav in a restaurant, Pallavi's party at Janakamma's house, hospital scenes after Vijay's heart attack). For the scene of Raghav driving to Pallavi's party, they ran out of time, and just used old footage of Raghav driving to Manasi's saṃgīta, which is why he's wearing the "traditional" costume of black garbage bag material instead of the suit in which he arrived at the party, and he's smiling as he thinks of Jaya and Kirti in jail.
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