See she is controlling herself a lot to not fall for Virat. She doesn't want to think about him in a romantic way. But despite that she blushes for his shayari.
Like despite her walls, sometimes he ends up breaching it by his gestures.
Thats how we are supposed to look at that scene.
I guess, she is also taking acre of herself when she decides to not understand Virat's gestures.. Gestures of love/care two days after being thrown out of the house and being brought back cannot make a lady understand its love.. There a re a lot of unresolved issues between the two that needs to be talked about before these gestures.. Sai is a woman of principles and she also regards Virat's love for Pakhi.. She wants that love for herself ..yes...but not forcefully or because of a moment.. It has to be in confession, has to be felt.. No woman in a marriage like that , after being thrown out at night, denied food twice would suddenly start understanding romantic gestures..
Everyone including Virat have been very ignorant towards her trauma after being physically harassed, loosing the only parent , getting married in a loveless marriage, being a part of chauvinistic family being physically abused and being thrown out of the house ,occurrence all events sequentially without any breather... It takes time to heal from these traumas.. We have been very inconsiderate towards her feelings, her trauma, her distress in this all.. Virat apologised yes, she forgave yes, but that does not take away her trauma of living that moment.. Virat is guilty and his guilt doesn't even want to talk about what she would have felt during this all, he requests to not bring that discussion and this girl agrees. And we as women expect her to jump in his arms the moment he comes to her, just because he has developed feelings for her and is a good man? A man who told her, he would never give her marriage , that she deserved , for he promised another woman.. And yet Sai after all she is a human, a woman in love, first love at the age of 19, sometimes gives away to her feelings towards this man who is her world and also who she respects a lot. Just like today she was ready to be kissed.. did not lash at him, was anticipating....
If we have accepted and appreciated the difference between ROno and Virat, we need to the same for Sai and Emon as well...Sai and Virat both are more respective and tender towards each other than the original version..
Sai is an 18year old girl..man..what would she know about being in love, being kissed.? All she has felt about physical advances is something that is harassment and that as well has been a major part of her teenage life.. Sai needs to understand Virat's love, while Virat has till date unable to understand her jealousy towards Patralekha and Patralekha's tears when he sides with Sai, or talks logic.. SUch is an irony.Sai needs to understand the gestures of the same man, who few months back stood silent, in acceptance that his wife has brought him nothing but pain, him getting married to her has given him nothing but self inflicted pain..She is supposed to jump in the same man's arms, who stayed silent, when Pakhi looks at him while saying, "apni kareebi logo ka khyal main rakhna jaanti hun" while calling Sai selfish yet again.. Patralekha called him kareebi in front of Sai and Sai saw him , and he did not even flinch, and Sai has to understand he is falling for her?
I chose to back Sai in this regard, where she denies to understand Virat's feelings for her. That does not mean that I dont feel bad for Virat, he is a man who fell in love with a girl who he called a bacchi some 6-7 months back, who he promised a marriage of deal and no love, who he made believe that he is in love with someone else and could not , could not stop himself from falling in love..And in spite of the guilt of actions, insecurities, past mistakes, past relationship and also the age gap which made him feel embarrassed about being associated with a bacchi, he is trying his level to make her believe his love..Virat is doing everything that he is expected to do..I dont expect him to verse the words, I expect him to do what he is doing. But I dont expect Sai to understand, because there are issues, there is a deal , a promise of love to another woman, the woman who still is between them and who still gets to enter the room late at night, without knocking.. I chose to side with Sai and Virat both.. If Sai denies his advances even when she knows Virat loves her, I will not side with her then, if she is in love with him as well.. What there relationship stands at today, I understand them both ..
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