Originally posted by: inlieu
Totally agree. This track would have had so much more impact if they hadn't expressed their loved or if they'd wanted to but for some reason didn't get to voice it because of the arrival of Mandaar.
The way Sickand wants to show a strong FL, I don't expect that Raghav will be able to sort all this out. Only Pallavi will be able to help him deal with his insecurities (as per ITV trends), and the deep-rooted problems that you have so aptly described. I agree she's not a professional but since when does ITV take mental health and PTSD seriously? It's rarely dealt with properly or with the right amount of sensitivity. We've seen Raghav's messed up life from day 1 and this many episodes later, there has been no progress whatsoever on this front. Why does he feel he can't breathe when Pallavi isn't around? Because in many ways he sees her as his lifeboat, as the one to stop him from drowning completely. His redemption arc was a lot more about him giving himself a chance to do something different with this life as it was about doing something good for Pallavi/repairing the damage he caused.
I've always said Raghav + Amma + Keerti need therapy. Just the way Amma talked about Raghav's anger being the reason for their estrangement and oversimplified the issue in today's episode, without acknowledging her own part in the mess, is indication that there's still a lot that needs healing. I know it wasn't the time and place for it but it was a glimpse of how they are yet to really look the issue in the face. This is why I was upset with the reconciliation between Amma and Raghav in terms of the way it happened and how soon it did. Maybe it's all meant to come out during the Krishna Rao track but I also do not have high hopes of them being able to get to the root of the matter and make it nuanced. OTT drama is the way things keep going on the show, even for crucial moments. It might also be a creative choice to leave Raghav with all that damage in his life for the long-run. For him to stumble through life and various events behaving in a similar way, with only someone like Pallavi, as his life partner, being able to deal with him and handle things whenever he slips up. No idea. I just feel like they wasted a great opportunity with this Mandaar track to explore all these dynamics further.
@DivyaaaV, perhaps I interpreted those scenes differently but at no point did it seem to me that Raghav's insecurities had turned into the other type of insecurity. He was still seeing it as Pallavi staying with Mandaar more than Pallavi leaving him, due to circumstances he couldn't control.
In general, I also believe that Raghav hasn't seen much of the 'unconditional' kind of love. With Pallavi, he knows she's not where he is in the relationship so his fears of things falling apart are far greater than hers. She might figure it out later on, but she doesn't yet have that 50k ft view. Perhaps she'll see it at the end of the track or perhaps she won't. Just the way she gave in to Sanki today, despite being forbidden to do so by two people who she said she cared about in D-fam (Ayi and Kaka), tells you that her need to feel validated by Sanki never went away despite her disappointment with how their relations had soured. In that moment, she was swayed by emotion and that's why she was so upset when talking to Raghav. She knew that all the progress she'd made, walking away from Sanki in the past for her self-respect, was partly undone because she couldn't control her emotions. It had barely been a few hours and she'd already started to feel trapped by all the emotional blackmail and manipulation that she knew she'd been smart enough to walk away from in the past.
I truly hope all this leads to character growth for her, otherwise it will seem illogical and will upset viewers further.