First things first, contrary to my rant in EDT today, I liked how Virat and Ashwini spoke some facts.
The way Virat said Sai is not going anywhere with finality in his tone (later he was softer but that statement was stern), and Ashwini's statement that Sai is the DIL of the house. Even though I would have liked Virat adding the detail that Sai is his wife and the house is hers. Anyways, I would assume that the ocassion is not correct to talk about a spouse when someone's spouse passed away. fair point.
One more suble thing I liked was how Omi was worried about his elder sister. The brothers and sisters of CN did have some closer bonds, thanks to may be Nagesh Chavan. The way the youngest brother was worried about his oldest sister was heartwarming to see!
Ok coming to the main topic I observed, which I think is deliberate from makers point of view (I hope) is to show how different are anger at situation vs anger at a person. Contrast the anger of Mansi and Pakhi on Sai.
Mansi was angry too when Sai approached her. She was blaming the situation where Sai had to call Samrat. When Sai explained her how she is Sammy's younger sister and how she wants to keep her brother's last wish, Mansi relented. She is the mother who had only the fondest of memories with her only son. No one's hurt now, definitely not Pakhi's could be more than what she is going through. And the son was taken ahead of her in such an young age. The hurt could have killed her. But she still saw the 'truth'. Truth about the situation. Truth about Sai's nature and her bond with Samrat. Her anger subsides.
But Pakhi's is misdirected anger. She must be feeling angry at everything that lead to this situation. And at every point, she found Sai. She was not dealing with situations at any point of time till now. If it was Virat once, then it was only Sai after their marriage. Now also she sees only Sai. She just added another reason to hate her and found the right opportunity to throw her out. If you see the precap, she is not going to listen to anyone. It doesnt look like the anger that would fade away. It is the anger that she doesnt want to let it go. Thats where it looks deliberate. As if she is plotting to send Sai away, and is using the situation.
Virat 'Cool' Chavan explained clearly what Sai was going through and he said 'they' understood her hurt and 'he' kept quiet at her behavior. He actually said they accepted the slap, she doesnt relent. He elaborates the situation and explains her how he asked Sai to take Samrat's help. She doesnt listen. Then she finds some illogical reason by tying this to DevKit's wedding which shows her adamancy to make a point that Sai is wrong. He explains clearly about that situation and takes the blame which is correct. Everyone else follows Virat and tries to assuage her anger. No, she doest. BK intervenes and talks her usual rubbish as the head of the house. If she thinks sai is the cause of Samrat's death, is she saying it is fine if Sai died (along with chirag) or if Virat dies? Or did she mean if Virat had come, he would have handled the situation better? She seems lost. We have to wait for tomorrow to see what she says.
So going back to Pakhi's anger and contrasting with Mansi's, we can see how she made up her mind to oust Sai. She is only using this situation to hate her more. Ofcouse we all know as audience how is she as a person, so it is easy to see her hate for Sai than hurt at Samrat.
Amidst all this, what is incredible is how Pakhi's mom stays absolutely silent. Any mother would intervene here and calms her child. We can now see why Pakhi makes such terrible mistakes like marrying Samrat to stay close to Virat. They did not stop her then, and they did not drive sense into her now. I thought it is intentional this is brought up because, the camera panned on her mother several times. And technically, this is where they should get a BD for Pakhi's dad as he is little saner parent who could have calmed her down. Even if she had not listened to her parents as always, plot wise also it would have established this misguided anger with more effect.
All in all, Pakhi's anger looked like pre-meditated and deliberate. It is something she will make sure to keep alive. So she will spin up more reasons to trouble Sai. Even though it is shown like the anger due to Samrat's death (situation), we all can clearly see it is on Sai(person). Situations will pass, but person stays!
Acting wise, Neil bhatt and Kishore Shahane were top notch. Aishwarya was good in previous episodes but today she lost control. Ayesha didnt have much to do in today's episode.
PS: I really liked how BK broke down during the cremation, she genuinely loved Samrat as her son even though she didnt consider his progeny as CN's heir. But then she took away the sympathy with her rubbish talk that Sai will not be leaving CN not because she is DIL, but because she carries CN's child.
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