Some sequences and my rantings..
Khushi's monologue: Moments of clarity muddled in confusion..
How did she hurt him? When did she hurt him? Does Arnav know about Shyam and her engagement? No, No, she declares - How can he possibly know about Shyam and her engagement.. Who could have told him.. Her own reflection that she wanted to tell, but did'nt (Oh, not that path girl.. Don't think who might have told.. Rather what he might have seen) And yet the responsibility in her shows when she thinks how delicately the situation has to be handled.. Khushi at her best - always trying to find a solution irrespective of the difficulties and the situation.. Her optimisitic spirit continues.. Go girl..
Khushi was talking about her engagement with Shyam, not the terrace scene.. Khushi has warmed up to the reason why Arnav may have forced the wedding.. but not yet there.. Just warmed up.. Interesting coincidence that Arnav and Khushi have Anjali's happiness in mind..
Arnav-Shyam-Jalebi: Shyam's mask slipping..
It was expected is'nt it.. Being in the receiving end, Shyam was bound to make mistakes.. So, here goes the first one.. Almost caught when he said, Khushi must have made the jalebis and the fact that he knows Khushi makes jalebis when something is bothering her.. Just as his mask was about to slip in front of Anjali and mamiji, Arnav comes to Anjali's (his?) protection and declares he told Shyam about Khushi.. Was there a stress, when he said, he knows all about her.. I wonder..
Mamiji's Bond instincts were spot on.. Continue this, mamiji.. Maybe she'll be the first one to crack on Shyam's double game..
Shyam-Arnav equation.. Shyam is seeing that Arnav does not want Anjali to know the truth about Shyam and Khushi at any cost.. Would Shyam manipulate on Arnav's vulnerability.. Would Shyam blackmail Arnav to do stuff so that Anjali can be kept away from the truth.. Will wait and watch..
Anjali is slowly warming up to Shyam's real face and truth..
Anjali-Arnav equation: Arnav continues to spin lies to Anjali to keep her happy.. When the final moment comes when Anjali needs to trust Arnav - will she...
Mami's missing footage: Khushi-Payal bonding
Marriage video is out.. Nothing there to help Arhi..
The whole sequence of Mamiji's harshness with Payal and Khushi's family for not giving her footage in the marriage DVD seemed to achieve only one purpose - Bringing back Khushi-Payal's bonding.. And it did happen.. It was nice to see Payal and Khushi play cahoots to make Mamiji happy..
Though it was surprising to see Akash's silence in the entire episode.. Did he want the sisters to bond and hence did he kept quiet.. - I wonder.. (For the precap - Is Arnav going to use Akash's behavior today to keep Khushi at home, tomorrow - I wonder..)
Arnav-Khushi kheer scene: Star crossed
While Arnav is in a hurry to leave, Khushi stops him - how- bumps into him with kheer and spills onto his shirt.. While Arnav is all ready to come loud and give her his piece of mind, he glances and sees that Anjali is watching, and while he waits on how to carry a pretense and do damage control - her restlessness takes over -She blurts - He can't leave without completing their conversation.. She goes on and rants that he has to tell her when she had made him sad.. But before she completes, Arnav wants to do damage control.. So he goes all sweet and charming and surprises her.. He goes on - You have no clue - do you.. She - still thinking about how she made him sad - says yes, - and he finishes off - 'that you look so beautiful when you are angry'.. Khushi realizes immediately that something is off that Arnav is being uber sweet to her.. And she says 'What'.. And Arnav continues his rant, - Tells her she does'nt have to always be angry to prove to him she is beautiful.. ' While she looks absolutely confused at his sudden warmth and sweet talk, he leads off with his 'Come'.. Completely dumbfounded by his behavior, she just follows him as a robot.. He makes her sit.. Khushi immediately switches to reality and is about to say something.. When Arnav again controls her just with his eyes.. (She's so totally affected by him, isn't she - ) With his charm full on - he challenges her to continue.. Khushi stammers a bit.. Still sticking to reality and fighting his charm, she continues - he need to tell her... and Arnav realizing that her mind is still working, stops her from talking by feeding her a mouth full of kheer.. Khushi is completely shocked and surprised by this gesture - soft Rabba ve in the background - the little piece of kheer in her mouth - he loses the pretense for a moment (I wonder..) and she loses herself in the moment as he wipes off the kheer - Arnav is the first one to recover - looking at his sister and continues his pretense.. While she looks at him helplessly asking him to stop it - confused by his warmth, he guides her to feed him - (Rabba ve continues..) Anjali is happy seeing her brother in love with his wife.. while Khushi is absolutely confused - refusing to believe his sweetness and yet not able to react her usual self, completely influenced by his charm.. And his sweetness oozes out - he says - The kheer fed by her is sweeter even though it is'nt sweet - Khushi - did she want to believe him for that moment - (did she go back to the past when he kissed her - when he helped get the eating leaves, the sweet moments - I wonder..) - While Arnav continues to pretend - and Khushi is confused to believe or not - Arnav still wanting to control her from talking - feeds her another spoon - Khushi is slowly falling for it all - when suddenly she chokes - That's the moment ---
Arnav stops all pretense and his true caring comes out for Khushi -the love and care comes out as a knee jerk reaction - the pretense dies - his 'Khushi' said it all - He goes on -Are you ok - and grabs for the water..
And then - while she coughs - Khushi sees Anjali and thinks she finally understood why Arnav behaved that way .. He was pretending in front of Anjali so that Anjali thinks they are happily married.. A bit shocked at Arnav's extent of pretense.. and 'finally' Anjali leaves..
While Arnav continues to get the water and give it to Khushi - his concern and care surfacing - angry that he has affected her so much, angry that he charmed his way through, angry the way she was treated - misunderstanding the real concern from him at this time - she pushes his glass away..
Now Arnav not comprehending her action - as he is caring for her at the moment - completely forgetting that it started off as a pretense -waits for her to utter something - Khushi stunned in disbelief about his pretense and her response comes out devoid of any emotion with regret - says - Anjali has left - Time to call off the pretense act..
While Arnav just gets reminded of how the whole pretense started, looks back to see if Anjali was there - and see that she is'nt - realizing his love has again surfaced and remains silent - while she continues to reaffirm - he did it all for the sake of Anjali right..
His love in his eyes - not wanting to acknowledge that his care that ebbed out, letting her continue her misunderstanding - he shares an eyelock with her and while she waits - a little yearning in her that he probably did'nt do it all for Anjali - he realizes the same moment how all that started as a pretense - ended up with his real feelings surface out - not wanting to admit to her (the hurt from the lost love.. and a yearning for things to have been different)- and while she dares him to admit, the hurt shown in her eyes the fact that he did it all for Anjali - he walks off leaving her hurt and in misunderstanding.. and Khushi contemplates again in confusion - her wanting his care to be real, his love to be real, and the sad truth that it was all a pretense, hurting her.. Oh - how she wants to get an end to all this was all there on her face - as the scene freezes..
Arnav pretends with uber charm- Khushi succumbs - Arnav's real feelings ebb out - She calls it a pretense.. Their star-crossed love journey continues..
Much needed to say - Barun and Sanaya were brilliant today ⭐️ - Aren't they the reason we are hooked on to Arhi..
Just a peek into the past and the full circle:
How she lies to him almost convincingly and wiped off his white mush.. And today - how he lies to her almost convincingly, and wipes off the kheer.. While the former was endearing, the latter is an irony of how sweet their love journey could have been but it isnt..
And with their bond of unsaid love and as they continue to work their trust, their journey continues..
Edited by shu_cal - 14 years ago