20/8 Dragon Club: Six Months Later

Today's episode was a very symbolic one with one overarching theme: Yash is trying to scare Aarti away and Aarti is refusing to let go of him. I know it seems stupid for her to keep going back to him when he clearly wants nothing to do with her, but it is only when Yash realises that she is not going anywhere that he is going to face whatever it is that happened in Mumbai between them that is causing him to react in this extreme way. From the precap it is clear that he still thinks he can scare her away with loud noises and an uncontrolled and unchecked rage. He tried silence, he tried (and is trying) shouting, he tried bodily pushing her away, he tried threatening her with leaving the house, he hurt himself scare her with the blood and now tried to display extreme violence to make her go away. But Aarti is not budging and I think that is important actually, if she wants to get to the bottom of this.

And I finally understand her need for that too. She loves him and they were having a fabulous time together in Mumbai. Not only is she upset that he is angry with her, but she has lost a new friend she thought was for keeps, and he showed her pretty convincing evidence that he was in this too, from what we see. When someone we love and who seemed to like/love us back in whatever capacity is not happy, we will want to get to the bottom of it no matter what. It is very easy for us to watch and say Aarti should just ignore him, but how can she when he is right there, unhappy and angry at her for something she has no idea about?

I think Arpita picture breaking scene was a sort of foreshadowing of what we are seeing now. Aarti compliments Yash on his dancing, and point to be noted, he thinks she is making fun of him at first and she has to convince him that she is in earnest. He is so sure she doesn't take him seriously, and that makes me wonder if something similar is happening here, where Yash thinks Aarti is not taking him and "the incident" seriously, and mocking him by playing innocent when the memory of whatever it was is so clear to him and he is sure it is clear to her too. Yash goes through a gamut of feelings, including shyness and telling her the step is too hard before he finally begins to teach her. I think that the dance step signifies the love he had with Arpita. Aarti is asking him to teach her how to love like he and Arpita loved, and after saying he is shy, after telling her it is too difficult and she can't do it, he finally relents and teaches her.

It is at this moment when Aarti and Yash are totally in the present, dancing together, that Aarti unconsciously breaks the picture of Arpita. Yash is in shock, as though he does not know quite how to react to Arpita's picture breaking, and it is only when Aarti is hurt that he reacts, and then not to Arpita, but to Aarti's wound, reprimanding her for not taking care of herself. Arpita's picture has become just that, a picture, rather than Arpita herself. The cold, lifeless glass of the picture frame, representing Arpita meets the flesh and blood of the living Aarti and for a moment, Yash achieves clarity and they both take their rightful places. Though both are harmed/damaged, he makes a choice and it is the living Aarti whose wound he tends to. And again it comes back to the point that he chooses Aarti when he senses that she needs him more than Arpita does.

Then in the next flashback, we see that Aarti has reframed Arpita's picture, or reframed her role in Yash's life. Now Aarti is ever present in the relationship between Yash and the picture. Before he used to define Aarti based on Arpita, and now the picture indicates that he defines Arpita based on Aarti's "framing," and Yash seemed to be happy with that. The old picture frame was red, representing life, passion, pain and love. The new frame is black, perhaps representing mourning and peacefully laying to rest the memories of the one departed. Yash says, "You don't have to feel guilty. Arpita's face is clearer and more beautiful now." Oh, so much meaning! By accepting Aarti and letting her be his partner in safeguarding Arpita's memories while enjoying the present, Yash has taken away the haze of pain from Arpita's loss, and can now clearly see her purely for the beautiful memory she is. And so he sets her down, and turns to his present, as though picking up from the moment before Arpita's picture fell, "You dance pretty well yourself." Is he perhaps saying, " I didn't think anyone could "dance" with me like Arpita used to, but you have potential..😉"

I think this is an outline of the present track, but in this case, Aarti does not know that she has broken the frame of Arpita's photo, and Yash thinks she has done it on purpose. I think through the flashback they showed that it is some misunderstanding or a gap in communication that is causing the distance between Aarti and Yash because as long as Aarti knew what she had done wrong, even by accident she knew how to correct it, and as long as Yash knew she didn't do it intentionally he had no problem at all. So I think this track is going to be unraveled in two layers, first with Aarti finding out what she did and making an attempt to correct it, and second with Yash finding out she didn't do it intentionally to hurt him or Arpita's memory, and regretting his behaviour.

For this, Yash has to burst at some point and that is only going to happen when Aarti somehow makes him understand that she is not going anywhere no matter what he does. Whatever mistake she made, she is ready to fix it, but she is not going to leave him alone (sorry guys, I know we were waiting for this but I don't think it is coming and funnily enough, I don't want it any more) to hurt himself and his family. And dagnabbit, she has Teej Mata's blessing to carry this out. Yash is trying every trick in the book to make her go away but one day he will run out of tricks and he will have to spill the beans. Aarti, despite her fear is showing great courage in sticking on, waiting for that.

In this whole mess what I find beautiful is the thin thread of trust that Aarti and Yash still maintain. I know that we discussed his abusive behaviour but today I realised that if Yash wanted to hurt Aarti he would have done it a long time ago. Instead, he is only doing what he can to get her away from him, going as far as hurting himself, but there is a very distinct line that he is not crossing which is what differentiates him from Prashant (as I know this was a topic of discussion). Even though he thinks that Aarti has done something awful, he has never once lifted a finger on her character. He never says "you are..." he only says "what you did," and that I think makes all the difference. He is accusing her of an act, one he seems to think she committed intentionally, breaking his trust and his heart. He doesn't accuse her of being a bad person, only says that he hates her and wants nothing to do with her. I know this argument is going to invite the cynics to party (and by all means, do) but I see a line there and I think Aarti sees it too. Even in his extreme anger, there is an underlying respect and concern that Yash has for Aarti, though it may be hard to grasp at the moment. Aarti knows that Yash won't cross this line and that is why she keeps going back when we feel it would be wise for her to just stay the heck away from the maniac!

Finally, that last scene. I thought that treadmill was very symbolic. Yash is running, faster and faster and yet he can't go anywhere. He has a choice, he can either slow the treadmill down and get off it with grace, or like he was today, he can be thrown off with a lot of extra, unnecessary pain, because he was running too fast towards a goal that he could never achieve: being with Arpita. And the very thing that is disallowing him from believing in his formless goal as strongly as he used to, is Aarti and her presence in his life, and so he is trying to scare her away with his outward actions while calling for help at the same time.

SP and Ansh were the stars of the episode as they both showed faith in Aarti to be there for Yash. I am so happy to see that Ansh's faith in his mumma's magic and her power to make the world right has not faltered in the least, and that among all the elders there, despite the fact that he well knew papa was angry with her, he went to her to fix his world. And SP, what can I say? Even if he doesn't trust Aarti, even if he has no soft corner for her, even if he doesn't think Yash will ever fall in love with her (though I believe he thinks all those things), I like to believe he saw those two little girls at the front of the procession and thought about their feelings when their mother was shunned at this moment of general celebration. He always thinks for the family's good, and I still haven't given up hope that he will be the one to knock sense into Yash's head with some tough lovin'!

A kind of filler episode...We still don't know the reason behind Yash's outburts 🤢 😕

It begins with Yash telling Aarti that he'll leave the house if she continues to come near him...Aarti is asking him to tell her the reason for his anger...she hinted that she knows...he leaves the hall in anger 😡

A heratbroken Aarti is crying bitterly 😭😭😭...Vidhi who witnesses the confrotation between AarYa consoles a distraught Aarti 🥺...Vidhi then aks Aarti to try and remember what happened in Mumbai.

FB begins with Yash dancing in front of the mirror and Aarti asking him to teach her the dance steps, he replies that it's too difficult for her but then he still ends up teaching her the steps (AarYa look too cute) 😳😳😳

While dancing Aarti's hand hits Arpita's pic and it falls down & breaks but surprisingly Yash wasn't mad 😲😲😲 Aarti cuts her hand on the glass, Yash tends to her forgetting all about Arpita's pic 😛 😆

She goes on to put Arpita's piv in a new frame which Yash appreciates and he even compliments her dancing (adorable AarYa moment)...End of the FB

The next AM...All the DILs are taking the teej Goddess blessings before its immersion...SP calls Aarti and tells her to take the Goddess blessings as well...aww that sly fox SP didn'tt let me down today 👏😉

Aarti prays to give her strenght so that she can work on her relationship with Yash and so she can find out the mystery behind is anger...the color (galul) is thrown in the air for the immersion and it lands on Aarti's forehead...As Jyo said that's a sign that Aarti is going to be successful in task 😃

Ansh goes and informs Aarti about Yash's reckless behavior...Aarti rushes off and finds Yash running on the tredmill like a madman <_< She tries to stop him but he increases the speed which leads to him taking a hard fall and badly hurting himself again 😡 Aarti tries to help him but he stops her by putting up his hand in protest

Vidhi, SP & Ansh were the starts of today's episode ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Precap: Yash is yelling at Aarti saying "I told u to stay away from me" he breaks a vase which terrifies Aarti

EDIT: In all his outbursts Yash isn't thinking about his kids so I wonder if one or all the kids gonna see him acting like a maniac tomorrow...I know they saw him being angry before but never like the madman in the precap.

🥳HAPPY SIX MONTHS ANNIVERSARY PUNAR VIVAAH!!!!! 🥳

Today's episode proves that Diary or Arpita are not the reasons of Yash's anger ...

From Mumbai flashback its clear that even if Arpita's photo breaks , Yash is no more affected with it but he is more affected with the fact that Aarti is bleeding and he rushes to bring first aid for her .. point to b noted 😊

Yash expects Aarti to know the reason of his anger since he himself says its not a small thing that u dont remember which indicates it cannot b the diary because then Yash will not expect Aarti to remember it if Yash has secretly read her diary .. point to b noted again 😊

Also today again Yash is angry and madly runs on tredmill .. when Aarti comes to stop him , he falls down and stops Aarti from coming near him .. but he does not remember Arpita at all .. Point to b noted again 😊

So if Diary or Arpita is not the reason ..then what is it ??

My simple guess is in Mumbai itself there was a moment of weakness where both got intimate ... Mayb Aarti and Yash both were drunk but since Aarti is not a regular drinker , she does not remember anything while Yash remembers it mayb because he got back to his senses soon ...

So this explains his extreme behaviour ... Yash knows he is falling for Aarti .. he knows he got intimate with her and he expects her to remember it as well which she does not ...He is guilty of the fact that he betrayed Arpita that night and got close to Aarti ... So now he expects Aarti to repent it as well like he is repenting but Aarti remembers nothing which is adding up to his frustration

Also Yash's attraction towards Aarti is result of this extreme madness as he is trying hard to push himself away from this emotion of love and so he goes in self-destructive mode trying to hurt himself since he does not want to fall in love again 😭😭... But whenever Aarti is coming near him , he is unable to control his own emotions and mayb those intimate moments of Mumbai r flashing in front of his eyes ,reason why he goes at his extreme trying to hurt himself so that he can scare Aarti away

In short Yash right now is battling out his inner demons which r trying hard to stop him from falling in love again and thats why we r getting to see him at his extreme in last few episodes

Yash running fast on tredmill is a very beautiful symbolic scene ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ .. Yash is running hard and fast to escape himself from this complex feeling of love again but he is going nowhere and running on that same path .. in the end he ends up falling in front of Aarti only from whom he was trying to escape ...

So then Yash tries out his other theory of trying to scare Aarti away by going in his self-destructive mode but Aarti's love for him is so strong that Aarti is still not scared and wants to come near Yash 😳...This is further frustrating him since he is neither able to escape from his own growing feelings towards Aarti nor he is able to stop Aarti from coming near him 😛

Moral of the story is Yash should stop running away from reality but rather face it with courage because reality is anyday better and beautiful than his abstract world where he wants to cage himself 😡

I dont blame Aarti for not able to ignore Yash which most of us want ...Firstly Aarti needs to know the reason of his extreme anger , its natural that she too is feeling restless unless she knows the reason 😭😭 ; Secondly Aarti is in love with this man , he mayb a psycho or whatever , but love is blind and Aarti is blindly in love with this self-destructive man , so when she can see he is hurting himself so badly , how can she simply ignore it 😭😭

I feel if Yash simply tells her the reason on her face , Aarti will at least get some peace and might just leave him alone as per his wish ...But the point here is Yash expects Aarti to remember it and this is where Aarti is even more confused and feels all victimised

Vidhi was a complete elder sister for Aarti today when she tries to calm down Aarti and make her remember those Mumbai moments and then later consoles her like a sister 👏👏👏,..Its a beautiful sister bonding shown which is so rare to see in a Jethani-Devrani relationship ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ansh on the other hand is coming out as one of the most matured kids on small screen the way he informs Aarti about his father's madness on time and is acting all matured 👏👏👏...He knew that today his father wont stop unless Aarti comes in to stop him , so he does the needful 👍🏼...

Vidhi and Ansh r the strongest pillars of support for Aarti right now 😳

So Teej mata blessed Aarti today when that red gulal falls on Aarti's forehead when she was praying for her successful relationship with Yash 😳...This proves that Aarti in the end will get success for sure .. When and how is the question 😕

I loved Daddy Scindia today the way he silently made that gesture asking Aarti to come and take blessings when Gayatri was against it 😡 ; Daddy Scindiaknew that she will ask for Yash's happiness only , so why stop her from taking blessings 😆 ;In short Gayatri lacks common sense which Daddy Scindia has 😆...

Ok Lakhan in Mumbai was shown with some purpose na .. CVs cannot just make him disappear ?? 😕

So I wont b surprised if Lakhan is the main reason behind this whole Yash-Aarti Mumbai mystry 😕...He might hv spiked Aarti's drink for sure ...Mayb it was for Yash to make him unconscious but Aarti drank it and then she might hv blabbered something about her feelings after which mayb Yash too just got carried on with the moment and got intimate with her only to realise after few minutes that he got carried away with her charms ...So he got really angry when from Aarti's mouth he found that all this while she was trying to seduce him and he too fell for it ...

This explains why Aarti does not remember anything since she was drunk while Yash remembers it all and is being sarcastic when he tells her u should know it since the reason is big ...

I dont think both consummated but its just a matter of few intimate moments which resulted in Yash's extreme anger since his biggest grudge is he actually fell for her charms 😛

For Yash to come out of his obsessed past , an extreme moment or such outburst was needed or else he would hv forever lived in that abstract world of Arpita ...Arpita image needed to break in his mind and heart and for that such extreme outburst was needed since his obsession for Arpita was extreme as well

Yash's personality itself is extreme .. so I m not at all surprised when he is finally showing his extreme side to all ... so far he sort of bottled up his emotions and kept silent .. finally he is able to open it all thanks to Aarti .,.. she brought out this change in him and its better for future .. once he finishes his complete outburst he will start changing 😊

Also so far PV as a show was more about Aarti's emotions and her struggle to come out of her past and accept her present .. Finally Yash's emotions and his struggle is presented .. and so I hv no complaints .. In fact I would hv been disappointed if overnight Yash had a change of heart towards Aarti just because of one Mumbai trip as I wanted to see the complex emotions of Yash's character which so far has not been explored but finally its happening 😳

Yash is still a kid at heart .. just look at the way he was dancing in front of mirror and then when Aarti asks him to teach her some dance moves , he was like I m feeling embarassed Aarti ji 😆😳... So even his anger is more kiddish types .. he throws things , hurts himself , something which u associate with these middle aged 14-15 yr old kids if they dont get what they want or if things just dont go their easy way ... He needs to fall hard now to rise up again like a phoenix and do all the damage control 😃

Only one request to CVs , pls dont drag it for rest of the week or else it gets monotonus .. I m hoping for the reason to b out by the end of tomorrow's episode or at least in precap of tomorrow's episode 😊