Thurs 29/3 - 219 ... Anyone Can Make A Mistake

Thurs March 29th

After watching the first half of the episode, I was surprised that you girls hadn't commented on how foolish and OTT Khushi was during the important meeting with the Sethi brothers =)) ... and how come Arnav didn't physically throw her out =))
The second half of the episode explained that of course!!! =))

So was TQ the slightest bit suspicious of her sleazeball hubby? Or was it more about 'don't talk about property and dying and all, I love you too much' ... I think she wasn't completely satisfied by TF's explanation today. She might not do anything about it, but the seed will remain ... until TF can find a way to explain it convincingly ... like he did during the ring episodes.

So Akash realizes that Khushi jo kuch bhi karti hai, kuch soch samajh kar karti hai. Am impressed ... how did Khushi know to call EOW? I didn't even know such a thing existed!

And Arnav gets another insight into the way his wife works ... kabhi soch samajhkar, kabhi just for masti! Seems like this track is all about Arnav getting to know the real Khushi ... and trust her. Although his ego is still too big to allow him to apologize or say thank you to her ...

Need to watch the car ride again ... but the precap is definitely him getting his own back on her ... though not with malice or bitterness this time ... but with a big smirk. A bit like the tyre changing time - I should say thanks, but I won't. He loves playing games with her ... and winning. Though really, Bitwa, making your wife do uthak baithak on the road? Not nice :(  :-S

I think I really won't have much to add tomorrow ;) but anyway ... *edit later*
*edited*
Starts with Shyam pottering around in ArHi wardrobe, caught redhanded by WW (Worshipping Wifey), and for once, doesn't have an excuse ready, so falls back, as he did once before, on the simple truth ... of course, gambling on the certainty that he won't be believed. And it gives him time to come up with a better excuse - he was hunting for a misplaced kurta. Anjali disturbed - why did you mention jaydaad and papers ... Shyam asks softly, so isn't all the jaydaad ours anyway? Fishing for some information? But Anjali doesn't give him the answer he wants, so he covers quickly again - jaydaad is his wife and child, that's all he wants. Anjali still not very happy, but Shyam thinks she has swallowed it again.
For once, there is a witness to this conversation - HP. 

AR - Shuklaji calls Khushi 'bhabhiji', Arnav still doesn't like :))
SN - I thought Khushi was to do the cooking, and Shuklaji the sourcing only - what happened? Did she teach him her recipes already?
Dia, no logic, remember ... no logic :))
And Khushi has to run to her day job - interpreter for HH (no, not hotwa this time - Hot-tempered Hubby) ... who's already having a tough time telling secretary what he wants. Khushi makes general announcement about her day job, to everyone's confusion ... then runs to attend phone.
From Mr. Roy ... so Arnav snatches phone before Roy can say anything more, and gestures he'll call back later. Khushi wonders what it is that he didn't want to talk about in front of her. Smart girl, picks up all the little things. Now if only she could pick up the tension between HH and TF!

And the Men In Black enter - looking straight out of a Govinda gangster movie :))
Arnav is a little perturbed - can you handle it? Khushi gets nervous at that one ... and starts babbling again ... yes, of course, I will, I can, can't I? have water, no? okay, I'll have water :)) Then sees that MIB look like LG, and gets more confidence - I can handle one, today I'll manage three! Arnav looking at her babbling as though he thinks she's lost it completely!
Again Arnav seeing more and more shades of Khushi - the 'darti hai par karti hai' Khushi ...
Khushi called out by random phone call - why am I mentioning this? Because I caught it only on the second watch ;) - why she was outside to catch the MIB.
And she wonders why the MIB left already, and why they're wearing goggles inside ...

MIB re-enter, Arnav is justifiably flummoxed at the cartoons in front of him ... Khushi bursts in, huffing puffing (all this definitely made more sense on second watch ;) - so cv's had done a decent job after all!)
Khushi's one liners again - 'he can't speak, but it doesn't make so much of a difference ... vaise bhi he doesn't talk too much, today he won't talk at all. No big deal!'
If this had been a serious deal, I would have been tearing my hair out already at her idiocy ... I was, on first watch! :))
So Khushi holds forth on everything but the deal - reason for Arnav's silence, the price of vegetables, her dabba service ... ending up by presenting her cards ...
Arnav's look of sheer horror ... priceless!!!

Akash distraught - how did Khushi mess up this deal, it was important! The brothers leave to try to salvage the deal ... Akash disappointed with Khushi.

And then the expose ... Sethi brothers ready for the deal, R brothers happy, and KKGSR becomes heroine of the hour ... as the police and EOW officer enter in the nick of time ... and Khushi's flashback shows how she discovered the truth ... the MIB were discussing their secrets in the carpark?! Not very smart of them was it? Well, okay - matches with the general IQ levels of almost everyone else on the show :))

So Akash is very grateful, and a bit shamefaced - he didn't do his homework properly.
"Sorry, Khushiji,  should have known - whatever you do, you do have a reason for it." And to Arnav, he apologizes, and Arnav agrees that anyone can make a mistake.
But he's not so ready to forgive Khushi ... annoyed with her again, what for now?! And Khushi goes blabber-blabber again as she explains how she suspected something blackwa in the dal when the MIB kept their goggles on even in office ...
'You can tell when someone is lying when they don't meet your eyes. Those who are telling the truth always look into your eyes and talk.' 

The only problem was that she looked away after saying this - she should have held his gaze for a while longer.
And then she asks - 'what you said to Akash .. do you really agree that anyone can make a mistake? Even you?'
He is not amused ... but that's the first time it has come up ... that Arnav Singh Raizada is not infallible, that he can also make mistakes.

The car journey home ... and Khushi knows why Arnav is fuming ... why didn't she tell him before pulling her stunt ... she explains she didn't have the time, she just called the police and was stalling for time till they arrived ...besides she was having fun with all the business talk! And was missing his What The's :)) And then takes care to remind him his company would have been in trouble without her ... so he can say thank you ... and sorry.

Screech of brakes, car to halt ... Arnav sure abuses his car! Will he say Get Out? Oh I forgot ... he can't! =))

MPN - writing separately - Nani and Payal conspiring about the fashion show. Nani in white dress and simply horrendous blonde wig ... =)) And NP accomplish their mission ... Manorama wants to go for the fashion show with Payal ... AND Manorama forced to call Payal and Khushi by their names ... yippeeee!!! Okay as fillers ... though I felt sorry for Nani with that horrendous get up and wig! But I much prefer this type of saas-bahu track!

Thoughts - Not a very well done episode, the deal make and break had a very amateurish/comic touch - deliberately? The office scenes don't come across as well thought out or very serious - either the initial ones with the bimbo La and her buddies, or the current ones. They have all been kept very light and pretty comic.

Anyway, a few key points from the episode:

For the first time, Khushi points out to Arnav that he can be wrong, he can make mistakes too. He doesn't like it, but it's true. Will he remember this later?

Akash says Khushi always has something thought out in her mind even when she's apparently being completely erratic. Said in Arnav's hearing. Again, will Arnav register this, and remember it later?

Khushi's statement that you can make out when someone is lying or telling the truth by whether they look into your eyes or not.

A seed planted in Anjali's brain about her hubby. Like all seeds, it will take time to grow, if nurtured and watered by more suspicious antics ... or it could be crushed again by some clever manipulation.

Liked that Manorama was forced to call Payal and Khushi by name, and not PS and KBT.

The Roy and papers track - so the Shyam-Arnav track continues.
So a few strings already in place, being pulled slowly tighter and tighter ... but very slowly. 

Precap - will wait for episode tonight before I comment :)

Important - I'm rushing to India again today on a family emergency, so am making Friday's post now itself. Hope to catch the repeat episode at 11.30, otherwise will join the discussions tomorrow. Whoever posts the first comment, please give a quick recap of the episode for me - thanks! >:D<

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