25/5 - Epi 261 ... Collaboration

Friday 25th May

Have to say this first before I give my episode take - the precap cracked me up =)) Manorama Bond and KKGSR Bond, Partners Inc. - waah, kya jodi hai!

Okay, girl, 'fess up ... who among you is part of the cv's? As far as I remember, there has been NO discussion on IF about Mami and Khushi teaming up ... and we have definitely discussed it here ... way before yesterday. This is really a masterstroke ... am looking forward to Monday now!

Liked the episode - fast-paced, crisp, kept to the point ... the mandatory filler scene was Payash today, and they were actually okay ...
I was worried about Mami questioning Khushi at the dining table in front of Shyam, very glad that Khushi managed to retrieve the situation, because I was really worried Mami would spill about Khushi going to a detective agency ... as it was, Shyam just got more frustrated that Khushi can't forget Arnav ...

Mami is ishmart ... calling all the Scotland hotels to check whether Arnav is there ... now why couldn't Akash think of doing that?

And Khushi is ishmarter ... thinks of CCTV footage ... am really impressed. I actually thought of it a few days ago, then thought they won't think of that - too techie ...  

*edited ... finally! :)) * 

Episode - starts with Khushi watering Arnav's plants ... awww :"> ... and wondering what to do ... PDA - she doesn't have the money (Bitwa still didn't set up any account for her? Bad Bitwa!!! =)) ) Police - word will get out ...
Tell Payal - no point really, Payal never has any ideas ... besides Payal too doesn't know the truth of her marriage, so how to tell her that she suspects something is wrong because her hubby said ILU ...
But she has to think of something ...

Nani playing Cupid for Payash, but Akash has things in hand, thanks very much, Nani :) Chalo, one Raizada hubby toh line pe aaya! Candlelit dinner in office ... oh well, looks like both R hubbies need some lessons in romance =)) Good thing Payal is easy to please ;)

Breakfast table and Manorama Baand in action ... and Khushi horrified that MB knows she went to Chandni Chowk ... so confirmed what we said yesterday, it was Mami who followed her :)
And Khushi manages to slide out of that one in front of Shyam ... who is already suspicious as to where she went ...
SN - Mami and Khushi are really similar ... Mami even has her little notepad like Khushi's notebook =))
And Shyam getting more and more frustrated that Khushi's mind is still only full of Arnav ... and Mami knows Khushi is lying ... but everyone believes her ...

Mami Bond-Khushi ... Utkarsha Naik is a damn good actress! Her dialogues, delivery, expressions - everything bang on! And Khushi finally confesses her suspicions to someone in the family ... she chose the right person ... the only thing I'm worried about is MB's big mouth. And finally that message on Khusi's phone comes in useful to persuade Mami (SN - thank god, Shyam didn't delete that message).
Oye, cv's, get your act together - most flights to Scotland would go via London, very few direct flights, I would think. The more telling point is that he wasn't on any London flight either ... and that they do know already. Anyway, she re-emphasizes that Arnav was not on his scheduled London flight either, and there was no direct Scotland flight that day, so okay ... this one is not really a blooper. So Khushi asks, now don't you think there is a problem somewhere?
Mami half-convinced ... Khushi asks for 24 hours, but begs her not to tell anyone ... because Di fortunately had hysterics recently ... Mami knows that, she saw it.

Mami is ishmart ... tries Arnav's phone, not reachable, checks with Akash, Arnav told him connectivity problem so not to worry ...

Khushi still trying to reach Arnav ... throws her phone on the bed in exasperation ... learning lots of habits from hubby dear :))

Mami starts her inbheshtigations ... with seluph-service =)) as MM is useless ...

Khushi remembers that the last she saw Arnav was at the airport ... so start the investigations from there ... ishmart Khushi ...

Mami starts calling all the five star hotels in Scotland ... ishmart Mami, Arnav would be likely to stay only at 5 star hotels ... and there are not too many in Scotland.

Khushi enquires about seeing the CCTV footage at the airport ... not allowed, of course. But he does let her know where the footage would be kept (lifted from Kahaani ;) chalo, theek hai, they're lifting from among the best) ...

And precap - Maami Baand and KKGSR Baand in action ... =))

Thoughts:)

Thursday episode - one point I think I missed, that Shyam is getting more and more frustrated with Khushi's feelings towards Arnav. He thought he had nipped that whole love story in the bud, by poisoning Arnav's mind against Khushi, and he was frustrated as heck that Khushi still seems to be as much in love with Arnav as ever. So far, fortunately, he doesn't know of Arnav's feelings towards Khushi ...

But today, in the dining table scene, while I was worrying about MB revealing where Khushi had really gone, I forgot to notice Shyam's frustration when Khushi said she'd gone to get Arnav a gift ... showing that again Arnav is the only person on her mind. So again his frustration building ... like we discussed, Shyam's frustration will cause him to make slips that will connect him to the kidnapping in Khushi's mind. As we pointed out, a married man falling for another woman doesn't automatically make him a murderer or kidnapper. There has to be more for Khushi to think that - also bearing in mind that she has no idea that Arnav was supporting Shyam financially, and has now stopped doing so.

Now how will that play out when the three-way showdown takes place? Or will he find out in the interim that Arnav loves Khushi too? 

Three more dots need to be connected ... 1)Khushi remembering the PDA's words that there has been no ransom letter, 2) that Arnav did not give the alarm when he was on the phone, so was he being threatened, did he make the phone call under some pressure (he would confess his feelings only under extreme pressure, and she knows that - that's one dot connected :)) ) ... and 3) looking at the photograph of the will on the phone and realizing that VLR has the most to benefit by Arnav's disappearance/death. That should light her batti :)

And one more dot - 4) will Akash or someone mention Scotland Yard as being one of the famous names associated with Scotland? Although Scotland Yard is in London ;)