10/10 - Epi 361 ... Da End of Da Di-rama :)

Wednesday 10th October '12

Or da end of da Da part of the di-rama ... if you get what I mean

So Shyam did try to pretend madness ... and he gets a bit carried away and confesses to his crime of killing the baby, of kidnapping Arnav and planning to kill him ... something strikes home at Dimbo Anjali finally and she breaks off her mangalsutra ... her DP (Dimwit Pati ... sangat ka asr bura hota hai ) realizes too late that he went too far in his "I'm crazy" act and Anjali has taken him very seriously, which means his free meal ticket just walked out on him ...  and he tries to retract every statement he made ... and that's when he goofs up again ... Khushi and Saale Sahab wanted to throw me out, it's all their plan ... I came back for you, I fed you with my own fair hands, I climbed the walls for you, I slew dragons for you ... Khushi brought me back because she had her eye on me ... I loved my rajkumari, how can you believe I could harm her ... 
Yet his first confession was about the abortion pills ...

 And the rest of the family stands struck dumb ... or maybe just waiting, giving him enough rope to hang himself ...
Khushi doesn't trust Anjali's brain power too much so she runs after her to warn her ... don't listen to him, he's lying ... she needn't have, because Anjali wasn't going to listen to her at all, but even Dimbulb couldn't ignore the proof presented to her today ...
And it did help that Dimbulb knew that at least part of the story was 100% true, the part she was complicit in ... so the rest had to be true as well ... finally Di's blind trust in Shyam helped to trip Shyam himself ...  

Anjali finally breaks her silence ... and thwack!!!
And the entire family seems to think Diwali came early!!! So happy are they that Di has woken up from her slumber ...  Akash was positively beaming, Mami had this fiercely satisfied look, Nani also beamed happily ... the Sleeping Beauty awoke!
Anjali's monologue was good ... fierce, angry ... she finally realizes how he played her for a fool every single time, she stood against her entire family for him, and all she wanted was his love, nothing more ... I felt for Anjali at that point ...
And she finally tells him to get out ... Arnav was waiting only for the royal command ... and he sprints to catch Creepwa's collar and throw him out as he did before ... fortunately, NK has had more sense and the police are waiting ...

Anjali goes to her room, tons of happy Creepali fb's  ... and she screams "Nahiiiinnn!!!" and I wonder, has SP taken over the show completely? Or maybe Ekta maiiya ...

And she starts taking out Creepwa's clothes from the cupboard and bundling all his things into a suitcase ...

Family all huddled downstairs ... did they really leave the woman alone in her state? ... They come rushing up hearing the banshee scream ... to see Anjali apparently packing for a trip ... no, wait, those are her erstwhile DP's clothes ... she's not going anywhere ... of course not, she's stuck like glue to her brother's house ...
Anjali brings kerosene from some hidden store ... resourceful woman, I must say, wonder what she used it for on daily basis ...
She closes the suitcase, zips it up ... I do like a neat and tidy person ... and then drops kerosene all over it ... hey, I just said I like neat and tidy people, that's not neat ...  
Nani does venture to ask what she's doing ... but DB (Dimwit Brother ... it pains me to call him this, it really does, but he deserves it today) says 'Di needs to do this' ... Di lowers a match to the suitcase in slow motion and proceeds to drop it ... I think Nani intervened once again and DB stopped her again ... again saying "Di needs to do this ...' And Di sets the suitcase on fire.
Di obviously skipped all the lessons on flammable and inflammable materials in school, as she did the ones on fire safety ... and Arnav had a hyper-sensitive fire alarm installed in his office which went off with the flame from a diya, but no fire alarms in his home? Oh wait, he's perfectly happy to let Di light small fires inside the house on a carpeted floor if it makes her "happy"  ... Physics extra classes for him as well, please ... 

And I think Gul is slowly taking revenge from all those who threaten to walk out of her show, or blackmail her into better deals of screenspace, monetary deals and the like ... Arnav was well and truly destroyed today ... first he didn't even have the brains to arrange for the police, NK did that ... he didn't open his mouth when Shyam was badmouthing his wife -again!!! ... and now he encourages his Di in her pyromaniac tendencies inside the house. Keeping Di happy again, bitwa?! We know where that got you the last time around, remember?The open poolside is just a few steps away ... open your eyes!!!

And Daljeet cannot carry an episode at all ... the episode today was as loopy as yesterday's was taut ... by handing over the entire episode to her, Gul got her revenge on DB and her demands for screenspace.

Thoughts:


Arnav failed as a brother when - he first learned about Shyam's infidelity from his own mouth, and kept the truth from his sister. Instead he married the woman he thought responsible, punishing her, and gave his Jeeja another chance. The chance was Anjali's to give or not give. She had the right to know about what her husband was up to.
He failed as a brother again when he threw Shyam out of the house for deceiving his Di ... the decision was Anjali's to make. He acted only as a husband there - see below.
He failed as a brother yet again when he refused to allow Shyam to meet Anjali ... again the choice was hers to make.
He failed as a brother - this is hypothetical ... when he allowed Anjali to marry Shyam because she was happy with him, without doing any background checks on the man. I am presuming this from the way he behaved when he first learned about Shyam's infidelity and did nothing to check out the facts for himself.
 
No wonder Anjali went against her brother ... she was never given the full information or the right to decide for herself. She was expected to have blind faith in her brother. But she chose instead to have blind faith in her husband. And from the flashbacks in her room, I don't blame her so much ... there was not one instance where Shyam was anything less than loving or caring, the perfect husband.

Arnav failed as a husband when he married Khushi forcefully after hearing only one side of the story from Shyam.
He failed as a husband when he disbelieved her and didn't bother to check out any part of her story.

Arnav redeemed himself as a husband when he threw Shyam out of the house after the kidnapping, for deceiving and badmouthing his wife. That was his decision and his right, to stand up for his wife, and he did so. 
He redeemed himself as a husband when he finally believed her, without checking out any part of her story for himself ... of course, the proof was difficult to miss, considering she almost lost her life trying to save him, considering his own cousin stood up for every word of hers, considering Payal unknowingly corroborated Khushi's story. 
He redeemed himself as a husband when he defended Khushi against Dadi every single time, and upheld her position in the house as his wife, with all the rights that entailed.
He redeemed himself as a husband when Khushi brought Shyam into the house behind his back - she went against his wishes, yet he did not countermand her decision, he gave her the right to make that decision ... the right that only his wife had, of going against his orders and wishes, and getting away with it ... because Khushi is his other half, her decision is his.

Khushi failed as a wife when she chose to keep Shyam's truth from Arnav after she got married. Note, not before - then she made the right decision to quietly withdraw from Anjali's life, and throw Shyam out of her own. As did the Guptas.
She failed as a sister-in-law and a woman when she kept quiet about Shyam pursuing her even after her marriage - she should have told her husband, knowing that her sister-in-law's marriage was still a sham.
Khushi redeemed herself when she told Arnav the whole truth when he confronted her. 

She failed as a wife and a woman when she wilfully deceived her husband in order to clear her name to him.
She redeemed herself when she realized the result of her deceit and went all out to get him back, uncaring of her own safety and even her own life.


Today Arnav redeemed himself as a brother, and Khushi as a woman, when they brought the entire truth in front of Anjali and allowed her to make the decision for herself. They finally treated her like an adult and she responded like an adult.

Anjali failed as a mother when she walked on those glass pieces in search for her husband, without paying any thought to what she was doing. Also, it showed her complete and utter lack of common sense and any iota of brains, but let's not get into that.
She failed as a mother when she threatened to not take medicines, food until she saw her husband, without any thought to the safety and health of her growing baby inside her.
She failed as a mother when she wanted to kill her unborn child because it would grow up without the security and love of its father, not seeing the loving family and the support system she had around her.

She redeemed herself as a mother today when she broke all ties with the man who killed her unborn baby and threw him out of the house.

Anjali failed as a sister when she went behind her brother's back to meet her husband, knowing full well that her brother hated him.
She failed as a sister and as a daughter when she helped Shyam back into the house in disguise, deceiving her brother and entire family.

She has still not redeemed herself for that. She needs to confess and acknowledge her own contribution to making it so easy for Shyam to deceive the entire family, including her brother.

Anjali failed as a wife when she didn't take a stand and walk out with her husband if she believed in him so much. Or didn't even mention the possibility or the intention to do so. Painted her in very unflattering shades as a sister who was happy to sponge off her brother's money and life, without making a single sacrifice for the marriage and husband that she claimed was so important for her.

Anjali failed as a woman when she didn't acknowledge that Khushi was equally a victim of the same man who had deceived her so badly.
She failed as a sister when she didn't acknowledge that Khushi saved her brother's life, or express any gratitude for that. Or any remorse for the sacrifices that Khushi and Arnav have made to keep her dream world intact.

She has still not redeemed herself. But give her a chance here, she doesn't know most of it.
Let's see if she redeems herself for any of these failures.
Am not going into the fact that Anjali had ample scope and opportunity to discover or realize the truth for herself but she chose to remain blind.

One last point - since we're on the topic ...
The Guptas failed as parents when they failed to inform the Raizada family about the son-in-law's truth, that he had lived in their house for six months as a bachelor and gotten himself engaged to Khushi. After Payal's engagement in the same house, and especially after Khushi also got married into the same house, it was the duty of the elder Gupta ladies to inform someone in the Raizada house about Shyam, preferably Nani the elder or Arnav the decision-maker.

They have still not redeemed themselves. But then the Guptas never get told about anything happening in the Raizada house.:))