Anjali is sitting
on the couch when she receives a text message.
She begins to respond to it when Mami comes and asks who she is
messaging. She quickly puts her phone
away and says she was forwarding a message.
Mami then asks where she had been for so long and Anjali makes an excuse
of the mandir being crowded. Arnav is in
his room when he spots Khushi trying to move a large box. Curiously, he watches as she tries to push
and pull the box with no success. Arnav
notices that something is stuck on the bottom, so he goes to remove it causing
her to fall, as she tried to push the box at the same time. When she looks up, she sees his face and
becomes instantly irritated and when he asks he a question, she immediately
leaves. It is now time for the
Janmashtami pooja to begin and everyone gathers around. They do the pooja, aarti and the jula of
Krishna. Then each couple takes the
blessings of the elders. Nani then tells
both Payal and Akash and Arnav and Khushi that it is now their turn to give
them grandchildren. Payal begins to
blush at this while Khushi begins to look worried. Taking the opportunity to tease her again,
Arnav whispers in Khushi's ear that she always listens to her elders and to
keep in mind what Nani had just said.
Khushi starts to
clean up when Arnav calls her to come with him.
She gives him a defiant stare and walks into the kitchen. He follows her to the kitchen, asking her to
come with him when Nani interrupts them and asks Khushi to return the Krishna
idol to its proper place. Later that
evening as everyone is sitting together, Arnav comes down and tells Khushi that
he has been calling her all night and to come with him right now. She goes to her room where he hands her a
gift, asking her to put it on. At first
she refuses to do so until Arnav says he doesn't want to hear another word. Khushi comes out dressed in a beautiful red
dress and hides behind the cupboard. She
notices Arnav sitting on the couch and he notices her when she makes a bit of
noise. She notices that their bed is
covered in roses and he asks her why she is standing behind the cupboard. She says she is standing there because she has
no dupatta and Arnav then shows her the dupatta in his hands. He then goes towards her, walks her towards
the bed and then places the dupatta on her head, making her look like a bride
and the two then share a hug. He then
places her on the bed and begins to come close to her. When Khushi spots an idol of Radha-Krishna,
she remembers what Nani told her about pheres and how important they are in a
marriage. She then gets up from the bed,
telling Arnav she cannot do this as they are not properly married. Arnav is confused to what she means as she
has been living in the house as his wife for so long. Khushi says that without the proper rituals,
without the blessings of elders, without the pheres, they are not properly
married. Arnav then takes her hand and
they leave the room. They reach the terrace,
where he begins to break a few tables and then lights them.
He tells her they
will now take the pheres, which are so important to her. When she refuses to walk with him, he carries
her around the fire as she continues to argue with him on how they need a
priest, mantras and proper rituals for them to be married. Just as she mentions that they haven't taken
pheres, they notice someone else on the terrace; Dadi, who has overheard their
conversation. After Dadi leaves, she
tells Arnav to put her down and then begins to yell at Arnav on the fact that
Dadi already does not like her and seeing her like this probably made things
worse. Arnav says that they are doing
nothing wrong but Khushi says that ever ritual done has a meaning and asks him
what if Dadi heard about the pheres.
Arnav then asks her if these pheres are greater than their
feelings. Khushi then asks him if pheres
or rituals do not matter to him, what does and he loudly says "I love you,
dammit". He then leaves from there,
with Khushi smiling and happy at what he said.
What worked: The
lack of rituals in their marriage. For
the first time in their six month marriage, the lack of rituals conducted for
them has been brought into the spotlight.
This worries Khushi more than it does Arnav as he does not believe in
these rituals, but what is interesting is how long it took for Khushi to
realize her marriage was incomplete.
Khushi is a girl brought up on values on traditions and holds these
values and traditions to a high standard.
The fact that it took her six months to realize her marriage to Arnav
was incomplete shows us how she as a character can overlook the most important
details. I wouldn't say that they
completed none of the rituals but in fact have completed a few of them: they
were engaged, she had mendhi applied on her hand with the letter "A"
written in and they both had a bit of haldi applied to them.
What didn't work:
Dadi showing up everywhere. Whether it
was in the storage closet to the terrace, the Dadi seems to show up everywhere,
disrupting moods. I know it's part of
the story where interruptions are suppose to occur but it just seems that the
Dadi has it out for Khushi.
Highlight:
"I love you, damn it".
Finally, Arnav admits his feelings to Khushi, even if it is in his ASR
angry style. The last time he said
"I love you" to her, he was kidnapped and it was out of desperation
due to the fact that he may never see or speak to her again. That time, his confession did not mean much
but this time it did. This time, he said
it from the heart, meant what he said and believed in what he said. Arnav has had a hard time understanding his
feelings, let alone expressing them. The
fact that he told her he loves her really shows that he's come a long way in
expressing himself and letting others know how he feels.
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