Khushi is trying to
call up Arnav but he doesn't seem to be answering his phone and gets
worried. Anjali asks her if she's spoken
to Arnav and wonders where he could have gone.
The family gathers together and Payal and Akash state that they will be
leaving in an hour and wonder where Arnav is.
When Sheetal comes downstairs asking if Arnav arrived, Buaji wonders why
she's asking for him if she's suppose to be his friend. Just then, Arnav returns home. He tells everyone that he has a surprised for
them and says that he's invited a few more people over. Before he introduces the guests, he asks
Khushi to stay with Aarav. Arnav calls
in Pranav (the person she said she spoke to during Karwa Choth). The guy states that he hasn't seen or spoken
to Sheetal in years. Next, he calls in a
lady who happens to be Sheetal's landlady.
She states that Sheetal had been living at her house as a paying guest
for two years, up until a few months ago.
Next, a guy comes in stating that Sheetal came to him and asked him to
train Aarav to play basketball. As these
statements come in, the family is shocked and surprised. Sheetal tells Arnav to stop trying to insult
her in front of everyone but he says he is only telling the truth. Next, he calls in a man who tells the family
that Sheetal has defaulted on her credit cards and owes money. Lastly, he calls in a women who is from the
Ashram. She hugs Aarav and tells the
family that Aarav has been at their Ashram for 6 years, until two months ago
when Sheetal came by and took him away.
The pieces are now being put together; Aarav is not Sheetal's son.
Arnav tells the
family that Sheetal was broke; had no money and owed a lot of people. So, she put together this whole plan. Aarav
starts to talk about what Sheetal had told him, but she quickly silences
him. Arnav reassures him that nothing
will happen to him and encourages him to say the truth. Aarav tells the family that Sheetal came to
the Ashram and said that she was his mother and that Arnav was his dad, who
left him at the Ashram when he was young.
He says that Sheetal told him to act exactly like Arnav in order for
Arnav to like him. The entire family is
shocked. Arnav tells them that since
Sheetal was broke, she decided to hatch out a plan to extort money out of a
rich ex-boyfriend (him). She pretended
to be helpless in order to gain the sympathy of the family. He tells Sheetal he figured out her plan the
day she mentioned the graduation night.
He says that he was not drunk that night and was only pretending to be
drunk so that his friends would not force him to drink; he remembered
everythign that happened that night. He
tells Khushi that from the day they met her, every single thing that has
happened was planned out; from the kidnapping to Aarav fainting to her not
getting their flat to Karwa Choth. He
says that she made sure all her actions were noticed by Khushi so that Khushi
would put the pieces together. He says
that Sheetal knew that if Khushi thought Aarav was Arnav's son, she would
sacrifice everything in order for him to get his right. He states that she was about to leave the
house too. Sheetal states that she did nothing
wrong. She just needed some money and if
she took some from Arnav, it wasn't going to hurt him; it's not like she killed
anyone. Angry at what she did, Khushi
slaps Sheetal. She states that she may
not have killed anyone but to play with a child's heart, to lie to him and to
try to break her marriage is no less then killing someone. Khushi calls herself stupid for believing all
of this but Arnav says she's not stupid but great as only great people
sacrifice their happiness for others.
Arnav has one last surprise for Sheetal; the cops. They arrest her on the terms of fraud and
take her away.
He thanks the
people for coming and for their co-operation.
The women from the Ashram thanks them for saving Aarav from Sheetal and
tells them that Aarav will be returning to the Ashram. Aarav says goodbye to everyone and while they
are leaving, Khushi stops them, telling Arnav that they can't just let Aarav
go. Arnav says that he promised to
always be there for Aarav and says that he can live with them but the women
says she can't allow that unless he's adopted.
Arnav then states that they will adopt Aarav and the entire family is
happy. Arnav asks Aarav if he would like for him and Khushi to be his parents
and Aarav agrees, giving him a hug. Anjali tells them that she is really proud of
them for what they did and wishes that everyone have a brother and bhabhi like
Arnav and Khushi.
What worked:
Arnav and Khushi deciding to adopt Aarav.
I know quite a few people are upset that Arnav and Khushi adopted Aarav
instead of Anjali but I'm glad that they were the ones to do so. In fact, it stays true to their
characters. Arnav lost his parents at
the age of 14 and even though he still had some of his family around, he knew
what it was like to grow up without a father, being able to relate to Aarav. Khushi lost her family at the age of 8 and
was adopted by Garima, thus being given a new family. She can relate to in the sense that she too
knows the feeling of losing your family and wanting to get it back. Knowing how their lives were when they lost
their parents and how they grew up, this step of theirs allowed them to give a
child a new life, a new family and new hope.
They are helping to stop the cycle of children growing up without
parents.
What didn't work:
The entire track. The track had
potential but had such a horrible execution that it was not even worth the
watch. They spent so much time in
introducing the track and unfolding it and then rushed the ending in 2-3
episodes. Why then spend so much time on
it beforehand if this is how you're going to wrap it up. (I'm guessing the
off-screen drama surrounding the show has a lot to do with this)
Highlight: The
track ending. That statement says it
all. What was promised as "the
track we had all been waiting for" ended up being the biggest
disappointment for the show. I'm just
going to ignore the fact that this track ever took place.
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