#the hand pose is so weird tho he looks like hes picking his nose hahaha

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Saat Soch: IPKKND3 Episode 23

Here there be spoilers!!

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1. That wasn’t even funny.

Was the stunt with the book meant to be funny? And the emoji animations? I was just staring at the screen like

2. Paheli Mausi

Advay: “Paheliyon mein baat karni wali mausi sabse badi paheli ban gayi hai.”    [The aunt who talks in riddles has become the biggest riddle of them all.]

At least we got some information on Shakun’s husband - he’s been away from Allahabad for the past year and she’s meeting strange men at odd hours of the night. Advay repeats his words about attacking the weakest link, admitting that right now Shakun is the weakest link in the family (this means Chandni is stronger than he thought she was!)

I really want to know more about Advay and Shilpa! She’s so willing to spy to Shakun for him!

3. It’s finally a new day

Advay hasn’t given up his guesthouse (it wasn’t a hotel!), a fact the Vashisht sisters find out as they spy on him. Chandni has started speaking like PP, first saying twenty-seven with no context before pointing out that there are 27 rooms in this house.

Side note: That ... seems ... excessive.

They rightly conclude that Advay should have no need for the guesthouse, seeing as he bought this one, and make plans to investigate this guesthouse for anything that will help them get rid of him.

4. Posing

Chandni’s sisters happily abandoned her to her fate when she fell over! her excuse that she’s practising poses for her wedding photos made me giggle!

Ha, he knew exactly what she was doing!

The montage with the poses was excellent! I liked it a lot (though the Spiderman pose was a bit confronting!) The background instrumental had a bit of Silsila Yeh Chaahat Ka mixed into it! And then Khushi’s Salman-ji makes yet another appearance with O O Jaane Jaana (listen very carefully to the lyrics, I find them appropriate!)

I liked the Titanic pose -- Chandni couldn’t hide the how much she liked it and Advay enjoyed every moment of it. It was sexay! The Aashiqui pose was cool too, mostly because he took off his jacket and was in white :)

Advay: “Aage bhi sikha sakta hoon, lekin shaadi ke baad.”    [I can teach you more, but after the wedding.]

Naughty! He confidently tells her that they’ll pose like this for their pre-wedding photos. You can literally see Chandni have a mini-freak out -- he’s so hawt and so close and Oh Bhole ke sainik is panicking!!

I couldn’t figure out what this shot was about -- if it was meant to show exactly how close he was to touching her then it may have helped to actually show his arm?

Confession: I dislike the blowing in her face. It looks weird when he does it. Also:

Advay: “Yoon sharam ke chadar odhe meri Chandni, dekho siyah raat ko roshan kar rahi hain.”    [Thusly clad in a shroud of demureness is my Chandni, look at her lighting up the black night.]

I thought this was genuinely romantic, and I wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that I now associate their Rabba Ve with not-so-romantic scenes.

I wasn’t even annoyed by the brief reappearance of the katto gilehri thing because I was too busy getting angry at “gaal laal ho gaye tumhare ... choo ke pata nahin chalega.” I just felt it was a direct attack on the laal-naak thing between Arshi, especially because she always touched her nose as if she could feel the redness.

Chandni literally running from him was hilarious. She’ll be dreaming of those poses for a while yet.

5. Achu ki Mummy

We haven’t seen Chandni’s PTSD for a while (I guess because she hadn’t left the house), so I liked that it hadn’t been completely forgotten. 

Her walking straight into Advay was interesting. He’s literally a barrier between her and the door, which can either be interpreted as him being her captor or as him protecting her from the outside world. Or both.

Advay: “Kaha jaa rahi ho, bhagyavan?”    [Where are you going, wifey?]

Oh my heart. Though she did not like that one bit hahaha. When she says she’d rather die than be called these names by him, he responds with:

Advay: “That bad?! ‘Bhagyavan’ pasand nahin aaya? Aur bahut options hai! ‘Aji sunti ho’, ‘praanpriye’, Achchu ki Mummy’.”      [That bad?! You didn’t like ‘bhagyavan’? There are lots of options. ‘Hey listen!’, ‘Beloved’, ‘Achchu’s Mummy’.]

LOOOOOOLLLLLL. He’s already got baby names planned --

Advay: “Abhi hai nahin, shaadi ke baad ho jayega!”     [He’s not here yet, he’ll come after the wedding.] Chandni: “Ewwww. Achchu. Yeh koi naam hota hai? Aisa lag raha hai jaise kisi ko cheenk aa rahi hai. Achu!”       [Ewwww. Achchu. What kind of name is that? It sounds like someone is sneezing. Achu!] Advay: “No issues. Agar tumhe yeh naam nahin pasand hai toh koi aur naam rakh lenge. Kya naam pasand hau tumhe?”      [No issues. If you don’t like it then we’ll pick another name. Which name do you like?]

6. Bro!!

I loved it! It’s taken Chandni this long to realise that she’s having a semi-serious discussion with the Rowdy Professor about baby names. I liked her sass when she agreed to tell her husband-to-be where she was going and then told PP (conveniently on the stairs!).

He promptly offers to drive her in his 1.5 crore car, before confiding in Advay that he thinks Chandni wants what he wants. Advay looked like he wanted to set PP on fire again.

Arrrgh I hate how this show is recoloured so that half the scenes are cool toned and the other half warm toned and it just switches randomly and without warning. The colouring changes between scenes, between camera angles in scenes, and sometimes just .... because.

7. Dev-Chandu

Chandni had the foresight to bring her strength-stone with her -- the one that has Dev’s name carved into it. The sequence of her asking Dev for help and strength as Advay watched her was amazing, I loved the composition of this shot:

Advay watches her step out of the house, his stone clutched in her hands. (I wonder if he noticed and recognised it.)

The scene jump confused me mightily, especially because PP was meant to be dropping Chandni off. PP is a filthy, disgusting, nauseating man.

Advay: “Iss bewakoof ladki ko koi andaza nahin hai ki yeh kitni bade bewakoofi karne jaa rahi hai.”    [This foolish girl has no idea what kind of foolishness she’s about to commit.]

Well no, she doesn’t, because she’ll end up married and in love with a monster like you. This shot tho.

Precap: Chandni has made it back to the guesthouse and rummages through Advay’s things, conveniently not seeing a picture of Dev in the drawer. Meanwhile, PP waits on a bed with handcuffs, because he’s a freakazoid. And it seems Advay will find her (or maybe she’ll hide in the closet this time, just to piss me off).

Theories:

1) Shakun is meeting with one of the men Advay is looking for -- one of the ones on his ‘hitlist’ of people who were involved with his parent’s deaths.

2) It seems PP will be here until right before the wedding, which suggests that Advay keeps his hideous intentions a secret for a very long time. Do you think Advay is secretly recording all their conversations or something as proof? I think he might be ... I don’t see him as being so full on inaction as to just let it go. 

Will I continue watching?

Yeah.

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