Imlie 9 April 2023: Imlie notices Arpita lost in thoughts while filling a water glass and alerts him. Arpita says she used to be lost in thoughts since childhood and asks if Sundar is fine after Nila insulted him. Imlie asks her to call him and find out. Arpita says she can’t. Imlie says she shouldn’t worry about then and not bother whether he is alive or dead. Arpita asks her not to talk about Sundar like that she is not jus her friend and cries. Imlie hugs and consoles her. Arpita says it doesn’t matter to her as only Aryan and Narmada’s happiness matters to her. She says society will not spare her, especially as she is a widow, and if she marries Sundar, society will taunt Narmada that her daughter was having an affair with someone and Aryan will be asked if a widow sister was a burden for him. Imlie says its wrong.
Arpita says she cannot repeat her mistake again and walks away. Imlie thinks one needs courage to sacrifice their happiness, she will not let Arpita sacrifice her happiness.Aryan overhears her and asks what she will not let happen, if it’s Arpita’s marriage. He says she is trying to ruin Arpita’s alliance since she found out about it and drags her to a room says it maybe a challenge to ruin someone’s life or changing someone’s life, he will not let her ruin Arpita;s life. He locks her in a room and walks away saying door will open once guests leave. Imlie thinks even she cares for Arpita and will get out of the room somehow. Uday, a rude guy whom Imlie fought with earlier, visits Rathore house for alliance Arpita. She tries to get out via a window. Nila with Narmada and Aryan welcomes him. Uday walks in ignoring them. Narmada says he didn’t even reply to their greetings while Arpita is very sensitive. Uday heads to home temple. Nila praises that he is very sanskari.
Uday says he was thought to touch elders’ feet first when he visits someone’s house, nobody is elder than Matarani, so he touches matarani’s feet first. Nila praises him. Narmada gets impressed, takes him in, and calls Imlie. Imlie climbs a chair and tries to open window, but slips and falls and hurts herself. Nila asks Narmada instead of introducing whole family, she should introduce Arpita to Uday first. Arpita enters holding juice and snacks tray. Uday takes it from her. Gudiya asks him if his mummy taught him to use god’s filter even before having food. Uday says he believes that food should be served to youngsters first. Nila says its a girl’s duty. Uday says girl and boys are equal these days. Gudiya asks if he reads good manners post daily that he is showing his good manners.
She tells Narmada days she is impressed with Uday and asks to get Arpita married to him. Narmada asks Uday about his parents. Uday says his parents are no more, he lost them in childhood and wants to marry someone whose family he can consider as his. Nila asks Arpita to take Uday aside and chat with him.Imlie opens window and finds herself in balcony. She tries to tie her sari rope to climb down and it falls down. She notices Arpita and Uday chatting in a garden. Uday asks Arpita if she has any boyfriend, he doesn’t mind about her past. Arpita says she had a husband and is a widow now.
He asks if she has a child. She nods no. He says he likes her and is ready to marry her, asks her opinion. She sits silently remembering Sundar.He says looks like she is not ready to reply yet, so he will leave then. Imlie jumps from balcony. Aryan holds her on time and stops her from falling down. Imlie thinks she is dead, opens her eyes, and finds herself in Aryan’s arms. She asks if he reached even heaven. He says she will see him everywhere and drops her down. Their argument starts. She asks if he thinks she doesn’t care about Arpita, Narmada, and him; she then diverts his attention and runs inside house.
Nila asks Arpita if she likes Uday. Arpita stands silently. Nila says Arpita agreed for the alliance and is feeling shy. She complains that Imlie didn’t even come out and serve tea to Uday. Imlie walks in. Narmada asks where was she. Aryan says he locked her in a room. Imlie tries to lie, but Aryan reveals she even jumped from the baloncy to escape. Arpita asks Imlie if she is fine and scolds Aryan. Nila praises Uday’s sanskars and says he liked Arpita and even asked if she has any child from her first marriage, this alliance is fixed. Imlie says without bride’s permission, they cannot fix alliance. She asks Arpita if he made her laugh, will he cook for her. Nila says its a rule that only boy questions girl and only girl cooks.
Aryan says there is no such rule in his mother’s house, they should check each other’s compatibility and if need cook for each other. Imlie says she will test the boy in her style.Narmada notices cooking setup and asks Aryan what is all this. Aryan says it’s Imlie’s style, she wants to know if Uday is right for Arpita or not. Nila yells that they should make a sin of asking their would-be son-in-law to cook. Narmada says Imlie must have thought something good for sure. Gudiya says this plan will fail for sure as husbands cannot passs such tests. Imlie asks if she would be someone’s wife some day. Gudiya says of course, looking at Aryan. Imlie asks her to imagine that she is married and enjoying life with good makeup and designer clothes when suddenly her husband asks her to prepare food for her in a kitchen without AC, her makeup will wash away in sweat, nails will break down, clothes will spoil. Gudiya gets scared hearing that. Imlie says this test is to save her from all the agony.
Uday enters holding a flower bouquet over his face and asks who planned his cooking test. Aryan says his wife Imlie. Uday removes the bouquet from his face and gets tensed looking at Imlie. Imlie gets angry seeing him and confronts him for misbehaving with an old lady when she touched his car. Uday lies that the lady was stealing his purse and he cannot tolerate lies and robbery. Aryan tells Imlie that she should have informed him about it earlier, they can’t doubt Uday based on incidence. Nila asks Imlie to test her husband like she wants to test Uday and thinks Aryan will get irritated with all this and there will be a rift between Imlie and Aryan’s relationship.
Aryan accepts Nila’s challenge and gets ready to cook for Imlie while Uday gets ready to cook for Arpita. Imlie says let us see if Uday can win Arpita’s heart with his cooking. Nila says let her see if Aryan can shut Imlie’s endlessly blabbering mouth with his dishes. Imlie says she and Arpita will describe their choices, Aryan and Uday should cook their favorite dishes based on it. Narmada praises Imlie’s idea and says she never thought that she would see her children like this. Nila asks her to start cooking now. Imlie calls Sundar and says Arpita is upset and so he should listen to her choice of food and prepare it for her. He agrees. She keeps phone near Arpita and thinks even Sundar should get a fair chance and Aryan should get a chance to prove his love for his sister.
Arpita tells Uday that she loves malai kofta and will instruct him how to prepare it. Aryan asks Imlie what he should prepare. She says her special roti. He says it’s easy. She says dhaba cook couldn’t make it, its not that easy. Uday speaks rudely to Arpita. Narmada notices it. Imlie teaches Aryan to knead a dough. Main Tera Banjawoonga.. song plays in the background. He prepares a dough. She says that’s enough. He says he need to knead more to release gluten from the flour. She says that is enough. He prepares roti for her while she looks at her. He finishes cooking and describes his dish in a 5-star chef style. Narmada and Arpita look confused. He plainly say sits fat roti with pickle and onion. Imlie says he could explain that in simple terms.
Aryan then asks Imlie to taste his dish. She eats it and starts crying. He gets worried and says he will make another one. She holds his hand with her tears falling on it and says its exactly like her amma’s roti. He asks why don’t she speak to her mama if she misses her so much. She denies. He thinks if something happened between them that she doesn’t want to speak to her mother, is it because of him. Imlie then asks Arpita to taste Uday’s prepared malai kofta and give her verdict. Uday rudely says he prepared best malai kofta, Arpita will like it for sure. Narmada tastes it and says its very spicy. Aryan offers her water. She says Arpita doesn’t like spicy food and asks Arpita not to taste it, says Uday tried well.
Gudiya tells Nila that she knew this cooking plan will fail. Nila says she will see how Imlie will win. She picks Imlie’s phone and says hello. Sundar speaks and says he prepared malai kofta for Arptia and will bring it there. Imlie tells Uday that he failed in his cooking test, so he is not suitable for Imlie. Aryan says they can’t judge Uday with just cooking. She says this test was not just about cooking. Nila yells at her. Imlie says its a challenge to check the compatibility between 2 people and see if they help each other in their thicks and thinks and maintain their calm, sorry to say Uday didn’t even seek Arpita’s suggestion while cooking and even if he prepared world’s best malai kofta, he failed. Narmada says Imlie is right, she couldn’t find compatibility between Uday and Arpita, but found the best compatibility between Aryan and Imlie and hence they are the best jodi.
