It was a strange ending all right. The text made it read like it was Sudhir who comes into the room at night but having it be Padmini is just way more nasty and feels more shocking for some reason.

There’s even a horror/unnerving element to it when we realize that Padmini is the reason why Sudhir locked his room ever night and called it a “force of habit”. Padmini sounds sexually repressed as hell, she doesn’t even see who’s in bed and starts humping them, I think her childlike behaviour and her marriage meant that she was probably raped every night without understanding what was happening to her and thought to herself that this is just one of her duties.

It’s not a duty she likes so she gets sullen and distanced when Sudhir who (I think correctly) Nidhi thinks reminds her of her husband.

Sudhir probably likes girls who are smart but not too smart, he is clearly annoyed by Nidhi and there’s also the fact that he talks to her about sleeping in his room after bedtime. He doesn’t mention in during the day or at dinner in front of other people and they just makes him look sus.

There’s the thing with her aunt being so jolly all the time that it feels like there’s something wrong going on there as well.

Anyway, yeah I don’t know exactly what happened but I love that the ending leaves you so many things to figure out.