Today’s epi was a pleasant surprise. Anupama was not her usual hesitant deprecating self while speaking to Rekhaben (adding that ben as Kinjal’s mom would hate that moniker). Anupama was all mother and strangely when she is playing mother, she becomes confident and firm like at the food stall and with her students at school.
Second, I was waiting for Ba to speak up in defense of her daughter in law and she did it with aplomb. Ba tried her best to put Rekhaben in her place but that woman had lost all control today. Was a little disappointed that Vanraj did not speak up before Ba but Ba is softening - her gesturing to the neighbors that it was her bahu singing was also a nice touch. The woman is not totally without heart, looks like. Small mercies.
Vanraj though a little late to enter the fray, was incensed enough at the insults hurled at his wife that he flung the dandiya sticks fiercely to break the earthen pot. He stood between Anupama and Rekhaben and angrily demanded how dare the woman speak to his wife like that.
Kavya’s face was a sight to see. Did she expect to whirl her way into Vanraj’s heart and take over his life completely? He is a married man, has had three kids with the woman he is wedded to, is for all his other faults a devoted dad and a loving son, surely he has a modicum of propriety to stand up for his wife?
The precap from Saturday showed Paritosh petulantly leaving the house blaming his mother for the break up of his relationship with Kinjal. In the precap, Vanraj stops Anupama from going behind her brat of a son and while it might be too much to hope, wishing that Vanraj was asking Anupama not to go after their son in an effort to teach Paritosh a lesson and not as an attempt at high handedness towards Anupama.
Looping back, liked the Anupama today, strong, confident, not apologetic, no “saari”/sorry interspersed in her explanations to Rekhaben. Also, for a woman that topped her class in high school surely Anupama must understand basic English?
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