So finally even after sleeping at 1 am I woke up at 6 in the morning to watch the very episode we had all been waiting for. The moment where Anupama finally calls out to Pakhi for being the mean person she is. I actually completed my data pack for it as I don't have wifi. They are doing some construction work and we have no wifi for some days. I had to add a top-up but enough about that. The point is I sat and I watched the episode. I loved the way Anupama showed her place to Vanraj as it was needed. Everything is not Anupama's fault, he, as a father is just as responsible for all Pakhi, is doing and behaving right now.
Then coming to the most-awaited conversation between Pakhi and Anupama. It was needed and it laid the facts completely right. Pakhi cannot be expecting everything to be her liking. It just doesn't work that way. Then to that part where Anupama showed Pakhi the reality and told her the correct things
- It is not always a woman's job to cook the food and household chores and if that is so she being a girl she should know all this also
- That the affair was just not Kavya's fault. It was her father who was equally responsible then why hate only Kavya
- Today she is not liking Kavya as she cannot cook food. Someday's ago she hated Anupama because she only knew how to cook food. That she was not stylish and outgoing like Kavya then what happened suddenly today.
- She is not a child anymore that she not understands these things
- what every woman goes through each day and something that she would be going also through
and in no simple words to suck it up.
I loved that scene and it was needed for a long time. But..... But...... But.....
yes there is a but. Was this so-called talk needed today when Pakhi was already hurt by his father, hurt by what Kavya had said to her? The divorce has been most harsh on Pakhi as she was shuffled between father and mother and Kavya. She was the one who felt like she didn't belong anywhere at all. Anupama said right that there is a time and place to tell a person the truth and she for me herself forgot that. This whole talk she should have done when Pakhi was still insulting and taking his father's side all this while. The time when she decided to stay in Kavya's house with Vanraj and gave a cold attitude to Anupama. At that time she didn't remember any of this, at that time she didn't call out her mean behaviour. All this talk about a woman are not meant to just cook and all, you are the one who engraved that in her head. You are the one who showed her every day that woman is meant to cook at home.
In a way that is what happens in every household of India where girls are pampered when they are kids and given all the love and asked to be strong but in the end, they are asked to be married and do the same thing that they have criticised all their life. As they say, you get more close to your mother when you are married as you understand her better.
Vanraj and Anupama are the ones who confused and fed Pakhi with these notions. I wanted Pakhi to be called out for her behaviour more than anything but today was not the day and maybe it could have done in a better way.
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