Oh for sure !
I think if Baa had spit on anyone else’s self-respect and character, Anu would have absorbed it and understood it as Leela’s narrow-mindedness blinded her. Maybe also swallowed it by assuaging the hurt with “kahin na kahin yeh unki pyaar hai.”
Finally, Baa took punga with someone of equal status who doesn’t need to bend down to her due to rishta, age or whatever. Instead, the man who suppressed his own tendency to give gyaan, so his wife could feel satisfied holding her head up high with false pride, was horrendously maligned. Even if she had issues with certain things, she didn’t recognize location, timing or audience. I can’t even say him telling her with snapping fingers to go was enough for her to act this way.
leela weighs every relationship, she lauds a son who domineered over his wife, she idolizes her son purely because he is her male vaansh (she begot a prize of a male first born) but it’s all a one sided story. These very qualities that make her beta pyaara, only an ounce or less if it from Hasmukh, is enough to turn her head?! I don’t believe. If she couldn’t handle some elderly crankiness then she wouldn’t have been able to breathe or even live with a husband like Vanraj. Har din, even in budhapa mein, she would curse her fortune.
As for Anu’s godlike worship - I think she felt truly accepted abs respected by Babuji and just worked extra hard to get a favorable eye from Baa. She lost herself in being too giving and too desiring of love. Before the change of winds - only Babuji, Samar and maybe Jhilmil loved her.
s/n: just randomly, I get why people are saying why isn’t Babuji with Dolly BUT tbh, with the traditional family they are — I don’t see him staying at dolly’s. She’s has in-laws (although I don’t think she lives with them) and he would feel like a burden to her .. maybe not too worried what his daughter and Sanjay would say but more worried about what her In-laws would say to Dolly. Anupama is more like the unmarried daughter who he’s gotten to spend a majority of his elder years with. &&yes, it’s odd that Anu’s real family isn’t too involved in her life. Could be a casting availability and storyline thing
Also- I’m crazy … didn’t know I could write so much 🤣🤣🤣