Originally posted by: austen-eliot
My first thought after seeing today's episode was.. Yaar! Malvika is sooo exhausting to watch! I found it very strange that a woman who has partnered with someone for a big business venture would go and start begging that person to allow her to live in his house?! Understood that she has major demons but given the fact that she seems to have a successful professional life and that she has been able to live on her own and manage herself for so many years, wouldn't it be so that she can compartmentalize and keep her personal and professional life separate? Otherwise how could she have succeeded in her career if she allows her personal demons to intrude into her working relationships? I don't know if I'm making sense. But her whole behavior didn't make sense to me.
As for anuj, yes we are now getting to see the man and not just the lover as has been so far. And I find him so much more endearing and real. Really. Another thing that struck me was seeing how Anuj also has so much unresolved trauma.. he was only 25 when the tragedy happened.. and his life sort of changed after that, I see how he would've held on to his love for anupama as the only thing that somehow connected him to his self after all the responsibilities and guilt took over his life. It was probably what kept him sane through the years. And we can see why he has not been able to form any lasting relationship, it was also because of the baggage he carried, not just undilutedly his love for anupama. This might sound unpleasant to some but I find it more coherent and karmic. His 26 years of love despite the multiple affairs (which some people have found highly objectionable) is better explained like this. Maan are two people who are destined to come together eventually and fate makes one have a terrible marriage that nevertheless has caused her to grow and become rock strong and the other facing other tragedies has failed to move on and has been waiting till her running and growing stream finally comes and joins his still waters and brings movement and change and eventually completion.
Now we see that anuj is a man like many others who are completely blind in love. Anu is not that. She is generous and forbearing to a flaw but I don't feel that she was ever blind to the faults of those she loves. Anuj blindly loves his sister. She has been really spoilt. And then the accident that was sone pe suhaga. Even if it hadn't taken place she would still be a very difficult girl who would have made the life of those who love her painful.
I guess vanraj's arc is written to have redemption rather than comeuppance. But I don't see that he is being made into a hero? Why do some of you feel that he is shown as a hero and that anuj is seen as vulnerable in front of them? Overall I think it's good that the shah family members, the people over whom anupama has poured so much of her goodness and life, should somehow become better people rather than stay bad which would be a negation of the power of good over evil. Also its a happy bearing of fruit of anu's sacrifices and unstinted love. It keeps her life from becoming a tragedy and instead makes it a success story, a much much higher and deeper success than vanraj's shallow financial successes, his 'tujhe wahan se yahan tak aana hai' (that is so 🤢)
Sorry I'm a day late but this is fantastically put👍🏼
Great analysis on Malvika's overall sketch. Seconded. Mayhaps Mal convinces herself of her behaviour by blaming it all on her past mishaps internally. And Anuj too allows that cuz he isn't ready to fully accept what went on. I believe the lack of conversation, rather a chance after the accident was one of the major reasons.
P.S Your UN is love😳
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