Originally posted by: tinoo
Actually bluerobin, though it may offend our western or Indian city-bred sensibilities to massage a collector's hair in his office -- (I was really thrown off my chair the first time i saw that in the precap 😆😆😆 ) I think it is important to remember that within her own rural context, anandi is also a primary first-aid provider... if you remember, she has taught these subjects in her adult education classes -- how to tie a tourniquet, what to do in case of burn cases, and she has also been responsible for first aid when some kaka got his hand cut in the tractor...
so her stepping in and applying water on his head as a desi nuskha would not have been of concern to the villagers or to bheem singh given that HE HAD A NOSEBLEED. It is some type of medical issue... just like if some teenage village girl is lying on the road with a fracture, dr. abhishek may lift her ghagra and massage her foot with some balm and then try to set it in a cast. That doesnt mean that he is in love with her or physically attracted to her -- and in that context, neither villagers nor anyone else will think badly of him. Infact, the collector himself may see a girl lying on the road and help her by massaging her foot ... and even if he is not a doctor, nobody will think anything of it because they will know what his intention is.
So I think the action in itself means nothing -- it is the intention and the context that matters.
I think the act of massaging his head was clinical -- and not infused with any emotion or loving behaviour -- not intended to romantically arouse him... 😆😆 ... just like abhishek or shiv massaging a village girls fractured foot will be clinical and not loving behaviour.
Anandi did not massage him because she loved him, she was not trying to seduce him ... she did it purely for medical reasons.