Originally posted by: tinoo
This is where we differ avantika...
I dont think the position of singhs bahu is some sort of role that they are casting ... and asking individuals to come and audition for ... i.e. the best casting call will be made based on who can make the best adrak wali chai and the best samosas and who can provide a swedish massage...
Gauri's screaming may not have helped matters any ... but even if she was perfectly quiet and dignified for several years together ... the singhs would never have accepted her as their bahu ... the fact remains that they were neither consulted nor informed about the wedding... and because gauri being gauri, they expected her to have made a different decision from the get-go ...not to commit the same mistake which her parents committed years ago. They were disgusted with her for several reasons ... and bhairon singh is a man with a strong sense of right and wrong ... and he clearly saw this as wrong.
Dear Tinoo,
To start with, Thank you for accepting that gauri's own screaming has complicated the matters!
but then," but even if she was perfectly quiet and dignified for several years together ... the singhs would never have accepted her as their bahu ",
Why so pessimist? They would have! They would have no other choice. Gauri's own good nature would have helped. They are not planning to keep Anandi as a bahu forever. They have accepted the fact that she has to go and get married again in a nice family. Had they only wanted her, they would have just kept her back.
For how long can parents remain aloof from their kids? They are angry that Gauri and Jagya did a mistake, but to keep punishing them forever. Think of a situation where gauri doesn't scream back, but keeps maintaing her good behaviour. It would have got some sympathies for their love with time. They would have thought the girl is good, whatever happened is also their mistake.
But Gauri and Jagiya never allowed any symphathy to develop for them- celebrating SR in front of Anandi, moving around the village as lovers, screaming and insulting people without realizing what their act has done to the honour of the family, screaming at Anandi for funding ( and mind you if they were not principled and good and wanted to break their marriage they could let Gauri go away in pregnant state. But they kept her back, despite their hatredness), the property issue, BM issue, Sumitra Challenge!
How can one accept a person like Gauri? She is a limit. No body is responsible for our goodness nor for our evil. We are solely responsible for our actions, if Gauri had insecurity, does that mean she will misbehave with anyone.
The attitude towards Jagiya was changing when he saved Anandi, he came for BM. It would have also changed towards Gauri had her nature been good! Singh family never tried to impose Anandi on Jagiya. They never said you won't get any property etc. In fact they wanted his divorce, Though in the past the return of Jagiya to Anandi was desirable, the singhs never tried to impose it on Jagiya.
So Singh opposition to Gauri is also of a matter of principles, not Anandi per se. And it has stiffened because of Gauri's own nature!