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Good post 👏.I put some of the blame on lal singh.
He knew bhairon and sumitra quite well -- he could easily have spoken to one or both of them in confidence -- and if he was scared jagat would find out -- he could have asked them to act as if they had found out on their own.As far as the parents angle goes -- I know that bhairon is not sitting idle and does not have time to constantly monitor his son by going to Mumbai and spying on him -- however, I think there was some sort of issue that he neglected and did not look into -- which is as follows:See, when anandi's 10th standard result came out, jagya started behaving like an ass, and anandi in a fit of anger opened up everything that had happened in mumbai when she had gone there for his birthday. So bhairon and sumitra knew that jagya had belittled anandi, had said that there is a "zameen aasmaan ka farq" between them, knew that he had been ashamed of anandi, knew that jagya had changed his name to jagat, knew that jagat no longer belonged to jayetsar, but instead jaipur...The only thing anandi really left out is that he had been dancing with gauri.Sumitra slapped him for all these things.Dadisa slapped him for calling himself jagat... infact she had a talk with him explaining why she had named him jagadish ... the importance of the name.. it was her father-in-law's name...Then jagat vanished in the middle of the night ... and next morning, dadisa said that he had gone back to Mumbai.Immediately after that, there was a three year leap, and the announcer said that jagya never came back home in those three years and his conversations with his family became less and less , and anandi had finished her 12th std in those three years.The next scene after the leap was that sumitra gets a call with jagya saying he is become a doctor, so then they all leaped to preparations to make a hospital for him on his return.My question is that when bhairon knew so many things from anandi on that fateful night of her 10th std result, alarm bells should have gone off in his head, and the fact that jagya left without resolving the situation with anandi, and never came back for three years means that he just left the situation hanging ... which means even more alarm bells should have gone off in bhairon's head... at the very least, he should have gone to mumbai to meet jagya AT THAT POINT ... to resolve whatever issues anandi had brought to the forefront.I mean if my daughter comes back from college, and I find she has changed her name from sumitra to susan, and instead of saying she is from chennai, she says she is from london ... and so many other things...and then she runs away from home in the middle of the night after a showdown leaving the whole issue hanging ... I would definitely find it important to go to her college AT THAT POINT ... because i would see all of this as completely weird... who is this child ? why is she lying about her name and her point of origin? where else can this lie lead?In addition, when bhairon knew that jagya had denigrated anandi for her lack of education, and her being gawar or whatever, and not his equal... then In his place, a sensible father in law would have taken it upon himself to see to anandi's education ... instead we see that after three years, anandi was still languishing as a 12th pass individual ... she had not even joined a college or anything ... because the first thing that sumitra said to her post-leap is "it is so sad that jayetsar does not have a college, otherwise we would have insisted that you go to college"But bhairon did not do that either.Also, Nobody -- bhairon, sumitra, gehna asked anandi -- "so has jagya been calling you? what does he say?"I mean badi masi used to regularly ask anandi to call jagya etc. or used to ask her "what does he say in his last conersation with you" etc. because she knew anandi and jagya were living apart...Forget that he has not come home for the last three years of his five year MBBS course, he has also not called them, not called anandi...Does nobody in the singh household find this weird?
I have to agree with some aspects and disagree with others. I think Tinoo DS forgave Jagiya's behaviour
when he explained about Mumbai, how different the life there is, that he was finding it diificult to assimilate and so when Anandi came he couldn't understand what to do! the parents and others were not happy and had decided not to talk. then when he went back, DS scolded everyone, that boy is in Mumbai, there are some difficulties there, etc.
I can give only one explaination for Singh family and Anandi- trust.
They trusted Jagiya completely, they never thought he would fall this low. They all including Anandi. Once Anandi had even commented that Jagiya would come back to her, no matter whoever he meets. Her shock of Gauri being the other girl was apparent. She had trusted Jagiya completely. Even the parents were shocked at it, and DS even said to Anandi, (a memorable line), if instead of lecturing you, if I would have lectured Jagiya, things wouldn't have taken this turn. Its trust and every parent should have that in his child.
Lal Singh could have intervened, but could have been odd. But nice observation 👏
