Originally posted by: Skepblun
Now to clarify some things:
Brief list of some of Jagya's kaands (proper description will fill a whole new thread of 100s of pages!):
- Stole exam question papers as a kid
- Cheated in exams
- Lied to school master
- Brought mobiles, dirty magazines and videogames to school
- Bunked school to do this dirty stuff along with his friend Sundar
- Read dirty magazines stealthily at home
- Tried to peep into Anandi's room when she used to change.
- Ran away from home after stealing money from Dadisa's cupboard
- Lied to college about his name and domicile (which is a CRIME punishable by law in India)
- As a kirayedaar also, he lied to Kundatai about everything from his name, domicile to even marital status.
- Got drunk repeatedly and created danga at bars in Mumbai (creating ruckus at public places can also land up a person in jail)
- He lied to Gauri and her family about his name, family background and native place and marital status
- He abused Anandi in worst ways and told others that he had thrown her out of his life.
- He demoralized Anandi and belittled her every time he returned to Jetsar in his MBBS during vacation.
- He stopped Anandi from studying after tenth.
- He hid details of his marital status from the Court before getting that court marriage done with Gauri.
- He bribed peon at Court to get his marriage done. Bribing is a punishable offence.
- He gave away family heirloom in bribe.
- He created ruckus in drunk state at his own place in Mumbai and insulted even his friends at a party he and Gauri had thrown.
- He misbehaved with his seniors at hospital and threw stones at the hospital entrance when he was rebuked for his indiscipline.
- He even rudely treated his patients when he was frustrated with Gauri and his own ego issues.
- He lied to college to obtain leave when he had to go to Jetsar and extended his holiday without sending any application to hospital/college. When called to admin office he instead showed attitude and thus got banned from giving exams.
- Later he did not even try to re-appear in his exams and complete his degree.
- He did tamasha with Anandi and Singhs over divorce and property also.
- He was so unstable that he would at times dream of Anandi even when Gauri was pregnant with his child! 🤢
- He did not use his brain and blasted away Anandi blaming her for Gauri's miscarriage.
- He shamelessly came to Bhago's funeral to do some black magic stuff! Couldn't he use his brains and refuse Gauri? Or leave the house but throw that stuff elsewhere and lie to Gauri about placing it at funeral instead of actually doing the deed?
- He then left Gauri also, returned to Jetsar, rotted in drunk state and created ruckus again at bars.
- He got into fist fight with Shiv also on the road and got jailed.
- Despite knowing that Anandi was now engaged to get married to Shiv, and knowing all that Shiv and Anandi had done for him, he selfishly tried to influence Shiv and coerce him into saying NO to Anandi in marriage.
- He tried to influence Dadisa to somehow break Shiv-Anandi marriage and give Anandi back to him. (Sharam ko bech ke khaa gaya tha kya?)
- He still looks in anger and jealousy at Shiv-Anandi and can't accept that she is still not waiting for him.
etc. etc. etc...
(These are just SOME of the SEVERAL kaands that Jagdish Maharaj has been doing since childhood. Okay, for some of them we can make excuses like he did it under influence of friends like Sundar or hormones or Dadisa's pampering...but HOW many times and how MANY of his SINS are going to get excused?!
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, has he really changed? Has he REALLY made up for the blunders he made? Has he ever become a sane, reliable guy with some self control and manners? Has his fickleness and unpredictability gone for good? Does he know how to work with others or is he fine at Jetsar hospital because it is his own baap ka hospital?! - I DO NOT think I am sure about it!)
- I have always been critical of Singhs in handling of Jagya or their handling of other matters relating to Gehna, Sumitra, Gauri, Anandi and their families. It's not like I am some AnSh fan who "suddenly" thinks of Singhs as villains and is unkind to "poor" Jagya. I have been on this forum since 2010 and members are most welcome to check my previous posts to see if my criticism of Singhs is recent or not or if I am some Gauri sympathiser.
- Dadisa has made others (beendnis and even their families!) suffer worst for even perceived mistakes but has been soft on Jagya for far too long. She forbade even Bhairon from disciplining him and this is why we have such a fickle guy in front of us. Bhairon for all his so-called idealism is a weak parent and failed to impart correct morals and values and proper sex education to his kids (no wonder Sugna got pregnant before Gauna and Jagya harbours polygamous tendencies).
Sumitra always stands like a statue. A doting but failed mother IMO who never knew how to guide her kids.
- The Singhs either defend Jagya or cover up his mistakes, or ignore and stay blind to whatever he does or simply disown him or beat him up and throw him out to his fate.
That is where they have ALWAYS been WRONG! That is not how you take responsibility of your kid!
Have they ever sat with him and had a proper, sensible talk about values and how to behave in a civil society? Have they ever tried to give him wise counsel as parents? NO! (Remember the talk that Anupam Kher gives to Shahid in the film Vivah? Or the talk that Mohnish Behl gives to Salman in Hum Saath Saath Hain after his engagement?That is how parents and elders are supposed to GUIDE their kids!)
Why expect a Ganga or Anandi to counsel or uplift him? Why shirk their own responsibility? 😲
- They knew he was out of sorts during Shiv-Anandi marriage, so why wasn't at least one of them always there with him to divert his attention, lighten up his mood or counsel him? Why they left him to deal with it all himself despite knowing what a feeble and fickle guy their laadesar is?
- The Singhs and Jagya made Ganga stay with them on basis of a certain trust that she was safe there. And safety for an Indian woman means that she will not even have to face any crappy gaze let alone have a paraya mard touch her or hug her!
Is this the maryada and safety that Singh haveli niwasis have to offer?
- *Just a hug*😲 Sorry! But hugging a married woman who is also mother of a child and has left her husband and is yet to be divorced is WRONG in Indian culture! Religions and culture in India consider it a SIN to even touch a parayi naari.
Intoxication or not is no excuse for such acts!
As an Indian female, I hate even being gazed at by any male or if anyone "accidentally" brushes past me (many others feel same) and here we are talking of an intoxicated man suddenly turning up and hugging you in front of the entire village and clan? It is a DISGRACE. 😵
You already bear brunt of society's lashes as a runaway, left out wife who is living in someone else's house. But you stay on thinking the family and the guy who saved you are trustworthy and your well wishers. In your gratitude you give them all respect but in return they instead blindly defend the guy for hugging you in public in an intoxicated state? I felt very bad for Ganga!
- I as a viewer had problem with Anandi even imagining her SR with Jagya while Shiv was trying to get intimate with her and we all at this forum criticised her for even thinking of Jagya's memories. Here Jagya not only thinks of her but he also hugs another woman taking Anandi's name?!
If we have problem with even thought process, then here is an actual ACT that has been committed! How can it be taken lightly?
Indian culture and religions say that even thinking of a married woman (someone else's wife) is a sin. Jaggu saab thought of Anandi (Shiv's wife) and hugged Ganga (who's still not his wife and not divorced from Ratan Singh).
That was tom-foolery! Other drunk guys weren't even hugging their own wives whereas Jagya hugged Ganga!👏
- The Singhs want to help Ganga in legal proceedings of her divorce from Ratan. Don't they know how such an act done publicly can be used against Ganga when it comes to the divorce case and Mannu's custody? Much of the village already insults Ganga. And if Ratan tries to weaken Ganga's case for Mannu's custody by questioning her character and using such incidents then?!
Everyone knows that this so called mistake of Jagya is PUBLIC SHAME for Ganga (that she does not feel it or is ready to forgive it is another matter but for society it is!).
How could Singhs react SO MILDLY despite knowing what implications such acts have for a WOMAN in OUR SOCIETY and especially THAT conservative village where they live?
- How could Bhairon defend Jagya's character and call him good and all WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING what kartoot his son had done?
Does it mean he subconsciously willingly kept bowing to DS when she forbade him to discipline Jagya?
Where was his idealism etc. before defending someone without even knowing details of what he had done? 😡
- It is NOT about problems with Singhs "loving" their son. It is about being light on him, blindly and hurriedly defending him for what mistake he does and NOT making him regret or feel ashamed at heart for what he did and for NOT guiding him to control himself and BE RESPONSIBLE!
They just fly to defend him and say waise woh bura nahi hai instead of taking some solid step (which means guidance and realisation and calling to Jagya's and their own conscience and at least expressing shame, not thapad-baazi).
- Lastly, I've been to many marriage parties and seen men getting drunk but never seen them hugging others' wives despite all the mischief they do. So bhang is no excuse for Jagya. He can be proven innocent. But what about the embarassment that Ganga suffered as a woman?
- Jagya is yet to fully pay for his mistakes or change for good and quit being fickle and start being stable. Curing few patients at baap ka hospital but again going back to same old ways is no penance or reformation.
P.S. - And yeah whatever so-called good that Singhs did for Anandi or Gauri or Ganga was to pay for their own mistakes or deal with their own guilt. It was not a pure angelic act of selfless goodness!