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I normally don't start posts, but in this one case, I really wanted to. I am making myself clear that I am nobody's fan, be it character or actor, so please, no bashing or name calling.
The case was always standing on two stones: Maya is innocent or Maya is not innocent. What I believe Saanjh did wrong was not study the entire situation, but rather focus on Maya herself. She did prove Maya mad, very true, but how would that help the case? The case was attempt to rape, even a mad woman has the right to decide what happens to her body, exactly what Maya said. Now Saanjh believing Ayaan is not wrong, if someone comes and accuses your neighbour, a friend, of a heinous crime like this, even you won't believe it and try and help prove that, so she isn't wrong there. The only wrong she did was assume everything, rather than check the facts.
I am annoyed at whoever wrote Saanjh's dialogues for these scenes, she does come off as a woman who cannot respect other woman, exactly what the judge said. But again, that is because they made her dialogues sound like it was OK to even physically, screw sexually, assault a "mad", "manipulative" woman. It can be devil re-incarnate herself, and yet it won't be right to tear her clothes for any reason, even an "innocent" one like getting keys.
The problem with the entire "Mehra" and "Sharma" family, including Maya, is that they assume stuff, and when stuff does not go the way they thought it will, it is always somebody else's fault. Saanjh would probably blame Samay for her loss and paint Maya as evil in front of them, not admitting that she assumed stuff and didn't investigate fully, even though she broke the law by asking an eye witness to vanish. Ayaan could have gone a million different ways in this scene, but it is Maya's fault if he fell into her trap, IF it was one. He could have asked his brother why he insulted Ma all those years ago also, he was a brother, had full right to question him, but no, it was bhai and Maya's fault. If Saanjh's mum was so convinced of Maya's evilness, why didn't she confront Arjun about slapping her daughter, or if was convinced Saanjh was wrong, why not ask her directly rather than assuming Maya's words, but no, it was again Maya's fault! Vandana assumed Maya was evil because of Ashwin, she didn't bother confronting Maya about everything, questioning her without calling her bad names, again Maya's fault! Arjun, as a 6 year old, right after his mum's death, believed people saying Vandana killed his mum, right soon after which she married his father, so hates her, and it's Arjun's fault for being a gullible naive kid, not Vandana's for never really asking him if he would like his favourite aunty to be his mum!
This is what Maya also plays with, and how is that wrong? If you were in her place, you will probably sit and explain to your husband, because maybe you don't have the manipulation streak, but if you know these people will never question each other and take everything on face value, would you not wanna get rid of the clingy friend or the mother who curses you and celebrates a glass cutting your foot? Am not on Maya's side, but just surprised how everything is everyone's fault in this serial, except their own! Even Maya, she knew Arjun loved the high life and was clingy to his best friend, and yet, when he did embarrass her by doing exactly that, it was Saanjh's fault and not hers to get married to such a guy, when she knew it!!
Ok I am done ranting! Sorry for the long post!
Kumkum Bhagya
