Originally posted by: Shivani115
I am a relatively new member of this forum and have been watching this show with a possible story in my mind. I do not study psychology but have beginner's knowledge in medicine field.
Since the TM and the person who wrote it originally have done a lot of research, I am curious to know their opinions. I have not included references but just googled information about psychopaths. Those are in bold sentences.
My understanding of the story of Beyhadh is something like this:It's a long post so bear with me😊
From the few initial episodes of the show, I had a feeling that Maya was a psychopath. Psychopaths are born with probably defective wiring in their brain and cannot process emotional information the same way as normal people do. They lie, manipulate, have zero empathy and use people as objects to get their work done.They are basically empty shells. Their symptoms show in early childhood because they are ruthless, derive sadistic pleasure from harming other kids and cannot fit into a school environment. The makers showed that Maya had trouble in school. Ashwin, like most other fathers, thought she was 'bad' and punished her. Positive reinforcement in early childhood could have helped her to be a little more empathetic because young brains are plastic, but that didn't happen in Maya's case probably because of ignorance or lack of time from her parents.
Pyschopaths need constant thrill and control gives them the thrill. They choose victims with empathy since that's something they don't have. Maya grew up and she hated her father for punishing her but Jhanvi, as a mother, showed her sympathy. Maya's first victim was Jhanvi. Just like they showed us with Arjun, she must have separated her from everyone, Ashwin and her grandfather. Maya used to tell her mother "You are no one's wife, daughter, etc. you are just my mom". Pyschopaths show the world they are very confident, but in reality they are very insecure of themselves. They know they are different from the world and constantly fear that their 'secret' will be out. They need 'hosts' to latch onto for their own existence. I am assuming the beatings by Ashwin could have happened when she was manipulating and lying to separate Jhanvi from Ashwin. She did say that "I will not come in between you and mom"OR it could be to create fear in her after she stabbed him so that she will not harm him further OR it could be just hallucinations since pyschopaths do have hallucinations. The crime that Ashwin said Maya committed which would land her in jail for a long time could be killing her grandfather (this is strictly a guess) to separate Jhanvi from him and to snatch the company. Maya succeeded in making Jhanvi her victim. Whenever Jhanvi wanted to go to Ashwin, she used the same technique of suicide that she uses with Arjun. Her victims are sort of her property. She can do anything to them. She will protect them from every harm, use them and discard them when they are not needed. She can jump in the river to save Jhanvi and at the same time leave her to die.(I strongly believe Maya was the one who Jhanvi was talking to in the godown when she fell).
Maya found thrill in controlling her company and her employees. Then she met Arjun, a fun-loving, extremely ambitious guy with loads of empathy. Arjun protected her from Ashwin who always made her fear that he will let her 'secret' out. Maya decided to make Arjun her next victim. The moment she swallowed a pill with "A" written on it, I knew he was doomed. She lacks empathy, Arjun has loads of it. She wanted him as her 'medicine'. Latching on to him will make her get through in life. Maya knew very well that Saanjh loves Arjun and Arjun loves Saanjh too if given a chance to realize. She went after Arjun like a trophy, grabbing every chance she can to be with him and manipulating him. She showed him money and power which was his weakness and finally got him to fall for her. The 'love bombing" or idealization phase where the psychopath showers the victim with immense attention and "love" was shown nicely.
Arjun is her victim now and Ashwin tried to kill him. She killed Ashwin as he was a threat to Arjun (this has not been shown explicitly but plenty of hints and clues given). After her marriage with Arjun, she can no longer control Jhanvi and she is not needed anymore. So Maya started giving her pills to make her mentally unstable and cause hallucinations where Jhanvi saw Ashwin's 'bhoot". Jhanvi probably found some evidence against Maya and decided to confront her in the godown. Jhanvi said "you killed my Ashwin. You tried to show the world that I am paagal. I thought everything will be ok after marriage. I will tell the world who is the real pagaal". All these dialogues can only be directed towards Maya. Jhanvi tried to ask for help from Saanjh, so she couldn't be the one. Arjun is not the type of person who can murder mercilessly and he can be safely excluded given that Maya said "sorry" to Jhanvi in the hospital in her lying evil way.
Coming to her new life, Maya needed complete control of Arjun and she didn't want to be 'bad' in his eyes. So, she decided to be good, extremely good. She knew after Vandana had taken away Arjun from the mandaap that Vandana will never accept her. She showed Arjun that she was the most ideal wife and Vandana was a bad step-mom. Once Arjun left his family, her work was done. She never cared to have family ties again with Vandana and Ayaan. Vandana is not an inherently evil person. There is no 'on-off' switch in a person that says "I will be good today, bad from tomorrow". Maya had plenty of time (3years) to prove Vandana was wrong and she can make her son Arjun happy. But she failed because her intention was always to alienate Arjun from his family. Maya also separated Saanjh from Arjun's life with the fake pregnancy and miscarriage drama.
Now, Arjun was only hers. Pyschopaths use 'gas lighting' (that's the term I think) to play with victim's mind. They make them go so low(separation from family) and then so high(riding on money and power) as in Arjun's case that the victim questions his/her own ability to think and believes what the pyschopath says blindly. After Arjun was hers completely and believed what she said blindly, she brainwashed him into believing that if he leaves her, she will die or be devastated. Maya knows very well that she cannot be cured. No pill can instill empathy in a person. Pyschopaths cannot be cured. She is also devaluating Arjun by saying things like "tum kisi ke dawa nahin ban sakte" and making him look like a wife-beater in public. A forum member posted about Arjun having Stockholm syndrome and victims of pyschopath show exactly the symptoms of that syndrome.
Regarding further plot, I think Saanjh will get to know about Maya's past through Samay and last blow will be Jhanvi who will probably bring out her 'sach' that she is a pyschopath. My guess at the ending of the show is that since Maya can no longer control Arjun, she will try to kill him but will be saved by Saanjh (7th vow) and Maya will die.
According to me, Maya has wronged a lot of people in her life, Arjun and Jhanvi of course but also Ayaan, Vandana (may be she will top the list in a few episodes), most definately Saanjh, Ashwin , her grandfather (guess). To me, this story shows the devastation caused by a pyschopath to her victims and family.
I loved Arjun's dialogue in the first episode when he and Saanjh see Maya at the temple. He said "kuch log saare duniya ko rulake yahan aake aansoon bahatein hain" or something like that.😊
Sorry about the long post. Do share opinions/criticism.
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