Originally posted by: shruthiravi
@Hadhsejyada exactly. I am comparing timelines only. Maya came to her marriage mandap with a bad past hoping to have a new beginning, but the past came to her. We always have to see it was Ashwin who always came to Maya. Maya baby. Maya on her own never went to this man. Only Jhanvi went. She didnt wanted him, she created a physical prison to stay away from this man. But Jhanvi bought him again and again in her life. Still she tried to reason out with Jhanvi, please dont go to Ashwin. Ashwin tried to kill Jhanvi, but Jhanvi didnt had any problem getting married to him again and then committing suicide for him, not thinking about her daughter who will be left alone. And the situations post marriage aggravated it. I have not yet to comparison of this phase.
Now look at Arjun. He also takes Saanjh as wife after a turbulent past with Maya. What we need to differentiate here is that, in Ashwin's case, Ashwin went for Maya. In Arjun's case also Arjun went for Maya. He told when divorce paper signed. Never to see you Maya Mehrotra. But he went again and fed her ladoo, told her he is getting married to Saanjh and Saanjh told when she dies, they will take saat phere. She reacts. Then again he goes and kisses Saanjh in front of her. She reacts. Post marriage actually she does nothing. Saanjh suffers paranoia. Jhanvi goes to order Maya's murder. Maya calls.Maya tried to push Ashwin away from her life as much as possible. Jhanvi bought him. Now Saanjh, Arjun and Jhanvi have bought Maya back into their lives. It is they who went behind her and not she who came behind them
Bold 1 & 2- He says goodbye after the divorce paper.
She then arranges to kidnap him, scores an own goal by not paying her kidnappers, and then goes on hunger strike, and forces the jailor to call up Arjun when he is in a date with Saanjh.
It's after the call, that he goes to meet and feeds laddoo, and the scene with Saanjh giving her the invitation card plays out then. She then plays the white saree-bangles card and every time she does something to harm Saanjh, Arjun goes to jail (after the glass incident for example)
The whole chain of them meeting in jail starts because Maya arranged to kidnap Arjun, not because Arjun and Saanjh were dying to meet Maya in jail.
Maya is clearly the initiator here, not the reacting party.