Hello Aunties & girls,
Just read through the thread and see that tensions are rather high...
Can't wait for your post to be released - hopefully Kraken releases your fingers long enough for you to finish up the post. My interest is now piqued with only the bits that you have disclosed here. But will be a new thread all together?
Anyhow, I do not wish to add on further to the valid/invalid points of whether Dhurdhara should be admitted in the contest. After giving a long hard thought, I am sure Dadi must have said whatever required to eliminate Dhurdhara for reasons (i) she is far too childish/immature to be hodling the post of Mukya Maharani, (ii) she has the least exposure to politics amongst Chandra's wives and (iii) as a great friend and companion she is to Chandra he cannot lean on her for kingly duties. Having said this, I look forward to finding out what exactly did Dadi say and meant anyway.
Though Dadi said that she knows of a way to bring C and N together and the next thing we kown she is hosting this completion. There is no way she could have known who will be crowned victor. I assume she is bagging on the fact that she thinks Nandini as a perfect female and thus is convinced she will be the one to win. Either way it is a little confusing to me as to why she would hatch this plan to bring them together, simply because both Helena and Nandini has equal chance to win - in my opinion of course.
Whether we like it or not Helena is someone I would consider as an accomplished stateswoman, in comparison to Nandini, though Nandini is not far behind her. So, there is valid point in establishing who is to be the Mukya Maharani.
Now in all of this what bugged me the most is Chandra's split personality. On the day before he is goofing around with Nandini and claims that there is a certain unexplained happiness in seeing her laugh, the next day he is again at his you are the patrani of my heart and would like you to win'. I do hope that Roopa made her appearance and worked her magic which resulted in the change of mood. Otherwise I simply cannot make out what is with this yo-yo attitude he has.
He loves her and his Achilles heels are her tears. He also loves to see her laugh and be happy. Warranted that it hurts him to know she loves' Malay. But why must he be a darling a moment and a Grinch the other? He really need to sort his personality issue, seriously!
My theory on why Moora prefers Nandini in the absence of a kundali is that between the 3 daughter in law, Nandini would make the perfect queen for Chandra. She already knows of Helena having another side though she doesn't know the real extend of it, and she also knows how immature Dhurdhara is. For a son that she could not raise, I think she would like to ensure she finds him someone who will be his support for life...something she as a mother should have been to her young son, but failed. Its like Tamil movies where before dying the mom would like to find a good wife /husband for the son/daughter so that they have someone after their passing.
And Moora was never really shown as holding grudge against anyone except for Nand. So the whole Nand-Putri anger angle does not apply to her me thinks. Just my 2 cents
As for Dadi. She does exasperate me. Because she is abit of OTT in her cupid avatar especially when she makes unannounced entrance into their room.
One bothering question though - why didn't Avantika or Moora confront Nandini about the drunken dance? Due to Chandra's yo-yoing personality and my own doubt on his use of his grey cells, I acknowledge that Aunty's question of why he didn't immediately try to put a stop to it is valid, but rather pointless due to reasons above. For example, he keeps going on about I don't know which is the real Nandini' showing that he is confused about what is going on with her, yet he does nothing to clear the doubt. Even if he is dead sure she is in love with Malay and thus behaving like this, it doesn't add up when she is so docile and gentle and eager to please him during their other private moments. You can say she puts up a show of being good wife if its in public, but what about in private? If she despises him and loves Malay deeply would she be so fine with sharing the same intimate space with him? Their four times the size of my house, and am sure she can find a corner to sleep instead of next to him.
Well Aunty, looking forward to your post and the episode today.
Shiv Shakti
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
