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Originally posted by: shailusri1983
Very nice Avantika. I found all the scenes between Chandini very beautiful and dreamy. I loved the way Morni gave Nandini the ancestral Kangan, a symbol of her acceptance of Chandini's relationship and accepting her into the family fold by considering her as her own daughter. Similarly, another scene I loved very much was Nandini muttering in Tamil and Chandra is completely clueless. The cherry on the top however was the bus ride to Shimla where Nandini dozes off on Chandra's shoulder and he lets her sleep looking at her all the while.
You have also hinted at the possibility of several skeletons in the cupboard. Vishnugupt has an extramarital affair and children out of it. To cap it all he is being blackmailed using the names of his children whom he has not met in years. Now he wants to reconcile with them but he is clueless about their whereabouts.But the biggest surprise as far as I was concerned was the relationship between Chandra and Dhara. I thought all along that he shared a good and beautiful relationship with her. I did not read much into her treating Chandra's family like second-class citizens or her bickering with her mother-in-law. That is what I expected out of a rich pampered girl like her.But her obsession and arguments with Chandra showed that Chandra at least had never been in love with her the way he is with Nandini. He is himself with her at all times. But with Dhara he is really a stranger to himself. He acts and models himself the way Dhara wants him to be. It was simple acceptance of the inevitable and a delusion on his part that he too loved Dhara.Why he remained a widower after her death is also no real mystery now. It is the once bitten twice shy case. After such an experience with his first marriage, any man would have denied his feelings for long. Even after recognizing it, he would have threaded very warily for a long time before eventually accepting his love.
Shailu has written all my thoughts. I second whatever she has written above.
Just one additional thought. Somehow I felt that Vishnugupt himself was a Chandra in his early life. And his wife Sujata had put her under her thumb due to her political connections. His daughter Dhara was brought up with the same pomp and splendour of her mother... and somewhere VG had sacrificed his Love. And as time passed by, he had become ruthless. And when he found that Dhara was in love with Chandra, a middle class family background just like him, he had apparently applied the same formula his wife and her father must have done.
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