Jyoti, my best friend, lovely points you have made as usual.👏 I have an extra point to make here regarding Manyata. You have asked if she is more obsessed with Akash that really in love?
The point I want to make is that somewhere even Manyata must be having some "discomfort" with suddenly leaving her chawl background and being exposed to a family that is very very much higher in wealth, status, sophistication and behaviours. In such a situation what will most people do? Those who are not accustomed to it will definitely begin by getting some "inferiority complex".
Whether we can use the strong word "inferiority complex" or the softer word "discomfort", it is the same feeling. Manyata must be herself very uncomfortable in the midst of those who have everything ... coming from a life that had virtually nothing!
I feel therefore that she too is clinging on to Akash more from the need for "something familiar" than for any feeling of genuine love or even obsession. Maybe if she had continued in the chawl life itself, her initial feelings for Akash may have gradually turned to a kind of genuine love after a while, but here what has happened? She liked the boy Akash when she was in the chawl for barely a couple of months. Then she was uprooted from there and put in a palace among those with a superiority complex. Can we say that she is obsessed with a boy whom she has barely known for a few months or even in love with him? Surely not!
All aspects of Manyata - her loud behaviour, her chawl type gaalis, her rebelliousness, her tenacious clinging to Akash and even her clinging to her old clothes ... all these are part of a reaction to her "culture shock", we can say.
Infact my feeling is that the more she clings to Akash, the more she betrays her own fear of sophisticated set with whom she has to adjust.
Now here is the antidote: if Manyata goes through a few lessons in sophistication and then developes greater self-esteem in the rich surroundings, her need to cling to the old and familiar things (including Akash) will definitely become less. In fact more and more she will feel herself to be a sophisticate! That will make Akash have the same complex as she has now ...
Notice how Akash himself is uncomfortable that Manyata has accepted Daadi's sharth to become a princess. He too reflects this inferiority complex in a way. If Manyata truly becomes a princess, Akash too will start feeling insecure, envious, jealous, out of his depth ...
I would say Manyata seems more obsessed with Akash than in love, for sure. But even more than obsessed, she is desperately clinging onto the "familiar old life" rather than Akash himself.
It is not the man, its the old life she is hanging on to.
What do you think?😲
Edited by skanda12 - 13 years ago
..thats what she was doing today ..and when someone in love needs to do this sort of PDA to prove a point to the world ,then it can never b love 😃
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