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I have noticed that in EMA, like most love stories there are conflicts. sometimes it is the class system, the ideology of a couple, a third angle that creates missunderstand between the leads. the villian, triditional backward ideas.
but in Ek mutti Aasmaam. the conflict is between Values verses Love.
i'm sorry to say but i dont identify with either Ragav or Kalpi. and to me the both come across as selfish and twofaced.
first Raghav. he loves Kalpi but dumps her at the mandap on their wedding day to marry another girl for revenge. against the girls parents. he could easily have gone to the police and gotten justice the normal way. sent the kapoors to jail for murder.
but now he is married but he wants kalpi in his life too. so like some renegrade romeo he puts sindoor in her mang and makes her his secret wife. technically its against the law.and he is commeting adultry. it does not matter wether he loves his wife or not. pakhi is his lawfully wedded wife. this promotes very low moral values in the name of love.
Klapi a girl who has been brought up with high moral values, is now crushing those values given to her by parents that love her and want only the best for her. she makes promises to her parents that she will not meet Raghav. yet does not keep her promises. despite her mother telling her the sindoor she brought from the pilgrimage site was for Pakhi, she applies that sindoor in her mang once again going against her own mother's wishes. she is pining for a man who is married to her milk sister. this too is adultery. she is doing everything against her parents and the moral values that have given her only for her love. she says sorry to her father but does not mean it. as she continues to make the same mistake all over again. this shows that kalpi has no respect or value for the good values that her parents have give her or her parents.
i find Kalpi and raghav come across as weak selfish people who only care about their love for each other and to hell with everything else.
i'm not advocating Pakhi nor do i want her to be with raghav. she deserves better. but even thought she has to face insults and rejection at every turn and is making every effort to stand by the values given to her by Kamla . as a wife it is her duty and dharm to make her marriage work. she is doing everything that a good wife should do, even thought it is not appreciated, she is even trying to be a good daughter in law, but is totally stoned walled there.
love is a beautiful thing. love helps renew values, and brings joy to everyone that love has greater meaning. but when love ceases to renew values but breaks and flaunts them that love looses its higher purpose. a love that is selfish is not love, a love that belittles moral values can never be love.
i see a very sad interpretation of love in this serial.
