Nature vs Nurture. We've always talked about it. Had Anami been LM heiress she would have been proud and cruel. She has shades of Satrupa in her even now, the whole cutting of the hair of the tutor. But nurture won Narottam.
I love how he said he did it for Anami because she stood with him when no one did. Narottam will always be a follower, but Anami gave him love, protection, help unconditionally and that ultimately saved LM. That is Parvarish.
I loved Baldev-Narottam scene. I for one loved there was no hug, more realistic. There is such an ocean of pain, betrayal and non-acceptance to be explored and a ton of awkwardness. It would not make sense to hug it out and they lived HEA. No, they must build a relationship. Which made the Anami-Satrupa reconciliation all the more fake to me.
Mahima had barely any lines today. Are they resting her voice for tomorrow ? Will she have pages of dialog to say ?
Tomorrow is the reckoning. The main crux of this show has been the choice Satrupa made to not give the boy up, she chose to give the girl up while Guruji said give up the oldest. Vatsalya was the oldest, had he been sent away could he have been saved ? Guruji tells her clearly he asked her to give away her oldest, Satrupa chose her son.
The oldest, the son, the heir. This has always been about the heir. The heir to a royal family with no kingdom but a business empire. Money, power, wealth. Vatsalya was targeted even as a young child because he was heir. Satrupa fasted, killed to protect because her child was the heir. Vatsalya was stifled with a prison like existence because he was heir. He fled because he wanted to be a boy, but was killed because he was heir
Narottam was not the heir, even if he was blood. He was not even considered a child. So what does he do ? He puts his lot with people who show him love, who give him a family. Like he says loneliness teaches things. Vatsalya was a kind boy he did have an extraordinary nature different from LM wasis despite growing up there. But he was always heir. Vatsalya was kind towards Narottam but he never gave Narottam unconditional love, support , kindness or protection when he had nothing to give Vatsalya back. Vatsalya could have made a difference in the quality of Narottam's life I feel had he noticed more. But he gave him kindness. But he did not give him support, not like Anami. The parvarish of Pandits made the difference and that redeemed Narottam.
I think Sudha and Purushottam hid Vatsalya and Narottam knew. Now he is redeemed he will bring him back. Vikku, Gayathri, Baldev and Satrupa believe Vatsalya dead because throughout the 160 plus episodes not once did they say or behave otherwise or look for Vatsalya. They always were looking for the new heir. If they had believed for one instant Vatsalya was alive I think they would leave no stone unturned to find him. Most of all Satrupa. He was her baby boy, she wanted to die without him. She would have gone to the ends of the earth to find him, "kisibhi keemath par", killed anyone if she believed he was alive.
But tomorrow she most of all must choose. Can she love two kids ? What is the answer to the question Anami always asked her, "Would you have come for me if your son was alive". Vatsalya is alive, now what ?
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