DevilDen-TaiChi to Kushti kya manegi MSK ki Mishti - Page 3

what is this for a fly..... do none have brains.... it's to bad to see a smart girl like Nandini also assuming things....but she is a step faster... she just sees geet talking to a guy and consider him to be MSK.....

Look what Medha(Hegdemedha) wrote about Geet's character........

This girl is something wow perfect Defence for Geet 👏

So, does yesterday's Geet need a defence? I think she might.

[Caveat: One thing I dislike about this track is how it has ignored Geet's self-thoughts. *Geet* seems to have drawn the short straw when they were drawing straws to decide which character gets to voice self-thoughts in this track. So, if we are working towards ensuring that the CVs do not slaughter Geet's character, I would prefer that this be restricted to private circulation.]

Why did we not see the Geet who always stood up for herself?

His words once gave her wings to break free of the shackles of dependence, to stand up for herself and demand that her dignity and self-respect be recognised. With his words, did he clip those wings sending her hurtling back to the depths she had risen from? So, is that why we see the Geet we first saw at Hoshiarpur, who lets others take decisions for her? Is that why she is unable to stand up against her family members and tell them, "Let me be."? Maybe, maybe not.

So, what did we see in that scene?

• A woman who loves her man.
• A woman who was hurt by her man.
• A woman who had told her man that she would not forgive him or go back with him.
• A woman who has found out that her man has sneaked into the house to woo her back.
• A woman who is scared for her man, lest his subterfuge be found out.
• A woman who has been told by her man that he will not leave without her.
• A woman who has been told by her man that, deny it as much as she does, he knows that she still loves him and cares for him.
• A woman who is yet to have a discussion with her man about what happened that day.
• A woman who is yet to resolve, nay even decide to resolve, the issue that compelled her to leave home with her man.
• A woman who is yet to decide to return home with her man.

What did Grandpa Handa say to this woman in the presence of her man, within earshot of her man? "Don't worry. I have come. I will set everything right. I will also deal with whoever has taken away my child's happiness. When Gurvinder told me this over the phone, I could not believe all that had happened. That Maan was a very good boy [Note: Yes, I know the literal English translation is quite funny.], he had always been by your side in every fight. I thought that he would keep you happy all through your life. He appeared to be a man of principles, this was not expected of him."

So, why did Geet not respond to Grandpa Handa's monologue? So, why did she keep quiet?

Option 1: No appropriate words?

Was it because she could not think of an appropriate reply at that time? What could she tell have told Grandpa Handa, who as per Aunt Gurvinder Kaur (we now have a name for Beeji) had been informed of the marital discord between her and her man and had come to Amritsar on account of this?

She could have said, "Kinsfolk, hear me out. Well-meaning you may be, but kindly butt out. This is a discord between my husband and me. Pray, do not interfere; we don't need you, don't you see?." Was this something that she could have told Grandpa Handa, who had just arrived? That would be akin to her saying, "Well, Grandpa, good to see you again. Do you want me to find out the timing of the next bus back to Hoshiarpur?"

And, she could not possibly have said, "We will resolve it on our own." because she has not yet taken the decision to resolve this issue with her man.

Or, in continuation of her thoughts (aired on Saturday), she could have said, "Well, actually it was no big deal. He just said something without thinking about it. And, I left in a huff." If she were to say this, she hands herself on a platter to her man.

So, her silence could have been because she could find no appropriate words.

Option 2: Appropriate words?

Or, it could be that Grandpa Handa had given appropriately worded and given voice to her thoughts (that portion of Grandpa's monologue which are underlined and italicised), which she has not yet voiced to her man. "I thought that we would be happy always. I did not expect this of you." And, that was how I interpreted her silent communication with MSK in that scene. For, immediately thereafter, MSK approaches her in the kitchen and rhetorically acknowledged that his words had hurt her a lot.

Why could she stand up for Adi and Pammi, and not for her man?

Well, she stood up for Adi because Adi truly did not have anything to do with her matrimonial discord. He had been beaten up by her cousin brother merely because he was MSK's employee.

Geet stood up for Pammi because she knew that Pammi would have been hauled over the coals for having left home without having finished cooking food for Grandpa Handa. Geet had insisted that Pammi go to visit her friend. And, as we have been told on more than one occasion recently, Geet's motto is, "I will let no one else suffer on my account."

She did not stand up for her man, because any defence she put up would have laid low her own defences against him. And, maybe she is reluctant to do that.

Why did we not see the Geet who always stood for the truth?

Was it because, for her, the truth was that her man's words had hurt her because of which she decided to leave? Could she deny that truth?

Hasn't MSK repented enough? Is she being stubborn?

Well, Geet knows that he blurted out what he did in anger, without a thought. She knows that he has done this in the past too. She knows too that he has always sought her forgiveness after that. But, what after that? They seem to be stuck in the same cycle.

What has Geet seen of MSK's tribulations? She has not seen the journey he undertook to reach her. She has not seen his desperation to reach her. She has not seen him seek the assistance of strangers. She has not seen him walk over the hot coals.

Well, she knows that he has taken on the role of a driver. Is that humbling in itself? For her, it is a playful ruse that he has donned to get close to her. Recall her first words to MSK when she discovers that Balwant Singh is none other than her man. And, the man she knows would not have turned a hair if he had to grease his hands to repair his car, much less drive himself around. The man she knows is a man who preferred a solitary life, who preferred doing chores himself as opposed to relying on a retinue of servants to do his bidding. Before Grandpa Hand arrived, in her self-thoughts, she asked what would happen if Grandpa Handa saw MSK as a driver. At that time, she did not know that her aunt had called Grandpa Handa and informed him about what she knew. Her self-thought then was not because of a perceived lack of dignity in the position of a driver, but a fear that his real identity would be revealed to her kinsfolk.

As a driver, she has not seen him lose the privacy he so prizes. She has not seen him ordered to locate the phone number of the doctor and to fetch the doctor post haste. She has not seen him bearing a tray of tea to the doctor, in a bid to find out about her health status. She has not seen him bear Lucky's non-stop chatter. She has seen but one instance of MSK being wrongly accused on Lucky's lie. As the audience, we have seen it all. And, for that, MSK has rightly earned our forgiveness. But, if we were in her shoes, on the basis of that one instance, would we concede?

What about her reiteration that she would not forgive him or return home with him? [Note: Thanks to UMT, we know that something was edited out.] Absent that, well, her reiteration was in reply to her man telling her that he would leave only if she did. They have not yet discussed the issue between them, much less resolved it. At the market place, he told her that he did not mean the words he said and she had told him that she could not forgive him and would not return home with him. They are at an impasse. Yesterday, we saw him reiterate his words at the marketplace and we saw her reiterate her reply. The story hasn't moved much since then, except for a realisation on both their parts that he loves her and did not mean what he said and that she still loves him and cares for him. The difference between them is that while one has acknowledged it, the other is still in stubborn denial.

Originally posted by: shali

what is this for a fly..... do none have brains.... it's to bad to see a smart girl like Nandini also assuming things....but she is a step faster... she just sees geet talking to a guy and consider him to be MSK.....