Originally posted by: aimf
Hammie!.. yes aimf... you call me hear/here
Thanks for your nice words in response to your take yesterday.
they were heart felt
I can see from the length of the take today, and your careful attention in analyzing the details, that you have really loved the episode. So did I. Kudos to you for the nice write up.
thanks, yes told you liked it for the funny bits..it was along time coming
In fact, it was flawlessly executed in the sense that yesterday's episode lay the groundwork for the future of the plot in many ways.
What you say about Dhani being betrayed by Sue and RL is indeed really true. Rajlaxmi's behavior today shed light on an important matter for me today. It was always interesting to watch the dynamics of the generation gap between the older and the younger widows at the ashram. With the exception of Dhani, the younger ones, such as Sue, RL, or Rachna were interested in age-appropriate pursuits, such as food, bollywood songs, telly shows, and men, while the older widows were happy with their memories, and their pujas. a very valid point...👏 Dhani, uncharacteristically, was like a grandmother, older even than Sita Mai in her finger-wagging righteousness in all matters widow. This is the reason she did not get much support from the younger widows. In the very beginning of the show also, RL would implicate Dhani and try to get her in trouble. Further, the younger widows kept things from each other. For instance, no one knew about Trip and Sue. We also did not know that Sue and RL like to dance and are good at it. Today's episode clarified for me the fact that the widows ashram was seen as a temporary accommodation by the younger widows who all had pipe-dreams of being happily married and leaving from there as soon as possible. superbly scaled... in fact she is shown as bit of a prude ,remember when viplav teased her, his dadi spoke to some elderly person on the phone...I suspect dulari has poured much of her staidness and gravity into dhani ,as to what is proper and improper.. funnily it reminds me of Victorian middle class attitude of women .. prim sanctimonious prudes...
The life of a widow, symbolized by stark white, eating once a day, and that too boiled potatoes, no fun, and no outings, except temples is rather bleak. Furthermore, being considered inauspicious, the widows are constantly derided and discriminated against. In small-town India, marriage starts to look like the best ticket out of widows' weeds, especially for women lacking in education. Therefore, I see now why Sue took the extreme step of marrying the violent and unscrupulous Tripurari. Now no one can call her a vidhwa or impose rules on what to wear, what to eat, where to not go, and what to not do. exactly and the suvarna marriage created such an uproar
She is now part of society, and is accepted as that, rather than shunned. Strange how just being married and wearing color can do that for a woman. I believe that RL's quest for acceptance by the society escalated as she first witnessed Dhani's wedding preparations, and then Sue's marriage. welll she said so in all honesty and I did appreciate her stance.. and have to say she does'nt mince her words either
Now she is desperate to get married to her Vakil babu. It is just fine for her to want Vakil Babu, but to rely on the wily Trip as a go-between reveals the extent of her desperation. The betrayals of Sue and RL have to be seen through the lens of the desperate undercurrent of the pursuit of acceptability in a patriarchal culture where they ironically think that acceptability and progress are coterminous with marriage..well put! and its these undercurrents in social issues that interest me in this serial.. thanks so much on your wise inputs.. hope others get to read your comment and focus on the bits about dhani the widow amongst the varied age range of the ashram.. bit of a misfit young dhani.. alas..
That is all for today. Perhaps more tomorrow. Best wishes.
yes please more tomm? means to me you are well grounded.. aacha hai you stay put.. much love yours hammie..