Originally posted by: -Lachu-
I hardly think that this is a matter of right and wrong to begin with. Viewing this as unbiased as I can I dont find Ishana or Om completely at fault. I can see where Om is coming from. He has been lied to by a woman whom he tried to be kind to. A normal person wont like it and Om being the idealist he is would hate it. So it was normal of him to shout at her in the harshest way possible.
But her point about poverty was no nonsense. It was unknowingly what Om deserved to hear. Truth is indeed a luxury only the rich can afford. Yes she has a sob story, straight out of the 80s movies, but she is in fact poor and she needs the money to save her sister(I am not saying I like this angle, but the character is made that way. No point in cribbing about what could have been). I have said this time and again, Om is not a realist and he needs a bucket of cold water to understand the pains of the real world. Its so easy for him to say that truth is a choice, but with truth Mona could now very well be in a brothel serving some disgusting man.
Yet Omkara is right in his own stance for she did break his trust and nothing can change that reality. But parvarish has no connection whatsoever on the person each of us decides to be. Didnt dadi give Tej a good Parvarish? and what has he become? Even then Ishana with her excuse of a dad might be an example of Parvarish gone wrong. But love do not see right and wrong does it? No matter how pathetic or wrong your family is love can blind you. You do not mess even with a thief's parents unless you are ready to face their wrath. I found Ishana's reaction natural and for a change logical.
Now the delicate part. The way she commented on his family. Ishana is not mahan, her character is immature. I dont expect anything less than a childish tit for tat from her. So he insults her family and she does the same though she doesnt even have the right to speak back to him. Why would Ishana care about playing it fair? When she called Om an idealist she was right. Om is also a hypocrite cfor the same reason but Ishana is herself a hypocrite too. She lies but then accuses Rudra and Shivaay of doing the same. Ishana was wrong in her analysis of the family and the brothers. But what she told them was what the common people believed the Oberois to be. The oberois through the eyes of commoners. I hated that Ishana called Rudra a lying play boy and Shivaay a ruthless manipulative businessman. This was not the truth but the words did hold some things close to the truth. You dont believe me? Look at the face of the brothers when Ishana points this out. Rudra is hurt but he also has a hint of guilt. Shivaay is clearly upset and taken aback but his face also holds a hint of guilt.
But then there is Omkara who cannot here one word against his brothers. I believe the idealist Om loosens himself when it comes to brothers and hence he is indeed a hypocrite. Om just ignores his brothers' flaws and he himself is guilty of it in the corner of his mind. But his love for his brothers is so complete that he cannot see beyond this love and he snaps. He is right when he says Ishana doesnt know anything, she only knows the half baked truths. But again Om's idealism is his biggest flaw and he vows to stand with truth always which is foolishness. He just sees the world the way he wants it to be.
Ishana truly messed up by bringing in Tej. That I agree. But then that is her character. She is not Anika who would hold up her head with dignity and retort decently. Ishana just wants to have the satisfaction of winning the argument and hurting him or so I would like to believe. I can understand her anger but cannot see what right she holds to be angry.
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