Originally posted by: S.Stephy
A well-detailed and brilliant analysis... 👏
I would like to share some of my views as well...
- Like you said, Anjali does have many layers to her. We know she is handicapped and has gone through some trauma in the past. But she has a lot of emotional scars from all that and they have not healed. Its like she has covered all that by over-indulging in prayers and her concerns for others around her. We the audience and the people around her see her good and cheerful nature and so her emotional scars are not noticed at first glance. This is why her actions/reactions are misunderstood a lot of times and why people find some of her reactions too exaggerated or abnormal... but the truth is her life experiences have made her very complex and sometimes the things she does and says cannot be just viewed in a one-dimmensional manner... there is always a deeper matter in it.
Most definitely. That is exactly what I was attempting to convey with the analysis. There's another meaning to everything that she says and does. A double-meaning. For instance, what really struck me in the scene between her and Arnav after her accident was the way that she said: "Jo chale jaate hai na, Chote, woh kabhi wapas nahi aate." If you don't look at the undertone of that comment, then it would seem as if she was only encouraging him to go for happiness, his girl. But if you delve into the way in which she said it, and the way she touched him, it would seem that she told him "people always leave, don't trust".
Which again isn't intentional - she isn't manipulative that way. But it shows that she does not believe in her own words about moving on and finding complete happiness.
- And the point you mentioned about Anjali's selective nature...I agree. At times Anjali is way too quick to notice things like the time she noticed Khushi is not happy with her engagement or like the time she sympathised with Khushi's broken engagement more than the Guptas did. Plus she is very sensitive to negative emotions. But on the other hand, she is totally clueless about Shyam. And I guess she blocks away certain unpleasant things that are too much for her to handle. Again, I guess all this stems from her previous trauma.
Word. Exactly. Despite all the signs given to her at the time when Khushi's ring had gone missing (and even before when she met the jeweler who told her that Shyam had bought a ring - the same ring that she saw on Khushi's hand), she blocked it out, suppressed it.
In addition to that, I find it strange that she once said that Shyam took her hand when she was in a bad condition - as if what he did was some kind of a "sacrifice". Ever since, they (the entire Raizada family) have treated Shyam like some kind of superior being - a savior who isn't to be questioned.
Shyam's character, for that matter, is just as fascinating to me.
