Garima,
Finally herPOV is here. Garima comes as a responsible mother. Yes she is selfish, for like many mothers she wants the best for her daughters. Garima has lived her life with righteous Shashi Roy. She doesn’t have an example before here where Good begets Good. Shashi had been a very principled person who had wealth of selflessness and justice in him but did not have anything to show for this. He led a life with less of worldly possessions but more of satisfaction of having done his best for the public by being true to his profession. In light of thisGarima and his daughters had led a life bereft of money and this made Garima cautious while selecting a life partner for her daughters. She unjustly (or practically)felt that Khushi was a better bet to get a rich well settled man who would make the Roys’ lives easier. I feel it was not wrong of Garima to think like this for like every mother she felt that her daughters shouldn’t want for anything.
Garima must have been distraught by the brutal murder of Shashi Roy who had been butchered while he was doing his duty of defending an innocent Girl who was fighting an influential family and the Girl finally had come out of the fight with the rest of the world by her side.
Garima seems to hold Manohar in high regard for the support he had offered his friend Shashi by first letting Shashi grow in his career and later taking Khushi under his wing. The final nail in the coffin was when Manohar offered to bring Khushi as his daughter in law, as Arnav’s wife. Garima has met Priya and knows that Akash supports his mother and Priya does not care for Roys. For Priya Shashi will bethe betrayer as he has supported Manohar when the latter wanted to leave Priya for Aarti.
Whoever has murdered Shashi has left a strong message by murdering him, dumping him into the sewer and chopping off the fingers that would have pointed out at the defendant in the courtroom.Was Shashi very close to unveiling something that Viraj had done and was that why he was murdered? Only time will let us know the truth about Shashi’s murder. It appears that maybe Shashi and Aarti’s murders are connected.
My perception about Garima was that she was selfish but now we understand why is she selfish. She is only a concerned mother who has seen that Principles and honesty are paid back brutally by the world, like in the case of both Aarti and Shashi
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
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