Originally posted by: Magno
I think I understood her too up to a certain point.
Yes, Magno. I agree with you. Prachi's motives were understandable and to some extent acceptable (i.e., till Suki made her appearance after her honey moon).
Understandable because she thought, for Milsi, Suki meant more than her. Why she got that idea beats me. Afterall every important event in their life actaully saw Milsi sidelining Suki, though unintentionally. Take the c-night for instance. The guy was not there for Suki's bidai. Instead he was busy concretising his marriage with Prachi. At Ritwik's birthday party he was not around to see Suki off on the honeymoon because he was asking his wife her permission to expand their family. Why, even during Suki's wedding, the guy had eyes only for his wife, he did'nt even see how the wedding was taking place.But anyway she must have thought Milsi-Suki shared a special bond and Milsi would hurt more when the truth comes out.
Acceptable because it was not her secret. So in Suki's absence she could not reveal it. But having seen the pain the guy is in and realising how much she means to him and especially after Suki came back and wanted to tell it to her brother herself, stopping her from doing it is nothing short of sadism. I dont see any sacrifice in it for several reasons.
One, this was the time that Ritwik got kidnapped and Milsi very nearly did not pay the ransom thinking that the baby is her love child. If something had happened to Ritwik because of that would she be able to answer her own conscience? Where is the good in keeping the secret then? In the scene where Suki breaks down seeing the 'body' of the baby, Prachi shuts her up, not allowing the woman to even grieve properly. Where is her sense of humanity? Is preserving the secret more important than preserving one's sanity?
Later when Suki wants to come clean with the secret, again she tries to stop her. By this time I had frankly lost sight of Prachi's motive. If Suki's happiness was her motive,what did she think, that Suki can live in peace knowing that she was the cause of her brother's marriage breaking up and his ending up miserable for the rest of his life? If it was Milsi's happiness she had in mind, she had already seen the effect of her lie for the last 2 months.
If she had not understood the magnitude of what she had done and what she was doing, atleast what Suki told her should have made her realise it. Yet, her unwillingness to reveal the full truth but only make his hubby's life more miserable by telling him a half baked confession, showed me she has lost it completely.
And what she did to Neev, her childhood friend, whom she claimed to have loved at one point and who always wished her well, was unforgivable. What was his mistake? Why should he suffer for the folly of Suki, Prachi and Alaap(after all he was the one who impregnated Suki)? If she had wanted to protect Suki's raaz, then when Milsi accused her of bringing in Neev's baby, she should have told him that the baby is not Neev's. Let him think what he wants about her character. In fact it would make her story more plausible. Since she was carrying another man's child she broke her engagement to Neev! Afterall she is the mahaan who wants to please every body, is 'nt she? So let her assume the shame and spare Neev from it.
As I metioned elsewhere this whole raaz thing is like the 'means' (of protecting the secret) becoming the 'end' (which was originally supposed to be preservation of relationships of the Misra clan).