On behalf of Samanalyse *Season 2, Week 2* Weekly analysis thread - Page 8

@Shaavi: Thanks! I think we may disagree slightly about the Dev-Golu relationship, but I am not entirely sure, so I will try to make it clearer where I stand at the moment. Dev is certainly aware that he is not Golu's father. He feels no responsibility towards Golu's upbringing, but participates insofar as it makes him feel good to do so. So I conjecture that his relationship with Golu is more for himself than for the kid. As I said in an earlier post, Dev is happiest as a nurturer and Golu fulfills that urge in him to take care of people.

I also think he feels a kinship with the child, since both of them are unwanted by their families, except for material purposes -- Dev as the accumulator of wealth, and Golu as its heir. Their relationship is not of the parent-child variety, but there is a genuine co-dependence there. I don't think it was a coincidence that Dev showed up at home just when Golu was due from school -- he was disturbed after his encounter with Sona and this is the first person he thought of coming to.

Dev being his new self, he doesn't want to betray how attached he actually is to this child, especially not to people who would use it to their advantage but I think he and Golu know that the attachment is there. And now, Vicky is getting an inkling as well. You might be right about him creating his own trading company (that would be a super-easy way to show him losing 500cr in a heartbeat), but I think he is much more likely to try and pull Dev back so he can do all the work. I think Golu will become a chip to play in that game.

But here is where I do think it will backfire. Taking away Golu will be taking away Dev's one source of emotional nourishment. If Vicky does this assuming Dev won't abandon his son, but Dev does, hiding his pain from the world, that leaves a ripe moment (story-wise) for Soha to enter his life. Vicky is forced to reckon with the fact that he alienated his son from Dev just as his true heir showed up on the scene. I think that would be really interesting

@Shaavi, Rekha, Payal: Very interesting discussions about how Soha's entry will affect Dev-Golu/Dev-Family's relationships. I am also curious to see how gender will play into this. Ishwari always defaulted to 'pota' when she talked about potential grandchildren, and GKB is definitely of the opinion that only men can be the scions of the house. It will be very interesting to see this issue come up as Dev will defnitely not see it in the same light. Ishwari's reaction when it comes to the issue of inheritance remains a bit fuzzy. She will definitely be over the moon at Dev's progeny, but will she stick to the idea that women are taken care of until marriage, and it is men who inherit wealth? Will Dev write everything off to Golu and walk away to be with his own family in the end?

Originally posted by: gmgi

Hi Asha I don't know if I can do justice to your question. But I will try.

Ishwari is a person with a definite understanding of the right and wrong. She believes herself to be a good person. And especially because of the position her son put her in she needed validation from her conscience. That is why she uses RR to spew the venom and doesn't control her when she wants the message to reach the other person. Because she is guilty of using RR she gives unwarranted freedom to her.

She knew Sona even before RR entered the picture and genuinely liked her as a person. So when Dev fell in love with her she didn't have any reasons to feel bad. But Sona's goodness fanned Ishwari's insecurity because basically Sona and Ishwari were of the same mold. They both gave importance to family and relationships and respected the elders and so on. Hence she started seeing Sona through RR's eyes. That was the only way she could validate her actions to her conscience. That is why the things Vicki and RR did has to come out. Ishwari will have no where to hide and will be forced to introspect.

Her blaming Sona is genuinely because that is what she believes. According to her a woman's identity is defined by the relationship she hold true. She accepts Sona's role as a daughter and a sister when she went with her parents after the slap incident. But Sona was also Dev's wife and Dixit DIL. It was Sona's duty to be true to these roles too. That is why she asked Sona to apologize. By leaving the house and Dev, Sona failed to fulfill her duty as a wife and DIL of the family and inadvertently broke her family.

Post leap the history is going to repeat itself with the same players but their equations are totally changed. Ishwari has to blame Sona and resist her as much as possible or else how else will she see what she did to her family by treating her son's wife as an outsider and listened to RR and how much a role she herself played in breaking her home?

The analyses and discussions on this thread are going quite well. I am particularly enjoying the analysis of the story and how the characters are shaping in the new terrain. Thank you everyone for keeping this critical yet productive.

Golu's role in the story has been at the back of my mind from Day 1. He is serving many purposes. He seems to be the reason Elena was chained to the Dixits. He is the recipient of the 'love' that Dev can/wants to/would allow himself to share. He will now potentially become the reason how/why Dixits or Dev are exposed to Soha and he is the only heir to Dev's fortunes (which as many of you know makes no sense to me. It's not Dev's fortune. It belongs to Ishwari, Dev, Neha, Nikki and Riya and if anyone should be the heir, it should be the kids of the sisters and Dev ((if he ends up having any kids - biological or otherwise). Never mind DQ. Do not strain your limited grey cells). So Soha wont be very popular with Vicky and RR.

However, the barren jhula and its latest occupant has left me confused. If Dev's Iife went in reverse and his room is back to grey, blue and black, what is that jhula doing in their courtyard - in plain sight and a rather loud reminder of Sonakshi? The evil and the not-so-evil people in Ishwari Niwas would both like that out of sight, won't they? Dev may have acted all cool about it and shown detachment either way but everyone over there has given up on any hopes of Sona coming back. The barren-ness of the jhula probably signifies the fact that Sonkashi could not bear children (in dixits' minds) and the infertility issue is what loaded the gun before the 5 crore trigger was pulled. What was RR doing sitting on that barren jhula? Was it a symbolic representation of how RR is now the queen thanks to Sona's infertility issues?

Originally posted by: Samanalyse

She will definitely be over the moon at Dev's progeny, but will she stick to the idea that women are taken care of until marriage, and it is men who inherit wealth? Will Dev write everything off to Golu and walk away to be with his own family in the end?

@Jade0001

@Sam it would never be accepted by the audience if they show Dev handing over his property to the tripathi Family.

Originally posted by: gmgi

Her blaming Sona is genuinely because that is what she believes. According to her a woman's identity is defined by the relationship she hold true. She accepts Sona's role as a daughter and a sister when she went with her parents after the slap incident. But Sona was also Dev's wife and Dixit DIL. It was Sona's duty to be true to these roles too. That is why she asked Sona to apologize. By leaving the house and Dev, Sona failed to fulfill her duty as a wife and DIL of the family and inadvertently broke her family.

@Rekha: That is precisely the point. Dev is a self-made man. Even if he hands everything over to Vicky, he now has the skills and contacts to build it back up with relatively little effort. From the beginning, Dev has maintained that money is not as important as relationships -- he built a fortune from scratch once and he can do it again. Plus, Sona is also doing very well now, so in the distant future when this comes up, I wouldn't consider it a high price to pay for getting his family off of his back. He already told Ishwari that he has completed his responsibility towards them. Plus, I would love to see Dev living happily on Sona's money to prove to her once and for all that the ebb and flow of money does not really matter to him; he considers it a tool, and as long as he has enough to live the way he wants, he doesn't mind where it comes from.

Originally posted by: Samanalyse

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