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Between all this Bijoy-Saurabh talk, I think it was Ronita who ultimately got it right when she said Sona's happiness is the mudda of the conflict. Smart girl. In the end, both Bijoy and Saurabh are shouting at the top of their lungs over someone who is not there to speak for herself, and they are using her as a cover for problems that run much deeper.
If Saurabh has lingering issues with the way Bijoy treats him, then he needs to address them directly and not through Sona's problems. Bijoy, on the other hand, is being given exactly the information that would make him angrier and more anti-Dev/Dixits. Everybody in his family is getting sucked into the Dixit "trap" according to him, but nobody is telling him why. Nobody is telling him how happy Sona has been with Dev, how freely they have been moving between families, or how Dev stood up for Asha when Mami tried to enforce the "rules." So he is taking it upon himself to be the last bastion for Sona -- even if all her other defenses fail, I won't be hoodwinked. I used to say this about Ishwari all the time, that she is the way she is and expecting her to change may not be realistic -- so how do you work around it? I feel the same way about Bijoy now. He is angry, stubborn, and impulsive, fine. He is also your father and husband, so how do you work around it?
I am just loving how the tables have turned in S2, and the Boses are learning that it's easy to preach honesty, transparency, and family solidarity when things are "perfect, just perfect," but it becomes harder and harder when the happiness of the family begins to go in multiple directions. This is precisely what happened with the Dixits in S1. All the disfunctional elements of their family, which they had found ways to avoid, came to the fore when Dev strayed from their common vision for the household by falling in love with, and wanting to marry, Sona. Without consensus, Dev made a new vision, and because he did it with the family's best interests as a top priority, he thought everyone would be okay with it. Of course, as we all saw, it turned out to be much more complicated than that.
When your happiness gives someone you love so much pain, it becomes easier to hide the truth than to stand up for it. It's what Dev went through in S1, and what Sona is facing now. She has internalised Bijoy's disapproval to such an extent that he doesn't even need to be there for her to push Dev away, despite her feelings and her natural urge to help and protect him. Bijoy's physical presence and pull only magnified this resistance. In all this, the scenes at the hospital are an important foreshadowing, I think. Sona was able to put down her gauntlet and apologise to Dev only when Bijoy gave him a clean chit; Bijoy forged a grudging truce with Dev because Dev listened to him and gave him an safe space to vent his pain and worry. That validation brought him to a point where he was willing to let Dev stay in their house permanently with Sona and Soha. Lack of that validation from his own family has him back to the stage where he wants to remove Dev from Sona's life at any cost. As problems go, Dev is only the visible tip of a very large, very deep Bose-iceberg.
So, as much as Dev needs Sona's help with the Khatri situation, because she is able to remain calm while he loses his temper, I think Sona needs Dev's help with Bijoy because he is able to think on his feet while Bijoy's questions make Sona tongue-tied and silent, for fear of not having the "perfect" answer. She can't bring herself to lie outright, but the truth would make her fall in Bijoy's eyes, which is equally unthinkable to Sona. It echoes the way that Dev jumped in when Soha refused to call him papa right away, and Sona was in a similar conundrum. If they are heading in this general direction, where both of them hold each other up where they are weakest, then this will be one happy viewer!
P.S: Dr. Bose, thanks for reading my post yesterday and helping out with the Golu situation! There is much work to be done, especially since you are the one most answerable to Golu's question, "is it my fault that Soha hasn't been around for all these years?" but yesterday's intervention was a very promising start!
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