The story going forward?

The show is supposedly based on the short story "Lajwanti." As I wrote on another thread it is about Sunderlal searching for his wife who has been kidnapped during the partition. Both sides of the border, women have gone missing. Some are returned home through an exchange worked out by the missing women program. Sunderlal is the strongest voice this side of the border for the acceptance of the women who are returned. Some men accept their wives, some are unwilling and wonder why their wives did not kill themselves by putting honor before their lives, others like Sunderlal live in hope and expectation that their wives will one day return. Sunderlal regrets every beating and scolding he gave Lajo when she was his wife and swears he will treat her well when she comes back. One day, Lajo does return, he is surprised that she has put on weight and her skin has gotten lighter and clearer, she wears a cloth on her head like a Muslim woman. She had gotten skinny and her skin had darkened working in the fields when she was with him. He asks her who it was that took her, she answers "Jumma", he asks if the man beat her, she says "no" but that scared her more than all of her husband's beatings. She wants to cry and tell him all and wash away her sins through her tears but Sunderlal does not want to hear any of it. He addresses her as "Devi" and truly treats her better than before. But the poor girl would rather have the fights and the light hearted banter that had marked their marriage than this discomfiting reverence he now has for her. In her acceptance, she senses an unacceptance. That sadly is the tale of Lajwanti. Here is the short story if you would like to read it yourself http://www.sikh-history.com/literature/stories/lajwanti.html

The short story is truly heartbreaking and I wonder if the story writers of this show will adhere to it religiously. The words of Lajo overheard by Sunderlal when he was baraatiji in her village that resounds in Sunderlal's ears "Sita will no longer prove her purity by giving an Agni pariksha", does that forebode what will happen to Lajo in the show? Will she be kidnapped by evil men only perhaps to be saved by that Muslim friend of Sunder from the first episode? Maybe in the show, her kidnapper will be her savior and not tamper with her honor? But she will be put to the test anyway when she is returned to Sunderlal?

What a poignant tale of women on both sides of the border! How sad that women and children have to pay such a heavy price whenever and wherever there is war and strife.

i really hope that the story is modified a bit

Chandini, I hope that the story is modified too. Poor girl. Today's epi with Sunderlal saving Sarfaroz might be a precursor to Sarfaroz saving Lajo even though everyone thinks he has kidnapped her.

thnk u so mych for this post
finally i understood the whole plot

Originally posted by: soapwatcher1

Chandini, I hope that the story is modified too. Poor girl. Today's epi with Sunderlal saving Sarfaroz might be a precursor to Sarfaroz saving Lajo even though everyone thinks he has kidnapped her.

yes that may be the case
but i dont want sundar to misunderstand sarfaraz

@soapwatcher1-I think Lajjo will be kidnapped,but Sunderlal will not be as heartless as the guy in the story and I agree that the 'Agni Pariksha"dialogue will come into play then.
There is a v.good Raj Kapoor movie "Challia"on this subject which has a v.positive message and then there's "Khamosh Pani" which is v.sad and depressing

The story has definitely modified. Sundar definitely is not like story but let see when she disappears what changes come in him.

Originally posted by: Ethereal.Surbhi

thnk u so mych for this post
finally i understood the whole plot

You are welcome :) but the story writers might change the entire plot, in fact I'm sure they will.

Originally posted by: .chandni.

yes that may be the case
but i dont want sundar to misunderstand sarfaraz

Sunder, I'm sure, won't know where his wife is so he won't know who took her or is keeping her safe.

Originally posted by: mai1moono

@soapwatcher1-I think Lajjo will be kidnapped,but Sunderlal will not be as heartless as the guy in the story and I agree that the 'Agni Pariksha"dialogue will come into play then.
There is a v.good Raj Kapoor movie "Challia"on this subject which has a v.positive message and then there's "Khamosh Pani" which is v.sad and depressing

You are right, I don't think Sunder in the show will be as heartless as Sunder in the short story. I have not seen those movies. Will check them out, thanks for the reco.