I really enjoyed reading everyone's reviews but as I'm still struggling with the quote feature, I'll just address people individually.
@Zoya_naziya- I loved your inset-outset take. I always thought of it as an undercurrent and waves.
That his revenge plan was an undercurrent to the waves he was making in their everyday life :)
@AreYaar- You're absolutely right about him cloaking some aspects. He lost grips with reality, lost track of when he was being himself and which parts he faked. And even though he wanted her to believe it was all fake, she (like us) could tell that wasn't true.
There is one particular scene that comes to mind- When MB is in her maikaa, RK wakes up and asks Bittuji to tone down as Biwi is asleep.
It's a minor detail but I found it touching (in the light of his revelation) because you can't fake concern like that. When you care about someone/ love them, it comes intrinsically to you.
My trust issues therefore are progressively less about the genuineness of his feelings and more about what he's about to do with them.
Kahin aisa na ho ki to feed his ego, he decides to reject those feelings and plays it in reverse this time. Pretending not to love her when he does. (Then again, isn't this what he has been doing since the very morning after unwedding when he kept calling for Biwi and chai?)
So I'm not sure if his current disposition is a step after him overcoming his ego or whether there is a chance of it striking yet again.
Therein lies my paranoia :)
Regarding the mother/family angle, here is what I have to say and please bear with the slight generalization-
I believe that it is the law of nature for a mother to want her perceived best for her child and for that child to reject the mother's opinion/advice time and again.
Why?
A mother's advice comes from knowledge of the world and it's ways as well as experience. Experience gained from taking on the world and making mistakes.
So even though a mother doesn't want her child to repeat the mistakes she made and the child knows (deep down) that the mother is right, he/she will have to set forth to make their own mistakes.
And therein lies the greatness of a mother- to provide love and support anyway. (And if she is anything like mine, she won't hesitate to throw in an 'I told you so'!)
And a person can only truly appreciate this dichotomy when they have a child of their own and so the circle of life goes on.
And in this context, I'd like to quote @leelaa9 who put it perfectly-
Both Madhu and RK - and even Trishna - listen to their mothers' advice on a future course of action only when they themselves agree with what they are being told.
Otherwise, they simply ignore or circumvent it.
It's not for no reason that people say, 'The world would be a better place if everyone listened to their mother'
But my personal opinion is that the species of humans is incapable of this :)
Edited by thetelleroftale - 12 years ago
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