Today's Rishbala scenes emphasized yet again that for RK and Madhu, their focus is each other, with their families as a peripheral affection, however dearly held.
Even when they are not consciously estranged from their families, they still manage to exclude them completely from their attention and concern when it's something extremely important - positive or negative - vis-a-vis each other.
Radha and Bittuji at least have a clear understanding of this, and perhaps even Trishna knows this. But Padmini has never seemed to realize the gulf between Madhu's words and the inclination of her actual unwavering reflex in thoughts and subsequent actions.
From the moment she arrived, Madhu spared only a glance at her mother to notice Padmini's presence. Other than that, her attention was wholly focussed on RK, first in expectation of losing this person she loved most, and then in the joy of not losing him. There was no thought of anything beyond RK, their relationship and their happiness. Her mother was present there, but might as well have been absent.
In less emotionally high or low moments, Madhu may consider people she cares about and strangers, their feelings, their wellbeing. But when her emotions are at the greatest joy or lowest despair, only RK can arouse that in her, and he is then at the centre of her thoughts so absolutely that those on the periphery get pushed almost entirely out of mind.
In this episode, Radha's and Bittuji's choosing to make no overture to Padmini was both sensible and prudent.
If she were to go into alt and create another scene, it would ruin the occasion.
And Padmini's lack of active participation had no reducing effect on Madhu's happiness.
So there was no point to risking Padmini going from silent bystander to possibly screaming banshee.
If you're not sure that someone's reaction would be pleasant, then don't induce a reaction, especially with unhelpful witnesses.
It's rather a different matter that RK counted on his own ability to handle the situation, and did what his mother and Bittuji had caution enough not to, and what was clearly nowhere in his wife's thoughts.
He made his mother-in-law an active participant in the occasion by the simple stratagem of addressing her and lightly requesting an appropriate reaction.
The only relief is that he may be counted on to handle in whatever way either Padmini's soapbox grandstanding or the graciousness that may hopefully be her reaction to preserve her own relationship with her daughter.
Padmini has recently demonstrated a magnificent ability to delude herself that she could prevail upon her daughter in any matter, and currently as pertaining to RK. Hopefully that misconception has been at least temporarily dispelled enough for her to realize who Madhu would become estranged from out of mother and husband if Padmini actually tries for a serious showdown beyond grandstanding.
So as much to not lose her daughter as for her daughter's happiness, Padmini may accept the couple's re-established relationship with warmth. Hope so, since it may make her scenes perhaps endurable or even pleasant. But not going to rely on lasting sense from her since this has been Padmini's second trip into idiotic, and both times Madhu was in a crisis but would have been less fired up into folly she could not hold course for, if not for Padmini's egoistic goading.
The Sikky-Dipali interaction and dialogues were enjoyable, second only to RK and Madhu barely keeping their romance a bit in check with the priest a few feet away.😆😳
Managed to mute volume and see not even a minute in total of the non-Rishbala scenes in this episode, despite the constant interruption of the wedding scene.😊 But not sure it'll be worth similarly enduring the first telecast for the Monday episode with near-certainty of continued interruptions.
Edited by leelaa9 - 12 years ago
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