There are currently two horrible events unfolding in Navya simultaneously. Both relate to the younger Bajpai generation - Anant and Nimisha - both of whom are rebels in their own way - challenging and breaking the myriad suffocating rules that bind every member of the Bajpai family in the name of tradition and culture.
I want to title the part that relates to Nimisha 'Bajpaion ke ghar kabhi bitiya na kijo'
If you are a daughter in the Bajpai household, you will be restricted to the house, your only future in life will be to get married, manage a kitchen, keep house and have children, you will only be allowed to study till class 12, you will be engaged to be married without any prior information or consent to a boy chosen by your family. If this boy pressurises you to talk to him on the phone, meet him, dress up in a certain manner, attend parties with him and kiss him and you comply and his family finds out and blames you, no one in the Bajpai family will believe you, no one will even hear your side of the story, they will lock you up in a room and take away your phone!
Unbelievable isnt it?
Shouldn't a parent at least hear out their child and her version of the story? Shouldnt they have understood and known that Nimisha would not be able to drag Nikhil to a party wearing western clothes. Shouldnt they have known that Nimisha who has never interacted with men outside the family would not be able to take the initiative to call NIkhil regularly and chat with him or force him to meet her? I mean in which world does a family believe that a sheltered girl who barely steps out of her home would be able to force a guy to do such things!!
Or is Nimisha's fault that she succumbed to this pressure and agreed to do all this with her fiance chosen for her by her family? So here the double standards become fairly stark. NImisha is a 'modern' girl and a bad girl because she agreed to all this whereas Nikhil who not only participated in all of this with her equally but was actually responsible for initiating these acts and persuading Nimisha is to be considered blameless. So a man is free to do what he wants but if a girl does the same then she is not worthy of marriage?
Generally the Bs dont bow down before anyone, you cant say anything to them. When Deepu was accusing Anant of chasing and harassing Navya, the Bs attacked the Ms. This was despite the fact that Anant had accepted the accusation leveled at him but today, nobody defended Nimisha. It was as if what she had done was especially shameful and indefensible. So the same thing that happened in Kanpur was repeated once again - a girl and boy went out together but when the parents came to know, the girl was blamed and the guy was defended.
Nimisha has been locked in a room and her phone taken away from her. The engagement has been broken and she now has to deal with the stigma of it. I wonder what other horrors await her. Generally when the world cheats and betrays you, you run to your family for comfort and support. But a Bajpai daughter's greatest source of fear is likely to be her own family !
Anant's accident
On the other had, our darling Anant has had a terrible accident and has lain on the road, hurt, bleeding and unattended for nearly 5-6 hours. Poor Navya is hysterically looking for him. I wonder why she didnt go his office as soon as she heard the news. Maybe she kept waiting for him at home, thinking that he will turn up. In such situations, it is difficult to decide what to do especially when the other person is not contactable on the phone. Finally she did go to his office and was walking down the same road but it seems from the precap that she just misses him, as an ambulance called by a good samaritan comes and takes him away.
The parts where Navya was lovingly making plans to make up her argument with Anant while he lay bleeding and unconscious were very poignant as intended by the CVs. SSf emoted her anxiety and fear very well.
Navya at the root cause of all problems in the B-world
In a world, where men and women's spaces are strictly segregated and their interactions possible only within the bounds of familial or marital relationships, a DIL who goes to meet a 'paraya mard' and that too the exalted to be son-in law of the family albeit in a public place is too forward and modern and completely unacceptable. And offering sherbet to your fiance in front of your entire family and his, is a heinous crime!!!
I dread what the Bs will do to poor Navya when she turns up at their doorstep, terrified and tired, still looking for her beloved Anant!
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