Originally posted by: inlieu
By doing this she will indeed be the reason for the failure of this marriage too. It won't last long at this rate or even if it does, it will just be a legal/social one, with none of the emotions and trust spouses need to share. This time she can't blame Ashok.
I am not going to even talk about HS' role as a husband because she clearly didn't give it much thought either. If indeed he is a distraction as you said, then there really is nothing to be done. Minnie seemed to have given up on her today. HS' had at one point decided not to make the first move in this relationship but the proposal and the rush just really drowned out every little voice of caution.
It's sad that she seems to have turned into the very woman HS had warned Minnie and her about early on, those who are dealt a blow yet are unable to move on and take lessons from life.
This is the thought that has finally solidified for me in this last stretch as well.....much as we want this to be a journey of empowerment and rising above your own failings, learning from life and experiences......there very much exist such people who cannot rise above their fundamental nature and will repeat the same mistakes over and over again. They get stuck in a vicious cycle that they cannot come out of....maybe they lack the ability to understand what life was trying to teach them....maybe they actually took the wrong lesson from their experience and in a second attempt are also misapplying those lessons.
Point is....there was a reason that Babita lived through what she did for 17 years.....it wasn't just about how Ashok neglected her and ultimately cheated on her.....it was also about the fact that she never really understood the nuances of handling multiple relationships.....what she thought was her "handling" it actually was still her naivete and frankly stupidity as well.....what also comes across is the fact that her understanding of life is limited to labels on a surface level.....pati aisa hota hai, pati yeh karta hai, pati ke liye yeh karte hain.....this is what she thinks "samajhdaari" is.....I find it tragic that she still only thinks about PATI rather than thinking about the INSAAN in front of her.....kabhi yeh bhi soch lo ki HS aisa hai, woh aisa sochta hoga, KYUN sochta hoga, kya feel karta hoga.....yeh sab toh barely occur kiya Babita ko.
To me the main tragedy lies in the fact that she ultimately couldn't comprehend people and relationships for their individual nature.....she just summed them up as labels to interact with.....HS became PATI....so it was all just about the label of that relationship rather than two individuals connecting with each other as people before the labels.....and her own flesh and blood Mini...woh BETI hai....beti ke liye yeh sab karo, beti ko yeh sab karna chahiye....yeh nahin socha ki as an INSAAN how to interact and connect with Mini.
The tragedies and failed experiences in Babita's life have permanently damaged her it seems. I don't know if HS was the kind of personality who could have helped her understand relationships....whatever he tried to explain to her, she either didn't comprehend or she twisted it into something else.....baaki he didn't push beyond a point because of fear of losing her.....which just makes me again think tragically enough that they weren't really suited to each other. He may have tried to build a life with her but I don't think he also realized the extent of irreversible damage in Babita.....he didn't fully understand how some things are permanently twisted inside her and all the love in the world also won't undo those knots.
It's a tragedy, but at the end of the day, I thought yesterday's scene was interesting on a psychological level.....it makes you think about the fact that people can be twisted in many ways.....what drives them is a mystery many times.....we talk to so many people on a daily basis....upar se koi kuch bolta hai and andar hi andar, there is so much they are thinking on their own for so long that we never realize....until it gets blurted out one day.....like Babita did in this scene by out of the blue blurting out her petty satisfaction in seeing Ashok fail with Meeta while she had HS and Mini......this showed what Babita had been keeping inside her for so long that nobody else realized.
Edited by AreYaar - 5 years ago