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Dear Janhvi,
Do you remember that medieval fad, of trying to figure out how many angels could dance on the head of a pin? It was a serious theological debate in those days and even much later; Dumas has Aramis refer to it in Twenty Years Later. Well, what we are all doing with PR, as regards the minutest details of actions, motives, probabilites, is something similar.
Besides this, we are always clinging to some one character, hoping against hope that he/she comes out looking good, or at least passable . The latest candidate for this exercise is Teju. Almost invariably, we are badly let down by what actually happens. I had hopes of Teju turning up trumps as well, but now I feel it will drag on. 18 years of relentless conditioning of her mind by Savita is not going to be overcome by 3 months of love and kindness from Archana, Sulochana and Purvi.
This is where it was extremely important for Archana to handle the inevitable revelation, of her being the twins' aai, on her own territory, at a time and in a manner of her choosing. Yesterday, she should have taken the two to Sulochana's place, which is where Teju would have gone in any case, sat them down, and explained the whole to them in a credible and convincing way. Instead, she fights on the enemy's territory - the worst of all options - and also seems to have had no plan of action at all. The result was a foregone conclusion.
Things will get only worse all round, and not just with Teju, when the Arjun-Purvi link up is exposed one way or another. We will all then expect Arjun to put up a stout defence of Purvi, and he will.
But it will not help Purvi at all, for the standard comment will be that she is a golddigger like her mother, and that she has bewitched Arjun and led him astray - "uspe kaala jadoo kar diya, hai hamara bechara Arjun beta!" And the more he protests that it was he who took the initiative and it was no fault of Purvi's, the more this argument will be bandied about.
Archana's pathetic mishandling of yesterday's encounter is going to queer the pitch for Arjun-Purvi in more ways than one.
Shyamala
Do you remember that medieval fad, of trying to figure out how many angels could dance on the head of a pin? It was a serious theological debate in those days and even much later; Dumas has Aramis refer to it in Twenty Years Later. Well, what we are all doing with PR, as regards the minutest details of actions, motives, probabilites, is something similar.
Besides this, we are always clinging to some one character, hoping against hope that he/she comes out looking good, or at least passable . The latest candidate for this exercise is Teju. Almost invariably, we are badly let down by what actually happens. I had hopes of Teju turning up trumps as well, but now I feel it will drag on. 18 years of relentless conditioning of her mind by Savita is not going to be overcome by 3 months of love and kindness from Archana, Sulochana and Purvi.
This is where it was extremely important for Archana to handle the inevitable revelation, of her being the twins' aai, on her own territory, at a time and in a manner of her choosing. Yesterday, she should have taken the two to Sulochana's place, which is where Teju would have gone in any case, sat them down, and explained the whole to them in a credible and convincing way. Instead, she fights on the enemy's territory - the worst of all options - and also seems to have had no plan of action at all. The result was a foregone conclusion.
Things will get only worse all round, and not just with Teju, when the Arjun-Purvi link up is exposed one way or another. We will all then expect Arjun to put up a stout defence of Purvi, and he will.
But it will not help Purvi at all, for the standard comment will be that she is a golddigger like her mother, and that she has bewitched Arjun and led him astray - "uspe kaala jadoo kar diya, hai hamara bechara Arjun beta!" And the more he protests that it was he who took the initiative and it was no fault of Purvi's, the more this argument will be bandied about.
Archana's pathetic mishandling of yesterday's encounter is going to queer the pitch for Arjun-Purvi in more ways than one.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Abhi, you are too kind, at least in regards to me.😊
Bee, in answer to one of your posts (I have yet to learn the easy way to copy paste multiple posts from my phone to respond to all of them on one post like you do so efficiently!), I would prefer Purvi to walk away from Arjun with head held high and dignity intact given the present impasse with him, unfortunately that is not how the CVs will play it! 😔Shyamala, a PhD thesis and whatever else may come after😃, we have become so attuned to seeing nuances and catching hidden meanings, when perhaps none are intended or exist, that we infuse life and feeling into these characters so much so that they seem like every day friends or acquaintances whose sorry lives we see unfolding before us and feel an urgent need to rectify their mistakes before it is too late to turn back the clock. Alas, the clock and the control is in the hands of Ekta Mata and all our anguished entreaties and fervent pleas continue to fall on deaf ears until her Majesty so pleases to change the tides in our favor.
