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@red. Let us get a little into specifics, please. Just what does he have to do, over and above what he is already doing, to prove himself? Stage a genuine hunger strike in a tambu opposite the Karanjkar residence? So many of us keep repeating this mantra without giving any specific idea of WHAT he has to do to 'prove himself'. It is neat and facile, but it serves no purpose.
As for Archana, she made it clearer than ever today that she does NOT want him to prove himself. She wants him to fail, and pretty soon she might start thinking up ways to ensure this.
The fact is that when she rashly issued that challenge, she badly underestimated Arjun's guts and his determination. She is beginning to realise this now. That is why she is now trying to reassure herself by asserting to Purvi, every chance she gets, that Arjun is going to flunk the test as he is a softie and cannot take the stress of a garage job and chawl life. It is like whistling in the dark to keep your spirits up.
So, Archana believes that Arjun will fail because she wants him to fail. That would suit her much better, otherwise, as she tells Sulochana after that ghastly scene when she slapped and berated Purvi, what face would she show to Manav and Ovi?
But then what of Purvi? Archana - since she can, by definition, do no wrong - does not want to feel guilty about the suffering this will cause Purvi. What then is the way out? Why, just declare that Purvi is not in love with Arjun, she simply 'thinks' that she is in love with him! It is like what Humpty Dumpty says in Alice in Wonderland, " A word means what I say it means, neither more nor less".
Finally, as for Purvi leaving home and going to live with Arjun (presumably after marriage, seeing how sanskaari she is), today it was Archana who asked her to go and live with Arjun for char din, and she would see for herself that he was not a sahi ladka! That was when I began to think that she had lost it. She has a char din fixation, and she seems well on the way to becoming as obsessed with Arjun as Ovi, of course for different reasons.
The boy cheeked her in style today, pointing out that she could control Purvi's actions but not her emotions, and could decide whom Purvi would marry but not whom she would love. I was standing up and cheering him and his little accounts notebook!
Shyamala B.Cowsik
As for Archana, she made it clearer than ever today that she does NOT want him to prove himself. She wants him to fail, and pretty soon she might start thinking up ways to ensure this.
The fact is that when she rashly issued that challenge, she badly underestimated Arjun's guts and his determination. She is beginning to realise this now. That is why she is now trying to reassure herself by asserting to Purvi, every chance she gets, that Arjun is going to flunk the test as he is a softie and cannot take the stress of a garage job and chawl life. It is like whistling in the dark to keep your spirits up.
So, Archana believes that Arjun will fail because she wants him to fail. That would suit her much better, otherwise, as she tells Sulochana after that ghastly scene when she slapped and berated Purvi, what face would she show to Manav and Ovi?
But then what of Purvi? Archana - since she can, by definition, do no wrong - does not want to feel guilty about the suffering this will cause Purvi. What then is the way out? Why, just declare that Purvi is not in love with Arjun, she simply 'thinks' that she is in love with him! It is like what Humpty Dumpty says in Alice in Wonderland, " A word means what I say it means, neither more nor less".
Finally, as for Purvi leaving home and going to live with Arjun (presumably after marriage, seeing how sanskaari she is), today it was Archana who asked her to go and live with Arjun for char din, and she would see for herself that he was not a sahi ladka! That was when I began to think that she had lost it. She has a char din fixation, and she seems well on the way to becoming as obsessed with Arjun as Ovi, of course for different reasons.
The boy cheeked her in style today, pointing out that she could control Purvi's actions but not her emotions, and could decide whom Purvi would marry but not whom she would love. I was standing up and cheering him and his little accounts notebook!
Shyamala B.Cowsik
I agree with the topic maker too.
Arjun and Purvi's circumstances are different. Arjun has his dad on his side so he doesnt have to fear or worry about anything. on the other hand, Purvi has a lot to fear and loose. her mother's family that she has been praying for can be broken because of her (there is nothing that is not broken already from our point of view, but this is purvi's point of view i am talking about :)..) anyways even if one puts oneself in archana's position, for her arjun is the guy who cheated her one daughter so no mother would want to marry him off to another. he has to prove himself.. if she leaves home like arjun did and went to leave with him, it is archana who will suffer the most and thats the last thing her ONLY good kid will do to her.. she may love arjun unconditionally but she cant do that for her mother doesnt matter if this is an adopted child or not.. they relation is and will always be of real mom and daughter.i was hoping Teju would come around and tell archana the history of arjun and ovi and explain to her that purvi is his first love. but i dont have any hopes on that considering that teju was actually hoping archana to tell purvi to stay away as she promised savita.i dont want to blame teju for her behaviour because it is all savita's doing and the facts in front of her doesnt help the situation either.
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