Originally posted by: sashashyam
Dear Kools,
I agree with you completely on this issue. As I had noted on another thread of yours, I also found it interesting that it is Savita who was able to talk Ovi around and get her to keep the baby, not Archana, who seems ready to go along with her getting rid of it. It is of a piece with Archana apparently not keeping any track of her expectant daughter, despite all the talk about complications. I am pro-choice in general, but I do not like a baby being disposed of like unwanted garbage, and I think very poorly of both Arjun and Archana for taking such a wishy washy stand on this,
The substance of your post apart, what struck me as surreal in today's episode was Manav's (non) response to the doctor's query as to what he had done to follow up on his strong recommendation to Manav, fully TWO MONTHS back, that he should immediately contact Dr. Onir Dutt and have him examine and treat Ovi.
Manav hems and haws, and answers, hesitantly and MOST unconvincingly, that he had tried to get hold of Dr.Onir but had not been able to do so, and so presumed that he was out of the country.
Now this would have been incredible at any time, and is utter nonsense in today's wired world. As Dr.Onir has presumably not pushed off to Mars or Jupiter, but only to England, he should have been contactable at some phone number or the other, and that could have been obtained from his clinic.
But Manav, who us such a competent and successful international businessman that he had won TEN Indian awards in a row even when he was still in Canada, could not run down a doctor, finding whom is apparently a matter of life and death for his daughter and her baby. And this when Dr.Onir has been back in Kolkata for 2 weeks now.
What does one make of this? Manav not only fails miserably in a task that would be a piece of cake for a reasonably competent secretary, not to speak of the boss man himself, but it does not even occur to him that he should get back to the doctor, tell him about his failure to locate Dr. Onir, and ask him what they should do next. Instead, he is happily attending award functions, driving his wife to the jail daily, and attending jagratas.
He has wasted two precious months and he does not even seem to understand where he has failed! And as for Archana,she does not even seem to have heard of the need to get hold of Dr.Onir.. So much for marital communicativeness in Pavitra Rishta No.1!
This said, and though I repeat myself here, I do feel that it is very foolish of Ovi to carry on as she is doing. Arjun is obviously hung up on his baby* and delighted at the prospect of having it is his life. Given this,if Ovi wanted him to love her eventually, the obvious way for her would have been to play up the baby for all it was worth and thus bring him daily closer to it and her. I would have thought that tactic would have been clear to any female, for all women, even the least intelligent, have some native shrewdness in such matters.
But no, Ovi must carry on like Elizabeth Taylor in Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf. I am by now convinced that the CVs want to bump her off pretty soon, whence this negative build up about her not caring a hoot about her baby.This might also be intended to lessen the negative impact of Purvi becoming an unwed mother (now of course apparently properly wed, with dazzling celerity, and to such a very eligible man at that. If she had stayed on in the chawl, things would have been very different) , and to make Ovi's eventual death and the subsequent Arjun-Purvi reunion palatable to even the conservative part of the viewership.
What they are then proposing to do with this Dr.Onir is an open question. As he appears to be a benefactor of womankind, I hope he is not summarily despatched as well!
Lastly, I fail to understand the oft repeated view that Archana, Manav and DK should have got the Arjun-Ovi marriage (compered by Purvi) annulled. Last I heard, a marriage contracted by consenting adults cannot be annulled by their parents. And while the habit of placing the ages of Arjun, Ovi and Purvi at strangely low figures persists, even those using 22, 18, and 19 for them would have to concede that all three are adults.
Moreover, our Archana Jr. would never have agreed to it, as it would have ruined her trumping Archana Sr.'s record in the tyaag stakes. And what Purvi did not agree to, Arjun would not have agreed to either, for the puppet has to dance to the puppeteer's tune.Where does that leave the annulment option?
It is another matter that to my mind, Arjun should, on that hilltop, have told Purvi to get as wet as she wanted to, and should have departed hotfoot for Canada and freedom from these two pestilential women. Instead, the way things look, the poor boy (yes, I am beginning to feel sorry for him all over again!) is heading for a breakdown himself, unless he is hit and mowed over by a truck as he is once again dodging the Kolkata traffic, this time chasing Purvi's bus/tram.😉
Shyamala
*NB: It is, thankfully, clear by now that it IS Arjun's baby that Ovi is expecting. It was bad enough for Purvi to prove me totally wrong in stoutly defending her character. I was thus greatly dismayed at the insinuations by some that Ovi's baby was not Arjun's at all, and I had said so in my last post in this forum..
Anupamaa
