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The revelation yesterday was not just of the supposedly wealthy familial connections of the Officer.
We find out Uncle Simpleton who has a low rank in the BSD is, in fact, a wealthy man or, at least, husband to a wealthy woman.
We also came the knowledge that the lady married to Uncle Simpleton uncle is not just the Officer's Mohini chachi but also Mohini maasi.
We were told by the writers that the story was inspired by Othello. Are they laying the background to reveal how their version of Othello played out around 15 years ago in the sand dunes of Rajasthan? They do have the right map to lead them to such a story.
Two sisters married to two brothers. Years and a son after her marriage, the sister married to the older brother supposedly elopes and seeks the protection of The Antagonist, leaving behind a bitter and angry crippled husband and scarred son. Was the husband of this sister always bitter and angry? What is the story behind his limp? What caused her to elope? Did the sister married to the younger brother have a role to play in her elopement? What caused the elder brother to cut off all ties at home? Only the fact that his wife had eloped?
One can understand why the sister married to the younger brother would not want the only of son of the elder brother to return to the ancestral house. The portion of her sons' shares to the property would certainly be at risk. But, why does she favour one son over the other? It is because he is Simpleton Jr.?
Now, the sister married to the younger brother is a domineering woman. She could easily have orchestrated it as to cause the "insecure?" elder brother to doubt his wife's fidelity and trigger an act of violence. Fearing for her life, the wife fled to the protection of her admirer. For a few days, I had toyed with the possibility that (assuming that The Antagonist's Wife is the Officer's mother) she had lost her memory and the conniving Antagonist, who found her had told her that she was his mother. But now, it appears that she deliberately sought The Antagonist out for protection.
Several questions and possibilities raised. I hope that the show answers them. Or, as is wont with Indian television, will the winds of TRPs and time sweep away the sand dunes and the memory of the writers?
Or are they looking at Othello playing out in the context of the Officer and the Witness? If yes, why such an elaborate dark backstory for the parents at the beginning of the show with strong suggestions of the possibility that the wife of The Antagonist is the mother of the Officer? They just had to introduce the backstory that the Officer's mother had eloped resulting in the dark and brooding and the women-cannot-be-trusted Officer and leave the mother's entry for when TRPs inevitably required it.
We find out Uncle Simpleton who has a low rank in the BSD is, in fact, a wealthy man or, at least, husband to a wealthy woman.
We also came the knowledge that the lady married to Uncle Simpleton uncle is not just the Officer's Mohini chachi but also Mohini maasi.
We were told by the writers that the story was inspired by Othello. Are they laying the background to reveal how their version of Othello played out around 15 years ago in the sand dunes of Rajasthan? They do have the right map to lead them to such a story.
Two sisters married to two brothers. Years and a son after her marriage, the sister married to the older brother supposedly elopes and seeks the protection of The Antagonist, leaving behind a bitter and angry crippled husband and scarred son. Was the husband of this sister always bitter and angry? What is the story behind his limp? What caused her to elope? Did the sister married to the younger brother have a role to play in her elopement? What caused the elder brother to cut off all ties at home? Only the fact that his wife had eloped?
One can understand why the sister married to the younger brother would not want the only of son of the elder brother to return to the ancestral house. The portion of her sons' shares to the property would certainly be at risk. But, why does she favour one son over the other? It is because he is Simpleton Jr.?
Now, the sister married to the younger brother is a domineering woman. She could easily have orchestrated it as to cause the "insecure?" elder brother to doubt his wife's fidelity and trigger an act of violence. Fearing for her life, the wife fled to the protection of her admirer. For a few days, I had toyed with the possibility that (assuming that The Antagonist's Wife is the Officer's mother) she had lost her memory and the conniving Antagonist, who found her had told her that she was his mother. But now, it appears that she deliberately sought The Antagonist out for protection.
Several questions and possibilities raised. I hope that the show answers them. Or, as is wont with Indian television, will the winds of TRPs and time sweep away the sand dunes and the memory of the writers?
Or are they looking at Othello playing out in the context of the Officer and the Witness? If yes, why such an elaborate dark backstory for the parents at the beginning of the show with strong suggestions of the possibility that the wife of The Antagonist is the mother of the Officer? They just had to introduce the backstory that the Officer's mother had eloped resulting in the dark and brooding and the women-cannot-be-trusted Officer and leave the mother's entry for when TRPs inevitably required it.
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