Hi All! Hope you're doing well!!! 🤗
Now, although I have my gripes and grapes with this story line, there is one aspect of this all that I truly have to give major props to the CVs for (in a positive way); I don't know if they'll follow through with this, but nonetheless it is a beautiful thought and idea and I think it deserves a shout out.
Biologically, culturally and conventionally we're raised with two parents. One mother. One father. That is the reality many of us see around us, and on screen. There are so many exceptions to this though, that often conflict us as human beings and as individuals facing this loss.
That is Dhruv's reality.
It does not matter that Rudra loves him.
It does not matter that Maithili loves him.
It does not matter that he as a family surrounding him.
He still wants a mother.
Is that greed? Is it envy? Is it naive? Is it shortsighted? It could be, but I would simply call it childhood longing. As an innocent child sometimes there is a desire to want something- even when we have never experienced it. Dhruv lost Paro, before he was able to actually hold any memories of her. He does not have a conscious connection of the limitless love Paro had for her son. He can't fathom how much his mother loved him.
He is only imagining how is mother would have loved him- and in reality I think even his imagination would fall short- and in that imagination he has associated the face of a women who looks like his mother to account for a mother's love. That is not only utterly heartbreaking, but also a sad notion.
Is it nice to have two parents who love you? (Biological or not is irrelevant) but it is not necessary. It is not needed, it will not necessarily make you a better, happier or more whole person.
Myrah saying, "I don't have to be your mom in order to love you" is so so so true. It speaks not only strongly about adoptive and step parents that love their children, but also of mentors and role models, aunts and uncles who have helped raised the children in their lives like their own- who are no less than parents.
Parents- if one has a right ones- are the pinnacle of love, learning and happiness in one's life. But we shouldn't limit our understanding of this parental love to "mom" "dad"; Myrah's message was beautiful and subtle enough to explain to a young child that only has a limited understanding of the complex dynamics of life, relationships and love in general.
Truly enjoyed her scene with him, and thought the message was much more that it seemed.