Posted:
Ashish beating up the guy who discards his live-in partner for his wife - was a superbly enacted sequence of psychological projection. This is a defense mechanism that Ashish is employing in order to cope with his own guilt at having betrayed Asha and Avni.
Ashish has realized that he can never tell his mother that he cannot marry Neela. He knows that he is no better than this guy who disowns his partner of several years. Just like this guy, Ashish too had given Asha a mangal sutra to wear. And soon, just like him he would be marrying Neela and in doing so - disown Asha and the mangal sutra he had given her. Unable to cope with his own cowardice - Ashish is taking out his frustration at himself by beating up this guy. He is acting out the aggression he feels at himself on this guy - and lands in jail. This is no solution to his problem. The one and only solution, is to gather courage and speak up to his mom about Asha and Avni.
Ashish beats up guy and lands in jail
Anupamaa
