I have to say I'm totally biased in favor of Kanak.
I mean...maybe it is because she is SurYa's daughter...but I can't help but look at things from Kanak's point of view.
She's an orphaned child who was raised in a house where her brothers and uncle and aunt tried to give her as much love as possible. But you know how human nature works...it always desires that which one doesn't have. In Kanak's case that was Bhabo's love.
Imagine being a child and running around and playing, and then hearing your grandmother scream at the top of her lungs in front of the entire Hanuman Galli that she needs to purify the shop because Kanak stepped into it by mistake.
Imagine wondering all your life...why? Am I impure? Am I a jinx? What sin did I commit? Why am I always being sent away to boarding school in the name of education...when it is really to get rid of me...It's a wonder she didn't turn into a basket case.
Then imagine getting all the blame for your parents death laid on your shoulders...that too for an incident that occurred when you were a baby. Imagine someone you love hating you so much for something you had no control over.
Kanak was so traumatized by this revelation that she was going to commit suicide. Ironically, it was Umashankar that she overheard giving Payal a brainwashing pep talk...that made her rethink her action. She decided that she was going to redeem herself in the eyes of Bhabo by giving her the one thing that Bhabo worships the most...her Suraj and Sandhya's sweet shop.
I see nothing wrong in Kanak's thinking.
You also have to remember that Kanak didn't come to Ladno to deceive anyone. She came in search of Gabasa, to find out how he could lay a claim to the sweet shop. It was at the festival there Uma saw her and "signs from God" and decided that they were going to get married. She refused and he stated..but I have chosen you...and then he picks her up and takes the pheras...with her biting and kicking him and pleading to the onlookers for help to no avail.
Once Uma learns the truth...he may be angry. He may be justified...because Kanak could have confronted him and demanded the truth from him long ago.
Yes, Kankak is immature. She put her hand in something that puts her at risk...and she should have told someone in her family...at least her brothers. Perhaps she thought they would stop her. Or maybe after she saw Ved getting beat up by Uma's loyalists, she decided he could pose a threat to her family. She already thinks he defrauded Bhabo of the shop. For her...he's Raavan...Daakoo Singh, a kidnapper. If anyone should be angry it is her. I'm with Kanak on this one. No matter what the misunderstanding about the shop is...there is no justification for what Uma did.
He and his thinking is like from the stone ages...I don't know how someone like Kanak has survived with him that long...I would have told him, Bhabo, and the shop to kiss my !@#$% long time ago.
Yet Uma never finds fault in anything he does.
Sometimes I feel Kanak is trapped in a never ending game like...the Hunger Games...where no matter how much you're told otherwise...the odds are never in your favor.
Edited by Fatima_Q - 8 years ago