Is Anami truly trusting Narottam blindly?

Okay, so I see a lot many showing their frustrations over Anami blindly putting her faith on Narottam, and for being unable to see through his act. But is she truly doing that? I think not.

A necessary post indeed.

They are so many instances were parents- they advise us on some friends and situation and we rebel against them. We don't care - b'coz they are wrong. Maybe people are like that but NOT MY friends. I know them. Maybe we are correct, sometimes we end up horribly wrong. And these are parents who have taken care of us from birth, fed us, helped us walk and supported us through thick and thin.

Whilst reading the worries of the people in the forum - one realizes that they are frustrated to some extent for putting faith in Narottam - and distrusting Satrupa and not paying heed to any of her words.

But you see that is the whole point. She should. She has to - that is why we were able to relate with her in the first place. Tell me how many of us were sympathizing with Narottam when the show begun. many of us, most of us. A tortured soul - cruelly victimized by the residents of Lal Mahal. Until we saw that first spark of frenzy in his eyes, the smirk - the late night outs and finally his talk with Sudha. We as an audience, get this blatant insight but anami - she is not seeing his backhanded soliloquies . Kudos to her for keenly sensing something amiss as soon as she saw his double edged nature ; and she calls him out on that one. But he is a well versed player, a trained pawn who knows how to divert tracks. How is she supposed to identify that her own brother - somebody she relates with on a personal level - infact much worse compared to her situation as he has no other option - to be mentally manipulated to such an extent ? She has travelled and seen his condition reaching upto a mental asylum. With her very own eyes. We see the underhand backstory - but see as of now only knows how to read what is present right in front of her.

Which is exactly what she is doing with Satrupa as well. She has only seen the harsh, cold and cunning side of her mother - who resorts to cheap tricks to get things done. To top it all - she went and abandoned her child, tore her apart from her twin - and then one fine sudden day - catastrophically disarrays her lovingly and carefully built family. She is yet to see the plights, the restlessness, the emotions which were once on show with Vatsalya. Satrupa has never broken down in front of Anami. If they had heart to heart tracks - it was only from Anami's side expressing her disappointment and disgust - Satrupa held her own like a stone wall, head held high. No remorse at the least - only point blank explanations served out cold and blunt.

We cannot blame Satrupa either. Had she been truly cold hearted and biased towards the boy - she would have just left Anami on the streets, leaving behind no connection ore clue, an orphanage- anywhere. But Damo, khule aam - with face uncovered - gave the kid to the best, golden family - who raised her up with unrestricted but guarded freedom and to be a strong woman - with no feeling of shortcoming whatsoever.

We cannot blame Satrupa for choosing the easy way out. Her priority was protecting her interests. Had she unheeded Guruji's words and chose to take up both the children - maybe they would have both died. If she took Anami under the wing - she probably would have ended with even more softness and guileless nature than Vatsalya. - with the atmosphere of Lal Mahal and their gender bias. Not the harship-faced, strong and still standing of woman like Anami which is what Lal Mahal needs.

We all say Anami could call out on the frauds at the ghats of Banaras. But can we even compare them to the well crafted, multi layered and dimensional frauds at Lal Mahal. No we can't. They are old and experienced player. For them deception is not some sort of an earning like the 'dhongies' - it is not superficial , short cut tricks. It is their life. The justice to their 'supposed' injustice. They CANNOT fail. They have all their reasons - meted out to them by the strings of fate - and they don't want to accept it. They want to fight it out. Hook or crook.
And can we blame them ? No we can't. We all have a dark side to ourselves.Why are we loving the fact that they are all grey ? Because "humans" are. We curse our bosses, teachers - for the lack of pay raise, for taking their anger out on us, for hard exam papers, for being punctual to class, for being strict and so on. But we don't relate to them on a personal level.They are all petty issues. So we let that be.

But these guys - They are FAMILY. Whether they accept it or not.

They feel like their own blood has betrayed them. So the harm and the curses will be on an intimate and more destructive level. But is it right ? No it is not. Harming children who have no hand whatsoever in their plans .

So Anami needs to learn. She has to learn the hard way.She needs to be tossed and used emotionally - played around -so that she can start understanding her mother, those who truly support her. B'coz let's be honest - we loved Anami ; coz unlike the regular female leads who are sacrificing, unnecessarily understanding and forgiving, naive and pitiful - she is straightforward, stubborn and unforgiving --- and she will grow to be tactful, bending and understanding. She already has got more guts, confidence and strength than Satrupa ever had - but she needs the refining and polishing which her failures will provide ; so that people are more receptive towards the change.

So we need to wait - wait till she starts to mould to fit the situation. Explore the crux of the relationships - Satrupa-Baldev, Baldev-Sudha, Dheeru, Her very own relationship with her parents and so on.

As they say we see a leaf is green - it has chlorophyll and that is a green pigment. So on. But have you thought about the other side? It reflects only green - it absorbs every other colour of white light. It IS every colour other than green. That's why we perceive it as green.
Anami has to understand thing - and she has a long way to go.

Thank you for the post Reema because I agree and lovely points ammu3.

Yes I agree with you Anami does not trust Narottam fully. She had her doubts pertaining to his night trips, his oscillation from being effeminate and being masculine. She confronted him, pushed him to the threshold of patience and also demanded answers. Even now not even for a split second she has ever given the status of her brother to Narottam. Won't she do that if she had blind trust? How effortlessly she created a bond with Vatsalya and Laddoo, but with Narottam it was a case of justice and humanity and not sibling bond. As you rightly pointed out Satrupa will be the last one to trust in the whole world for her, this lady ripped apart her life and family not once but twice and why on earth will she trust her. Satrupa might have had her share of pain but till this date she has not given a solid reason for abandoning Anami and that was a serious human rights violation and total injustice to the little soul.

Originally posted by: Athene

Thank you for the post Reema because I agree and lovely points ammu3.

Anami trusts Narottam. Not blindly though. Even if it was just for a little while, while fighting him she saw a glimpse of the real Narottam. She did get blind-sighted by his sob story, but that doesn't mean she will just blindly trust him.

Right now Anami is in a raw state. She hates Satrupa. She hates Lal Mahal. She's there only for Vatsalya. And if in the process she can shake up Lal Mahal she will. Narottam is in a similar situation to her (at least in her eyes). Why wouldn't she trust him and help him?

Why should she trust Satrupa? Who is Satrupa? Just because Satrupa gave birth to her, it doesn't make her Anami's mother. Pagli Pandityan is Anami's mother. The only person she considers her mother.

Looking at it from Anami's perspective, she isn't wrong to trust Narottam. Satrupa uses her family against her to get her to heed to her every whim. Baldev openly calls her illegitimate even after proof that he is her father. Vikram refuses to talk to this jhayel ladki. Pujan and co. have made their displeasure quite obvious. If there's anyone in LM who treats her like anything more than dirt, it's Gayatri and Narottam. But Gayatri is doing everything to make her heir of royal steels as well. She orders Anami about and while both share a good relationship, it is not deep enough that Anami would heed her warnings. The only person Anami shares any good relationship with is Narottam. So of course she's going to trust Narottam, but not blindly. Because she sees through people, if a bit late. And she will see through Narottam as well, if a bit late.