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Bini I was thinking about that also. But the only conclusion I made with myself is only that matters is will Chakor want to go back to marathon race. In current situation Chakor participating in races would be tough but not impossible, but... I think by showing Chakor's overprotective behavior towards Saanvi they are sending message that Chakor don't want it. At least for now. She even said in Saanvi's introduction scene that even when she is training children her thoughts are only about Saanvi and just couple of minutes before she was saying to children that when running their attention shouldn't be on anything else. F for focus, G for goal.
What I understood is that Chakor is not forcing girls and women's of the village to let go everything and to do something else. She is forcing them to think about what they want, what they like, what are their dreams and to accomplish that. And yes since all of them were slaves all these years and since they have rigid opinions about women's role many of them have dreams which, if Chakor manages to convince them, they will try to accomplish. Unlike them, Chakor lived her dream even if it was for some other purpose. She accomplished it and maybe many more succesful races was in front of her and she gave up on them but at least she did something and that helped her to not lose faith, self confidence and everything else. As for now it looks like Chakor's dream is not going to marathon races but changing her society.
As for being more inspirational if she goes back to participating races I don't know how much would that be effective in current situation where villagers have rigid opinions. If she just goes back to running and proves that it's possible to maintain balance I'm not sure that villagers would understand her. For them Chakor was always exception, they always saw her as someone who can do things they just can't. That's why they were always dependent on her. The changes in villagers from previous track are mostly in their bravery, proof is that Gauris parents accepted to Imlis idea about marring Gauri and Chakor had to save situation. Chakor needs to prove them that it's possible for every girl not only for her. That's why if Gauri is first one who will do something with her talent maybe it will be more inspirational then just Chakor going to running.
At the end of the day, with enemy's around her anyone can spread rumors that it's easy for Chakor to balance it all since she is living in big mansion, have servants doesn't have to do household etc...
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