Jaanavi
She was shocked by this type of behaviour from him. He was totally different in London. When he came back to India, he went back to his normal self.
I have said this from the beginning, when he returned to India after his Business failed in UK he was coming to Babita to play happy families but his plans back fired when Mita followed him to India and forced him to tell his family about her. Otherwise he was going to leave Mita in the UK as the other woman.
Hence his constant anger on Mita.
She is right to get angry as She is the one to put up with lots of taunts etc from everyone and he is getting none.
But I say again that Babita too is at fault with the breakup of her Marriage, she never put any effort in at all. In a marriage there are 2 people but if these 2 cannot clap hands together than the other will look outside of the Marriage for love.
If only she had put in the same amount of effort in becoming the ideal bhua as well as a ideal Wife, than Ashok would not have gone looking for love elsewhere.
Also his Parents are at fault as well because they should have known to sent Babita to UK with there Son. But no they kept her as a unpaid cook, etc all in the name if being a Bahu to take care of them.
20% blame Babita
20% blame in laws
25% blame Mita
35% blame Ashok
Her inlaws are not in the village but in a city where they have a son in law staying with them.
I have to agree with the bold parts. It's not like victim blaming, but this is marriage and she had to do everything to save her relationship... Ashok surely stayed with her after their marriage for a while to make her pregnant. So it could have been a couple of months. And when a newly wed hubby is going off to overseas, she should have tried her best to go with them. And even if it wasn't possible owing to her aging in laws and the responsibilities towards them, she could have tried at least once Minnie was born and a few years older. She could have sensed his distancing from her , lack of proper communication from him in the eventual years and tried to know what's happening with him somehow...
But sadly Babita stayed too much ignorant and oblivious to the happenings around her , which was her biggest mistake. She is the victim here obviously, but if she had been little bit smarter she could have avoided this long waiting and the heartbreak she and Minnie went through...