*If you are Jahnvi/Pooja hater, please ignore and move on from this post. I've had enough of misogyny and male character obsession in IB to last me a lifetime, and don't want anymore arguments that will raise my BP. okthxbye*
Okay, so up until yesterday, I was finding it really immature of Pooja to be all arrogant, elitist b**** with Kabir & Co. It made no sense for her to make fun of their poverty, considering she's been poor herself. But today's episode threw a new spin into it.
These lines impacted me a lot (I heard them quite a few times)
".....tumhe yeh ehsaas dilaane ka tha, ki hum bhi aise sadak dar sadak mitti phaakte the, koi nahi tha hamaara, jab tumhaare Dad ne mere Dada ko maar daala tha, bas vahi yaad dila rahi hu. Ladaai ho na, toh barabari ki honi chahiye, isiliye main tumhe apne beete huya kal ki barabari pe khada kar rahi hu...."
Pooja ruined Kabir's food, not because she was being petty today. She did to make him realize how she lived in abject poverty, when his father murdered her Dad.
Now it explains (for me) why Pooja ruined his certificates. Look, logically even without certificates, Kabir is ex-army and he can easily get a desk job, so shredding his certificates accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Then why did Pooja do it? The answer is in the next line.
When there a battle, then it should be among equals. I am bringing you to the equality of my past circumstances.
Pooja and Rani were probably less than eight years old (from the flashbacks) and spent some amount of time on the streets, scavenging for food. It is shown in another flashback, that Amma was ostracized for being a transgender. Only Ashok Sharma treated her out of kindness. It is quite possible that Amma had to face constant ostracization from the society, and she wasn't well off to begin with. Amma and the two girls had a tough time, their lives wouldn't have been easy.
Also, PK thought they were dead, if he found out they were alive, he would try to kill them. So they had to hide too. They most probably went to another city (I'm guessing Gwalior by Pooja's schooling/college). They had to start over from scratch. We already know that for transgenders and women, this society can be quite harsh.
Kabir and his family's circumstances cannot be compared to Pooja. Pooja and Rani were little kids living with a person whose community was socially boycotted. Kabir, is a well-educated, ex-army, man in his late twenties. He is more than capable of looking after his family. He can easily pull connections from army and protect/care for all of them.
Even so, he sought out to challenge Pooja by demanding a job in Mittal industries (to get his family company back, I guess).
Pooja is just evening out the challenge for him. She does not go out mocking poor people, on a regular basis. Its only Kabir and Mittal family. Why? To make them realize what she and Rani had suffered because of them.
Those reminders of poverty are not because she is a rich, spoilt brat, but because she wants to hurt the 'khandaani rayeez/ feudal rich' Mittals where it stings, that they are poor now. Dadaji, Suman, Chanda, all lied to protect their family name and wealth. This is her way of making them realize how it feels.
Is her targeting of Kabir wrong? Yes, because he is innocent. But he is also protecting his family (makes sense logically), so in Pooja's eyes, he is a stand-in for PK and other senior Mittals.
Is Pooja being petty? Yes, but she's coming from a place of childhood trauma, and a feeling of restlessness to make the opponent feel what she has gone through.
True justice would be if the Senior Mittals come to know how their kids are suffering because of them, but Kabir is protecting them from that knowledge (why so noble, yaar?). They should know and repent their past deeds. I can't get that image of Dadaji and Suman standing and watching two kids being burnt alive, and I am just a tv audience. Imagine how bad must it have been for the actual character in the universe.
If people still don't understand where Pooja's coming from, then their hearts must be made of stones Kabir put in Pooja's tiffin.
**That doesn't mean I am enjoying the petty fights. I am not. I wish they move on to the ideological plane. But after the revamp started from the 4th July epi, this is the first proper episode that enjoyed and actually liked.
***Also, I still think Pooja should just sell off everything and start a hospital with that money. That would be the most in-character thing for Jahnvi to do. She already made PK donate the land for the hospital, so why not start building it? Her usurping PK's business just does not make any sense to me.
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