Originally posted by: bashful_moon
Thank you for the insightful post once again IF Love. it is good to see so such a well articulated and insightful post.
While i agree with you that all the slaps are not necessarily meant for hurling abuse, I can find absolutely no rhyme about Moloy slapping Mohini today.
No i don't like Mohini, the character. She has never been a good mother, neither is she a good human being and with regards to womanhood, she is a big blotch. But when it comes to being a wife, she has shown no reason to be called off on that front. So, it is the dynamics that has been built between Moloy and Mohini in their three decades plus conjugal life, that warrants Moloy's action redundant and distasteful.
Moh and Moloy have been married for around three decades and Moloy by now knows all the shades of Mohini. But he has never been shown to be abusive. The slap shows Moloy in a bad light. Besides, it is not the first time she has been nasty to Pre. Of course, this time Mohini has stepped out of line with regards to paternity of their unborn grandchild but then Moloy has lost the very moral ground of slapping Moh the day he let pregnant Pre out of Basu Bari without any guilt, remorse or even a slight hesitation. After the grave injustice meted to Prerna on that day (that too after calling her his daughter), Moloy no longer deserves to ride on his high horse and slap Moh.
However, I stand the ground that he should have tackled Mohini's vileness. For that purpose, the way he reprimanded Moh with regards to leaving house with AnuPre should have been enough... For added spice he could have simply questioned her worth as a woman and a mother... The whip of right words would have resonated much louder and more painful than what his slap could or couldn't do...
Yup..perfectly summed up