My mother often comments how it looks so amusing that Aniruddh is so obsessed with Bondita's education (throwback to his paranoid show in the marketplace when she recites the alphabet).
How can he be so attached to her when there is no romance there, yet?
Ofcourse, he loves Bondita, but he is not "in love" with her, the romantic love, the lustful love is yet to come, still far fetched.
So why does he care so deeply about her education and emancipation, more than someone would who has just a feeling of responsibility towards her. To understand that we need to remember how much he has put on stake to save her. Ofcourse, it was just a moral decision to stop the Sati, which was on the same level as saving the prostitutes from Hira Mandi. 🤔
But the one-thing-led-to-another butterfly effect led him to marrying her, sacrificing his first romance, putting his relationships with his father and uncle at stake, being at the brink of depression and addiction, risking his life for her and above all, trusting her so many times inspite of her apparent inexperience.
If I were in Aniruddh's place, I would want my efforts to amount to something. Something substantial.
Like an educated and established woman in times when this was taboo. 👏
I am now liking the way how the show is progressing, with the focus mainly being on Bondita's education, while also showing other stuff. As long as the leap doesn't happen, I am happy with romance or possessiveness being far far away from this picture but also with us seeing Aniruddh being in awe of Bondita's intelligent innocence.
But I wish makers also show Bondita being more receptive and understanding to Aniruddh's thought processes, rather than just memorizing his words and seeing education as only means of pleasing him, or just to be able to write letters or having fun like Batuk at school.
PS about the last paragraph, I say that because I find the idea of the show to be loosely based on Dr. Anandi Gopal and her husband Gopalrao's love story, where Gopalrao had always been insistent on educating Anandi, but she only got serious about becoming a doctor when she lost her first child. I wish Bondita's similar realization is less harsh than something like this, but I am expecting it will be something like losing a loved one to English cruel punishments due to lack of a fair trial, maybe.