There are a lot of examples in the real world where husbands wanted to get their wives educated. But the main difference between the 2 examples is that in real life, they were not forced into marriage as a last resort to marry a child to save her life. Anirudh’s main conflict when he came to India was the fact that girl children were forced into marriage and from the beginning is was against it. He even explained it to Bondita early on, with flowers and buds I think. But when Bondita asked him what my they got married then and again today he couldn’t do it. He even says today “how happy Bondita is regarding all of this.” But regardless of how she feels, he is feeling sick because he realizes what the “love” society is talking about is, while Bondita is naive and innocent to all of that. We also have to keep in mind, Anirudh is barely 22 at this point. I am 21, and in my final year of engineering I cannot imagine getting married let alone parenting a child so fresh out of college. Yeah both eras are different, totally agree, but your mindset will not change. Anirudh thinks like a hotheaded impulsive student, because that is what he is. He only now is realizing that the world is not as idealistic as him. Do I think Ani loves Bondita, yes he does and cares immensely for her that’s why before now he was so ok with her fawning over him, calling him Paatibabu, and even calling her is confidant. But before now, society was not actively putting them together. In a lot of cases, that society did see her as a child, yes a married women but they treated her as a child. But now the same society that allowed her to go to school freely and play with others, is telling her that her menstruating means she can’t come out of the house and that she is a women now. Kaka and other women are telling she needs to please and love Ani the way a wife would, forgetting that she is still a child. I think Ani exploding will be a fan of the people at the celebration telling him to call her his wife in all regards not just in the fact that they are married. If you see for the times Bondita overtly asked Ani rights of a wife, he had tried to tell her that it is not correct and to not do that, he even does it a couple of times today. But because of her age she is continually doing until Ani reaches his breaking point. The fact of the matter is that Anirudh cannot physically see her as his wife in that regard, he has accepted her as a partner and an immovable person in his life. But he cannot do what society wants him to as that’s completely against his principles, and unfortunately he is going to have to be a little harsh about it.
@Bold - On point! Agreed 👍🏼
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