From the episode, all the last hopes of seeing Ani realize has gone down the drain. It has clearly taken the route we were expecting. Bon asking for forgiveness. The whole episode revolves around making Bon the guilty one and Ani the sacrificial one. Even though I had a intuition of it, I couldn't really bear the whole of white-washing that happened. Even whitewashing is a small word for what was portrayed today.
Manorama said the words which we have used for Ani for the last one year. All the praises we had for Ani was delivered through Manorama. How he is a man of high principles, a good human being, a great feminist and what separates him from the rest of the husbands - everything. I don't know what was the need of showing it on the screen when for one year they did not have to. Maybe now they felt the need because there has been criticism going on his character. Instead of amending him, they are making us understand how exactly Ani is. Ironical.
We got the much anticipated dialogue of Bon, "sab galti mere hi hai", "ap bohot accha hai", "mere patibabu mere saath kabhi kuch galat nahi kar sakte", etc etc.
But the one question which stood in my mind all this time and is still there is - what exactly was the pain Ani felt after marrying Manorama? In Manorama's words, "humari jhooti shaadi khud Anirudh ke liye ek bohot badi saza thi jiska dard usne chup chap saha hai, akele". I don't get how a real marriage is called a nakli shaadi? I don't understand how it was a 'saaza' for Anirudh to be bonded in a second marriage and that too with a gril he loved? He though the society would blame him, that didn't happen too. Bon too accepted it and was behaving normally with him. Then where was the bearing of pain? Maybe the pain of controlling his emotions after seeing Manorama and still not able to convey it to her. But Manorama did not know about it, so which pain is she referring to?
ALSO, the bonding of Manorama and Bondita was a beautiful one. Their scene exuded positivity and friendship. It would have been better if Mano was only a friend of Ani and the marriage did not happen in real, in front of Bon's eyes. Maybe Ani-Mano running away and coming back with a fake shaadi would have made sense. But can't really forgot the pain and trauma Bon felt during the real wedding that deemed her unconscious. A little girl, standing there and watching the relationship she valued the most getting broken into pieces before her own eyes is something too disturbing to take. Can't really forget that episode. But makers behaved as if nothing like that happened, EVER. All the humiliation and emotional abuse have been made a complete zero.
Thought would get a justification for all the wrongs. But there does not seem to be any trace of it. Can't support a show which glorified public humiliation of women, child mental abuse and polygamy in the name of woman empowerment and does not even find it important to rectify it or provide a justification to it.
P.S. Manorama is alive.