Originally posted by: Indira12
"The trauma child Shubhra have faced" -
We are talking about the trauma of a person who is not in the picture now, but fail to notice the trauma a person, a child at present is facing. How must Bondita have felt when there was constant utterance of Thakur, the person who gave her the most horrific incident of her life, how she must be pained remembering those flashbacks every time his name was taken? But it is not surprising cause if Ani can overlook it, some people can definitely do it.
"...And people complain why realistic TV shows aren't made anymore..." -
Public humiliation - well, Anirudh is an impulsive man, it's justified. Twice? Mistakes can occur twice. Thrice? That's not really a mistake then. Man 'learns' from his mistakes. If not, then the character is not realistic. The first point of the show not being realistic in it's character depiction.
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Anirudh's character is butchered because the same Anirudh who used to be aware of every single thing that caused pain to Bondita did not mind to think of her feelings every time discussions regarding Thakur took place. Anirudh who would always remember to check on her, that day SAW and STILL ignored her after Rani Sahiba left and Bon stood there, alone and pained.
(Please don't say Bon insulted Manorama, she needed to understand her and all cause Bon- firstly was not aware of her intentions and secondly, she did not insult, she confronted her for taking her cake)
Anirudh who would pride on Indian women handling both household and career has now started to trivialize cooking and household work, saying things like "Bondita ka har kadam sirf barrister babu banne ke taraf hana chahiye naki rasoi ke taraf". Again don't say she is a child, she does need to cook. Where was Anirudh that time when Kaka was teaching Bon to cook? Bon did not want to cook at the first place, she was forced to do that. Why didn't Anirudh objected? As far as I remember Anirudh instead taught her 'how to not sneeze while smelling kali-mirch' (Anirudh rather helped her in her learning process?) Why didn't he asked Bon to NOT make coffee for him every time she made him a coffee? Why didn't he objected when Bon made luchis ? Why did he instead ate them? Why didn't he objected or rather took an 'important step' like THIS the time Kaka started molding Bon into a kushal-grahini? This idea of being a perfect bahu did not come to Bon's mind naturally, it was induced from the beginning. Why was not a 'serious step' LIKE THIS taken that time? All of this could have been prevented now. How would have Anirudh helped Manorama in her mission if Bon really stopped cooking and did not bake the cake?
Anirudh himself gave a long explanation as to why one should not bring up internal matters in front of outsiders. Why does he preaches something else and does the exact opposite?
If all of this is not enough to show a high-principled guy like Anirudh getting butchered, I don't know what else is required.
Just quoting the points I would like to comment on.
The topic of mental health has gained importance only recently, however the cause of educating women for their own good and for the society as a whole has been a problem for the society as a whole even before colonial times and gained importance during that era.
Our society is still struggling with this problem of not letting women study because they don't deserve it, and I do not regret repeating this time and again that as long as lack of education keeps being used to put women down, we cannot state that a woman should have "freedom of choice" to study or not to study just because she likes it.
Also, yes mental health is important but only who can afford it.
As someone from Bengal whose grand-parental family escaped Bangladesh, my great-grandfather struggled with nightmares, homesickness, ego problems and frustrations till he died, because he had to leave his home and come to Kolkata. If the family would have chosen to remain there for his mental-health, what would have been the cost?? All of them butchered in the riots!!
Should Aniruddh have made Bondita his "wife" by caring about her feelings? Should he have pacified her by putting sindoor on her forehead and make her assume "she has won", by caring about her feelings? Should he have let her leave with her mother back into ignorance, illiteracy and poverty, by caring about her feelings?
Yes, mental health is important, but not when physiological needs are at stake.
And when anyone says that Aniruddh should care about Bondita's so-called feelings more that such an important cause, he/she is giving more importance to the ship / relationship / romance / whatever-you-wanna-call-it than to the cause this show is based on!!!
If you would like me to reference it, HM track is proof yet again that the cause has been more important than the relationship, when Rasiya Bai demanded all girls to be rescued and not just Bondita and Aniruddh obliged, so the projection was Aniruddh to be the promoter of the "cause" of rescuing prostitutes and not just Bondita's knight in shining armor.
He also built the bathroom for Bondita but not exclusively, he invited all village women to use it. Most importantly, he decided on educating Bondita when she displayed her intelligence and not because he was obliged as a husband to do so.
Aniruddh has proven again he cares more about his commitment to Bondita than his attraction to Manorama's cause when he decided to check her coat first, he displays pain and tears at the thought of Bon leaving him when she goes to Dalhousie, so obviously he is attached to her, but his cause is more important, and so it should be!!!
Also I ask, abolishment of child-marriage is a great cause, so why so much backlash on it, if romance doesn't have more priority than the message of the show?