Originally posted by: Indira12
I saw a tweet Sabah which made a lot of sense. I wish I could share it but I don't know how to do so. The tweet gave a lot of depth about the character of Mano.
The tweet said that till Mano was there with ARC, she was constantly praising him for the decision he took - the decision of a second marriage in front of Bon. Remember the night of their wedding, ARC was in guilt because of the marriage BUT Mano said, "Mere mann me tumhara darja aur bhi badh gaya hai, pehle me dost manti thi, ab me tumhe izzat karti hu". After that as long as she was there, she was praising his actions and ARC could never realize where we was at fault. The moment she is not there to praise and Kaka gives him a knock, his consciousness starts giving him the reality check on the damage inflicted. The reason why I initially did not like the character of Manorama was this very fact that she did not seem to realize the magnitude of the pain caused to Bon due to her and Ani's false/real marriage. That made her selfish - her love for her country was selfish (which should be). All she wanted was to fulfil her mission, the pain of Bondita did not matter. And it's ABSOLUTELY OKAY given she is a krantikari and to her even she herself did not matter, let alone Bon's feelings.
But the fact that revolutionaries were high in ideals and they would never chose such a detestable path. But BB has no connection with reality. So this realization of Mano as to how Ani was wrong in choosing this path, no matter how pure his intentions were, was not there. And I would credit this thing to an another fact - of Mano being uneducated. That is why she might not have an idea about how polygamy is wrong.
Also if you remember she was made to look unaffected towards Bon pain. It was only on the reception day that she goes to apply haldi to her wound. That was adorable. Yet, again after that, makers made her speak harsh words to Bon. Obviously she did not mean those, but I would blame it on the dialogue writers. They could have subdued the harshness a bit. Sometimes makers showed Mano considerate towards Bon, sometimes didn't. Her character had this wobbliness in writing. Still, even after those harsh words I could not hate her solo scenes with Bon. Those exuded endearing vibes. I feel Mano-Bon shared a great chemistry. Makers should have explored more of it. Instead of showing her growing comfortability with Ani, if they showed it with Bon that would have been better. But they didn't, sadly.
@ul: This is a whole new perspective for me Indira,I am impressed.The lil doubt I had in my mind got clarified too.
You know what I feel fandom is using apna apna dimag to bring the reasonings and those meanings, which makers would have never cared too.
But this was beautiful, Mano always kept Ani on spot light,'tumhari dard','tum seh paoge'..and his maksad was only highlighted
But after Kaks's probe Bon came on spot light, and how they are distanced now
ul 2: Manorama was a character crafted just for the purpose, it lacked clarity in many sense. So she conflicted herself eing considerate and inconsiderate on and off. Her not being eductaed and no feminist presence like Ani, with a society not seeing polygamy wrong might have been reasons. But what covered it all was, for her mission every thing else ecome tinysome
@bold: There explicit comfort could not have been shown easily, because makers wanted to show Bon busy in competing her, 'sautan turned saheli' would have been difficult to show form Bon end as per the plot. But I loved their marham scene , their comfort could have been build up even before marriage and even some light hearted scenes could have been added. I would have preferred a more formal relation like AE Ani before rather than the comfort btw Ani Mano.
But since they are telling byegones are byegones,lets catch our fresh air too
# Indu or Indira what u prefer to call, I see everyone here calls you Indu