Originally posted by: WarriorB
Thank you. Thank you. For saying this.š¤
While in the initial episodes I actually didn't realize many deeper truths in this family, post Dhara Danda Maar there's so many things coming to light for me.
Today's episode actually was the first one where I began thinking about Oedipus complexes in light of it all. These brothers have lived all these years with Suman and Dhara as the only points of contact to the female population as far as I can see. All their emotional needs have been met by Dhara and while that's normal when you are younger, true parenting shines when you let your child find their own footing in the world and it's people and let them discover their own individuality. And it's trickier to do this and find a way to assert your own autonomy in a joint family.
So, today's episode also made me think maybe Dev did this in a way, found a girl he liked, whose opinions are starkly different to his own family values and stepped out of the family shadow. It's now that Rishita is back with him in his home that he doesn't know how to proceed further and is instead stuck somewhere just buffering all the time.
For Shiva I would say, even though he is the biggest Dhara bhabhi worshipper, Raavi has always been orbiting around him just as long, so his struggle is more layered. All in all, that scene of them sneakily eating the food, while amusing to me when I first watched it, felt deeply problematic later and I just felt like they were behaving in this troubling man child way. All three of them actually need to find their own wings in the limited courtyard they have since at this point even some things Rishita said are kinda making sense to me actually.