Thanks for telling me how you see it, but I watched every episode and none of these things happened:
Latika siding completely with Kamini and allowing Daulat to benefit from it.......
Latika kept crying and whining in front of Bapu
why did it become so suffocating for her post vat savitri when till then she was okay with being just his friend in the same house......
her whining and complaining about how Abhya said 'Sabhaar Parat'
she was the one who kept burning the fire in Bapu's mind........
and now she is behaving holier then thou......
"Latika siding completely with Kamini" - what do you mean? Should Latika lie to protect Abhimanyu, or refuse to answer, just because the truth was publicly revealed by an unpleasant outsider, Kamini? I like how Latika, who used to defer to Kamini, now scoffs at her aspiration to be with Abhimanyu, and occasionally tells her off, but generally ignores her because Kamini isn't significant in her life. Abhimanyu didn't deserve public humiliation, but Latika didn't start it, and Kamini's spiteful satisfaction shouldn't factor into Latika's moral choice to admit the truth.
Latika has never whined against Abhimanyu to Bapu, and she has tried consistently to mollify Bapu and salvage the neighbours' friendships. Latika is wise to understand that Abhimanyu's not desiring her doesn't make him a bad person, and that their friendship is worth preserving, even if she mistakenly believed that he declared love for her to save face. Wasn't there a scene of Latika telling Bapu that his repeating the words "sābhāra parata" to keep the wound fresh hurts her more than Abhimanyu saying the words once? Latika's pleading to Bapu to accept her friendship with Abhimanyu might sound like whining because her voice is sweet, but she can't help that. I had liked Bapu's realization that Latika is intelligent and capable to make her own decisions, but Bapu has turned into a tyrant again just for the plot.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right and that includes sexual expression. If a marriage is not sexually fulfilling, or if the partners' temperaments are incompatible, either partner deserves the absolute right to end the marriage. I don't like Indu's regressive thoughts and sarcastic exaggerations, but there are people like her in the real world, and it's believable that Latika has to deal with a mother-in-law who means well but fights dirty. It is admirable that Latika, who knows from experience that she's unwanted by anyone else (except Sajjan) and is constantly reminded of her undesirability by the whole town, still has the courage to say that she has expectations of her life partner, and Abhimanyu wouldn't fulfill them.
Before Vaṭa-Paurṇimā, it was a secret that Abhimanyu was going to reject and abandon Latika. Only six people knew the secret: Abhimanyu, Latika, Hema, Kamini, Ashutosh, and Sajjan, and even if only two people had known, it was ongoing mental torture for Latika to know that all of her efforts to fit into the family would be futile, and she would spend the rest of her life stamped as a discarded wife. Why should any wife have to be okay with just being a friend? Why should she have to face her in-laws asking when they will have a grandchild? Latika endured the humiliating marriage and kept up appearances out of consideration for Bapu. After Vaṭa-Paurṇimā, when everyone knew that the marriage was unhappy for Abhimanyu, and Bapu didn't want Latika to stay where she wasn't wanted, there was no need to go on pretending, so Latika returned to her parents as she had expected was inevitable all along. She could be herself there.
We have seen that Abhimanyu is physically attracted to Latika: the way he imagines her smiling at him, and the way he looked at her when she was bundled in her raincoat. So, if Latika goes back to Abhimanyu, he will want physical intimacy with her and she will feel pressure from his parents to submit her body to him and give them grandchildren. Never mind that in India, the law treats marriage as an excuse for forcible sex; Abhimanyu would never mistreat a woman that way, but why should Latika put herself at the mercy of any man for his physical and emotional needs, unless she desires him? I hope we get some progress from the hand-holding in Sajjan's office, so that Latika evinces physical attraction to Abhimanyu before she decides to stay married.
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