Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour
No one intentionally drugged Pallavi. Mandar got the drug from Sunny, in Kirti's presence, and put it in the khīra that Pallavi had made for Raghav. Then Raghav fed it to Pallavi, Pallavi fell unconscious, Mandar carried her to bed, and Pallavi just happened to say something meant for Raghav that Raghav thought she was saying to Mandar while holding Mandar's hand.
Yes, but Kirti didn't bother to help Pallavi when she was drugged and even helped Mandar to take Pallavi upstairs by distracting Raghav through her and Sunny's fake fight. So yes, Kirti had a major role in the entire fiasco.
I think there can be no doubt that this show twisted the story into knots to keep Pallavi sexually untouched. (I try not to use the word virgin because it conveys expectations for something that should be individually defined.) If they wanted to show how Pallavi was a virtual stranger that the Deshmukhs accepted into the family when they didn't have to, they would have started the story with Mandar's disappearance, or at least they would have shown flashbacks. In my opinion, even if Pallavi had been intimate with Mandar and then he disappeared, the family would deserve praise for showing solidarity with the widow.
Somewhere or the other, we, in general, are ingrained that ML and FL are reserved for each other. There was an uproar even when Esha-Raghav flashbacks were shown (Note: I am strictly talking about past flashbacks not scenes in present). I guess, originally wanted to show some flashbacks but then backed out. If you see initial episodes, Pallavi is shown holding her wedding album and mangalsutra, while Sharada and Vijay support her.
In the Bengali story Boodi (1963) by Manik Bandyopadhyay, a girl whose husband died on the wedding night is now an old woman. She talks about her experience with her great-grandson on his wedding day, and after some months, she talks about it rather differently with her great-grandson's widow. I agree with the story's message that while the situations are different (Pallavi widowed on wedding night or after a few months), women face the same attitudes and superstitions. In the case of Pallavi, she would be lucky to have the Deshmukh family's support in both situations.
In this case I am not talking about attitudes and superstitions. I am talking about bonding. See if Pallavi and Mandar had got to spend some time after marriage, then Pallavi would have got to spend some normal family time with D's (celebrating festivals, birthdays, going on holidays etc.). This would have helped the bonding between her and D's so then chances of abandoning Pallavi when she was widowed would have been lesser as they already loved her. In show's scenario, as Mandar died on the wedding day, this bonding opportunity was gone, yet she was accepted. Pallavi was chosen before she was loved. Which is why she is so deeply attached to D's
In a Marathi family, there's no Mummy jī or Mummy, there's just Sāsūbāī (old-fashioned way to address mother-in-law) or Āī (modern way to address mother-in-law as mother). If Pallavi used the pronouns tumhī or tyā (honorific plural) for Sharada Āī, the way she said "Mandar the" when talking about him to Raghav, the listener would understand that Sharada is her mother-in-law, but if Pallavi said tū or tī (singular), the listener would think that Sharada Āī is her own mother.
I doubt if someone really calls their MIL Sasubai these days 😆. Its not right to generalize people this way, I address my mother as "Aap" while she address her mother as "Tu". Also, the promo, at core, was not about calling MIL as "ji", but about treating MIL as your own mother. The promo had also clearly underlined the fact that, to reach this comfort level, efforts should be from both MIL and DIL and not just DIL
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