Sometimes, yes. She took divorce from her husband which is still difficult for women in pur society , fought courageously against a terminal disease, wanted to start working & learning new things at her age, she doesn't keep malice in her heart for anyone, she corrects her children & is willingly to get corrected by them too (Samar explained to her about Anuj).
Other times , no. She never stands upto Baa for herself, helps Vanraj & Kavya even after all they did to her. Her desire to be mahaan exists.
Yes, Baa was totally wrong in the way she spoke to Bapuji but I understood her as a wife & mother. Bapuji had a factory but still watching your young son work to fend for the house & get his sister married off breaks a mother's heart. Add to that the property tax that Bapuji forgot to pay for 20 years & you can see that Bapuji is careless when it comes to his professional life. In Baa's generation, women were generally homemakers & she and her children were financially dependent on Bapuji. Baa wasn't 100% wrong there. A good father needs to provide for the family too so that the children can fulfill their responsibilities & dreams well. Anu saw Bapuji's guroor but not Baa's mother's heart inspite of being a Mom herself. Anu takes stands totally for or against someone when most of the Shah family is grey. I believe as per WU, she signed the property papers which gave Vanraj property rights instead of Bapuji. This coming from a lady who had been the victim of a loan scam by signing fraud papers.
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