Originally posted by: Deltablues
My God, kitnaaaaaaaa roteeee rehte ho. A year back, all this kid must have been dreaming about are a few new clothes, friends, and books that come with college. Instead, she's married off forcefully to a pathetic, abusive buddha who has a chick by the side. What more, she feels guilty about ruining the life of the buddha who got her father's voice across. So she keeps quiet when he tells her that he loves and will marry the side chick only. She lives as a naukrani at her in-laws she didn't want, in a city she didn't know.
What more, his family behaves like paternalistic masters, always giving out scraps of affection as a means to extract more work from her. Meanwhile the abusive buddha always keeps flaunting his physical intimacy with wife #2. If her curious adolescent, socially conditioned brain gets attracted to him, I can't blame her.
Here's the caveat: the buddha too falls for the much younger wife whilst keeping the richer wife in his life.
The richer wife-cum-sautan turns out to be the daughter of the man who had knocked up her younger mother and disappeared.
The paternalistic masters- turned-in-laws first become physically abusive with her and then turn loving towards her when she endangers her life for their son
Simultaneosly, the richer wife-cum-sautan-cum- didi exacts revenge on her by doing everything from raping her husband to selling her to brothels.
Turns out, the rapist sautan didi is pregnant with her husband's child which he expects Imlie to raise unquestioningly.
I am not even accounting for all the shit that has happened to her after Aryan came in.
And she loses out everytime. And rapist didi is the only one who's an apparent culprit to her. Rest of them temper their abuse with a language of love.
She has been losing for the past one year, so if she has a moment of self-pity, a moment of hoping that all this suffering had a bigger purpose, I can't blame her.
The only good thing that has happened to her in the past year has been Aryan. The only few moments she has won were because of him. She's attracted to him, cares for him, even loves him unknowingly, she gets angry when he lets go of her hand or even pretends to not have faith in her. She doesn't even register how much he means to her. She needs a zor ka jhatka in that regard.
But she's not obligated to just ignore her trauma and jump in the arms of a man without so much as a clear statement of intent from him.
I'd rather she closes this chapter properly than her unresolved trauma be the third person in their relationship.