Originally posted by: mango.falooda
if you notice, both moms in zindagi gulzar hai had identities of their own that were separate from wife and mother. kashaf's mom was working in a school and had a life separate from home. so yes, she struggled to put food on the table but because she was independent and working, she could take a stand for her daughters. she didn't break no matter how many taunts her husband or his relatives gave her. as for zaroon's mom, I don't remember what her profession was but I do remember that she was really good at her job that she travelled even overseas for conference. so this was a woman that had a life outside of her husband and son. they weren't her life or her entertainment. she also raised her kids to be independent and so had to agree when he chose kashaf.
like dramabaaz explained so well about the culture aspects, a lot of these obsessive moms have also emotionally unavailable husbands. they are unhappy in their marriages and it is not fulfilling. so the sons become the support. I also think the obsession has to do with the lack of relationship progression in the parent child relationship. rather than going through child-parent to teenager-parent to adult child-parent relationship, the relationship remains stunted in the chid-parent phase. there is this great telgu/tamil movie where it opens with this line -- when you child is 2 and you hold his hand, that is fine. but when he is 25 and you are still holding his hand, that is a problem. in many of these obsessive moms, they are not willing to accept that young birds will eventually grow their wings and fly away -- that is the natural order.
Was that the movie with jayam Ravi and prakash raj? The one with genilia desouza.
One thing i didn't like about zgh was some of the regressive and chauvinist thinking of zaroon. Even though his mother let him be as free as he can, he used to judge his mother for being career oriented.
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