Priya didn't know a way out of the cobweb 5 yrs back and doesn't know a way out even now.
I am no fan of Priya 2.0 nor do I like her succumbing to fate but this is how it was always meant to be.
The biggest fear of Priya 1.0 was no matter how much progress she makes in life , she will not be able to surpass the miseries brought upon her by fate in the form of MS and his misdeeds. Priya 1.0 has said this fate dialogue multiple times.
Had Shivi death been an isolated incident, Priya would not have given up.
Just like how people say, taking care of step family is like an albatross hung in Ram's neck. He has been conditioned a certain way by Nandini using guilt and responsibility of being the man of the house after VK death so is the case with Priya. She has been emotionally abused right from the time she was born to believe that she is unworthy of happiness.
Just because Priya has been objective and independent, we all expect her to be a fighter all the time even at the face of tragedy.
5 years back Nandini played the right cards with both Ram and Priya .
Ram somewhere knew that Priya didn't kill Shivi and even knew that the child in Priya's womb is his as Priya is incapable of adultery but got manipulated by Nandini and gave up.
So is the case with Priya. When she got to know she is pregnant she hoped against hope and called Ram. It was never her deliberate intention to keep Ram in hiding about her pregnancy , but Nandini played her cards right and guilt trapped Priya beyond which she couldn't think straight.
We have to understand that just how Ram is capable of getting manipulated by Nandini so is Priya very much capable of succumbing to her manipulations owing to her own weaknesses. We may all want Priya to play prince charming to Ram's Cinderella and save him from his evil step family but Priya has to save herself too from her mental conditioning of curse and fate.
Unfortunately Priya does not yave even a single person in family who can show her the right path when her steps shake and her decision making ability is clouded , to motivate her to do what is right n needful when she has lost the zeal to even live .
We talk about how Priya should fight about father daughter rights, but this one has lost the energy and motivation to even live , forget about fighting. She is a living corpse no different from Ram , but cannot show it for the sake of Pihu. Her condition is pretty much evident form the elevator scene , the only reason she stretched her hand out is for Pihu otherwise was content dying.
Coming to the current situation . It is not 7 days vs lifetime. It is atleast 7 days as lifetime is not an option. All she can do is collect sm silly memories .
Had she known or had the strength to fight her demons and find a way out she would have done it 5 yrs back.
There is a limit utpo which Priya can push this narrative that beneath the Khadoos Ram is a Kohinoor diamond .
She did make Pihu understand how Ram saved her from manhole, return her medicine box, gave his entire farmhouse to make Pihu play, sat with him on ride inspite of motion sickness.
She even told Pihu that how Ram had helped her and her family multiple times even without asking. But if she keeps on forcing Pihu to like him she will obviously grow suspicious that why is her mum forcing her to like a stranger which she already has become. She was wondering why Priya always takes the side of Ram and not her.
The whole point of self harm which I do not approve at all, was the fact that Priya is aware that she is the reason Ram has become Khadoos.
I may be the only one but I do see this as the much awaited form of regret. It may not be a monologue and self harm is stupid and wrong but the fact is she did it to give Pihu an opportunity to meet Ram 1.0 .
Also regret is the second step. The first step is the tubelight moment where she understands that she is stronger than that damn curse. That she needs to break that shacke , beyond that curse n fate there is light and hope, had she fought five years back things may have been different. Right now she doesn't even think that something else within her own capacity was possible.
Only when she realizes that she indeed has the power to write her own destiny regret and remorse would dawn upon her.
She is giving them space, so that Ram can genuinely bond with Pihu in an environment where Krish and Priya are not around, so that it will atleast become a tad bit easy for him to bond with this kid without seeing her as a fruit of adultery.
About the fact that why Priya's concern is hiding her jail past more than hiding about the paternity, is because Pihu is already at a good place in terms of her mental health right now.
She is happy and content with her Miss Sood and is at peace with the fact that her father is away on an adventure. She didn't even react much on knowing that Ram could possibly be her father.
It's like more than father , she wants the right prince charming for her mother. Papa for Pihu at this point is just a bonus but not a necessity. This may change as she grows up , but right now there is no yearning but just curiosity about her father. In her own words she and Miss Sood are sufficient for each other.
But on the other hand her entire existence revolves around her Miss Sood. The fact that her mom was in jail for killing a human, how is she supposed to digest this information?
What happened to Ram when a random manager told him VK was corrupt. His whole world crumbled . He lost faith in everything around .
What happened when Eshaan got to know that the father whom he hero worshipped was a murderer? Shivina died.
So it is very much understandable that right now Priya wants to keep Pihu as far as possible from her dark past. Pihu does not deserve to live with this feeling that she is the daughter of a criminal, a feeling with which Priya is tormented every single day for being the daughter of MS.
Every time someone in the neighbor finds her criminal record she takes Pihu and leaves the place so that people around do not bully her. I know it is not possible to run away from the truth forever but she can only try to the best of her ability to protect her child till the time she as a mother feels Pihu is mature enough to be the told the truth of jail.
Lastly on a side and unrelated note Priya can actually learn from Pihu how to lie without self harming , the kid orchestrated a whole false asthma attack efficiently
I m tired of Priya harming herself physically. This is probably the fourth or fifth time she is doing it .
This is my last rant on this topic. Can't believe wrote so much on a weekend.
Edited by vaidharbhi95 - 3 years ago