Originally posted by: sanfan
Heavy medication - what medicine did she give him apart from a paracetamol for the fever that was sold across the counter without prescription so please let’s not have wordplay on law for a fictional tale.. there is nothing in the narrative to suggest that J was initiating any intimacy and there is nothing either to suggest that there was any coercion in the act initiated by Ani.
To answer your question no 1….
The morning after is a different day in any case for anyone who has entered into s*xual relationship… there are no laws governing the conduct and one is free to respond to the situation according to one’s sensibility. How much or how less one is articulate about the night of intimacy would entirely depend on the state of the relationship, despite consensual sex… that includes even casual s*x where the relationship may not even be defined so I don’t think there is any obligation arising from an act of intimacy to discuss it. Now coming to the actual tale, not sure if you watched it or interpreted it the way I did and obviously you are free to interpret it the way you wish. My interpretation was that Jhanak, never intended to make a play for the relationship unless Ani would have initiated it and been very steadfast about it.( hypothetically how she would have behaved or responded if Ani had acted like a husband the day after is open for interpretation)When she read ( what she saw) reticence or casualness in his actions, she just hardened her resolve to not take the matter further. A common enough approach for a woman in love but proud about it too…
On Q2
Now staying purely with the tale in question….. if the writer wished to portray an act done without consciousness, the urge to accept a deed of this nature would have to involve …acceptance that such a deed could have happened because a trustworthy person is saying it. In the tale, the writer wished to portray a breakdown in trust between the two post the Mumbai situation. Ani’s extreme jealousy unresolved at that moment as also his conflicted state of mind in respect of their relationship was projected on to the narrative. Jhanak had come to him probably expecting him to own up but when he refused to entertain the possibility, she dug in for an acceptance for the child and her belligerent posturing threw him off-,At one level her accusing him of something that he had no recollection of and that she was only asking him to accept paternity and nothing more.
Personally, I had questions on the way this part of the tale was done by Leena. Ani’s vehemence in denying the possibility that such an act may have happened did not wash well at all… because it hadn’t been built in the narrative to hold up well given Ani had acknowledged some level of intimacy between them on the night before the act, based on which he got her home and the whole shenanigans of making her jealous and the dare of the Shaadi. I suppose Leena wanted then to create a situation of actual acceptance from an event not involving the baby ( it was the tumour and her call to inform him that opened the floodgates) meaning that his acceptance was beyond the life they may have created.
You mentioned at the start of this post that we have different pov of the marriage… I don’t know your pov but I am sure you cannot know mine too.
I am not justifying the night of intimacy on the basis of marriage.. I am stating that the law is on their side on this one.
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