Uday, despite being married for a mere 2 days, is showing himself as a more cognizant of the responsibilities of a spouse, than Pankaj is. Even @ the best of times, the best that Pankaj would do would be to plead Jyoti's case, and in the case before CM's exile, tell her that she was being a typical saas. Uday, by contrast, when he saw Sudha being reverse-pimped, told CM flat on her face that she didn't give a rat's rear end about him.
And Pankaj's reason for turning on Jyoti is ridiculous. I could understand it if it was after Jyoti's absense from important family occasions, like the Bhau-duj, or later, when he finds out about Brij & Sushma. But here, Jyoti's 'fault' was to accept Uday's marriage after the fact, and try to get the rest of the family to accept that marriage, since it's a done deal. Let's forget Sudha for the moment - does Pankaj really believe that Jyoti doesn't have Uday's happiness @ heart at all? Or would he have been okay with this had Uday eloped w/ a different girl that he was in love w/, instead of Sudha? Jyoti having to be the object of this animousity just b'cos the beneficiary of Uday's act was Sudha is just ridiculous. And to make things worse, none of them have yet given either Uday nor Sudha a chance to explain what exactly they did, and what was running thru their minds. So everybody is against anybody who supports Uday?
The day that Jyoti married, I thought that it was a bad move on her part for 2 reasons: she was doing it only because of Padma's behavior, and unlike other girls, marriage wasn't something she thought of much, except when she was an item w/ Brij. The other reason was that she was totally dedicated to her own maakya. Nothing wrong w/ that, but then a marriage would create an inevitable conflict of interests, even w/o a CM like character in the sasural. In fact, just as Sushma's marriage ending was good for her (incidentally, why does she still wear the mangal sutra?), Jyoti's would be too - the abuse from CM would stop, just as for Sushma, the abuse from Brij stopped. Also, while Jyoti was right in emphasizing the differences b/w their families, she should have screened Pankaj's family for louts, and had she noticed CM much earlier, she could have declined on those grounds.
Of all these 3 sisters, Sudha is the only 1 who I felt should ever get married, and which I was rooting for ever since Uday fell for Devika. Otherwise, Jyoti would have been perfectly happy had Padma & Dadi not been such misogynist creeps, and she'd simply have happily supported her family. Similarly, had Sushma kept her hands off her sister's date and told Jyoti about it, neither of them would have fallen for Brij.
The sooner Pankaj finds out about Brij, Sushma & Jyoti's past and ends it all, he'll actually be doing Jyoti a big favor. Although I doubt that Jyoti can work in any place financed by the Vashisths, since her honor would also be @ stake.
Anupamaa
