You know Tanyaz, sometimes i feel that Manav is doing the right thing by being harsh with Archana.
I'm not saying that she deserves it or something, I feel very bad for her... but in a way.... Manav is doing what is right now best for all of them... he is at least using his brain... Archana is so lost in her 'pashchyataap' trip that she is getting.. I don't know what to say... highly disillusioned. She is trying to punish herself excessively. Remember what she said to Manav, 'I will never leave this house now... only my Arthi will go from here... just give me a corner, I will face all your ire and do prayashchit...' Manav clearly said, this is not possible, you cannot live here forever, cos Im marrying Shravani. So it is best that we forget the past and move on our different ways quietly.
Even though I was angry with him then, I later felt he did the right thing. She had false expectations... guilt had overburdened her to the extent that she was ready to go through fire. She just didn't want to accept that she was literally ruining her life and living there and taking abuse wudn't help her. It was necessary that those false expectations be nipped in the bud then and there... many people feel he indirectly 'kicked' her out, it was legally wrong, but I feel he did the right thing. She wud have cried and fretted, but she wud have gone back to making her future with her job and education instead of sitting in a corner of Manav's home for three months, trying to win the family back in the name of 'pashchyataap' and finally feeling humiliated on coming to know that Manav was getting remarried. Although Manav's decision may be called harsh, but the foolishness that Archu was displaying in her dialogues that day in the name of penance made it necessary that such a stand be taken. For who knows, with the huge guilt that she has right now, if Savita had asked her to jump into the well to do pashchyataap, she wud have done even that!
I liked what they showed in SBS, that Manav overrules his Aai's condition that Archu will have to complain against Manju to live in the house... there was no sense in making complaints against her own family when her in laws were against her. If Manav hadn't taken this stand, Archu wud again have again accepted Aai's condition saying I have to do justice and prayashchit... and put either Manju or herself into jail.
So when she goes back into the house, I want Manav to be inwardly soft, but show a little hardness on the surface. If she insists on doing the household work, not going to office and instead filling buckets of water saying this is my family, please let me do pashchyataap, then he shud really blast her saying I have clearly told you that no one in this house thinks of you as family any more, then why are you doing all this... Three months later I will very easily start on my new life... (although we know its not so), but you will be nowhere if you keep filling buckets of water and doing household chores instead of attending to your job and education.. I want him to be a little harsh and even scold her saying that our lives are different now, so no use in this foolishness in the name of pashchyataap. And if he lets her do pashchyataap by letting her work, I will be angry at him as well.