No, I disagree w/ you. Jyoti would have been justified in keeping this secret from Pankaj IFF she also shut Sushma out of her life, which she did for a while. But after Deepu (that other loser) told her about Sushma's night life, she started interfering again, but still kept it under wraps from her in-laws, and in the process, destroyed whatever good will she had. Since Jyoti decided to actively support Sushma despite the hatred, she should have also taken Pankaj & sasural into confidence. Look what happened w/ Sudha - they knew everything about her, and as a result were even more supportive than her own father - when Sudha was not allowed back into the house, Pankaj and MahendraNath insisted that Sudha be sheltered in their home until her name was cleared. Had they known about Sushma, they'd have supported Jyoti in foiling Brij. Everytime she went out to do something to Sushma, she had to lie about it back home, and felt horribly guilty about it later.
Frankly, I'm not getting what you mean by 'after a time she only had told her not anyone else' Can you elaborate?
I think the CVs have screwed up Pankaj's character - he was perfectly justified in kicking Jyoti out, and would have done better to simply base it on her concealing all this, and getting her entire family to participate in her deception. He overdid it by being mad @ Jyoti for having a love life before she met him, and what's worse, later, questioning the paternity of the baby. But other than that, what Jyoti did was bad, and that ethical retard KK supporting her blindly was even worse.
I also disagree that Pankaj is the type of person who should never marry - until the day Jyoti bared all, he was supportive 80% of the time, even going against CM on the question of Jyoti's collecting wages from Sishu Mangal, and defending her against CM on several occasions. His proactive offer to KK to shelter Sudha until they could come to terms w/ her innocence was something which few husbands would do on their own. The only time Pankaj behaved horribly was when Uday married Sudha, and there was no reason for him to suspect Jyoti, and ultimately, he realized that while overhearing Jyoti's conversation w/ Uday. There too, the fault was partially Uday's for agreeing to CM's demand to marry Neelam, rather than allow CM to leave after Sudha married. That way, both Sudha and Jyoti could have breathed easy, and Jyoti could have told Pankaj about Sushma & Brij, w/o Brij coming to their house.
In fact, I'd make the case that Jyoti is the one who should never have married, given how she was unable to let go of her maayka. Yeah, girls do maintain ties to their maayka, but not to the extent of running off there at a moments notice all the time, particularly when their intervention was not wanted. If marriage simply meant, as Jyoti once told Sudha, the addition of new responsibilities but not letting go of old ones, no girl in her right mind would, nor should, ever marry. Marriage is something a girl does when she's willing to let be transfered from her father's to her husband's family, and when she does that, her old responsibilities don't, or at least shouldn't remain. Since Jyoti was never willing to let go of those, it was a mistake on her part to marry, be it Pankaj (or even Brij, had he never gone w/ Sushma.)
In fact, responsibility for Jyoti's condition is Padma - had she not sabotaged her rishtas, and let there been an open conversation about Jyoti's responsibilities to her maayka, and where they ended, she'd not have eloped w/ Pankaj, and be in this predicament today. For her sake, I do hope that Jyoti has a miscarriage, rather than having to support a baby in addition to everything else. After that, let her resume her dance career and be as successful as she can w/ it.
Anupamaa
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