Kadoos Manav ya the lovable Manav!!!!! - Page 4

OK folks,

The creatives figured out that they screwed up with the Shravani sindoor episode. As we all know, there's been a fair torrent of protest on that score. So what we saw today was an effort, however botched up, to put things partially right again. The way we're expected to interpret the new development is: he filled Shravani's parting to satisfy his mother, but what he did was wrong in every way, morally, socially, legally, and in the eyes of G Bappa. So here's where Bappa decides to pull him up short and tell it to him like it really is: Dumbo, THIS is your wife, the one you owe allegiance to, the one who truly has the right to sindoor from you. And, miracle of miracles, this is what Manav too believes at the bottom of his heart. He could always turn around and refuse to do it, because there is no real (i.e. yelling Savita) compulsion here, but he won't, because he senses the rightness of it, and the meaninglessness of the ritual completed under duress with someone else. So if he does do the sindoor thing tomorrow, no matter what ring he puts on Shravani later, he would be acknowledging the strength and value of his relationship with Archana in the highest court, Bappa's temple, before the highest authority, Bappa himself.

We are all, of course, free to come up with our own readings of every episode, but because we're always blasting the creatives, I thought we should also accept when we see some effort made in the right direction, even if it's all mangled and contrived.

Commentator

If tomorrow manav does put sindoor on Archana in front of bappa then it only means one thing , he does acknowledges the fact that she indeed is his wife .

I hope it means something to it not because the priest is putting pressure ...

Again, I offer what I believe the creatives are trying to get us to feel, and given the context, they're not completely off on this one: Manav is, like all of us, both a private and a public person. His public self is forced to act in ways that sadden and sometimes anger his private self. The engagement, if there is one, like the sindoor on Shravani, is just one more public affirmation of his assurance to Girish that he will do the right thing by her. Now what's the difference between being verbally affianced and affianced with a ring? Both are promises, and he has already made what to any honourable man is the the more important of the two promises, given his word - which means a lot to him - to defend Shravani's and the family's honour. Obviously, a) we, as romantics, as women's libbers, as moral beings, can't agree that this should be his highest priority, and b) given the new circumstances of Archana's refusal to divorce in court, in hindsight his was a lousy decision. But having once committed - and in the thrall of creatives who turn a deaf ear to our loudest libbing :-) - he feels morally obliged to see the thing through. But the temple is where his private self comes into play, a place where between Bappa and him there is only the truth, one such truth being his simultaneous feelings of love, guilt, regret, and attraction towards Archana. There has already been the episode of the miraculously returned mangalsutra; we are thus encouraged to view everything happening in the temple as that which represents Manav's real feelings and hopes. His holding Archana's hand on the stairs isn't just to help her up the stairs literally, nor merely a romantic gesture; above all it represents the fact - acknowledged before God - of their being the most appropriate partners and helpmeets for each other in the longer journey of life.

Commentator

Agree with you totally.

How I second u . If creatives will present god this way , I will put my perspective out tomorrow.

Keep in touch Ok ,

But spare a thought its no fault of the baby, and people already talking about eliminating it as it would bring shame for Shravani.

I know that very well Tanya, he his married. He loves her to the end of the world, no two ways about it.

Ya but the situation has turned too grim, if shravani wasnt there u would have accepted her whole heartedly.

No i don't think so there is any other possible way too save the child, may be taking the kid to US its all temporary way out, but not a permanent solution

Bcoz there is no sindoor on her maang in today's SBS segment......