Hinduengg
You've put a finger on something so many of us have discussed so many times, w/o actually putting the finger on it. I can't, for the life of me, make out what the message of this show is. When it started, I thought it was about a girl who sacrificed/delayed her own marriage until her family was fully stable, and really enjoyed it. That was spoilt first by Sushma-Brij, and then by Padma. Then, when Jyoti married Pankaj, unlike others, I didn't like that match at all, since it meant Jyoti having to be a pillar for Pankaj, rather than having someone to lean on, as it is now w/ Kabir.
And then, the way they changed the character of so many characters just confused us. When Bhairavi first surfaced, and encouraged Uday to pursue his dream, she looked so adorable, and when she remarked on Sudha, who she had seen in the market, she looked like she'd be proud to have such an honest bahu. But come Pankaj's marriage, and she instantly became mean, before becoming fully vamp after her return. Brij's character too - first it was nice, then it became evil when he married Sushma, then it became funny when he started blackmailing CM, and now, it's just unbelievable, when he's become a saint. What's that all about? Of course, Pankaj takes the cake - there was a time when he was empathy personified, like the time when he persuaded Uday about Sudha's innocence, and persuaded the Sharmas to let Sudha stay as his guest until they could accept her back. The old Pankaj would have let go of Jyoti whenever she didn't want to be w/ him. The current Pankaj is only too happy to rob her womb and leave her in hospital when he didn't get his way.
Also, when they showed the Diwali violence on Sushma before Jyoti removed her from Brij, they had that PSA about the battering of women. How on earth do they reconcile that w/ the ending of Brij becoming a saint, and Sushma returning to him? One of the problems faced by battered women is that they tend to believe their hubbies when they are told they have reformed, and return to them, only to resume the same vicious cycle. The way Sushma's story was developing - her resuming school, her planning to give her son to a childless couple who couldn't have kids of their own - looked like a very positive prescription on how to deal w/ such a situation. Instead, since the godh bharai, the CVs totally perverted things by making Sarika disappear w/o explanation, and then slowly re-uniting Sushma w/ Brij, in what has to be one of the worst twists in TV history.
That's the problem - the CVs take potenital positives, and turn them around. Sarika was one, and Ritu another. While Ritu did the right thing telling Jyoti that a kid needs its father, she went overboard in telling her that she may have been selfish in not returning to him: what she could have suggested to Jyoti was joint custody w/ Pankaj. Of course, now, that is moot.
The other thing they kept screwing up was Sudha. When she was single, the only happy moments Sudha ever had was when she was Devika, and later, whenever she was in Uday's company. Yet, after Jyoti was kicked out, the only happy moments she seemed to have was @ her maayka, where Padma still didn't stop creating trouble for her, whether it was embarrassing her into lending Sushma her jewelry, lending money for Sushma's treatment, lending the car, etc. This is unbelievable. Any girl in Sudha's position would have been unhappy about Jyoti's plight, but otherwise happy, and definitely not going to Deepu for company. And the final condition that she not have babies until Jyoti's baby gets the Vashist name? So will she endorse what Pankaj did - little Roshni does get the Vashist name as a result of that.
In all the above cases, looks like the CVs have a very poor memory of what happened in the past, or else, this wouldn't be happening. CM doesn't bother to remind Pankaj that he signed away his rights to the baby, which clearly stated that even if he finds out that the baby is his, he cannot claim it. At any rate, this bad memory of events only helps in serving a very muddled message, if there's one @ all.
I agree w/ SEPIDEHh as well - Jyoti, w/o knowing about Kabir's family, has to send him to persuade them, and is worried when he doesn't call her back. Had she, in all these months of knowing him, gotten to know more about his family and their profiles, she'd have known what to expect, instead of behaving like a love-sick puppy. This is a situation where all her loads are now off - her baby is lost (actually w/ Pankaj), her family is completely supported by Deepu, Sushma & Munna is back w/ Brij, Sudha & Uday are now honeymooning wherever, only thing she has to do is remove herself from her family so that Poonam & Padma don't resent her being a burden on Deepu. And yet, she's really close to sabotaging even that.
I really hope that after she gets married to Kabir, they show things calming down in the Sisodia household, the women getting more respected, and finally the show winding down. If needed, show babies for Jyotir, Sannam, Paneelam and Sudhay. And then end it on that happy note., since there is no real message that they can send anymore.
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