A veteran head of a large family would not react in such fashion. Just wondering, how this patriarch was holding his flock together so far? Or rather, is he really worthy of the respect or bereavement that those two actually courteous youngsters are wasting on this egotist elder at all?
1. Was he really looking for ulterior motives in Naitik's action for months or was he hard put to control his presumed slight of ego since Buaji fanned it to the surface?
2. How is he to react on learning his 'ah-so-victimized' daughter's willful snub of her husband's exactly similar (and far more valid) grouse, only to appease her MIL?
3. How come He and Rajbanna all of sudden become so bold in brushing aside that imminent and actual threat of forgery complaint which had exerted them so far as to sale their house at half the market price? Or had he seen a perfect opportunity to cut these two irritant juniors down to their sizes once the imminent threat is dissolved?
4. How come a father let his obedient and adult son go so misunderstood and undefended when he had actually acted only to protect his family?
5. If this patriarch is so much 'principally' against 'dowry (though more he appeared concerned only for social gossip), then how can he scold his DIL so savagely?
6. If he is so proud of his fair sense of judgment and sure of its benevolence on family, then how could he start blaming the fiasco of his daughter's marriage on these two when it was he who took the final decision? Not to speak of the actual contribution of his willful daughter's intractable misdemeanors to everyone including her husband.
7. Gaytri,so eagerly accusatory to same Daddaji when Rashmi's matrimonial was in line, becomes so indignant at her son and DIL's presumed disobedience, that to when now everyone knows the imminent forgery complaint as compelling instigation (and actually serious).
8. Bhabhima- not comprehending the seriousness of an arrest warrant for her 'oh-so- venerable and reputable' lord- that she sites Buaji, whose considerable barbs were aimed at her own daughter?
The elder Generation is showed failing big time. They actually strengthen the case for nuclear family system and deserve the Batwaara…as much as the liberated young couple, much though these two may lament the lifting of a tyranny.
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