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Monday, January 2, 2012
In the living room, Naina is speaking to Daksh as to how, her uncle Sridhar, decided not to call his friends for dinner, as the rest of the family was in distress. She finds it as a positive change in his attitude, and feels that it is a good sign. Daksh agrees with her and from across the room their father who is listening, tells them, that what she says is right, and Naina feels elated, when he warms up towards them. He then tells them about Mr. Sanghvi, and Naina does not realize what he wants to say, and she tries to butt in and knowing that she was thinking that he was going to say something against her, he hastens to explain that his last doubt has been removed by what Sanket's boss told him over the telephone. He has always thought well about Naina, in spite of his wife's negative attitude, as more and more facts were coming up, which showed the true intentions of Naina. It was her desire to see the good of the family, which became obvious, when Mr. Sanghvi asked him to thank Naina for after she put in her good word for Sanket, that he changed his plans to transfer him, to a new city. As he announces his desire to accept Naina as his daughter in law, and he comes close to her near the dividing line, and touches her face with love, and they come forward to take his blessing, by touching his feet, Rohini and Vibha come rushing to confront Vidyadhar and the wife tells him, "I am surprised that you are blessing a girl, whom I rejected."
An argument ensues between the husband and his wife, who is adamant in her obduracy, and Rohini is behind her goading her to say more. The father stares at Rohini and gives his own opinion about her too, which she does not like. As the temperature of the verbal battle rises, the family of Sridhar Patwardan too comes on the floor to give support to the embattled Naina. He spits his fiery arrows at Rohini and her mother in law. The wife does not accept what her husband is telling her, and she does not want to give him a fair hearing. In stead, she is giving him an ultimatum. "Make up your mind as to whom you want. Me, or that girl Naina ?" Vidyadhar is exasperated with his wife's blind faith in Rohini and her antagonism to Naina, and tells her, "Yes, I know whom I will choose" and looks angrily at her. The wife is anticipating victory, when her husband, straightens up, and tells her for the last time. "You have not given a chance to me too, to speak out my mind. You have made up your mind, and feel that it is a great thing. You who were brought up in such a good home, should have known better, but now I know you want to know my decision, and you can have it." so saying, he takes measured steps and walks close to the line of control, and his wife and Rohini look at him with disbelief. He crosses over to Naina's side, and they welcome him, and Kaka Sridhar is very proud of his brother. He tells the other side, "You do not know my brother, I know him well. Once he has made up his mind, no one can change it." Rohini is standing with the property papers wrapped in red cloth, tied with the red tape, and Mr. Patwardhan tells her, "Rohini, I see that you are holding the property papers and I know what is going in that little head of yours. Do not build your castles in the air, you will never see the day, when you will impose your will on this house. I will not hand this property over to your son." Rohini gets worked up, and tries to wail over the wrong decision of her father, all to no avail. Sanket arrives and she asks him to intervene. He knows his father and washes his hands. Rohini then gives her worst in her vituperative language, when she says, "You who lived on the mercy of my husband's generosity, who paid for your food, for your medicines, and even paid for the footwear you are walking with, have dared to go against us, and sided with that evil Naina. Come back to us, and think of your wife." All she gets, is an angry stare, and he says, "If you had a little bit of what Naina has, you would have saved this family. You talk about family, and you know nothing about this subject. I know my elder son, and he knows what I think. My love and respect for him have not diminished, but he is not the only son that I have. I have to think of the other son too." They look at Rohini with a sense of disgust.
Kaka Sridhar can bear the insults Rohini hurls at his brother no more and he shouts at her, "You woman, with little brain, stop once and for all." She comes to him, and faces him, and challenges him, and says, "You stay out of this, this is between us." He retorts, "It you were to speak to me like this it would be a different matter, but you do not know at whom who are yelling. He is your father in law. If you have any decency, you would behave differently. You are a uncultured brat." Rohini is stunned. Kaka puts his arm round his brother's shoulder and tells him, "Come Dada, let us go to our room," and he takes him up to take his rest.
Slowly, the rest of the family members on Naina's side, decide to go up to their rooms, and Naina stands like an empress and faces her foe, with a stern but firm face, dignified, and without saying a word, the message goes to the block-head of Rohini.
In the precap, we see Sanket and his wife outside the locked room of Vibha shouting at the occupant inside, asking her to open the door, and the rest of the family gets the alert, and Naina is at the head of the brigade. It looks like smoke is coming out of the room.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Kaka puts his arm round his brother's shoulder and tells him, "Come Dada, let us go to our room," and he takes him up to take his rest.
Naina feels guilty for leaving her mother alone, but this does not dissuade her father, who is determined to remain with her. Naina gives the option to her father to choose the room and they part to their own quarters.
Rohini is on the telephone with a lawyer, demanding that he find a way, to get the house in her name, and Sanket can not bear this attitude and he quarrels with her. He is anxious to find where is mother is and he leaves her.
On the terrace, Sridhar talks to his brother, and tells him that it feels good to be together after a such a long time, and Vidyadhar smiles at him. Daksh and Naina are worried what effect all this will have on the mother.
Vibha is despondent, and goes to the puja room, and locks it from inside, and lights up the lamp on the altar and with closed eyes, starts praying, and the fire spreads to the other dry flowers on the altar, and the smoke rises, but Vibha is not aware of what is happening. Sanket reaches the door, and knocks on it to alert his mother but does not get a reply. Rohini too is at the door. When the rest of the family comes and watches them, Rohini tells them not to poke their noses in their affair. When the smoke increases, and Vibha does not respond, Sanket panics and when Daksh wants to break open the door, Rohini rushes up to him, and forbids him from crossing to their side. Naina rushes to a cupboard, and picks a hard object and hurls it to the glass pane of the door and it breaks, and she shouts at Sanket, to put his hand in, and open the latch from inside, and he does it and rescues his mother.
He rests his mother on the chair, and tries to calm her. Rohini starts her nagging, and insults the mother saying that she has been playing a new drama, and does not care if the house catches fire. She reminds her that there are expensive things in the house. Sanket shouts at his wife, that she has no concern for the life of his mother, but is only interested in the property and riches. Rohini tells him, that if she had not thought of it, Naina would have snatched the house from their hands, and they would have been on the streets. Their father looks at them, with anger, and gets the confirmation of his suspicions of Rohini and her plan.
In the precap, we are shown a darkened room, and Vibha asks Rohini what has she done to her room. Rohini coolly tells her that she has made it her store room.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Vidyadhar is made at home by Naina and Daksh, and Kaka helps with his humor and poetry. They decide the sleeping area, and Kaka tells that the walls are mildewed in the room, and he could sleep in Akruti's room. Naina and Daksh want him to use their room, but the father decides to sleep in the hall on the sofa.
Rohini in her inimitable way, tortures her mother in law, and the latter, endures the agony, with a tired face, and submits to all indignities, and one is led to believe that she is either stubborn and refuses to see the truth is written in large writing on the wall, or she overlooks all this insult, just to ensure the presence of her grand son in the house. Her son Sanket is angry at the way his wife is ill treating his mother, but all he does is to complain. If he had developed his mind in any way, he would have checked on his mother, but he leaves that job to his wife, after seeing all that she does. He does not let anyone know what his problem is that he tolerates a woman like Rohini, who disgusts everyone who sees her, except her friends, who are like climbing creepers, and are parasites, just like Rohini.
Rohini finds the mother tired and as the day ends, she goes to her room, but on opening it she finds that the room has been converted into a store room by her daughter in law who advises her to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Again, the worn out woman, with haggard frame of her body, stooping with pain in her joints, goes where her daughter in law, takes her like a lamb to the slaughter house. Her husband has also taken a place on the sofa on the side belonging to Naina, and she is standing there with a glass of milk for him, and both watch the two women, and the husband is distraught watching the way his wife is being tortured. Naina notices that Sanket has no idea what his wife is doing and hatches a plan to bring the state of affairs to the notice of her brother in law.
At night, Sanket and Rohini are getting ready to go to bed, and the 'dutiful' son asks his wife, if his mother is being looked after, and gets the positive reply, which satisfies his moronic mind. As the lights go off, a stone is thrown at the window of Sanket and Rohini and that wakes them up, and they yell at that illusive outsider who has woken them up. They decide to go out and see who it might be, and Sanket tells his wife to bring Atharva along, and all three go out in the dark. Naina is hiding in the bushes, and watches the trio, who after some scouring, decide that there is no one to be found, and go back. On the way back, Sanket sees someone sleeping and sees that it is his mother, and he asks his wife about it, who gives him an answer which enrages him, but he too needs his wife more than his mother, even though he protests and says he cares for her.
Next morning, at the kitchen, Rohini puts the breakfast in two boxes, one for herself and the other for her husband and tells her mother, that there is no breakfast left, and that she should be satisfied with the lunch. The impotent mother yields to her daughter in law, as Naina watches them from a corner. As Rohini is coming out to the hall, Naina confronts her and tells her that a story should be written on her life, as a treatise for those who would like ttorture their mothers in law. Rohini retorts and asks her to do it. Naina tells her that she has already written one book, on the crossing of the line, and it is selling well If she needs a copy, she will give her one at a discount.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
After searching the compound for the intruder, Sanket, and Rohini with her baby in her arms, enter the darkened house and gingerly walk back to their room, but on his way back, Sanket sees something on the sofa in the living room, and he comes forward to see what that is, and finds his mother sleeping, and tries to wake her up, and angrily asks his wife why she told lies that his mother was fine. Rohini tries to find a way out to explain herself, but then the mother tries to rescue her only daughter in law on whom she has to depend now and then Sanket sees his father awake, and up on the sofa on the other end, and seeing him as if he is a stranger, an abnormal way for a dutiful son, to behave, comes to his own conclusion that it was their decision, and a thirty year old relationship could not have collapsed so easily. He is glad, and they let them and go back to their room. The mentally overworked Vibha drowing in her own self pity, feels she has saved her pitiable son, from embarrassment, goes back to sleep, after glancing at her husband, to show him her disapproval of his actions. Naina draped in a red saree, looks anxiously at the pair, from the corner of the room.
Rohini is sitting on the bed as her husband does the menial work of swabbing the floor, and picking up the broken pieces of the window. He philosophically, tells his wife that he realized only today, how much his parents are connected to each other, and his wife drenched in her fears, just mutters assent, without really hearing him.
Naina approaches the father, and whispers to him, that she hopes that sooner or later Sanket will see their mother's room, which Rohini has converted into her store room. She says, that her mother too, is kind hearted, more than it is needed, and had hidden the true facts from her son. Her father says with a sigh, "Let Sanket know or ignore, what he will know is not important, as nothing will change, until, your mother will realize her faults and start making attempts to change it." Naina is not satisfied, but her father tells her to go and rest, as it has been very late in the night.
Nain enters her room, where Daksh is resting on the bed with his body half covered in a blanket, and his eyes glued to a file, and he looks at her and asks, if his parents have gone to sleep. Naina engrossed in her own thoughts, asks aloud of herself, "How could Rohini do this to her mother ? Your brother is happy that his mother is sleeping on the sofa on her own accord." As Naina reiterates the events in tears, her husband lovingly holds her hands, and draws her close to himself, and makes her sit on the bed with him. The gentle son, a jewel hidden from the sight of his mother, lovingly explains to his wife in a good re-construction to his mother's behaviour and tries to tell her that some good has come out of it, as his parents are face to face and can look after each other. Trying to calm her down, he tells Naina that they have to find a way, by which they can keep Rohini's tricks in front of their mother. Naina tells Daksh that his father does not want them to do anything, until his wife admits her fault and realizes her own mistake. The loving Daksh, warms up to his sweet wife, and plants an amorous kiss on her forehead, and they go to sleep.
The night wears on, and in the living room, wrapped in a blanket, the father turns from one side to another, on the narrow uncomfortable sofa, and starts coughing, and this wakes his wife up, and she is drawn to him, but her own foolish sense of self righteousness, or self imposed exile, restrains her from coming to his aid. The night drifts into morning, and the sun rises in the east, and life begins to get active once again.
In the kitchen, the only two women, who have an interest in what goes on in he house, are busy with their work. Vibha is preparing the breakfast, for her wretched son, and his cruel wife, while the gentle Naina cares for the rest of the family without any show of distress. The room gets alive, as the wicked queen strolls to the kitchen table, and her over stretched mother tells her, "Rohini, your breakfast is ready. I will prepare tea for you." She tells her in her usual arrogant way, "O. K. mother, just do it fast." The mother turns back to her work, and lets a sigh of pain, and then asks her daughter in law, "Rohini my child," goes her wail to the egoistic daughter in law, drenching in self pity and obeisance, "Do you have any ointment, for the joint pains ?" The cruel faced woman, with her smirk, tells, "I do not know, but I will try to find it out later. Your pain is after all, not that much, and what is the use of applying balm." Rohini has realized that her mother is drifting away from her clutches and her plans for herself and her son are in danger, and she has to bring her back into her hands, and so she finds the methods of a cruel circus ring master into her strategy to tame her mother. You whip till she beds, is her motto. Naina watches in a shock what she does when the mother is not looking at her mischief. Rohini watches the prepared breakfast, and empties the bowl in which the mother has kept her breakfast aside, into her own bowl and when Vibha realizes what her daughter in law has done, Rohini tells her mother, "You need not have breakfast, as it is not enough, and you have a good lunch. There is so much work pending, and if you sit for breakfast, who will finish this work? " As an after thought, she reminds her mother, "Oh Ayee, as for the ration, please use it sparingly, the items have become very expensive." The mother stares at her changed daughter in law in an expression of disbelief, and gets more, "Ayee, when your work is done, please do not forget to wash all the soiled vessels." The mother is dazed and suffering her pain as she hears the final shot from her new boss: "Work fast." and Rohini walks from the kitchen with her tiffin bowls of breakfast. "
Naina is struggling with her thoughts, and hoping her mother will admit her mistakes, as she too will be unable to help her any more. Kaka shouts at Naina for a cop of tea, and she prepares it for him. She goes out with the breakfast tray to the outdoor garden, where Kaka is sitting on a chair reading his news paper and his wife sees Naina and tells her that she would have done it, and they lovingly sit down for their breakfast. Naina offers the tea to her father in law and tells him that she has added a little more ginger powder and sugar in his tea. Seeing that her father had to sleep on an uncomfortable sofa tells him, that pressing his shoulders he could get some relief. She tries to involve Kaka into it, and requests him to do the massage as his hands are more firm than hers. The reluctant Sridhar agrees and does it admirably and Naina gets her goal. Shyamal too is pleased with the change wrought by Naina and a vague smile dawns on her charming face. Naina pressures her father to shift into their room, as sleeping on the sofa will always cause him pain. Kaka tells him, to come to their room. The morning rolls on with their friendly banter, trying to devise ways, of arranging their sleeping quarters, and the faces light up in happiness.
Rohini brings a tired mother into her own room, littered with boxes and tells her, "Mother, from tonihgt, you will sleep here, in your own room." The mother turns her face to Rohini, and she continues, "But mother, before everything, you will have to clean the whole room." As she rattles the work the mother has to do, she looks at her arrogant face in wonderment, without a word of reply. She gives the last warning, "Before you decide to throw anything away, just ask me. " The mother holds the hands of Rohini, and says, "Child, that balm" and gets the reply, "What is this, after you apply balm, you should rest. How can you r est, when there is so much work to be done. You finish the work and I will tell Sanket to bring the pain rlief spray from the medical store when he comes home." When Vibha is about to ask Rohini something, she makes a call to her friend Usha, and walks away from the room.
The stubborn mule of a Vibha, struggles to finish the work alone, and she hears Atharva crying and she tries to alert her daughter in law, and when there is no reply goes to the room, picks the grand son and coddles him, and when he is quiet, lays him back in the cradle. The virago come in a haste, and stars yelling her her mother. "In futre, without asking me you will not touch my son, will not even dare to go near him. Did you hear me." The mother finally breaks down and starts complaining, and she asks her if a grand mother has no rights. She tries to put her in the right frame by telling her that with her own hands she brought up her two sons. Rohini tries to tell her that what she did was in the past, but she wants to d what is right for her son, and she does not need lessons from her.
Naina tries to persuade her father to take care of his wife.
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Rohini rubs the mother with her sarcasm, and she tolerates it, since according to her, she belongs to her own family, while all those who have gone against her wishes and crossed over to Naina's side are her enemies. She does not wish to tell her son about the torment she goes on account of his wife, in order to keep close to the grand child. Rohini dumps an empty pain relief balm tube in her hands and asks her to go, and finsish her work. She treats her worse than a servant, and tells her so, that she has not done anything to her, and even she has snatched the chance of the heir, of his throne. One feels bad for the woman, who has drawn all this ire on herself, by her bad sense of judgment. Naina sees that the mother has been given an empty tube, and rushes back to her side.
When Naina reaches her room, the rest of the family is with her. Daksh has gone to office. Naina tells Akruti to bring a fresh pain relief tube from the medical store, and Kaka Sridhar offers to go out and do it, and Naina and the rest of the family are very pleased with the change in him. Naina persuades her father, to go to the terrace and speak to his wife, as she is in dire need of his comfort, and after refusing at first, he decides to go up.
When he goes up, he sees a forlorn Vibha standing against a wall post, and crying her heart out silently. The tears flow down her cheeks, and she wipes them with the back of her hand. When the father hears, Vibha crying out to Bappa, to show her the way, he tells her, that instead of asking him, she should see first inside her heart. He tells her that unless she removes the blindfold for her eyes, she will not see joy. He refers to what Naina has done, and she can not see it. She is burning within herself with her false anger, and hides behind her own grievance. From the side, the father sees, Naina has also come on the terrace with a tube of the balm, which was brought from the medical store. Seeing that the mother does not want her presence, she leaves the tube on the table and goes down.
The father goes and picks the tube from the table, and gives her more advice. He reminds her of the past when once before Naina had rushed and brought the medicine for her, without being asked, and he places the tube on the partition line, and walks away. When no one is there to watch her, she applies the balm, and comes down.
Downstairs, Rohini accosts her with the child in her arm. As Vibha offers to take care of the child, the stupid Rohini moves away from her, and tells her that she can look after her son herself. Vibha is so blinded by her hate of Naina she would rather suffer all the insults from Rohini as they come from the foul mouth of a person, who belongs to 'her' family. Rohini tells her that she does not seem to have any pain now, - she does not know that some one else has given the medicine to her - and tells her to go an clean the toilet with the acid she has kept in her room. The submissive woman, yields and offers to do the work.
In her room, Naina is looking at the picture of the father and mother of Daksh with tears in her eyes. The father who has returned downcast from the terrace, goes behind her and consoles her, and promises that her pain will soon be over. He tells her not to take the harsh words of the mother to heart.
When Naina goes down, she sees Atharva unattended, and as she goes to help, her mother comes and insults her in a haughty voice that she is happy with Rohini and Sanket, and they can mange on their own, and does not need her help. Naina leaves her alone.
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Monday, January 2, 2012
In the living room, Naina is speaking to Daksh as to how, her uncle Sridhar, decided not to call his friends for dinner, as the rest of the family was in distress. She finds it as a positive change in his attitude, and feels that it is a good sign. Daksh agrees with her and from across the room their father who is listening, tells them, that what she says is right, and Naina feels elated, when he warms up towards them. He then tells them about Mr. Sanghvi, and Naina does not realize what he wants to say, and she tries to butt in and knowing that she was thinking that he was going to say something against her, he hastens to explain that his last doubt has been removed by what Sanket's boss told him over the telephone. He has always thought well about Naina, in spite of his wife's negative attitude, as more and more facts were coming up, which showed the true intentions of Naina. It was her desire to see the good of the family, which became obvious, when Mr. Sanghvi asked him to thank Naina for after she put in her good word for Sanket, that he changed his plans to transfer him, to a new city. As he announces his desire to accept Naina as his daughter in law, and he comes close to her near the dividing line, and touches her face with love, and they come forward to take his blessing, by touching his feet, Rohini and Vibha come rushing to confront Vidyadhar and the wife tells him, "I am surprised that you are blessing a girl, whom I rejected."
An argument ensues between the husband and his wife, who is adamant in her obduracy, and Rohini is behind her goading her to say more. The father stares at Rohini and gives his own opinion about her too, which she does not like. As the temperature of the verbal battle rises, the family of Sridhar Patwardan too comes on the floor to give support to the embattled Naina. He spits his fiery arrows at Rohini and her mother in law. The wife does not accept what her husband is telling her, and she does not want to give him a fair hearing. In stead, she is giving him an ultimatum. "Make up your mind as to whom you want. Me, or that girl Naina ?" Vidyadhar is exasperated with his wife's blind faith in Rohini and her antagonism to Naina, and tells her, "Yes, I know whom I will choose" and looks angrily at her. The wife is anticipating victory, when her husband, straightens up, and tells her for the last time. "You have not given a chance to me too, to speak out my mind. You have made up your mind, and feel that it is a great thing. You who were brought up in such a good home, should have known better, but now I know you want to know my decision, and you can have it." so saying, he takes measured steps and walks close to the line of control, and his wife and Rohini look at him with disbelief. He crosses over to Naina's side, and they welcome him, and Kaka Sridhar is very proud of his brother. He tells the other side, "You do not know my brother, I know him well. Once he has made up his mind, no one can change it." Rohini is standing with the property papers wrapped in red cloth, tied with the red tape, and Mr. Patwardhan tells her, "Rohini, I see that you are holding the property papers and I know what is going in that little head of yours. Do not build your castles in the air, you will never see the day, when you will impose your will on this house. I will not hand this property over to your son." Rohini gets worked up, and tries to wail over the wrong decision of her father, all to no avail. Sanket arrives and she asks him to intervene. He knows his father and washes his hands. Rohini then gives her worst in her vituperative language, when she says, "You who lived on the mercy of my husband's generosity, who paid for your food, for your medicines, and even paid for the footwear you are walking with, have dared to go against us, and sided with that evil Naina. Come back to us, and think of your wife." All she gets, is an angry stare, and he says, "If you had a little bit of what Naina has, you would have saved this family. You talk about family, and you know nothing about this subject. I know my elder son, and he knows what I think. My love and respect for him have not diminished, but he is not the only son that I have. I have to think of the other son too." They look at Rohini with a sense of disgust.
Kaka Sridhar can bear the insults Rohini hurls at his brother no more and he shouts at her, "You woman, with little brain, stop once and for all." She comes to him, and faces him, and challenges him, and says, "You stay out of this, this is between us." He retorts, "It you were to speak to me like this it would be a different matter, but you do not know at whom who are yelling. He is your father in law. If you have any decency, you would behave differently. You are a uncultured brat." Rohini is stunned. Kaka puts his arm round his brother's shoulder and tells him, "Come Dada, let us go to our room," and he takes him up to take his rest.
Slowly, the rest of the family members on Naina's side, decide to go up to their rooms, and Naina stands like an empress and faces her foe, with a stern but firm face, dignified, and without saying a word, the message goes to the block-head of Rohini.
In the precap, we see Sanket and his wife outside the locked room of Vibha shouting at the occupant inside, asking her to open the door, and the rest of the family gets the alert, and Naina is at the head of the brigade. It looks like smoke is coming out of the room.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Kaka puts his arm round his brother's shoulder and tells him, "Come Dada, let us go to our room," and he takes him up to take his rest.
Naina feels guilty for leaving her mother alone, but this does not dissuade her father, who is determined to remain with her. Naina gives the option to her father to choose the room and they part to their own quarters.
Rohini is on the telephone with a lawyer, demanding that he find a way, to get the house in her name, and Sanket can not bear this attitude and he quarrels with her. He is anxious to find where is mother is and he leaves her.
On the terrace, Sridhar talks to his brother, and tells him that it feels good to be together after a such a long time, and Vidyadhar smiles at him. Daksh and Naina are worried what effect all this will have on the mother.
Vibha is despondent, and goes to the puja room, and locks it from inside, and lights up the lamp on the altar and with closed eyes, starts praying, and the fire spreads to the other dry flowers on the altar, and the smoke rises, but Vibha is not aware of what is happening. Sanket reaches the door, and knocks on it to alert his mother but does not get a reply. Rohini too is at the door. When the rest of the family comes and watches them, Rohini tells them not to poke their noses in their affair. When the smoke increases, and Vibha does not respond, Sanket panics and when Daksh wants to break open the door, Rohini rushes up to him, and forbids him from crossing to their side. Naina rushes to a cupboard, and picks a hard object and hurls it to the glass pane of the door and it breaks, and she shouts at Sanket, to put his hand in, and open the latch from inside, and he does it and rescues his mother.
He rests his mother on the chair, and tries to calm her. Rohini starts her nagging, and insults the mother saying that she has been playing a new drama, and does not care if the house catches fire. She reminds her that there are expensive things in the house. Sanket shouts at his wife, that she has no concern for the life of his mother, but is only interested in the property and riches. Rohini tells him, that if she had not thought of it, Naina would have snatched the house from their hands, and they would have been on the streets. Their father looks at them, with anger, and gets the confirmation of his suspicions of Rohini and her plan.
In the precap, we are shown a darkened room, and Vibha asks Rohini what has she done to her room. Rohini coolly tells her that she has made it her store room.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Vidyadhar is made at home by Naina and Daksh, and Kaka helps with his humor and poetry. They decide the sleeping area, and Kaka tells that the walls are mildewed in the room, and he could sleep in Akruti's room. Naina and Daksh want him to use their room, but the father decides to sleep in the hall on the sofa.
Rohini in her inimitable way, tortures her mother in law, and the latter, endures the agony, with a tired face, and submits to all indignities, and one is led to believe that she is either stubborn and refuses to see the truth is written in large writing on the wall, or she overlooks all this insult, just to ensure the presence of her grand son in the house. Her son Sanket is angry at the way his wife is ill treating his mother, but all he does is to complain. If he had developed his mind in any way, he would have checked on his mother, but he leaves that job to his wife, after seeing all that she does. He does not let anyone know what his problem is that he tolerates a woman like Rohini, who disgusts everyone who sees her, except her friends, who are like climbing creepers, and are parasites, just like Rohini.
Rohini finds the mother tired and as the day ends, she goes to her room, but on opening it she finds that the room has been converted into a store room by her daughter in law who advises her to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Again, the worn out woman, with haggard frame of her body, stooping with pain in her joints, goes where her daughter in law, takes her like a lamb to the slaughter house. Her husband has also taken a place on the sofa on the side belonging to Naina, and she is standing there with a glass of milk for him, and both watch the two women, and the husband is distraught watching the way his wife is being tortured. Naina notices that Sanket has no idea what his wife is doing and hatches a plan to bring the state of affairs to the notice of her brother in law.
At night, Sanket and Rohini are getting ready to go to bed, and the 'dutiful' son asks his wife, if his mother is being looked after, and gets the positive reply, which satisfies his moronic mind. As the lights go off, a stone is thrown at the window of Sanket and Rohini and that wakes them up, and they yell at that illusive outsider who has woken them up. They decide to go out and see who it might be, and Sanket tells his wife to bring Atharva along, and all three go out in the dark. Naina is hiding in the bushes, and watches the trio, who after some scouring, decide that there is no one to be found, and go back. On the way back, Sanket sees someone sleeping and sees that it is his mother, and he asks his wife about it, who gives him an answer which enrages him, but he too needs his wife more than his mother, even though he protests and says he cares for her.
Next morning, at the kitchen, Rohini puts the breakfast in two boxes, one for herself and the other for her husband and tells her mother, that there is no breakfast left, and that she should be satisfied with the lunch. The impotent mother yields to her daughter in law, as Naina watches them from a corner. As Rohini is coming out to the hall, Naina confronts her and tells her that a story should be written on her life, as a treatise for those who would like ttorture their mothers in law. Rohini retorts and asks her to do it. Naina tells her that she has already written one book, on the crossing of the line, and it is selling well If she needs a copy, she will give her one at a discount.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
After searching the compound for the intruder, Sanket, and Rohini with her baby in her arms, enter the darkened house and gingerly walk back to their room, but on his way back, Sanket sees something on the sofa in the living room, and he comes forward to see what that is, and finds his mother sleeping, and tries to wake her up, and angrily asks his wife why she told lies that his mother was fine. Rohini tries to find a way out to explain herself, but then the mother tries to rescue her only daughter in law on whom she has to depend now and then Sanket sees his father awake, and up on the sofa on the other end, and seeing him as if he is a stranger, an abnormal way for a dutiful son, to behave, comes to his own conclusion that it was their decision, and a thirty year old relationship could not have collapsed so easily. He is glad, and they let them and go back to their room. The mentally overworked Vibha drowing in her own self pity, feels she has saved her pitiable son, from embarrassment, goes back to sleep, after glancing at her husband, to show him her disapproval of his actions. Naina draped in a red saree, looks anxiously at the pair, from the corner of the room.
Rohini is sitting on the bed as her husband does the menial work of swabbing the floor, and picking up the broken pieces of the window. He philosophically, tells his wife that he realized only today, how much his parents are connected to each other, and his wife drenched in her fears, just mutters assent, without really hearing him.
Naina approaches the father, and whispers to him, that she hopes that sooner or later Sanket will see their mother's room, which Rohini has converted into her store room. She says, that her mother too, is kind hearted, more than it is needed, and had hidden the true facts from her son. Her father says with a sigh, "Let Sanket know or ignore, what he will know is not important, as nothing will change, until, your mother will realize her faults and start making attempts to change it." Naina is not satisfied, but her father tells her to go and rest, as it has been very late in the night.
Nain enters her room, where Daksh is resting on the bed with his body half covered in a blanket, and his eyes glued to a file, and he looks at her and asks, if his parents have gone to sleep. Naina engrossed in her own thoughts, asks aloud of herself, "How could Rohini do this to her mother ? Your brother is happy that his mother is sleeping on the sofa on her own accord." As Naina reiterates the events in tears, her husband lovingly holds her hands, and draws her close to himself, and makes her sit on the bed with him. The gentle son, a jewel hidden from the sight of his mother, lovingly explains to his wife in a good re-construction to his mother's behaviour and tries to tell her that some good has come out of it, as his parents are face to face and can look after each other. Trying to calm her down, he tells Naina that they have to find a way, by which they can keep Rohini's tricks in front of their mother. Naina tells Daksh that his father does not want them to do anything, until his wife admits her fault and realizes her own mistake. The loving Daksh, warms up to his sweet wife, and plants an amorous kiss on her forehead, and they go to sleep.
The night wears on, and in the living room, wrapped in a blanket, the father turns from one side to another, on the narrow uncomfortable sofa, and starts coughing, and this wakes his wife up, and she is drawn to him, but her own foolish sense of self righteousness, or self imposed exile, restrains her from coming to his aid. The night drifts into morning, and the sun rises in the east, and life begins to get active once again.
In the kitchen, the only two women, who have an interest in what goes on in he house, are busy with their work. Vibha is preparing the breakfast, for her wretched son, and his cruel wife, while the gentle Naina cares for the rest of the family without any show of distress. The room gets alive, as the wicked queen strolls to the kitchen table, and her over stretched mother tells her, "Rohini, your breakfast is ready. I will prepare tea for you." She tells her in her usual arrogant way, "O. K. mother, just do it fast." The mother turns back to her work, and lets a sigh of pain, and then asks her daughter in law, "Rohini my child," goes her wail to the egoistic daughter in law, drenching in self pity and obeisance, "Do you have any ointment, for the joint pains ?" The cruel faced woman, with her smirk, tells, "I do not know, but I will try to find it out later. Your pain is after all, not that much, and what is the use of applying balm." Rohini has realized that her mother is drifting away from her clutches and her plans for herself and her son are in danger, and she has to bring her back into her hands, and so she finds the methods of a cruel circus ring master into her strategy to tame her mother. You whip till she beds, is her motto. Naina watches in a shock what she does when the mother is not looking at her mischief. Rohini watches the prepared breakfast, and empties the bowl in which the mother has kept her breakfast aside, into her own bowl and when Vibha realizes what her daughter in law has done, Rohini tells her mother, "You need not have breakfast, as it is not enough, and you have a good lunch. There is so much work pending, and if you sit for breakfast, who will finish this work? " As an after thought, she reminds her mother, "Oh Ayee, as for the ration, please use it sparingly, the items have become very expensive." The mother stares at her changed daughter in law in an expression of disbelief, and gets more, "Ayee, when your work is done, please do not forget to wash all the soiled vessels." The mother is dazed and suffering her pain as she hears the final shot from her new boss: "Work fast." and Rohini walks from the kitchen with her tiffin bowls of breakfast. "
Naina is struggling with her thoughts, and hoping her mother will admit her mistakes, as she too will be unable to help her any more. Kaka shouts at Naina for a cop of tea, and she prepares it for him. She goes out with the breakfast tray to the outdoor garden, where Kaka is sitting on a chair reading his news paper and his wife sees Naina and tells her that she would have done it, and they lovingly sit down for their breakfast. Naina offers the tea to her father in law and tells him that she has added a little more ginger powder and sugar in his tea. Seeing that her father had to sleep on an uncomfortable sofa tells him, that pressing his shoulders he could get some relief. She tries to involve Kaka into it, and requests him to do the massage as his hands are more firm than hers. The reluctant Sridhar agrees and does it admirably and Naina gets her goal. Shyamal too is pleased with the change wrought by Naina and a vague smile dawns on her charming face. Naina pressures her father to shift into their room, as sleeping on the sofa will always cause him pain. Kaka tells him, to come to their room. The morning rolls on with their friendly banter, trying to devise ways, of arranging their sleeping quarters, and the faces light up in happiness.
Rohini brings a tired mother into her own room, littered with boxes and tells her, "Mother, from tonihgt, you will sleep here, in your own room." The mother turns her face to Rohini, and she continues, "But mother, before everything, you will have to clean the whole room." As she rattles the work the mother has to do, she looks at her arrogant face in wonderment, without a word of reply. She gives the last warning, "Before you decide to throw anything away, just ask me. " The mother holds the hands of Rohini, and says, "Child, that balm" and gets the reply, "What is this, after you apply balm, you should rest. How can you r est, when there is so much work to be done. You finish the work and I will tell Sanket to bring the pain rlief spray from the medical store when he comes home." When Vibha is about to ask Rohini something, she makes a call to her friend Usha, and walks away from the room.
The stubborn mule of a Vibha, struggles to finish the work alone, and she hears Atharva crying and she tries to alert her daughter in law, and when there is no reply goes to the room, picks the grand son and coddles him, and when he is quiet, lays him back in the cradle. The virago come in a haste, and stars yelling her her mother. "In futre, without asking me you will not touch my son, will not even dare to go near him. Did you hear me." The mother finally breaks down and starts complaining, and she asks her if a grand mother has no rights. She tries to put her in the right frame by telling her that with her own hands she brought up her two sons. Rohini tries to tell her that what she did was in the past, but she wants to d what is right for her son, and she does not need lessons from her.
Naina tries to persuade her father to take care of his wife.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Rohini rubs the mother with her sarcasm, and she tolerates it, since according to her, she belongs to her own family, while all those who have gone against her wishes and crossed over to Naina's side are her enemies. She does not wish to tell her son about the torment she goes on account of his wife, in order to keep close to the grand child. Rohini dumps an empty pain relief balm tube in her hands and asks her to go, and finsish her work. She treats her worse than a servant, and tells her so, that she has not done anything to her, and even she has snatched the chance of the heir, of his throne. One feels bad for the woman, who has drawn all this ire on herself, by her bad sense of judgment. Naina sees that the mother has been given an empty tube, and rushes back to her side.
When Naina reaches her room, the rest of the family is with her. Daksh has gone to office. Naina tells Akruti to bring a fresh pain relief tube from the medical store, and Kaka Sridhar offers to go out and do it, and Naina and the rest of the family are very pleased with the change in him. Naina persuades her father, to go to the terrace and speak to his wife, as she is in dire need of his comfort, and after refusing at first, he decides to go up.
When he goes up, he sees a forlorn Vibha standing against a wall post, and crying her heart out silently. The tears flow down her cheeks, and she wipes them with the back of her hand. When the father hears, Vibha crying out to Bappa, to show her the way, he tells her, that instead of asking him, she should see first inside her heart. He tells her that unless she removes the blindfold for her eyes, she will not see joy. He refers to what Naina has done, and she can not see it. She is burning within herself with her false anger, and hides behind her own grievance. From the side, the father sees, Naina has also come on the terrace with a tube of the balm, which was brought from the medical store. Seeing that the mother does not want her presence, she leaves the tube on the table and goes down.
The father goes and picks the tube from the table, and gives her more advice. He reminds her of the past when once before Naina had rushed and brought the medicine for her, without being asked, and he places the tube on the partition line, and walks away. When no one is there to watch her, she applies the balm, and comes down.
Downstairs, Rohini accosts her with the child in her arm. As Vibha offers to take care of the child, the stupid Rohini moves away from her, and tells her that she can look after her son herself. Vibha is so blinded by her hate of Naina she would rather suffer all the insults from Rohini as they come from the foul mouth of a person, who belongs to 'her' family. Rohini tells her that she does not seem to have any pain now, - she does not know that some one else has given the medicine to her - and tells her to go an clean the toilet with the acid she has kept in her room. The submissive woman, yields and offers to do the work.
In her room, Naina is looking at the picture of the father and mother of Daksh with tears in her eyes. The father who has returned downcast from the terrace, goes behind her and consoles her, and promises that her pain will soon be over. He tells her not to take the harsh words of the mother to heart.
When Naina goes down, she sees Atharva unattended, and as she goes to help, her mother comes and insults her in a haughty voice that she is happy with Rohini and Sanket, and they can mange on their own, and does not need her help. Naina leaves her alone.
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