Originally posted by: Chitrashi
Yes Uttara needs to pay for her sins, but there are other ways of punishing her than forcing her to keep the baby. A fine life we are talking of for the baby if its sole purpose of existence is as a reminder to the mother of her sins.
I don't know why everyone is hellbent on punishing two innocent children in all this mess. Fine, Devyani forced Uttara to keep the baby and stopped the abortion, but who is going to be the biggest sufferer - Tara and the unborn child.
Tara is not only going to have to live with the fact that her father was a good-for-nothing drunkard who used to beat her mother, but also that he pimped her. She is now going to live with a daily reminder of the fact that her mother murdered her father, had an affair with her BIL and now is going to have an illegitimate child. I see a brilliant future on the psychiatrist's couch for Tara. Obviously she is never going to fine love and acceptance in society because of her wonderful lineage. That she can never get married is a given.
The unborn child is still more to be pitied. What is its fault? It is going to grow up without a father's name. It is not going to find love and acceptance even within the family that so vociferously stopped Uttara from the abortion. Obviously, everyone is going t hate the child, from the moment it is born, its mother already does so. Its brother (Adi)already does so, and its sister (Tara) is not exactly going to be overjoyed when she hears the news, is she?
So what exactly was the achievement of this track? Why would the makers be so bold as to handle such difficult subjects as homosexuality, incest, molesting and marital violence,s top short of discussing abortion in a sane manner? And why are we condoning such a stupid act? When it is legally permissible to terminate a pregnancy if there are medical complications which might impact the life of a child, shouldn't the same logic be applied to the social environment around the child too, esp. since the fetus is still only two months old.
@Chitrashi...thanks for sharing your perspective...my like button is behaving up.
Anyway...there are so many ways to look at this. A pure anti-abortion advocate would say that if you had the ability to do the "deed", were not forced in to sex and also have the money to bring up a child...you should not be killing a life. I am not looking at this moralistically. Just because something is possible and permissible legally does not make it the right choice anyway.
When I look at stories, I personally like writers in television shows pushing the envelope. From a story standpoint, if the baby were aborted right now, what next for Uttara's character? She will shed more crocodile tears and that will be it...she will not be forced to face her sins...hers...not Brahma...just hers. If you read my post, I said "keeping the baby, for now'. Uttara has barely thought about what she wants to do. She reacted emotionally to the shock of finding herself pregnant and Adi's harsh words and ran to the nearest hospital..."main is paap ko mithana chahthi hoon". She needs to work through her feelings and emotions. The writers may still have her abort/miscarry the child later...who knows. But to me, I want to see Uttara's character process what she has done and then decide what she wants to do about it. If the writers do go down the path of her choosing to keep the baby, there is a complex dynamic to explore there as well...you pointed that out. No matter what her character ultimately chooses, the process of getting there should be one that will really redeem Uttara to the viewer...since the show is ending in 6 months.
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