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You are bang on target dear but actually there are multiple things which come to my mind as a result of this post and comments on it -
It is true that CVs tend to get inconsistent when they look for easy ways to put their point across. Viallgers coming and praising Jagdeesh and then giving mithai to Daadisa would have been enough to bring out the point abt Jagadessh in front of Sanchi. But they wanted to just create suspense at the precap point and highlight Anandi's past and hence this faux paus...it was totally uncalled for and unnecessary...it did not raise drama point as much as it raised questions on thier credibility as creatives.Also, the point abt bringing Jagdeesh on their shoulder to office...again it was just a way to exageraate the good things he was doing suddenly for his village...I can still give a benefit of doubt assuming they did not know Anandi will be there and as a collector probably it was Shiv's perogative to know abt it...Now coming to they Jagya staying in haveli...i would say it is one's own personal matter. But yes, yet again, in greed of getting high drama CVS blotched it a little. Maybe they could have shown some villagers gossiping and Shiv getting angry on evesdropping them...that would have been the right way abt it. As you say it is hard to believe that villagers will not gossip abt such an event.As to Saanchi - I personally think there is nothing wrong with the track. I know of many teenagers and young people, who live in cities and are very snobbish and rude. "Ewww...how do u go an visit your grandparents in village...do they have proper toilets?"...this was a question I have heard many a times. So people like Sanchi are a reality who think they are modern but miss the whole point that modernity is not about western clothes or education...it is about being tolerate towards other people's cultures and thoughts...Ira is shown almost scared of her daughter. That also I have seen happening first hand in amny homes. Kids become so rude and angry that in thier love, parents loose all control over them. They are not able to discipline them, or disown them and are scared of what such kids will say or do and how they can tarnish thier image in front of society. I feel at this point ira is more worried about their respect as she is scared abt Saanchi's reactions in front of Singhs. This is typically a case where kids don't do things big enough to disown them like Jagya but at the same time, they are hard to control and manageOne thing which really hit me very badly though was Shekhar's reluctance to tell Saanchi abt divorce. At this point I am giving them a benefit of doubt that they are doing it because they are scared of how she will react in front of Singhs and not ebcause they are hypocites and actually see it as something to be ashamed of. Till now, they have been shown as reasonable people so I really hope it is just because they are afraid of Saanchi's big mouth and her ability to hurt Shiv, Anandi and Singhs...Puri raam katha likh di maine...sorry if I bored u
You didn't bore me at all - great post!
"It did not raise drama point as much as it raised questions on thier credibility as creatives" <- exactly right. 👏
"Maybe they could have shown some villagers gossiping and Shiv getting angry on evesdropping them...that would have been the right way abt it. As you say it is hard to believe that villagers will not gossip abt such an event." <- Precisely!!! I agree that such matters are private, but the Singhs are a high-profile family who everyone looks up to. When Gauri was staying in the haveli after GaGa got married, everyone was asking who she was, and Dadisa had to pass her off as a door ka rishtedaar or something. When Anandi was thought to have run off with Shravan, random women were disgracing her in the temple... that too was a private matter, and her family were supporting her, but they still felt the need to make their feelings about her alleged elopement known. So in the past, the villagers have taken a keen interest in the Singhs... I remember numerous occasions where they've told Dadisa that they look up to her because she's the Maajisa of such a big haveli, and that they follow the example she sets... and then suddenly during the whole Jagat-in-haveli sequence, there wasn't a peep out of any of them. It didn't really add up to me.
About Saanchi... I do believe kids like her can and probably do exist. If someone is used to getting their own way and being pampered, has not internalised an attitude of open-mindedness and respect for all people, and has never had to face any particularly serious or lasting repercussions for bad behaviour, it's natural for them to become like the way Saanchi is. Ira being afraid of what her daughter might do and how she might embarrass them is less understandable to me because I haven't seen that sort of thing first-hand (maybe I'd understand it better if I had?) and fail to understand why she can't just give the girl a tight slap already. xD Numerous times during the episode, I wanted to be like, "Somebody tell her off! Shiv, turn on that ghamandi collector mode of yours and let her have it if she disses your Ajee again!" And yet nobody did... and I somehow can't fathom that. xD
About the divorce... I don't think they are ashamed that their future DIL is a divorcee. I think they are just scared that Saanchi will not be as understanding and accommodating as they've been (which she won't!), and will throw a massive tantrum and embarrass the heck out of them while hurting the Singhs (I guess that ties in with what you were saying about Ira et al being scared of Saanchi tarnishing the family's image with her behaviour but at the same time not knowing how to keep her in check).
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