Oh dear, is it just me who can't stand the great doctor Vrinda's bhashan's at every turn of the way?
Okay, this serial has made her a doctor to introduce some pizzazz into a marriage that was nothing more than an arranged marriage. Fine. But after that, the sort of bhashans she gives Jalandhar at every step of the way is getting increasingly insufferable.
The initial ones - about his need to rest - I can understand that any doctor would suggest that. But the ones since - about worshipping Vishnu, or talking about the value of war - since when was Vrinda one of those 'Coexist' pacifists? The worshipping Vishnu part is itself tough to digest for someone who was a daughter of Kalnemi, but even putting that aside for a moment, for her to put arguments up about her religious freedom was unbelievable.
But what took the cake was Friday night's episode, when Vrinda is tending to the wounds of asura soldiers (itself unbelievable given that they showed only Vritra doing all the fighting). She's giving him that big bhashan about whether a victory over the dead bodies of these soldiers is worth it. Such a speech behooved someone like Mandodari, when she was talking Ravan out of a war he started. But in Jalandhar's case, at least as depicted in this serial, he has a just cause for going to war, and even if he didn't, Vritra would have (I'm going by the script here, not the original). Why are they projecting the views of today's anti-war crowds on to Vrinda, when she's not known for that, but instead, is known for her devotion to Jalandhar and nothing else?
Which brings me back to Kalnemi. He's hoping for his daughter to marry Jalandhar, but after all these arguments, does it even begin to make sense that Jalandhar would agree to marry Vrinda? Why would he, if she's such a sympathizer of the devas & Vishnu? And how does this characterization of Vrinda even make sense, given that she's considered one of those pativrata stris who didn't worship anyone except her husband? (Which is another reason that her being a devotee of Vishnu is hard to digest - pativrata women, like Sati, Savitri, Sita, Anusuya, Sulochana, et al did not worship anybody except their husbands.
The way the story is evolving, I'm getting the impression that they won't show Vrinda marry Jalandhar - she'll marry Vishnu in the guise of Jalandhar, and that version will follow. Or it may just not come to that at all. But I would be curious about how they whitewash Vishnu's role in this story - something that this serial is notorious for doing.
Edited by .Vrish. - 12 years ago
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