should jagya retain his friendship with ganga?

I have to put myself in saanchi's position.

but what about Jagya- Anandi friendship,if shiv thinks like this sameway as sanchi thinks then their friendship doomed long before and the relationship between singhs and sekars r surely on doubt, then Anandi always cried in her sasural.

jagya ganga friendship should retain and jagya should tell sanchi to get lost

Its a hypothetical situation. Sanchi fully knows what she is getting into. She wants to take revenge on Jagya once the marriage is over as today's episode hints at.

@TM, interesting question, more so because you have asked to put aside Sanchi's manipulative, nasty nature.

Excellent thought provoking post 👍🏼...

Usually men distance themselves from women who try to restrict them. Especially men like Jagya.

Originally posted by: SPuja

@TM, interesting question, more so because you have asked to put aside Sanchi's manipulative, nasty nature.

It is true that would-be fiancee may get insecure about the relationship like Jagya shares with Ganga. Here I do not think it is friendship, because friendship is essentially on equal terms - like Shiv-Ashima or Jagya-Lal Singh or Anandi-Phooli. And any person should not break his/her friendship just because his/her would-be fiancee is feeling insecure. Here the person should make her fiancee understand that the friendship is not at the cost of their own relationship and so, she/he should not feel insecure. Jagya-Ganga relationship is essentially a benefactor- beneficiary relationship, where the benefactor gives too much preference to his beneficiary (even more than his own family), he goes out with her, takes care of her needs and spends time with her, so any would-be fiancee will feel insecure because Ganga happen to be a woman. Now in such a situation, I think Jagya should limit his interaction with the beneficiary (Ganga) while ensuring that Ganga should get help, if she needs, it is not necessary that he should be near her (like going to Mangalore, he could have arranged somebody else to accompany her) to help her.

Even Ganga should understand that her benefactor is now going to marry and should distance herself from Jagya (I liked the way Ashima dealt with Shiv's marriage, that is like true friends) instead of saying to herself- how can she see him with some other woman.

And nothing can be expected with Sanchi in her present avtar, but any sensible girl would have herself come forward in this mission of helping a tortured woman (instead of being insecure and behaving nasty with the beneficiary and planning/plotting), that way she would be able to ensure that there is nothing more than a helping hand in this case for his fiancee and she could get some brownie points in the heart of her fiancee for helping him in his mission.

But in TV land, everything is twisted. Characters are either mahaan or planning/plotting. They are either too naive or too manipulative, only a few saving graces are there, that look real.

This is a thought provoking question, and an interesting discussion.

Assuming the Singhs had found a different match for Jagya - say a young widow or divorcee doctor who is genuinely goodhearted and is interested in working in rural areas, i.e. someone whose life goals are compatible with Jagya's and who comes from a family similar to the Singhs. This person would also have come forward to help Ganga and would have supported Jagya in helping Ganga, she might have even become Ganga's friend but she would certainly have been uncomfortable with the level of interaction that is shown between Jagya and Ganga - J seems to be obsessed with doing each and everything for G himself, and shows an attachment to her and her child that goes way beyond regular friendship.

If news of Jagya alone accompanying Ganga to the divorce court without any of his other family members being present reaches the fiancee or her family, it is natural that they might feel uncomfortable and worried.

A typical fiancee would have raised this with Jagya and if he had reacted strongly, would have considered re-thinking about the engagement, a self respecting woman might even consider breaking it.

Agree that Ganga herself should have maintained a distance from Jagya from the beginning. Her interactions with Jagya and the Singhs went beyond the regular boundaries of a woman who was given shelter. Even a close friend of the family who happens to stay over for a few days will not presume to interfere in the host family's affairs as Ganga did with the Singhs. Ganga should have distanced herself from Jagya at least after the engagement, like Ashima did from Shiv.

Sanchi is so clearly etched out as a negative character, a spoilt brat who is infatuated with her sister in law's ex and stoops to any level to marry him by her drama and unethical actions.
It would have been much more interesting to the see the interactions between the characters had Jagya's marriage been fixed with someone else.

Hypothetically, if Jagya was engaged to a suitable match selected by the Singhs, she would have helped Jagya in rehabilitating Ganga and settling her in Mangalore. Jagya's attachment to Ganga comes from various reasons - his guilt over Anandi and his need for redemption by helping another vicim of child marriage, the friendship that had grown between him and Ganga when both of them were wounded by life circumstances etc.
After Ganga leaves for Mangalore and Jagya's marriage, he would have naturally started to focus more on his wife and family.