I wasn't joking with my title, this actually turned about to be a long post, sorry about that.😆 Since there's no episode of Bani for 3 days, I thought I should make a post. 😳
After re-analyzing the situation I think some of my opinions about certain characters have changed. From watching other serials I realized the writers have their ways of manipulating the audience into feeling sorry for the female leads when sometimes they are not really worthy of all that sympathy. Sometimes the male lead deserves more sympathy but we don't give him any again because of the writers; they tend to portray the male leads with many flaws that make us lose sympathy for them.
So with everything that's happening in the show, who's actually wrong? Who deserves more sympathy, who deserves less and who is getting the sympathy or should I say no sympathy that they deserve?
Bani - In her eyes Sohum and Rajji are married (I'll get back to this later with what I mean by this). Bani is wrong for the way she's getting her younger sister's husband involved in her problems. Bani is a married woman and with the decisions that she's making it seems like she wants her marriage to survive. If she intends on staying married to Parmeet, then why is she spending so much of her time with Sohum, a guy who she clearly knows has so many feelings for her. My opinions of Bani have not changed. Bani is wrong for the way she's taken advantage of Sohum to get her goals accomplished. The post I wrote about Bani being selfish, I'm not taking back anything I said about her; I still think she's selfish and doesn't deserve that much sympathy. Yeah it's sad and wrong what Parmeet did, but it's wrong how she's hiding the truth from her entire family and lying to them.
Sohum - We all felt sorry for him initially when he got betrayed by Desho and got married to Rajji. We all felt sympathy for him at that time but most of us lost sympathy for him when refused to stop thinking about Bani and kept mistreating Rajji. The way he's manhandled Rajji, that's wrong and he loses some sympathy points from me there. I get he's frustrated being in an unwanted marriage but taking his anger out at Rajji like that is wrong; that's not the way to solve problems. But is Sohum really wrong for refusing to move on? I know in the past I've said things like Sohum should stop thinking about Bani and just move on with his life with Rajji. However, I've changed my opinions about the situation. As I mentioned earlier, in Bani's eyes Sohum and Rajji are married. Not just for Bani but in society's eyes as well Sohum and Rajji are married. But are Sohum and Rajji actually married? No, they're not. The marriage was a betrayal on Desho's part. Sohum took part in the laavan (the phere/ marriage vows) with Bani, or so he thought it was Bani under the veil. Therefore the marriage is invalid since in reality he got married to Rajji instead, but still probably legal since Desho probably found a way to trick Sohum to sign the marriage certificate. Yes Sohum is a bewakoof for not properly making sure he is getting married to Bani, but with the way Desho and her sister-in-law orchestrated the wedding, how is Sohum at fault for this invalid marriage?
Why are we cussing at Sohum for not honouring this marriage? Why should he honour an invalid marriage? How is Sohum wrong for telling Rajji to leave? Yes it'll ruin Rajji's life but I don't think he's wrong. Put yourself in Sohum's situation. Imagine if you got forced to marry someone or got tricked into marrying someone just like how Sohum did. Would it be fair for you to be stuck in that loveless marriage and forced to stay married? Would it really be wrong if you told your spouse to leave you in this situation? I for one would not accept the betrayal that was thrown at Sohum.
Sohum is wrong for the way he's going about with this situation. He has every right to leave this marriage but he's not doing it the right way. Yes he's made it clear to Rajji he doesn't want to be married to her and Rajji unfortunately isn't properly getting the message to her head; if she did then she would have gone home by now. Sohum needs to stop expecting Rajji will go back home on her on, he needs to grow a spine and take care of the situation. If he really doesn't want this marriage then he needs to take the matter to court. He has every right to get this marriage dissolved through an annulment since the marriage was fraud (I think that's the correct term for it, correct me if I'm wrong). Desho made the mistake, she and her family will have to face the consequences and clean up the mess for Rajji if Sohum chooses to annul the marriage. Yes it sucks for Rajji she was at no fault for the marriage happening but why should Sohum be forced to stay married to her and stay miserable?
About Sohum's obsession with Bani- I won't say Sohum is right or wrong for the way he constantly thinks about Bani. You can't stop a person for the way they think. If Sohum wants to spend his whole life only thinking about Bani and stay frozen in the past, not move on in life, then fine that's his choice. I'll still judge him because I'm that judgmental type of person to be frank but still Sohum can go ahead and do that. But Bani being a married woman, it's wrong the way he's interfering in her life. Go ahead and keep Bani in your thoughts but Sohum has no right to be in Bani's life atm.
Rajji - brace yourself for this one, I will tell you straight up right now my opinions about her have changed. As I mentioned earlier the writers tend to make us feel extra sympathy for the female leads (yes I consider Rajji a female lead atm since she's getting so much screen space and importance) and that's the case for Rajji. Is Rajji really that deserving of all the sympathy we've all been giving her? I don't think so anymore, I may sound harsh but I don't feel sorry for her anymore. Yes it's a shame she's stuck in a loveless marriage (or should I say a one-sided love?) which wasn't her fault at first but what is she doing atm? Lately she's been trying to gain her right over Sohum by constantly calling him and trying to spend time with him outside the house. Whenever I saw her doing that, there was just something about it that really bothered me and annoyed me but I couldn't figure it out at first why I felt that way. But now I know why; I realized it's because Rajji is forcing this marriage on Sohum and that's wrong. Why is she staying married to guy who clearly doesn't love her but loves someone else (and that too her sister Bani!). Isn't it wrong what she's doing? Put yourself in Rajji's situation. Would you do that to a man? I wouldn't. I wouldn't stay married to a guy who wasn't even aware that he was marrying me. I would do that right thing which is to set him free and walk away from the loveless invalid marriage. What's the point of torturing yourself and keeping the other person also unhappy? That's why I don't feel sorry for Rajji anymore. No one is forcing her to stay in this marriage, she's made the choice herself; she's made the choice to constantly hear Bua ji's taunts and get hurt by Sohum.
Now in my previous post I said I see Sohum-Rajji as endgame and I still see that as a possibility. However, Rajji needs to give Sohum space, stop forcing this marriage on him, stop forcing him to accept her as his wife, and just be friends with Sohum and let him slowly fall in love with her (I say slowly because obviously his Bani obsession won't allow him to do that fast).
So there you have it. Bani - I haven't gained or lost sympathy for her, I never really had much sympathy for her in the first place. Sohum - I guess you can say I've slightly gained some sympathy for him (like the size of a little pinch of sugar 😆) because it's not fair how he's been forced into this marriage but still he needs to take action and clean up the situation if Rajji won't do anything herself (either drop Rajji back home and stop creating a false image in front of Rajji's family or choose to genuinely move on in life with Rajji). Rajji - I've already mentioned my stance on her, I don't feel so sorry for her anymore. She needs to get real, become independent and move on with her life if Sohum clearly doesn't want to be her husband.