EVERY CHANGE IN LIFE BRINGS WITH IT A WHOLE NEW SET OF CHALLENGES....................
Today the father who indulged his favorite son finally rips off the blinders off his eyes and asks him to stare directly at the bright sun. Baba had been given gentle nudges in the past but he enjoyed playing his own game of avoidance when it came to the issue of earning a living.
Prats on a few occasions broached the subject with Krishna but made little headway. Prats recently told Krishna point blank that she will be agreeable to bring a child into this world only when the father is able to make a living on his own and support them. Little did she know that Krishna's taking on a dare from his father would turn out to be his best birthday present to her.
SS still can't believe his son took the dare after flinging his things at his feet and walked out. A part of him wants to see Baba earn a few bucks on his own and appreciate what it means to earn one's own keep. Another part of him has no confidence in his ladla son to make it in the real world without his help. What a gajab ego Takurji! Some kind of love that is, severely lacking in trust, which is the foundation of love! For all his talk about being a sher, a buzurg sher at that, the Takurs may turn out to be a bunch of scaredy cats when the young daring lion decides to leave the family for greener pastures. After all part of Baba's charm is that he never fears to stand up for his beliefs.
SS and SDS are both blaming Prats for Krishna leaving the house in a huff and out in the real world making a living while she lives within the cool walls of the Niwas. But was it the truth and were they just making her the scapegoat? Is there more to it than that? Me thinks there is more than meets the eye! Let's take a look shall we?
SDS says the boy who's gotten used to asking for money will never change his ways to work and make a living but will always return to them asking for more money. She likes to see Baba financially dependent on SS. That ensures he is always within the family fold and no threat of his leaving them. Krishna has always been the glue that kept the three generations of Takurs surviving together under one roof. SS swore he would never let anything or anyone, not even Prats come between him and his son at the hospital the day he came back to life after saving Prats's life.
SS has used taunts, mockery and insults as his weapons to get Krishna to step up and earn a living. Today's request for a brand new car for Prats was the straw that broke the camel's back. SS gave Krishna a swift kick in the pants reminding him that every thing he owns were paid for by his father when he still to earn a dime to pay for his wife's sindoor. Ouch!
But there is more. While doing it SS is also aware of the possibility that strikes fear in his heart. The very thought of his ladla beta walking away and breaking ties with the family if it comes to that makes his blood run cold. It would be less painful if someone sticks a spear in his heart instead. This is also the fear that has had RED ready to kill Prats if need be just to keep Baba in the family fold. This underlying fear is finally making its presence known.
SDS believes that Baba is alive and well, all because of her nurturing him over the years. She uses every moment of discord between Krishna and Prats to cause a gulf between them. But Krishna and Prats's commitment to each other has led them to work on their marriage. The Takurs see Baba a different man ever since Prats entered the picture, she is the enemy and so has to be done away with.
SS's reasons for indulging Krishna have been selfish ones. He knows Baba better than anyone else in the family. He has always been proud of Krishna and seen him as his heir apparent. But somewhere along the way he teamed up with SDS and decided that Prats was the threat to the Takur way of life and she was expendable. That could mean losing Krishna, so they backed off until they could come up with a better plan.
Krishna telling SS he wont' ask him for anything anymore was the first deep crack in the father and son relationship. No wonder it moved him to tears and the fears long kept under lock and key were surfacing again. SS is deep down inside scared that an independant Baba means a young man who doesn't need his father anymore. SS's ego demands that the people in the family always sing the praises of Takur Sajjan Singh. When they fail to do it he chants his name with pride a few times a day. SS is used to Krishna needing him and likes keeping him in his control much the way he has KN using his financial status as the weapon of choice. Only in Krishna's case he has indulged his wants and spoiled him rotten over the years. As Krishna told SS the day he slit his wrists "you and mom never denied me anything in my life, today when I want to marry Prats you are denying me the one I want most in my life". They have seen the lengths Krishna has gone to prove his love for Prats, something he has never shown his own family. Hurt and jealous of his depth of love for Prats they want to be rid of her . They see Prats as the person responsible for the widening gulf between Krishna and his family. Interestingly Ganti Dadi and Kesar see them differently. They see Krishna and Prats as a couple in deeply in love and willing to do anything fro each other.
YKW is the perfect weapon to the Takurs to instigate and cause problems between Krishna and Prats. She uses Krishna's love for Prats to manipulate him into believing what she feeds him as Prats's dreams knowing fully well how far he would go to make Prats happy. Her motives are vengeful and sinister. She barely knows the real Krishna and what makes his marriage to Prats so special. She is also unaware of the trial by fire that Prats has endured at the hands of the Takurs since her marriage. Krishna was always her rock. She is unaware of Krishna's warning to his family ..dare to harm Prats in any way and pay a hefty price. YKW better watch out! She is playing with less than half the deck. The day Krishna figures out her chalaaki games she better pray she has somewhere or someone but KN to turn to, to save her sorry hide. What goes around comes around and she is amassing plenty of reasons to be on the receiving end of the Takurs' wrath some day when she least expects it. Who better to know that than Prats who warned her to get out before it was too late and she was trapped in with no room for escape.
What do you think? Is SS relieved Baba is going to earn a living or does he fear his son becoming an independent man and leaving with Prats to build a life of his own?
Now with the wannabe Takurain, the teeny twit interloper in the house and a promise of a potha thrown in the mix, will SS and SDS be ready to let Baba go with Prats and live his own life on his terms?
Anupamaa
