I am hesitant to write anything because so many things are not making sense and there is too much unnecessary melodrama. On one side, the story is moving at such a fast pace, but on the other hand characters' actions and motives are kept so much in dark. I do hope that we get more explanation of the past story than has been given so far. Anyway, giving it a try for now.
The last two episodes were better compared to what was shown on Monday and Tuesday as they at least focused on emotions of lead characters - Raj, Sarita and Divya.
To me, Divya is coming out to be the sanest character of all three. I do not find anybody selfish as of now because everyone seems to be just looking for happiness. If I have to choose actions of three that have caused the most damage, I would have to say it is of Raj who neither has been able to move on and nor able to provide justice to his wife.
Even though the thought process of all three can be confusing, Sarita is the one that seems to be the most incomprehensible character to me based on what has been shown so far. They have shown couple of flashbacks for her and that has confused me even more.
Divya to me seems to be most emotionally mature of all three. She is an open book and by couple of lines given to her, it seems that she told Raj of her responsibilities. Yes, she expected too much when she thought Raj would wait for her for 10 years without her even contacting him once. In one sense, she was not wrong because Raj has been both physically and emotionally faithful to her for 10 years.
She was sad at leaving Raj, but managed to still enjoy life. She was even happily enjoying small things in train and looking forward to her life in Bhopal. Then she had hopes that Raj had waited for her. But still she decided to investigate it on her own and did it very tentatively by going alone to Raj's house, and then asking indirectly about Raj's marriage from his mother. She kept her fingers crossed all the time. She was shattered but decided to move on after seeing that her family wanted her to be settled. She chose the guy whom she thought to be more sensible and was honest with him. Then even when she found out that it was Raj who had rescued her that night and was the one in jail, she was honest with Gaurav rightaway. Then though she was broken at Raj giving up his dreams and not living up to his potential, she has enough zest for life to enjoy her wedding ceremonies. Also she is not blaming anybody (not even Raj) once. She was shattered that her ideals about Raj did not prove right, but she is also big hearted enough to give him entire credit for her transformation and her success. So I have to say that Divya has become the favorite character for me in this show.
Raj is the one who is the most emotionally damaged person among three. He is on a self-destructive path for 10 years and hasn't come out. Of course there is nobody in his family who understands him. Even his sister Sheela is coming out strange to me. She and Raj seems to be different from the rest of the family as both seem quite cultured. But she has also put the entire blame on Divya and none on her brother. Also she seems to be sympathetic to Sarita, but does not speak up for her. She only spoke up once and that too taunted her mother on the most vulnerable topic. And there seems to be no conversation between brother and sister on anything.
So on a question as to whom Should Raj end up - Divya or Sarita. I would say that nobody should end up with him at the moment. He needs to free up Sarita and needs to sort himself out before entering into relationship. Even if Divya comes back in his life, he would end up destroying her too the way he is at this moment. He needs help and maybe Divya is the best one to heal him. But he definitely doesn't deserve her either. Actually, I am finding Gaurav to be more suitable for Divya as of now. Of course Divya should only marry him once she gets her closure with Raj. In any case, still Raj's character can be understood if one correlates his behavior in context of his family - the missing father who seems to be a bully and a fishwife mother and a vindictive/user dadi. Wonder whose genes he inherited to be so artistic and sensitive (ignoring his treatment of Sarita in using this word).
Sarita too needs to sort herself out because either was she like that before marriage or this lunatic household has made her this way. But to me, she has become very Kamla like in her behavior. Since she is the one whose background or motivation is not provided and so her actions are not comprehensible to me.
She was shown to wait happily and without any worry for Raj on her wedding night. But didn't she hear just before the wedding that Raj was madly in love with someone else and that the father had arranged for his marriage without his knowledge. That he hadn't showed up for a long time and was forced to come for the marriage. So why did she look so happily anticipating his arrival?
1. Why did she marry him considering she is from a richer family? I do not buy the argument that it was to save family honor. I have seen in small towns where the marriages have broken the day of the wedding for one reason or another and the girl still being able to marry someone else after a short period especially if she belongs to a rich, influential family. Raj's family is nouveau rich who probably had a harder time finding acceptance in the society considering that scrap deal profession is considered inferior. Sarita's family (based on what was shown in the first episode) are in higher class and richer than Raj's family.
2. So I am assuming that she got married after she was given assurances by either her family or Raj's family or both that Raj would start loving her after marriage. She seems to be greatly in love with him based on how shocked she was at Raj discussing her second marriage. So why did she fall for him? It can't be his behavior after the marriage where he has ignored her and hasn't even protected her from his family. She is the one who seems to be fighting all her battles alone. So did she fall for him prior to the marriage and married him thinking that she would be able to make him love her.
Initially, I thought that she developed this fighting spirit after tolerating this abuse from Kamla and the daughters for so long. But in the last flashback, she had spirit even almost from the very beginning. So she was demanding Raj to give her the name of his girlfriend by withholding the ring that was precious to Raj and that ended up being broken because of their fight. What struck me was that she was not fighting with him about marrying her but wanted to know the girl's name. What did it matter who the girl was? The diary and the ring was his private property. Instead of confiscating that, she needed to confront him about ruining her life and not refusing the marriage.
So why no complain about that? No wonder all her anger is being directed towards Divya and not towards Raj. So according to her, Raj is the way he is because of Divya. But Raj always had a choice not to marry her especially as he is a guy.
So why did she not walk out of this marriage in all these 10 years when Raj was clear about not giving her any rights over him the first night. Either she is so madly in love with him where her illusions are being fed by Dadi that everything would be ok or she is coming from a family where she would not get any support if she walks out of this marriage. The creatives need to show a reason behind Sarita's reasons to stay in this marriage. Any girl would rebel once at least in 10 years. Here she has not walked out even once.
So along with Raj, Sarita also needs to sort herself out. She is putting blame on somebody who was not even in her life when she met Raj.
I am reserving my judgment on this whole drama of wife going to the girlfriend as they haven't shown it yet. But I do hope that they make few things clear before moving ahead with the story. The audience start losing interest if characters do not make sense.
Edited by why6 - 12 years ago
