Originally posted by: Samanalyse
...I have been thinking about why Aarti seems to be the only character that has done a 180 degree turn from the way we first saw her. It doesn't seem consistent with all the other very deliberate characterisations of the show so I figured Aarti's silence must be deliberate on some level too and this is what I came up with.
I think the hockey-stick-weilding Aarti that we met was an Aarti that had total control over her life and her future. Albeit not completely fulfilled, she was content with her life and felt loved and safe in the Dubey cocoon with her life revolving around Ansh.
Ever since this PV came up and her parents have been blackmailing her into this marriage, she has lost control over her life completely. Suddenly out of nowhere she finds herself engaged to a man of "questionable character", seemingly with no way out because now her son is involved and invested and may not recover from the loss of a second father.
So it is not that Aarti is less strong, it is that the situation is far too daunting for her to be the fearless gundi we all loved. She is actually a rather sensitive person as we complained even after the first episode that she didn't react to the fat saas lady and assumed her to be a sehmi-sehmi type. So I think this fragile, uncertain Aarti is the real thing and the hockey gundi was the facade. But we liked the latter so much that we choose to assume that is the "real Aarti".
The hockey stick incident was bravado, limited to the surface. Aarti needs to find and appreciate her inner strength to be able to take a stand and speak out against the injustices being doled out to her wholesale.
Interesting points here...
My main question is...Do we all react in the same way to every situation that we are confronted with in life?
If I disagree about something, I'm not going to yell and be aggressive with each and every person who comes in front of me...There are different ways of dealing with situations depending on the people you are confronting...
Aarti's characterization is turning out to be a truly multifaceted one, and this is what I love the most about her. She's not the kind of "person" whose reactions are slotted into "silent heroine" or "outspoken heroine." She reacts after gauging the specific situation she's in while keeping the other party in mind...She reacts in a certain way to people who appeared to be trespassers (the Prateek incident) and were complete strangers, she reacts differently to her family members, and her dilemma about how to deal with the Scindias is justified - they are strangers making demands on her and her family, but they are her elders and are going to be her in-laws soon. I would've been disappointed with the writers if Aarti had shouted at them or something like that...That would have been completely out of character. I could probably write out pages about this particular topic, but I won't because quite a few people seem irritated by Aarti's silence anyway...
From what I can see, she is extremely sensitive and very volatile, but she internalizes things, keeps her fears to herself (and she's bottling up a lot of emotions right now!), and I feel that the story started sort of in medias res...At a point where Aarti's life has literally turned upside-down and all her wounds are being ripped open mercilessly...Not the happiest position to be in...But she's holding on and braving the storm. I think she deserves credit for that, at least. (And in the sea of GC appreciation, I have to say that BOTH GC and KS are doing a phenomenal job bringing out the nuances in these multifaceted characters...KS has the most expressive eyes...Aarti's suppressed feelings shine through those eyes...)
