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I had been wanting to make a post since ages but I guess I am just too lazy to be bothered.
I finally made my fingers work and here I am.
I'll start with saying that I have always found the true beauty in a story/series is when no character is purely right, and when no character is completely wrong.
For Rudra, the world has just pretty much collided and the dark matter is gaining in on him. But is what he feeling exaggerated. The answer is simple, No.
Imagine a child, 14-15 years of age, at PTA meetings, watching everyone's parents hover around. Watching other parents see him from the corner of their eyes with a disgusted look as if he was malign. Imagine his classmates, not leaving one chance at rubbing it in his face that he was motherless. And that by choice. That he was unwanted.
Imagine him coming home to an alcoholic father, one who never cared about how his son was doing, how his studies were going, how many friends he had, how his day had been.
All that father did was drink and taunt and mope and destroy him.
Can you blame the father here? Well, yeah. 50 percent, I guess. But then, what would a father do, because well... Lets look at the father.
Dilsher Ranawat, as we saw today, is a flawed man. We know that he is capable of compassion, love, as we can see that when he deals with Paro. And from his reactions, he LOVED his wife as well. So, what does a man, who loves his wife, despite the marriage being tense at times... what does a man, who loves the child he has with the wife... what does a man, who was living under the illusion that no matter how hard it seems, all the problems are temporary in his married life and will get sorted with time... Do... When that wife of his writes to him that she is leaving. That she has had enough of trying to hold their relationship together.
Why would that man not hold on to his son... Why would that man allow that betrayer to take his child?
Did he do the right thing? No.
Did he do the wrong thing? No.
That brings us to the betrayer. Now to most, Mala seems to be at fault. But was it really her fault that she had no love left to give to her husband? Sometimes, it really isn't the right thing to do to hold on to a loveless relationship which is constantly suffocating you.
Many many women stay in a loveless marriage just because of their children. Just because the child is more important to them. And also, they never find another human being to focus on to.
Mala, being a rare exception, found Param Singh Tejawat. Did she fall in love with the wrong guy? Yes.
But did she do the wrong thing by leaving for love? Who are we to answer that??? Everyone's definition of what love is, is different.
The only thing wrong with Mala, is that she is weak-willed. Maybe if she tried some more, her relationship with Dilsher could have worked.
Maybe if she tried some more, she could have found Rudra and brought him with her.
Maybe if she was stronger in her relationship with Tejawat, she could have seen the kind of man he is much much earlier.
But she was weak. She is someone who gets swayed easily. Rudra inherits the running away from problems wala trait from her.
But does that trait of hers make her a completely wrong character? No.
She loves. She loves unconditionally. She is the one who made Paro who she is. Paro differs from her in just one aspect. That Paro is the strongest woman you'll meet.
But even with all that, it doesn't make Mala a completely bad character.
That all brings us to the current scenario.
What is Rudra supposed to do? Hate on her forever? He isn't capable of that. Forgive her and love her? He is not capable of that either.
What is Paro supposed to do? Leave Thakurain Maa-sa who made her what she is? She isn't capable of that. Support Thakurain Maa-sa and betray the husband who is her soul and life? Poor girl isn't capable of that either?
When somebody has a parent that is flawed... That makes mistakes constantly... That is weak willed and indecisive about their own lives... Let alone be a figure/idol/support in the childs life...
After a certain time, you just become numb to the fact that they are the way they are.
Right now, Rudra can hate as much as he wants. Rudra can try to run as much as he wants. But it is his mother at the end of the day. He is numb to her love now. It is too late to forgive and forget and be sunshiny. But the responsibility, the relation, is something which he will have to just sustain.
Because, What else can one do?
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Anupamaa
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Mahadev And Sons
