Mothers. Sisters. Daughters.
The three most important role that anyone with X chromosome creates. Incidentally, the three most important roles where you are have to be sharing blood, to even form these bonds. No matter how much you love your husband, you are not his blood. But no matter how much you hate your mother, sister, daughter you have the connection that is literally inborn. This incredible story gives us Mothers, Sisters, Daughters.
Bound by blood. And, true to its name of Chakraview--the convoluted twists and turns of a trap, the story then twists the hell out of the concept of blood. Because it is the very blood relationships that don't work, right?
Anami and Satrupa are bound by blood, yet their relationships with each other could not be more broken. The blood connection was not strong enough for Satrupa to turn back once, to see if her daughter was alive and well.
Those nine months in the womb did not force this mother to BE a mother, to half of the children she bore. And yet, it is the Pagal Panditain, the woman who's very womb was dry of blood, who became the mother to the infant she did not bear. The true mother to Anami has been a woman who shares nothing but love, with her. And no matter what Satrupa does now, she does not deserve her daughter's love, or her forgiveness. And not bearing Anami will not stop the Panditain from getting her daughter back.
One can talk about the coincidence of Vatsalya and Anami's meeting on the Ganges river bank, her saving his life, as a blood connection. But I remember the first boy Anami actually rescued from the river. And that was Laddoo. The brother she is sister to-- little Laddoo, or the connection Laddoo feels for Anami has nothing to do with blood. And with Vatsalya, the true brother, she has shard a womb of blood with her twin and yet she senses no connection to him, watches the sun sink on his death and feels nothing more than emptiness.
That's why I think finding out who Vatsalya was will not impact Anami in any serious way, will not somehow connect her to Satrupa. Vatsalya was a stranger she met twice. She will feel sad, she will regret not knowing him. But he cannot bring out a blood bond with her, because she HAS a brother -- Laddoo. And her love for Laddoo, her concern and care for him has forced her to come to this hellhole of a house, away from her home. She has sacrificed more for Laddoo, so he can live with his parents, than she ever has for Vatsalya.
The daughter she is to the Pandit, the care, the worry this simple, good god-man feels for his non blood daughter has no parallel at all to the horrible Baldev. Anami will not let anyone speak a word about her family, the true trigger to her formidable temper is to say something to denigrate her "parents". And yet the man who's blood runs in his daughter's veins is someone Anami quite literally would be fine seeing dead in a shallow ditch somewhere. She has no sense of respect, no connection or emotion to offer Baldev--and nor does he offer anything approaching kindness, back to her.
The respect, the instinctive rage she feels for anyone speaking negatively about her Pandit is a stark contrast to the absolute contempt she feels for the man who's blood she really is. To the point where she is literally willing to fake NOT being blood to these people, to return to her adopted family. She calls her time here, among the only five people in the world she shares blood with-- her Vanwas, her exile. Ram went on Vanwas WITH his blood, she is in exile AMONG her blood. This is a twisted version of exile--she is hoping to return to her people, who she is not related to, and away from the people she is bound by blood to. Where is her blood connection?
I love the parallels between what makes anyone family, and what makes someone "paraya" that is being illustrated here. If Lal Manzil is steeped in the aristocratic blood of these people, then Anami having been brought up literally devoid of (and away from) her blood is what has made her this strong and incredible. The story's way of saying-- sometimes blood lines are so impure, they should be rejected. The shock of the "vansh"-- literally the last of her bloodline -- unknowingly and knowingly rejecting her blood is a slap in the face of these people, who values their bloodline above all.
Hate him or love him (and I lurrvvee him!), Pujaan has run the company, and has the right to be considered for its leadership. Why should a 15 year old male still in school make final decisions for a 10,000 crore company simply because of blood? Even now, Anami does not deserve to be the inheritor based only on blood-- as she has been the first to show, by rejecting the very roof over her head. Blood does not somehow magically make you competent-- Baldev being a glaring example. Nor should it give you the right over the lives of a thousand families-- as Vatsalya said. Competence and ability in Royal Steel have both come from outside the bloodline--we have Satrupa, and Pujaan who have run the company so far, dadaji being a figurehead, and neither are blood.
Under the guise of a serial we are being shown a very important social message, especially for our culture-- that we should reject the outdated concept of arrogant aristocracy, class-ism based on people's birth and caste, and not their natures and their actions. Satrupa is fated to fail, not because Anami is not her child, but because her rationale is not true. Blood does not make bonds stronger. Blood is not a magical way to get respect, love, money or power.
Arjun
Cricket
