Originally posted by: Haal-e-Dil
Haha kinda recovered from gloomy mood so here am I.
I love Anokhi. Like i started watching for her and Deba portrays her so well, idk i like her or the character more. she is so young, have seen so much and it angers me how she won't even have it easy when it comes to love. she has struggled so much all her life, seen women in her house suffering under a cruel man and seeing her sister getting beaten/verbally abused by a man who's supposed to love and protect her till 7 lives. and now look at her- falling in love and going to spend life with a man who is not probably as abusive as her dad/BIL, but come from same school of thought. i know we as 'fangirls' should support the romance but as a woman i think we should support what she deserves. maybe Shaurya will change and become the man she deserves, maybe she will have constant struggle like astha did once upon a time, her mom doing and her sister undergoing. at least let her have it easy when it comes to matter of heart. someone with whom she dont need to struggle. le sigh. and the new epis- Shaurya did not really change did he? I am not talking about 'soch', its the way he switched from "i love you', to the moment she is like i can't chose between you and career he was like 'oh so u dont love me'. and the sindoor, his smirk that now you are mine. how dare she ask anything else, he 'changed' his soch. but like i said drama. need numbers and shit. to think any show start from this- a girl wants to study, or be something. then she gets married to a family and kitchen politics. apart from shows like diya bati and afsar bitiya few shows actually showed women succeeding.
ok enough of ranting. Coming back to your story- like I have said i wish this was the route team took. mutually parting ways, Shaurya changing his thinking and biasedness and maybe try to understand his mom. ask her "did you ever try to reach out to me?", question his dad "why you did not support the woman you love and yet couldnt let her go for 2 decades?" understand like you wrote, making a woman chose is wrong, and when the woman chose her career is not wrong. supporting her is the key. and how unfair it is that it's expected from woman. Shaurya probably did his education from abroad, did he never see men taking care of house and kids? did he ever try to merge in head what he sees in his house and what he saw outside of his house? what about his sisters, if tomorrow they want to have a career will he support them or it's okay for them, not for his wife? and maybe, in your story, seeing how horrible Bhalla dad and Vineet is will shake his reality and he will understand why Anokhi wants to be something so bad. and asking, demanding for something is not bad. and also apologize to Shagun for making her chose. he dont get to question her or be angry when he made her choose and she walked away. what about tomorrow Anokhi asked him to quit SIAC for whatever reason, will he? Also, i guess it's not even about 'soch'. any potential partner who held you hostage and try to force your hand into something isnt worth the relationship and struggle.
Loved reading your post! And same here girl! I love anokhi too and deba is outdoing herself everyday. In real life, I too wouldn't wish any woman gets the present shaurya. he is an amazing person at heart but behavior, actions and soch are very important and he has a lot of improvements to do there. And, shaurya still has scope to change but his family๐ Anokhi has just gotten out of that hell of a house only to land up in this another house that is a literal cage. I feel bad for her.
Waise I do think that they will show her achieving her dreams since eventhough Sp shows are still regressive in lots of ways, but many of current sp shows are showing career oriented woman; so i do expect them to show anokhi achieving her goals.
This whole sindoor thing is really over the top (trps), and isi liye I want them to give him a very strong redemption; whatever he did to anokhi is wrong on so many levels, I have no idea how they are going to go with this soch track since it has just started but I hope they focus on this, since its the main crux of the story. Him asking all the necessary questions; him paying attention to how dils' are treated in his house, anokhi's childhood, babli; and overall how patriarchal the society is.
As far as studying in foreign (i.e, if he did),and even if he would have seen men take care of kids; in my experience and unlike movies, numerous ppl (not all obv) settled in foreign don't change infact take that same regressive soch there and keep living with it. They might were modern clothing but their soch is as regressive.
Men and women who believe that women shouldn't work; believe in the gender roles and in the promo he said how those gender roles are perfectly fine; so even if he would have seen men taking care of home, he would have thought, this isn't how it should be.
And I think this is where now shaurya has changed from the promo shaurya; he believes in women's ambitions and their dreams and is supportive of them; just not for his wife. Since, shaurya has spoken so highly of anokhi's dreams and has aknowledged her struggles. I think the promo shaurya wouldn't even have done that. Being with anokhi, subconsciously has made him respect women and their ambitions;
At this point its half fear and half misogyny of wanting to control his wife (not treating her as equal) that is the problem in my opinion.
@bold: exactly my question and the question that I want anokhi to ask him whenever they are conversing on this issue. Men are never expected to leave their job for the sake of home while women are practically under pressure from all sides. Such double standards!
@underline: I agree with you there, he is definitely toxic for anokhi at the moment, and has been several times in the past as well. But, then when it comes to love, khud ka dil nahi maanta hai and regrets will be there. For eg; if anokhi was to go and no drama would have occured she wouldn't have been happy since she didn't get that closure plus also the love part. Secondly it's also itv and they are showing a love story, drama has to be there lol.
But irl, definitely not worth the effort, the toxicity would be to difficult to handle and why to even involve in such a web.
At the end anokhi ftw, I really want her to achieve her dreams! She is such a pyaari girl and deserves the world Also rooting for shaurya to change his soch and ways of handling anokhi, he handles his family so sensibly but when it comes to anokhi , his brain goes for a vacation lol๐