Neeraj enters Sandhya's room, and she does her best to cheer him up. However, he completes every sentence of her w/ a clause 'w/o me', and forces Sandhya to repeat it. Finally Sandhya does, and admits to him that she won't be able to live w/o him. They hug, and this hug is noticed by Anjali's mom, Urmi, Sarika & GB. Neeraj tells her that this is the one last opportunity to tell everyone that he can't go thru w/ this marriage, but Sandhya stops him. π‘ She tells him, within their earshot, that she was the one who had forced him to make them all happy by agreeing to this marriage, and orders him to leave. Neeraj leaves, w/o being seen by them.
The 4 of them then go into Sandhya's room & confront her. GB abuses her as a widow who's polluting the nuptual environment, while Urmi accuses her of hitching her sister to Neeraj on one hand, and on the other, trying to break it. Sarika warns her against calling her bari ma. Anjali's mom accuses her of sending Reena to her to sabotage things. Sandhya does her best to protest her innocence, but the 4 of them will have none of it π At the end, they all give Sandhya an ultimatum to leave tomorrow morning.
Later, arrangements for the rituals are on, and Neeraj comes in, looking like a zombie. Baa and Reena step out for a puja, and Reena tells her that she'll go and fetch Sandhya. Baa is angry @ Krishna for testing such a true jodi. If they were to be separated, why were they tied in love? Reena comes to her and tells her that Sandhya is not in her room, and Baa tells her that Sarika, Urmi & GB had asked her to leave, fearing that if she stayed, Neeraj wouldn't marry Anjali. They have no idea that the only reason Neeraj is marrying Anjali is b'cos of Sandhya. Baa then asks Reena about the letter, and Reena tells her that Sandhya wrote it so that Neeraj doesn't refuse to marry when he doesn't see her @ the wedding. They go to give it to Neeraj.
Sandhya is in a taxi out on her way out, while Neeraj reads her letter. In the letter, Sandhya admits to Neeraj that she couldn't bear to see him marry someone else, and to forgive her for leaving, and ask Dadaji not to be angry that she left. She self-servingly compares their jodi w/ Krishna & Radha, while writing that she's leaving w/ Gayatri Devi out of the country for good. Just @ his wedding ceremony, Neeraj reads it and thinks to Sandhya that if she can't live w/o him, how did she expect him to live w/o her? Just then, the priest announces that the Ganesh puja is about to start, and Baa tells Neeraj that it's too late, Sandhya has left and he should just go ahead w/ the puja. Neeraj is quiet.
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While the treatment of Sandhya seemed cruel, and certainly was as far as GB went, I'm glad that the others squelched Sandhya's mahaan persona. I particularly liked Urmi asking Sandhya why she bothered getting Neeraj hitched to Anjali if she wanted him for herself, and Sarika telling her not to call her bari ma. If Sandhya has no relations w/ Neeraj, on what basis does she do all that? I'm glad that Baa knows why Sandhya left and that the circumstances of her leaving is not a mystery. Also I found the divine comparisons appalling: Radha was already married when Krishna seranaded her, and Sandhya might also like to reflect on Krishna & Rukmini: if Krishna-ji was anything like Sandhya, he'd have forced Rukmini to marry Sishupala π€’
The end was one of those time tested, filmy ends where Sandhya is headed out, and Neeraj is at the crucial moment. So tomorrow, one gets to see whether he goes ahead w/ this stupid idea, or aborts it. If nothing else, I wish he tells Dadaji everything, so that Dadaji calls it off. After all, Sandhya made this stupid decision for just one person - him.
Edited by _Vrish_ - 13 years ago
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