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It is disgusting, but not surprising that like a toxic spider, Jogs has spun an intricate web of deceit and lies to trap the innocent prey --his own son and daughter-in-law. As part of the deal, where he gets a suitcase crammed with 1000 rupee notes, Jogs has sold Payal's face and voice to advertise a nefarious tutorial agency that passes its students by bribing unsavory officials.
However, It is rather surprising that Payal yet again takes the stance of siding with her corrupt in-laws in convincing her husband to accept another deal planned by the parents. How many instances of the depths of their deceit does she need to see before she learns that they cannot be trusted at all? I can understand the pressure that she was under to get married knowing full well the nature of the in-laws. At that time, the love for her parents led her to not heed Gulkand's advice. But what is wrong with her now? How can Payal go along with this "surprise" partnership, when she has just returned after spending an unplanned morning being paraded as a "surprise" guest-in-honor for an inaugural function, and learning that the father-in-law actually planned everything, and even accepted money for this deal behind her back? I can understand this behavior from someone uneducated and naive, but being an engineer and encountering and deflecting corruption on a daily basis should have made Payal at least sensitive to the various and persistent faces of greed and the underhanded means that people use to get their way.
Bhuvanesvar Rai, Payal's poor father would be tearing out what little hair he has left in clumps if he came to know that his daughter has learned nothing after a lifetime of his coaching her on avoiding such pitfalls. I have nothing to say about Dev, except that he and Payal are a great match on the gullibility scale. Jug-jug jiyo, ayushman bhava! Perhaps both of them need to enroll in a coaching center for how to recognize corruption, and how deal with the deceitful and greedy parents. Payal also needs cognitive therapy to cope with her amnesia!
The way Payal's character is unfolding is beyond disappointing. She is like Gandhari, the wife of the blind king, Dritarashtra in the Mahabharata. When she got married to the blind king, Gandhari should have said that she would be Dhritarashtra's eyes and ears, his support and his sight. Instead, she chose to tie a bandage on her eyes for the rest of her life after her marriage. One was blind by birth, and the other willfully blinded herself after her marriage. Epics like the Mahabharata offer timeless metaphors of human archetypes that are still relevant today. Now our only hope is that Payal and Dev do not give birth to offspring such as Duryodhana and Dusshasana! Om shantih.
However, It is rather surprising that Payal yet again takes the stance of siding with her corrupt in-laws in convincing her husband to accept another deal planned by the parents. How many instances of the depths of their deceit does she need to see before she learns that they cannot be trusted at all? I can understand the pressure that she was under to get married knowing full well the nature of the in-laws. At that time, the love for her parents led her to not heed Gulkand's advice. But what is wrong with her now? How can Payal go along with this "surprise" partnership, when she has just returned after spending an unplanned morning being paraded as a "surprise" guest-in-honor for an inaugural function, and learning that the father-in-law actually planned everything, and even accepted money for this deal behind her back? I can understand this behavior from someone uneducated and naive, but being an engineer and encountering and deflecting corruption on a daily basis should have made Payal at least sensitive to the various and persistent faces of greed and the underhanded means that people use to get their way.
Bhuvanesvar Rai, Payal's poor father would be tearing out what little hair he has left in clumps if he came to know that his daughter has learned nothing after a lifetime of his coaching her on avoiding such pitfalls. I have nothing to say about Dev, except that he and Payal are a great match on the gullibility scale. Jug-jug jiyo, ayushman bhava! Perhaps both of them need to enroll in a coaching center for how to recognize corruption, and how deal with the deceitful and greedy parents. Payal also needs cognitive therapy to cope with her amnesia!
The way Payal's character is unfolding is beyond disappointing. She is like Gandhari, the wife of the blind king, Dritarashtra in the Mahabharata. When she got married to the blind king, Gandhari should have said that she would be Dhritarashtra's eyes and ears, his support and his sight. Instead, she chose to tie a bandage on her eyes for the rest of her life after her marriage. One was blind by birth, and the other willfully blinded herself after her marriage. Epics like the Mahabharata offer timeless metaphors of human archetypes that are still relevant today. Now our only hope is that Payal and Dev do not give birth to offspring such as Duryodhana and Dusshasana! Om shantih.
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