This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't think the writers are showing haphazard things in the last stretch of this season.
Every thread ties back to things that have been shown periodically over this journey.
The NB-Mini convo today was about this only.
Babita overcame a lot of challenges and achieved many victories along the way in this journey of independence.....but time and time again, the one consistent thing she fell back to was - "Log kya kahenge"....or "Woh mere baare mein kya soch rahe honge?" .....so none of what she is doing now is out of character.....it's a more amplified side of the same fundamental strain running through her basic personality that she's never been able to overcome......good or bad, this is what drives her.....ki what will people think of her.....she needs to be good so that people think good of her....she needs to be strong to prove a point....she needs to be a wife to "fit in" to society.....she has a loving husband so now the whole world can see that she is no longer a divorcee or "outcast" in society.....she has to be a good mother or people will say she's a bad mother......I can list so many examples that prove this basic nature......after the Chef Vikas incident, she told NB she was happy her pic was published in the paper cuz she wanted to show Ashok how well she's doing without him......during the wedding track, one day she would take a bold stance of wanting to go back to the haveli before the wedding, and next day she would sit and cry about what the Khuranas must be thinking about her. And she's always thrown tantrums when she feels backed into a corner.....she did it during the Poonam incident, she did it during the incident about returning the jewelery.....after the wedding, she didn't want Mini going to the Khuranas cuz she thought people would blame her for neglecting her kid.....she lashed out at Mini over Kammo insinuating that Mini is like Meeta....when she forgot Mini's birthday, she kept repeating "Log kya kahenge ki main buri maa hoon, apni beti ka birthday bhool gayi".....she kept pushing HS to be Mini's father cuz she wanted to prove a point to society ki look we are a perfect family.......and now, simply over instigation from Saroj, she is doing all manner of extreme things to "hold on" to her marriage...everything from all the poojas to the thought of having a baby with HS, all only occur to her cuz someone from society puts the thought in her head.....at every single point, what someone from society or outside has said to her has mattered more to her than her own family.....she has always given in to that line of thought.....like a devil whispering in her ear, this is her downfall every single time.
As NB explained in the scene today.....society hai hi aisi cheez.....not everyone has the strength to overcome the riptide that tries to pull you under......Babita never exactly overcame this fully so it's not out of character to see her succumbing to it yet again.....her journey was inspiring but it didn't change her fundamental nature. There is no guarantee that the opportunity for independence can change a person's fundamental nature.
Then there's HS ka nature.....he also stated facts today when he said it was easier for him to give gyaan to Babita when they didn't have a relationship....once love entered the equation, he felt restricted from being as frank with her.....this is HS ka achilees heel.....his love makes him more vulnerable and insecure about losing the people he loves so he starts holding back in order to preserve the status quo rather than thinking of the larger picture. He has never claimed to be the ultimate hero with all the answers.....what I've always liked about him is his ability to acknowledge his shortcomings....he did the same today when Mini again told him he hasn't lived up to his own words.....this has happened many times before.....it has been easier for him to say something rather than apply it on himself when the time came.....a hero finds it easier to save the rest of the world rather than save himself.
And then there's Mini.....fiesty and blunt....no holds barred. She has also always been like this, adamant about taking a stand and sticking to it, speaking her mind, come what may.....there are no grey areas for her about some things.....independence and identity especially. And so she's talking about the same things that she's always talked about with Babita....but this is a different version of Babita with the same fundamental traits....the previous Babita too was influenced by society but she didn't have a voice.....this one does. So Mini doesn't know how to tackle her now....what do you do with a person who has found her voice but is applying it towards all the wrong reasons?
The story is bringing all these threads together in this last week.....that is the sense I got today....the fundamental nature of all three characters was reiterated.....what brought them together and what pulls them apart.
HS as always was impacted by Mini's words and tried to make a sacrifice of his own to help manage the situation.....but it all went for a toss with Babita exploding. The very last scene of HS and Mini both trying to stop Babita from doing something hastily said everything about where this has culminated. This is not the first time Babita has done something in a hasty impulse....the difference this time is that there may not be a way out to pull back from the brink.
Two things stayed with me after the epi.....
1) Mini's line to HS about the best husband preparing his wife for widowhood....she's gonna guilt trip over that one eventually.....a lesson to be learnt about blurting out sweeping statements casually.....you never know when they will come back to haunt you. Mini's sharp tongue will haunt her at some point.
2) NB wishing ki Babita ki khushfehmi sach nikle......cuz if she turns out to be wrong, Babita is going to be the one left most hurt.....sadly that seems like an inevitability now.....Babita's inability to overcome the need to pander to society will be her ultimate downfall.
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