Sameer's choice right vs. wrong

Its all about making choices. It's easy enough to make a choice when you have to choose between good things. The real test comes when the only choice available is a bad one. And, the onus is always on the adults to provide guidance that helps kids make the right choices.

Sameer is a teenager who seems to have been shuttling between a hostel and his Naanu's home. Whatever little guidance he got, was only from Nanu and now that he is gone, Sameer is left out to dry.

Do we see any guide for Sameer at the Somani house? Anyone there who thinks that a teenager left alone to while away his time as he sees fit, is an invitation to "An idle mind is the devil's workshop."

His relationship with Vishakha is still new and although she is on her way to becoming the mother that Sameer always missed, she is yet to become the guide and mentor that Sameer desperately needs. Maybe these incidents will push her into taking over the role that Naanu wanted her to fulfill.

Right now, he is anchorless, drifting. Even before he left for Ahmedadbad he was lonely, missing love and friends back there. After coming back when he was stranded and all alone, finding these rowdy boys who treated him as "special", seems to have pulled him in.

These so-called "friends" he has acquired are as frivolous as the rest of the so-called family which is still superficial, distant.

Sameer needs something to jolt him out of this darkness - to remind him of the potential that Nanu saw in him, to become the man that Nanu knew he would.

He needs to learn to stand up for him in the right route without the guidance and with the help of his own inner voice. This phase is that phase which will now let him learn to choose the right over the wrong.

Then again-

Many of us feel disappointed to see Sameer giving in to the temptations thrown before him but it only shows that he is human. One of the reasons that Sameer is straying from the rightful way is because there is no one in Delhi who can show him otherwise.!

When Sameer was in Ahmedabad, his Nanaji took care of everything for him! Had Sameer decided to befriend someone with wrong attitude, I'm sure Nanu would've been there to guide him through pep talk and citing his own experiences to Sameer! But here in Delhi there is no one who takes time out to see what Sameer is doing! He is literally left to be on his own. Vishakha, who is supposedly the biggest reason why Sameer is in Delhi, is still reeling from the fact that she can finally be with her son! She has so much of her pent up emotions regarding Sameer that she is still finding her way to deal with them. In the midst of those feelings, she can't really see what's happening to Sameer.

Rohan, who could've been the next close friend and confidante for Sameer, lives in his own world! The height of his subdued nature is that he won't even speak or react to anything that's happening in his own room, right under his nose! The only good thing coming out of it is that all the tales of Sameer's foolishness are not reaching upto Somani or Vishakha's ears! I keep wondering how much more of Sameer's nonsense can this kid tolerate! I'm waiting for him to speak his mind soon!

In Naanu's house, Sameer was free to do whatever he wanted! Sometimes the absence of rules leaves you with nothing to break! That's why Sameer never felt the need to hide anything from Naanu. In Somani household, there are rules everywhere.. the whole place reeks of them! Rohan's timetable, Dadi's insistence for everyone to take their meals at a definite time etc are a liitle too much for Sameer who's not used to such restrictions! Everyone expects him to adjust according to the rules of the house, almost like a newly wed bride who enters the house for the first time.. and to make his life a living hell, dadi plays the role of the tyrant Mother-in-law! The only exception to this analogy is that dadi is working towards getting Sameer thrown out of her house instead of giving him a chance to adjust.

Sameer has made sure that his state of helplessness should not be conveyed to anyone in Ahmedabad. He doesn't want them to know about his sorry state, as he doesn't want them to get worried about him. With such living conditions, Sameer finds it easier to go out with these rowdy boys and breathe the air of freedom! Without even realizing himself, he is falling deeper into this swamp of dirtiness. A lonely, bore-out-his-mind teenaged kid is sticking with those kids as if they are the proverbial tinka, not realizing that they will lead to a drowning of his soul in darkness. The tinka that wasn't, for a doobta hua Sameer.

- Collected from YUDKBH fandom, saying my mind.