It feels so good to be on familiar grounds again. It's as if the broken, shiny, individual glass pieces of the kaleidoscope are finally aligning themselves and coming together to the still-fresh splendor of our show...seemingly far-fetched scenarios pulled right back up by some plausible explanations and justifications.
If the essence of my being has made me appoint myself the guardian of your solitude, then in living I have made my mark...
It's the dawn of a new era in the Scindia Mansion, even as democracy entered without so much as a preamble...just like that...in the garb of lessons of life, once again bringing in the message that nothing is constant in life. Change is the only constant...just as today is tomorrow's yesterday. This acceptance is what was missing thus far. Finally SP realized that tradition is a guide and not a jailer that you become prisoner of its rigid norms, but tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing.
Radha's advent has brought the change in collective psyche of this family, not because she was a miracle worker but because she was honest and she did not hesitate to tell the truth. It would have been so easy for her to be a healer to the false snake venom and gather the glory...but, in that case, she would have been a quack, a pseudo-healer, and not the cleanser of heart as a mother is. Her coming clean with the truth and, more importantly, Vidhi, as the present first lady of the family, recognizing the sincerity behind the act meant honesty was back in business in the family. In one stroke Radha collected all goodwill and Ishita, for the first time, found herself checkmated...put down on the mat by the woman whom she wronged clandestinely. Even Maya understood the drift of the wind and knew she had to float along with it...if only to survive. Ishita's downtime has begun...because the pieces on the other side of the board are once again whole. (On an aside: This reminded me of the "mere paas Ma hai" dialogue of Deewar.😛 One can have all the wealth in the world, but you are nothing if you don't have your mother with you).
In all this Pankaj tried to hang on to the tail of the redundant belief and threatened his wife with a break up...but Vidhi knows her husband. She didn't flinch even once while calling his bluff and sticking to her stand. Inadvertently, Radha has already empowered the womenfolk with her honesty and forthrightness. Vidhi who had learnt to be a blind follower of the menfolk...lessons she got from Gaytari who had an irreversibly traditional mindset...stood up for what is right and that too so vocally, so steadfastly, and so resolutely. Vedika was a proud daughter today. There was a reason that the teenager felt closer to Aarti and Radha: It was not because they encouraged her to rebel against her parents; it was because in them she found the fearlessness to not only recognize the right thing but also to follow through with the right thing. She is young...she wants to see her parents practice in reality what they are so quick to verbally defend.
Suraj Pratap is enjoying this sense of freedom he is experiencing with the new awakening. Once he understood his folly and once he put words of acceptance and apology to the misdeeds done, it was if floodgates had opened and all the stagnant values that he was harboring all his life just flew out, allowing new springs of knowledge and understanding to spout. With Gayatri he had to be the controller and the master, but in Radha he sees an equal. Radha is independent...Radha doesn't need a crutch to walk...Radha is principled...Radha is honest. These were the very qualities that had once awaken pride and affection in SP...but that time these feelings were aroused by one lady who turned out to be the harbinger of change in the family...his bahu Aarti. Radha and Aarti are very similar...in their attitude as well as their life choices. SP is able to appreciate Radha more because he found himself a broken man after his wife's sudden demise. He found he couldn't function anymore...and his entire existence was attacked with quakes. Under similar circumstances, Radha had held together not only herself but also Aakash for thirty long years...without breaking down and without looking around for crutches. He also acknowledged how like a silent shadow Radha took care of his needs as well his family's post Gayatri's death. He was all set to go to an Old Age Home...not even his sons's incessant pleas deterred him, but one gentle pointer by Radha regarding his importance gave him back his place in the eyes of his family, which he thought he had lost...and he changed his decision. SP was right when he said that a man will always need a woman for survival and to recognize his footing. By bowing to Radha's rationale and changing his decision, SP silently acquiesced to the remarriage.
There has been a lot of criticism of Radha regarding her lack of empathy for Aakash and her failure to approach him in order to correct him. I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt. We have heard what Aakash had to say regarding the baby swap...He cannot forgive her for the kidnapping that deprived him of his rightful life. Given what he feels about her, and given how Gayatri took over the mantle of being Aakash's mother, Radha's guilt and the fact that she must have felt that she has no rights on Aakash anymore would have caused her to distance herself from Aakash. When Gayatri was alive, neither Aakash nor Gayatri would have entertained Radha trying to rein in Aakash. After Gayatri died, Aakash became too drunk with his new-found wealth, which caused him to probably deride Radha more for what she had done. After all he missed having all this because of her. The more his disappointment grew in Radha, the more Ishita pushed him against her with her clever maneuvers, till a time came when he spewed filth against the mother he had known all his life. He needs her...no doubt...but a hapless, cornered Radha was no help to him. This marriage will empower her as well as make her guide a lost father that SP is at the moment. Now that SP has underwent a change of perceptions, he will be able to take charge of his errant son with Radha's help. Radha may have been gently pulling up Yash and Aarti for their truancy today but when she mentioned the importance of a father and how his lack can cause the children to go astray, she may have had Aakash in mind.
I simply love how the CVs have woven the logic and reasoning in favor of this marriage so soon after Gayatri's demise, especially when both are at the twilight of their ages.
That's it friends. Oho...one more thing...Maya's reaction: Priceless!!!😃
Have a nice day.😊
Edited by InduG64 - 11 years ago
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