Sukanya -
I agree with your views on divorcees finding happiness in their susequent relationships and I am glad that your sister got a second chance at life.
But here I would like to confine my self to the discussion about Anandi and my perception about her.
Reasons why she finds it difficult to embrace future.
One she is scared - once bitten twice shy.
Here she gave all that she had towards her relationship with Jagya and yet it was not enough for him.He left her for someone and he just did not leave her he was downright cruel and insulting towards her in his bid to justify his leaving her.
That shattered her self esteem.There is no one to tell her that she is no less a woman just because her husband left her.Sure she had her parents and in laws standing by her but that's not the same.She lives in a closed space completely cosseted by the people who love her and care for her.
She has not had many interactions with people of her age to tell her that she she is no different from the rest of them.If at all she has come in contact with girls of her age they are all from Jaitsar they are child brides like Lal Singh's wife who is happily married or Phooli who is a child widow.She doesn't know any other way of life.The only window she has to the outside world probably is the internet.
Even her education she completed through correspondence course.I so wished at that time that Bhairon would insist that she go to college in Jaipur.But sadly it did not happen.So she ended up never moving out of Jaitser.
She just does not know that she deserves better because of two things one-her low self esteem two -that she does not know that all men are not like Jagya.
The only successful relationships she has seen from close quarters are all the products of bal vivah.It is only her bal vivah that has gone wrong.So she thinks it is her fault that her marriage has gone wrong because she was not educated and her inability to be a successful partner to J who is an educated man.
And to be honest A and J relationship had a lot of love and genuinenesses in it while it lasted.So she just finds it difficult to believe that a relationship which had so much love in it could fail what guarantee is there that it will work the second time?Why should she get into a relationship at all.She was very right in not wanting to get into a relationship.
But Dadisa in her bid to do the right thing by her she forced her and blackmailed her into this relationship with Shiv because she knew that Shiv is the right man for her.This probably is also another reason for her resistance towards Shiv. But that resistance is melting away as you can see.When she was upset with herself for her inability to forgive J and wanted some reassurance she turned to Shiv .He soothed her.As for her crying on seeing J in that video need not be because of her feelings for J.It could be that she is upset that a lot must have happened and nobody told her about it.What Anandi does when she is upset for whatever reason is cry and then she goes onto sort out her problem.
Anandi - Jagya relationship - This was formed when they did not even know the meaning of relationship.Child marriage just put them together at the same place at the same time.They were conditioned to accept that relationship.But love is something that cannot be conditioned.They loved each other very much the main contribution to that relationship came from A and J acknowledging it and reciprocating accordingly.
Is this love for each other is enough to sustain a man woman relationship between them ?
Apparently not because once Jagya has realised that his life is going to be very different from the time he reached Mumbai chose himself a woman who he thought would be more suitable for him.It is just that Anandi has not yet realised that the love she has for Jagya is not enough to sustain relationship.She has not realised that the while the feelings she has for him very real but she does not love him as a woman loves a man.
These two were conditioned to accept each other as husband and wife from very small age and that is almost 3/4 of their life.So it is a very long relationship from their perspective.
It is not just Anandi who is having trouble.Jagya is also having the same problem.
Mainly because of the guilt for the way he handled/mishandled his relationship with A.
Also because of his inability to let go of A which led to insecurity in G and unleashed the demon in her.
The reason why both of them having trouble with handling adult relationships with their partners is because the child marriage muddled their perceptions about relationship between man and woman.This is what they are trying to show in the current track.
While A has the support of S J has no support in dealing with this aspect.
The A and J encounters are needed to bring closure to a relationship so that they can move on.
Anandi - Shiv
Anandi on the surface a very confident and capable woman who fights for other people who can not fight their battles or who cannot stand up for themselves.
But she is somebody who actually not actually fight for herself and she herself in those people who cannot fight for themselves so she fights for them
She is also a woman with low self esteem and still cannot believe that someone so perfect like Shiv can fall for her.
She is also confused woman with regards to her feelings for her past.The day she realises that her feelings for J were not equivalent to a wife feels fr her husband she will let go of her past.
At this moment she does not even love herself so it is too much to expect her to fall in love.
Most importantly her the day she realises that Shiv indeed is the mirror image of her she will fall in love with Shiv.And I am waiting for the day when she sees Shiv's image in that mirror instead of hers.
What I am trying to say
Anandi has excess baggage not in the form of her love for Jagya and her wanting to cling on to him but her low self esteem thanks to J and fear of same thing happening again which is making it difficult for her to accept Shiv
Shiv is the first man she met after the breakdown of her marriage.when she met him she was not in a mood to get into a relationship So that's why she is a bit reluctant and I think that's the way it should be.Take one step at a time.She is accepting him slowly taking her time. Meanwhile let the Mr Magnificent work in that direction.
CM - I don't even want to talk about her.She can live behind the closed doors of her dungeon with her closed mind for company for all that I care.
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