Aside from the fact that Anupama is the protagonist who perhaps half the viewers dislike and another half sympathize with, examining her character without bias is pretty intriguing.
Here is this woman who is married off young, falls in love with her conceited and abusive husband, knows no better than to obey her in laws and treat them with reverence regardless of how she is treated stemming from the fact she is completely dependent emotionally and financially on that brute of a husband, saddled with three children and thus getting further embroiled with this family that she cannot fight against or leave until the husband she reveres is found to be a cheater, shattered she tries to move on but stumbles into another equally stifling relationship, never financially independent, always the victim of misfortune even during the so called happy times, adopts a child to create a new family, has said devoted husband leave her for months with not a word while he cohabits with the mother of the adopted child, husband returns only to perform wedding rites with so called fake companion, loses her son who dies for her husband, accused of playing favorites amongst her kids she leaves everyone behind in a fit of despair, comes to America with a dream but only to again fail, fall prey again to the quagmire of relationships that she thinks she has left behind, never winning, always falling short, but falsely convincing herself that she will rise again like a phoenix with that indomitable human spirit of hope.
Anupama saddens me, irks me, makes me want to shake some sense into her, she disappoints, she repulses yet also leaves me with a reluctant sense of pride in that fellow feeling of a woman that is desperately trying to make the best of situations that always somehow turn against her.
It is a serial and the plot has to have these unbelievable twists and turns, the show is named after her, is about her life, she is the constant, other characters may come and go, ulitmately it is her story that is being told.
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