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I'm not a Jennifer fan. I became at one with Maya. I stepped in her shoes and saw things from her point of view. Destiny was against her from her birth. I will say this: we are rational people who have understood what love and life is. Maya had nothing experienced nothing saw nothing but pain. Trauma. Mental illness. Depression. Cheating. Insecurity. Loneliness. Friendless. No good upbringing. The love who had sworn beyhadh love and devotion tried to leave her when her illness began suffocating him. Please don't expect her to look at things from the point of view of a normal person. She is not normal. She did not see ever a normal life.
This is the first show of Jennifer's I watched and now I'm a fan for life! I understand mental illness and worked in that field for 5 years until it became too much for me and I switched careers. That was over 10 years ago, but I still remember the people I met and the things I saw. It was easy to see why Maya was insecure with the way she was brought up. Her dad was the devil and her mom was weak and could not be the strong role model that Maya needed. Maya needed professional help and her parents failed her. Maya was a product of her upbringing. Her childhood shaped the person she bacame. I definitely sympathize with that.
However, where I lose you is when you say her love tried to leave her when she was suffocating him. Arjun didn't leave her for years, even when she was controlling and he never cheated on her. He tried to help her through, but he never really left her until she killed his mother. When mental illness causes you to take someone's life then there isn't anything that your loved ones can do. She should have been institutionalized and needed to get treatment. Arjun's character let her get away with a lot like cameras and such. I would have liked to see him talk her down, but she was beyond reason at that point.
This was Maya's story from the beginning. Arjun, Sanjh and the rest of the cast were just people she encountered along the way which helped contribute to her illness and make it worse. We all feel bad for the character of Maya b/c even in the end she was still that little girl who wanted to be loved. The love she got was never enough and that stems from her insecurities. There are so many Maya's out there (not to her extreme), but we are human and can only handle so much. You can't blame a spouse for trying and not being able to live that way. That's not any way to live. In my opinion, Arjun should've gotten her help when her love turned obsessive, but he let her get away with it for 3 years. Those 3 years were just as lonely and isolated for him as they were for Maya.
We all feel for Maya and what she has been through, but we have to remember that along the way people died, lives/families were ruined and if that was our family she ruined we wouldn't be sticking around either. Arjun would never have been able to help her no matter what he did. It is beyond love or support at this point. Being locked up was the only way to handle it since no one got her treatment in the early stages. It was too late when she finally went to get treatment which obviously had no impact.
Anyhow, the ending was bittersweet. Maya was finally put out of her misery.
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