Originally posted by: Minionite
@ Bold and red: See the thing is Jaya had to choose between her marriage and her career at one point and she chose her marriage. I always wondered why, but my mom pointed out that I'm looking at it from today's perspective when divorces or living separately is more common. Back then it was so badly frowned upon that women would literally live in a hellhole and die, rather than leave the man. So it isn't a surprise that Jaya had to choose and went with her marriage. At the end of the day, even celebs aren't exempt from societal pressures and given the way both families were, I'm not surprised that Jaya made such a choice. But as time went on and the kids got older, she had a choice. She has a political career now, she has support in the form of Shweta. She could have left AB Sr now if she wanted. At this point, she can't blame anyone. She chose to stay in that relationship to the point where it's just being pulled along.
@ Green: This has always puzzled me as well. Rekha is very open about her relationship with AB Sr. She seems so sure that he won't say or do anything. But how? You suggest he has led her on. But she isn't that dumb to be led on for 30-40 years and not see through him. And neither is he so dumb that he would let her speak about their relationship so openly. So does she hold something over him? Or do they both just not care about what people think?
@Jaya: Agreed. Maybe because we have lived in this age where it is acceptable that you rather walk out of a marriage than live a terrible life, we frown upon choices people made in the past. Indeed, being a divorcee is still considered a stigma in our country for normal people atleast (not for celebs). People still do talk and mostly it is against the woman.
Maybe that is why now when she sees that people have saner/better choices and more freedom, she is more bitter about the choices she had to make. It was either about being left by her husband or listening to people gossiping about him and Rekha.
@Rekha: By led her on "then" (not now), I mean, what if they were in a relationship when this interview happened. Look at her confidence. Either she is completely delusional, which she doesn't seem to be. Or she has that much confidence in the man. She said all this back in the day, when people were not open minded at all. I cannot expect an actress to say all this about a married actor even today (except Kangana, and look what happened). Look at Naga-Sobhita case, the backlash.
Can you imagine PC giving such an interview about Akshay or SRK even today? (given the rumours she had with them)
I don't really think she is blackmailing him, she likes him too much for that; but I wonder if a Hema-Dharmendra scenario happened wherein Jaya refused to divorce AB Sr, and AB and Rekha just decided to continue their affair on the sly and Jaya buried her head in the sand like an ostrich and pretended all is well. Also maybe AB's mom and dad schooled him for trying to seek divorce + the fact that his image may take a hit, but it seems heroes those days got away with everything. Look at Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, etc. and Amitabh himself. Everyone knew he and Rekha were a thing.
When I see this I do feel bad for the kids. But atleast media those days wasn't as bad as now, and neither were kids those days as mean as they are now.
PS: Right now I think both Jaya and Rekha are just taking badla from Amitabh. One inside the house, other in the press. Bhugatne do, apne hi karmo ka phal hai.
Edited by Daebak - 2 months ago
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