Imlie^3 be paired with Gattu aft he swerved his car? DT Note Pg. 2 - Page 2

DT Note

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SPOILER

The actor playing Gattu shared a screencap of Gattu holding a gun outstretched in a continuation of the scene where Imlie^3 brandished a sickle to threaten Amrit at the end of the October 11 episode.

One can guess that Gattu is pointing the gun at Imlie^3 to save Amrit's life.

I see this violent gesture by Gattu as justifiable defense of his family, totally different from swerving a car to terrify Imlie^3 without provocation. I don't like reckless endangerment being forgotten for a romantic pairing, but I can accept two characters cooling down from an armed confrontation and falling in love.

In fact, I wrote a Nano Drama last year about two characters feeling affection as they engage in a deadly battle:

https://www.indiaforums.com/fanfiction/chapter/33300

As far as Titu Māmā knows, Gattu is a spiteful man who sent Imlie^3 to jail, fired her although she was a good chef, got her fired from her singing job, shut down her food stand, sent her to jail again, and took her away from Ashu so that he could exploit her sexually (assumed by everyone) and discard her.

Why would Titu pray that such a man's marriage to Imlie^3 lasts forever?

Of course, the whole situation of Gattu trusting Imlie^3's family to pass for rich is out of character. Gattu hates Imlie^3 because she fooled him by passing for rich when he had convinced himself that poor candidates didn't deserve opportunities. Now he's giving acting opportunities to poor people who show him just how degraded they are!

When Gattu's idea was to give Imlie^3 a fake father, mother, and sister instead of a Māmā, a Māmī, and a cousin, the roles could have been played by professional actors instead of real family members. Forget negotiating with the likes of Pallo and Bulbul, if Gattu had any sense at all, he wouldn't have let the entire poor neighbourhood see him with Imlie^3. Who knows who will spread the news to Sonali?

How can Gattu explain his in-laws' family name being Sharifchand when his marriage is registered to Imlie^3 Rana?

On Wednesday's episode, Gattu threw Imlie^3 over his shoulder, carried her into his bedroom, and dumped her onto the bed. He leaned over her and covered her mouth with his hand. Comments in the Sai Ketan Rao Appreciation Thread are comparing this to a scene from Mehandī Hai Racanevālī. However, I don't think Imalī's creative team is glorifying abusive relationships and male chauvinism simply because Gattu transported Imlie^3 against her will.

When sprightly background music plays while a man gags his wife just because he's tired of her scolding him, and he throws her over his shoulder and into his car to drive her where he wants to take her, just as he previously transported her by force to marry her, and before that to tie her in front of a truck to threaten her life, and she's too traumatized to think that she has his permission to remove the gag with her free hands ... that is glorification of abusive behaviour rooted in toxic masculinity. In my fan fiction, I wrote that the victim of this treatment had nightmares about being paralyzed by fear of the aggressor.

On the other hand, Gattu carried Imlie^3 because it was too painful for her to stand on her own feet, and he was moved to tears by her blisters that he had overlooked before. In general, Gattu has no right to touch Imlie^3 against her will, but as soon as she fell against him, he had a choice: step back and let her fall and hurt herself, or ask her to lean on him while she walked and left more bloodstained footprints. He did what he thought was kinder than those choices.

The music was comical, but the acting conveyed the seriousness of Imlie^3's protest that Gattu has no right over her. We saw Imlie^3's real fear that Gattu might have bad intentions when he closed the door and windows, put his hands on both sides of her and brought his face closer, and put his hand over her mouth.

The episode ended with Gattu walking away without apologizing for anything. Did he forget about the ointment that he wanted Imlie^3 to put on her blisters? Or, will he bring it to her on Thursday's episode?

What do you think? After Gattu swerved his car at Imlie^3 to give her a scare, was it inexcusable for him to manhandle her for her own comfort and to muffle her shouting about their six-month deal?

I thought that when Imlie^3 fell against Gattu, it might be an exceptional situation where picking her up was kinder than leaving her to fend for herself.

On Thursday's episode, however, Gattu acted entitled to carry Imlie^3 from his bed to her trundle-mattress without warning, and again back to his bed when he wanted Sonali to see her there, and a third time back to her trundle-mattress. He never asked for her permission to touch or transport her.

He also put his finger to her lips to silence her, when he could easily have used words instead of a touch.

On the November 6 episode, Gattu continued to spew bile at Imlie^3 without provocation.

His reason for being upset? While he paid lip service to Sonali's happiness, Imlie^3 meant what she said about allowing Sonali to choose her home, and persuaded Annapurna and Rajani to relent. So, paranoid Gattu imagines that with Sonali not going anywhere, the transfer of Annapurna's shares of Chaudhary Sweets to his ownership will take longer. And his plan to cheat Imlie^3 out of promised earnings by breaking their six-month contract immediately (cue heart attack for Annapurna) will have to wait for a few more days.

How does Gattu even have a problem? The daily allowance was his idea, his budget. With shares on their way to him, it should be even more affordable now. Surely, paying one Imlie^3 is less problematic than paying and relocating every bar patron who knows what Chintamani knows. But suppose one day Gattu refuses to pay Imlie^3, what will she do? Tell his family and get thrown out? Nobody can make Gattu pay Imlie^3. Yet penny-wise, pound-foolish Gattu is antagonizing Imlie^3 by telling her his plan to cheat her, so that she has nothing to lose by exposing him to Annapurna. He's swearing at her in English: "freaking idiot" and "bl**dy gold-digger." With an extra stroke of genius, Gattu is making Imlie^3 wander the halls looking for a place to sleep, and maybe a sympathetic ear.

Gattu sneered at Imlie^3 for creating the false impression that she begins every day with pūjā. Should we infer that when Gattu was in London, he himself took care to worship tulasī every morning? I am sensing a pattern here: cheat his own grandmother out of her lifetime achievement, but call his hireling a gold-digger ... show up after the pūjā, but question the sincerity of the person who performed it ...

Gattu told Imlie^3 that he wishes she would get lost in the jungle and come to harm. Those words are harmful even if he doesn't mean them. Can he imagine how a woman feels, sleeping in the same room as a man who wishes physical danger for her?

Were the creatives trying to make Gattu's fight as unbelievable as possible? How could his adversary spin 720° in the air when Gattu's punch had no angular momentum or upward thrust? Why would anyone come up behind Gattu and kick wide with his leg instead of using his arms?

Gattu's line, "Fight meṃ kucha to mazā āyā," together with his "rest in peace" quips, implied that his concern for Imlie^3's unconsciousness from multiple head injuries could be turned off to enjoy a fight and some hyperbole, and then turned on again for his yelling-her-name-to-the-heavens moment.

Instead of the flashbacks of Gattu finding clues to Imlie^3's whereabouts, how about a logical reason for him to come looking for her after wishing she would get lost?

Or a logical reason why Gattu didn't get into the bus with Imlie^3, or at least follow the bus in his car, instead of standing helplessly in the road, slapping his car, and going home to yell at himself without verifying Imlie^3's whereabouts?

Imlie^3 could be lying about staying with Pallo. She could be disoriented from those blows to her head. She could have a concussion that will turn fatal if she's not observed in a hospital. Yet Gattu wastes time before calling Pallo and heading over. He never takes Imlie^3 to the hospital.

It would be advisable to call the police and get those would-be gang rapists off the streets.

Gattu was beyond disappointing in the November 16 episode. Neither his brain nor his heart was working properly.

He just heard Imlie^3 telling his family that he didn't know she was a bar singer. The marriage was Gattu's idea, for his convenience, and he chose Imlie^3 precisely because he thought she was shamelessly greedy. It wasn't her fault at all, but she tried to take his disgrace upon herself so that he could save face with his family. Gattu has proof right there that Imlie^3 would do anything, not for money but for him, to avoid hurting his family.

By the way, Gattu is also fully aware that Imlie^3 risked her own safety to shield him from men who had beaten her and almost gang raped her. He saw her trauma from that situation (which he caused) and he should appreciate how much self-denial it took for Imlie^3 to be courageous facing those men again.

Gattu knows that Imlie^3 lowballed the amount of compensation he paid for that trauma. It's obvious that she only put a price tag on it because she desperately needed the money. If she was always after money, she wouldn't have taken back her demand for money that time she made Banārasī makkhana malāī while her feet were burned and blistered.

So, Gattu knows that Imlie^3 is hiding something, she needs money desperately, not for luxuries (e.g. hiring a spouse, relocating Chintamani ...), and she is protective of him and his family. Does he try to understand her motives and get her to open up about her problems? No, he sheds tears only for himself.

Will Gattu ever marvel at the coincidence that he got released from jail just as Imlie^3 was singing? Will he question the tip that led him to find her at the Desi Theka bar instead of going straight home to his family? Will he ask his family who brought them to the bar?

Gattu isn't even thinking, what would it take for the Desi Theka bar to allow Imlie^3 to perform again? The owner had fired her at Gattu's behest because she had slapped Amrit. Whose influence would convince the bar owner to overlook that slap?

Duh!

I feel what benefit imlie gets from hiding about amrit to agastya? Why she didn't reveal the threats and advances cause she is not blackmailed by something big like kidnapping that small boy. The blackmail is about sending gattu to prison.

That is not a big reason to get blackmailed

And why do tv heroines always have to hide info from husband or lover?