Subject:- 'Apropos NAIDL ep.(27th Jan. 2010)' by leelaa9.
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I got so caught up in the flow of the moment in the recent NAIDL track of Sia saving Ammaji's life that I fell for all the media pieces saying Ammaji would be becoming more positive towards Sia. This, despite knowing that NAIDL has probably *the* most brazen track-record of giving misinformation to the press about further developments.
It would have been nice if Ammaji did wave her son forward and welcome Sia into the family with open arms and blessings. Nice, but completely unbelievable.
Sia still wants Ammaji to reform, to become a bastion of progressive values and is utterly blind to what such a change would cost Ammaji as well as the Sangwan family.
Ammaji is probably the only absolutely unsentimental character in the series.
I mean, with a daughter-in-law who - despite being treated the way Sia has been - racing forward to take a bullet for her oppressor, even Joginder, Yashpal and Dalbeer (the other three members besides Raghav of Ammaji's unswervingly loyal quartet) were positively inclined towards Sia. There was no disapproval on any of the three faces when Raghav was taking Sia inside, probably to his own room. And their shock, though muted compared to Raghav's, was evident at what Ammaji said to and about Sia.
But consider the situation clearly. If Ammaji had accepted Sia into Raghav's life, what then? She would have to live in tension, wholly related to Sia's future children.
This is not Raghav's generation, where there were four sons in the house. The next generation has only Aditya, Gajender's & Sunehri's son, to carry forward the Sangwan name. Joginder can't father a child. Avtaar has fathered at least two now deceased daughters and no son. Ammaji will probably bring in a third wife for him if Rangeeli doesn't present a son.
But Ammaji's maternal love for Avtaar notwithstanding, a biological grand*son* (Ammaji's bloodline rather than Sheela's) other than Aditya - so that the Sangwan family's future will not be dependent on only one man in the distant future - is something only Raghav can provide.
And for that, Raghav needs to have a wife who is complaisant, at least in the matter of bearing sons and either aborting a daughter while unborn or handing her to be drowned in milk as soon as born.
If anything, the fiascos surrounding Jhumar have convinced the whole village of the wisdom of their age-old practice of never keeping a female child alive. And whensoever this gotra romance idiocy is revealed, they'll probably take Jhumar's name whenever they drown a female baby. As in, "See what *she* did? Best kill this one before she does the same thing."
In 'Balika Vadhu', their showing absolute platonic feeling between Gehna and her young singing-teacher can encourage rural orthodox men to be considerate and trusting of their wives' fidelity. NAIDL's Jhumar is being made into a walking-talking embodiment of every reason a daughter's birth is mourned.
As for Raghav and Sia... If Sia could be convinced that Raghav would be shattered or otherwise harmed by her not killing her daughters and having only sons, she would probably do it. But what situation in the world would convince her of it? And if she otherwise decides to have an abortion to terminate a female child and arranges some mess - deliberate or accidental - to prevent her from having another child, what then? Unlike Avtaar, convincing Raghav to take a second wife for breeding purposes would be the mother of all headaches (pun intended <LOL>).
In realistic terms, if Sia were to scuttle her citified principles and get with the Veerpur way of life, she and Raghav could wipe the floor with Gajender and Sunehri.
Sia could change. But legally, the series can't afford that. Sia's is the lone voice at least technically calling for an end to female infanticide. That's the voice the makers can use in court to point out that their series doesn't approve female infanticide.
But Ammaji changing is something else the series can't afford, and that in terms of viewership. A powerless enlightened Ammaji? The villagers and the power that has been hers would be lost to her.
So what are the series-makers to do? They can afford to have neither Ammaji nor Sia change, even though the latter's transformation would make for a heck of a kickass development to the story.
leelaa9.
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