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So the missing father and his second wife showed up today and the entire Jagotia family's dysfunctionality was on display. Everyone was in the same room with Sarita washing and ironing the clothes in the living room (who does that??). So I guess, these people do come together and all of them display resentment, temper tantrums and what not in public. I think aimf wrote one time that this family is fascinating in how they wash their dirty linen in public.
Looking at normal interaction between Divya and Gaurav and openness of her with both Gaurav and her siblings made me think that Divya had a lucky escape from this lunatic family. Now she is trying to get into middle of this despite Gaurav's warnings. Gaurav was being sensible in warning her to stay away from Raj and Sarita even though part of his warning was coming from feeling insecure. He and Sarita both felt insecure about Raj and Divya's connection. The method of expressing fear was different as Gaurav is a sophisticated person and Sarita has a direct in-your-face blunt approach.
Coming back to Jakotia family, I felt sorry for Kamla for the first time after the leap. So it seems that Sarita is her punching bag and she takes out all her frustrations that she has towards her husband on Sarita. I really liked how she was suppressing herself when she was forced to worship her husband. Who asked her to do all this? Was it Sohalal or was it Dadi who started this and Kamla has to continue the tradition.
Kamla is pretty much alone because her daughters who side with her when she torments Sarita actually abandoned her when it came to the father. Since father more than likely holds purse strings, they were ridiculing their mother (by smiling in amusement) to make him happy. Nobody respects Kamla - Dadi, husband, daughters, DIL and even son. But maybe Raj is the only one who gave her importance in past and that's why she blames Sarita because Raj became this way especially after his marriage to Sarita. Also Sarita is choice of Sohanlal and probably that's the biggest black mark against her.
Dadi is another character who is two-faced. She supports both Sarita and Kamla very discreetly, but never stands up for them upfront. She was even slightly amused when Sohanlal called Kamla an imbecile. She only reacted to his being nice to his second wife who butters him up at every instance. She taunted him for neglecting his mother, but did not say a word when he was threatening ot beat up Kamla. It seems that when he can't control Raj, he takes it out on Kamla. So everyone in this family takes out their frustration on the other person.
Raj also is very disdainful of his father. His retort at his father that things bought or deals made by him doesn't interest Raj, even if they were good looking. The camera zoomed to Sarita on this part. Was it not only "abandonment" of Divya that made him like this. Is ignoring Sarita also a rebellion against his father because Sohanlal made a deal with Sarita's father in exchange for the marriage. According to Sarita, they got a lot of dowry 10 years ago.
Sarita too is coming out as a messed up character to me similar to Raj . Now I am curious about her background. What kind of parents marry their daughter into such a family? Also, even if she got married into such a family, why is she putting up with them. So far it seems that she is so much in love with Raj that she doesn't want to walk out of this relationship because she knows that Raj wouldn't care and would actually be relieved. I don't understand such a behavior of wasting one's life on somebody who doesn't care at all for her. In any case, both Sarita and Raj needs to sort themselves out before they would be ready for a relationship.
So, Gaurav was right even though he doesn't know this dysfunctional family. Divya is only getting herself deep in a things that would consume her. Maybe her honesty and an ability to call spade a spade would transform this family. She does seem to be a trigger for everyone so far - Raj and Sarita. Divya in some sense is a force of nature that is here to shake up this family. She is a free spirit whose spirit I hope is not killed by this family.
Also I liked Gaurav today who seemed more realistic with his insecurity and legitimate fears about Divya. It seems that Divya though open is quite stubborn once she decides on a path. Wonder if that's how she reacted 10 years ago. She is very goal oriented and once gets something on her mind doesn't deviate from it.
In conclusion, today the actor playing Kamla impressed me. Her Haryanavi accent and her body language were really good. Her suppressed anger and resentment while serving the husband and his wife, then trying to control her tears when Dadi was admonishing her for being responsible for the whole mess and then her taking out her anger at Sarita was done very well. Rubina and Shristy were also quite good even though there was very little scope for Rubina. I liked Rubina in her scenes with Gaurav and then trying to control her emotions after seeing Raj. However the actor playing Kamla was the star for me today.
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