Balika Vadhu 14th January 2013 Written Update

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Location: Jaitsar haveli
Finally, when anandi and shiv’s questioning eyes wander on the singh family, dadisa speaks up saying that jagiya has gone out for some work, out of town to jaipur and salvages the situation. She diverts their attention by talking about makhan’s sincerity when he knew they are coming. she asks gehna to get breakfast. When anandi also joins them, sumitra nd gehna tell her not to work. But anandi says that she’s not a guest that she would jsut sit around. Dadisa explains that its just a sign of respect and not for considering her as a guest. Dadisa tells gehna to get laddoos. when sumiktra asks why, she says thats essential for her PAGPHERE ceremony. Anandi excuses herself for some time.

Anandi enters her own room and is nostalgic seeing everything around as the same that she had left. She sees her mother’s photo, her books and shiv’s windchimes. Her happiness is evident on her face as she plays with it. She says that nothing changed around here.

Meenu says how anandi’s arrival into their house has brightened their haveli. Lal singh too arrives at the same time. Dadisa and sumitra are concerned that they should have asked him not to come there today, but they forgot. He is surprised and happy to see anandi there. He says that now sumitra would be okay wiuthout any medical assistance. When anandi wants to know, sumitra tries to frivolously cast it away but anandi is stubborn to know about her condition from lal singh. Lal singh maturedly tells her that she’s tired since her marriage. Anandi tells sumitra not to take this lightly and that they should consult jagiya since he knows about sumitra’s health completely. She also tells sumitra to listen to lal singh and jagiya and get well soon. After lal singh leaves, dadisa asks sumitra to get the dupatta for the ritual. But anandi forcibly asks for her to rest while she gets it from dadisa’s cupboard.

Anandi goes up and finds jagiya’s letter and reads it and is shocked.

Downstairs, dadisa is wondering what is taking anandi so long and sends gehna to look for her. But they find anandi coming down and are happy.

When anandi comes down, and dadisa asks her if she found the dupatta in dadisa’s almirah, she shows them that she found jagiya’s leaving note in the almirah, shiv too reads it and is shocked. Anandi reprimands dadisa for not telling about jagiya and on top of that lying that he has gone out for some work. While anandi’s family is tensed, shiv and meenu are shocked to hear this. Bhairo says that they didnt want to put her in tension when she knows about this. Anandi says how cans he stay happy when they are not. Dadisa tries to pacify anandi by saying that she hs to since she’s married and has to put her in laws’ over her maternal house anyday. anandi still complians on jagiya’s behaviour adding that she was relieved that when she’s gone, he would look after them and shiv’s promise too stands undone that he had made on behalf of jagiya. Dadisa says that jagiya had changed ever since he returned and therefore he didnt go to mumbai but just went to jaitsar’s neighbouring village, surprising bhairo and sumitra and everyone else while dadisa realises her mistake. On bhairo’s questioning, she tells the family everything and the news that vishnu gave her. shvi asks anandi to compose herself, but she says that she cant thinking how calm their family talked to her on the phone and even in person, and that she can see the pain behind their happiness. She knows that sumitra’s ill health is due to jagiya’s sudden disappearence. Dadisa again asks her to be happy and calm and start the ritual. But she says no, that when she can see them unhappy, she wont do any rituals and leaves from there. Everyone is shocked.

Shiv comes to anandi who is in tears outside by the car. He says that he understands what she is going through, but by her behaviour, she is all the more increasing their sadness. Anandi says to shiv that she’s guilty of having ignored her family’s unhappiness and wont be able to face them now. She asks him to take her home since she forgot her own family who went out of their way to bring happiness in her life, who turned away on her own son to support her, while she got lost in her new found happiness. She accuses herself for not being able to understand the pain in their family’s voice everytime she heard them on the phone. She begs him to take her home. The screen freezes on her face.

Underlying message: After marriage too, a girl cant let herself be detached from her family even after going in her new family. She still relates herself to the good and bad times in her own family that she was born into…its a natural helplessness.

Underlying message: After marriage too, a girl cant let herself be detached from her family even after going in her new family. She still relates herself to the good and bad times in her own family that she was born into…its a natural helplessness.

Precap: Shiv comes inside and tries to salvage the situation by pacifying them that they would come again for the ceremony, and its good since it would give them a chance to visit again. Meanwhile in ratan singh’s haveli, ganga’s husband in drunken state, forces himself on ganga despite her protests, trying to lewdly propose that if she satisfies him sexually, then he could reconsider her situation in the house. And could also make her feel important.