Bani Ishq Da Kalma aired on Colors reaches an all new level of hypocrisy as the show arrives at a point where the protagonist Bani is dreading the idea of divorcing her husband, who attempted murdering her at one point.
Bani Ishq Da Kalma aired on Colors reaches an all new level of hypocrisy as the show arrives at a point where the protagonist Bani is dreading the idea of divorcing her husband, who attempted murdering her at one point.
Despite not being much of a TV buff, this show caught my attention, not just because of the double-standard shit they have so effortlessly portrayed but also because of the abysmal acting skills. The character actors do a much better job than the main protagonists (Bani & Parmeet) who can’t act to save their lives.
Well, here’s the reason I think the show is getting ridiculous with every passing day? It all started with Bani wanting to take revenge from her husband Parmeet as he left her to drown in the water while she was screaming and screeching for help. He wanted her to die so bad. And he thought he could live peacefully for the rest of his life. But a very ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’ kinda twist takes places. Bani survives the brutal murder and returns with a sense of revenge simmering within her. She transforms into Maya – an English speaking urban chick and convinces Parmeet that she’s Bani’s lookalike. Parmeet gets Maya home for a few months until the cops gets off his back and stop hounding him.
Meanwhile Maya devises a plan to give Parmeet a bitter dose of his own medicine. Under the pretext of going for a picnic; she takes him to the same spot where he killed her. She makes him board a boat and leaves him to die in the middle of the lake. And unfortunately the dude doesn’t know to swim. And while he’s struggling to stay firm in the wobbly boat, Maya calls him up and reminds him how brutally he did the same thing to her. Parmeet confesses his crime then and there over the phone; Maya collects her evidence and gets him locked up behind the bars.
Now it was all cool until she was playing the strong woman, trying to punish the one who made her life all miserable. The preposterous thing was when she slipped into a state of quandary at the thought of giving this ruthless husband of hers a divorce. She went on brooding about how ‘divorcing’ is not a part of the culture. So basically she’s ready to see her murderer husband in prison, but she’s not ready to release him from the clutches from their ‘marriage’.
It’s hard to decode such regressive mentality. Follow the show further at your own peril; it may damage a couple of nerves in your brain…
