Line #109 Characters/Lajja


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7	!!Vaidehi
8	* BabyFactory: She is seen and treated like a means of providing future generation by her wealthy husband and father-in-law.
9	* BathroomBreakOut: Escapes through a bathroom window when she finds out Raghu wants to kill her after the baby is born.
10	%% * DomesticAbuse: Suffers this at the hand of Raghu
11	%% * ItsTheJourneyThatCounts
12	* MorningSickness: She is sick. A sign that she is two months pregnant.
13	* NaiveEverygirl: She hasn't experienced the full extent of HonorRelatedAbuse that women in her native country have. She learns quickly, though, poor woman.
14	%% * TheProtagonist
15	%% * PinballProtagonist
16	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Her father tells her she can't go back to her birth family when she tries to escape Raghu's abuse and philandering.
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18	!! Maithili
19	%% * DaddysGirl
20	* HonorRelatedAbuse: She is questioned and called bad names because Raju hid in her room (nothing actually happened, though).
21	%% * MistakenForCheating
22	%% * NaiveEverygirl
23	* OldMaid: Because of the scandal at the wedding and her rejection of her fiancé's wealthy family, she almost became one and would have had to commit suicide to save face.
24	* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: She marries Raju at the end.]]
25	* SecondLove: She is supposed to marry her wealthy (but wimpy) college sweetheart, but after she rejects him, [[spoiler: Raju]] steps in. They get together at the end.
26	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Calls her fiancé's family out for their greed and milking her father for dowry money.
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28	!!Janki
29	%% * CharacterFilibuster: All the main characters get one, but Janki is the most vociferous
30	%% * CloudCuckoolander
31	%% * CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: during which she loses her unborn child]]
32	* DoesNotLikeMen: After being treated so badly by them, she becomes a man-hater.
33	* DoorstopBaby: She was taken in and raised by Puroshottam as well as trained in the performing arts by him.
34	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Drinks to ease her stage fright despite being 2 months pregnant.
35	%% * HonorRelatedAbuse
36	%% * HystericalWoman: Is written off as this...and worse.
37	%% * LargeHam: Well, she does work in theatre.
38	* LoveTriangle: She is in a relationship with her co-star Manish, but her theatre instructor/director Puroshottham wants her to be his mistress instead.
39	* PregnantBadass
40	* MistakenForCheating: Manish believes Puroshottham's lies about Janki and wants to leave her.
41	%% * RebelliousSpirit
42	%% * RichSuitorPoorSuitor
43	%% * StepfordSmiler
44	* ShotgunWedding: She is supposed to marry her boyfriend Manish, who is her baby's father.
45	* TakeAThirdOption: Her stunt does ''not'' go over well with the public mainly because it was done during a religious play. She is given the option of going to {{Prison}} or a BedlamHouse... The third choice appears when Puroshottham offers Janki his protection in exchange for being his mistress. Subverted because she doesn't take the third option and ends up going to the asylum instead.
46	* WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Manish for his cowardice and naïveté and to men in general during a play about Sita. Overlaps with a combination of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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48	!!Ramdulaari
49	* BollywoodNerd: She is learning from her son how to use a computer, and she is teaching the people of her village computer literacy as well.
50	%% * CharacterFilibuster: Not quite as many as Janki has but close.
51	* CountryMouse: Ramdulaari lives in a rural village rather than in the city like most of the other characters do.
52	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She's punished for her son's actions by [[spoiler:being gang-raped by Gajendra and Virendra, then burned alive.]]
53	%% * GratuitousEnglish
54	* HonorRelatedAbuse: [[spoiler: She is raped and murdered because her son Prakash is in love with Sushma, Gajendra's daughter.]]
55	* IHaveAFamily: She pleads with the men who turned against her that she has a family to take care of. A new twist: These men who turned against her ''are'' her family.
56	* TheMedic: She works as a midwife.
57	* TheSmartGirl: Is self-taught in many skills and educates the women in the belief that one day things will be better for them if they have education.
58	* WhatTheHellHero: She calls out the father of a newborn baby girl after he tried to drown her in a vat of milk.
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60	!!Raju
61	%% * CloudCuckoolander
62	%% * GoodSamaritan
63	* HappilyEverAfter: By the end, he marries [[spoiler: Maithili]], and it's implied it will be a happy marriage.
64	%% * LovableRogue: He is a thief, basically.
65	%% * NiceGuy
66	* ReformedCriminal: In the end, he leaves behind his life as a thief and becomes a taxi driver in NYC.
67	%% * RunningGag: His sedative-laced biscuits
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69	!!Raghu
70	* {{Angrish}}: He tends to grumble and spout off in a mix of both English and Hindi when he's furious.
71	* DomesticAbuse: Raghu beats and berates his wife Vaidehi.
72	%% * DrivesLikeCrazy
73	%% * GratuitousEnglish
74	* HappilyMarried: By the end, he has improved his behavior and his marriage, and he has (presumably) broken off his illicit relationship.
75	* HeelFaceTurn: Eventually [[HeelRealization sees]] what a JerkAss he's been and mends his ways.
76	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: [[spoiler: He's rendered impotent after a car accident]]
77	%% * RichBastard
78	%% * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
79	* WhatTheHellHero: He gets called out for cheating by Vaidehi.
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81	!!Bulwa
82	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't you ''dare'' hurt or abuse women or girls around him!
83	%% * GoodSamaritan
84	* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: Gajendra tried to rape Bulwa's mother when she asked him for a small container of water during a drought. Thus, he sees all attacks on females as an attack on his now-deceased mother.]]
85	* JustLikeRobinHood: He's a dacoit (bandit) who fights for the poor and oppressed in general and women in particular.
86	%% * NiceGuy
87	%% * RapeAndRevenge: Avenges Ramdulaari
88	%% * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
89	%% * WhipSword: his weapon of choice
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91	!!Gajendra
92	%% * BashBrothers: Works alongside his younger brother Virendra
93	%% * EntitledToHaveYou: Believes this of Bhulwa's mother.
94	%% * HonorBeforeReason
95	* IHaveNoDaughter: Gajendra disowns his beloved daughter Sushma when she runs off with Prakash.
96	* MisplacedRetribution: He punishes Ramdulaari after her son gets together with his daughter.
97	%% * ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Lampshaded
98	%% * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem
99	%% * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny
100	%% * SleazyPolitician
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102	!!Puroshottam
103	%% * AgeGapRomance: Lata is ''much'' younger than he is.
104	%% * AllWomenAreLustful: Believes this
105	* CastingCouch: It is implied he puts at least some of his female theatre-company-members (possibly including Janki) through this or at least tries to seduce them with promise of better roles.
106	%% * CloudCuckoolander
107	* CrazyJealousGuy: He keeps his beautiful young spouse Lata confined to the house for fear that she'll be unfaithful (or people will think she is).
108	%% * DirtyOldMan
109	* DomesticAbuse: He keeps his young wife locked up in the house.
110	* DoubleStandard: He can go out to his heart's content, but if his wife so much as ''looks out of the window'', there will be Hell to pay.
111	%% * RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Tries to win Janki's affection with money.
112	%% * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
113	%% * TakeAThirdOption: Offers Janki protection if she agrees to become his mistress.
114	* WifeHusbandry: Seems to think that because he took Janki in and raised her, he is [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to have sex with her]]. Janki does not agree and does not want to be his mistress.
115	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Puroshottam tries to pose as a wounded party. He tells Manish that Janki's child belongs to him (Puroshottam), that she has been cheating on him.
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117	!!Lata
118	* AgeGapRomance: She is married to Puroshottam, who is probably in his 50's or 60's (maybe even older). She doesn't look to be a day over 30, if even that. Her husband is very jealous and doesn't trust her -- he keeps her locked in their house.
119	* DomesticAbuse: She is kept confined to the house by her jealous husband.
120	%% * {{Hikikomori}}: Though not of her own choice; see above.
121	%% * MamaBear
122	%% * ShrinkingViolet
123	* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Finally stands up to Puroshottam after Vaidehi calls him out for what he allowed to happen to Janki. She takes Vaidehi to safety and makes it clear to her husband she's not done with him.]]
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126	!!Sushma
127	%% * DaddysGirl
128	* DefiledForever: She's regarded as such for running off with Prakash to the point where her family mourns her as if she died.
129	%% * MyGirlIsNotASlut
130	%% * NiceGuy: Warns Ramdulaari that her son is in danger.
131	%% * TypeCaste: Why Gajendra doesn't approve of her LoveInterest.
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133	!!Prakash
134	* BollywoodNerd: Studies in the city, and she is bringing computers to the village to improve life there.
135	* GroinAttack: Gajendra wanted him castrated for being involved with Sushma. Subverted as it doesn't happen.
136	%% * NiceGuy
137	* TypeCaste: Gajendra dislikes him because he's from a poor family, a lower caste.
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139	%% !!Virendra
140	%% * BashBrothers: With Gajendra
141	%% * TheDragon

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