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a lot of interesting points have come up in this thread. And yet I'm deeply disturbed by some of the suggestions on this thread as well on a few previous threads on Saanchi's rape.
First there was almost an attempt justify the rape -- saying she brought it on with her evil ways. Now I detect disappointment at her winning the case. There is a longing for her to have lost it -- as just desserts for her past deeds.
The argument that VKabra should have privately reprimanded his rapist brother while allowing the destruction of the rape victim is beyond belief and acceptance for me.
Yes, this is fiction, yes rape victims do not always get justice, and yes families of rapists might try to protect them.
But to argue that a lawyer portrayed as honest and human -- the reason Sa wanted him to fight her case though he went against her previously-- should have deliberately allowed a rape victim to be destroyed, shakes me to the core.
To say that that would have been realistic baffles me.. Why should TV soaps, that are otherwise rarely realistic, suddenly become realistic only in the matter of showing the destruction of a rape victim? What message would that convey? That even the most honest and humane lawyer, when it comes to a rapist sibling, should turn weak and condone a rape?
In the case of Saanchi, it is being argued that her being raped is not enough punishment for her -- and that she should not even be allowed a chance at redemption. Yet at the same time, sympathy is being expressed for the rapist's mother.
For God's sake, the woman did not even say what Sau did was horrific, she did not for a moment regret his crime; all she wanted was to protect him. I could have felt a measure of sympathy if she cursed her own upbringing of the child, if she quarrelled with him for what he did and then if she had broken down in tears unable to see him being put away. Here the mother expressed no remorse, watched on while her rapist son slandered the rape victim and said he did no mistake in wanting to enjoy her for a bit. How can anyone sympathise with this lady?
I went to sleep deciding not to get into any of this. But could not contain my distress.
I have huge problems with the way the track was developed. If it was established from Sau's phone records that he did not send an MMS, it could have as easily been established from Sa's phone records that she received an MMS. From that to tracing that MMS down to Sau would have been simple. That should have been the ground for the prosecution to seek a retest of Sau's DNA sample. The phone record would not show the content of the MMS but the fact that he sent it would make him a clear, and most credible suspect.
Instead VKabra had to break his watch to find the MMS. Even after he supposedly felt discomfited by his brother's behaviour, he did not care to question him. As a lawyer he was bound to go over the details, step by step, with his brother. And if he did that he would have found his brother shifty, and his answers not credible. He does none of that. He just manages to break his watch.
As wanderer rightly said, what if VK had not broken his watch? Why did the CV's project this as the combined fight of A and Sa when they did damn all in the matter?
I have never liked Sa's character. The CVs could have kept her as a precocious brat instead of making her evil. But I cannot allow my contempt for Sa to cloud my judgment over the fact of her being raped.
So much of batting has been done for Jagya. People have forgotten that there was scene where J took into himself six evil Js. So the argument that he was never evil does not hold. He swore to destroy Anandi. He systematically went about it by trying to finish off Shiv.
He tried to get physically close to a former wife who was betrothed to another man and he did this in front of him. BV was at its creepiest worst in that phase. I think that low has not been surpassed.
Earlier J had allowed his second wife to shut the door on a tear-stained Anandi. He did not stop her from announcing that they were embarking on their suhaag raat. In my opinion these are cruel acts, not misguided acts.
It has been argued that the family punished him by slapping him and throwing him out-- for a few days. But in the case if Sa, even her being raped, is not enough. It is being argued that the punishment does not go far enough.
I'm glad J has been redeemed. By the same token, why insist that rape is insufficient punishment for Sa and she deserves no chance at redemption? Why don't we wait to see what she does with her life?
Edited by rohini55 - 11 years ago
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