Speaking strictly for myself
what is rape ?
Forced sex .
Was not it there in Ganga's case ?
It was .
If Saanchi experienced it once in a drugged state where she did not feel a thing in complete adulthood , Ganga experienced it everyday since she attained puberty and was a child bride with no anaesthesia to blot out the horror , the force of a beast and the horrific act that followed .
Does this belittle Saanchi's rape ?
No .
So ...why should legalities belittle Ganga's rape as a way of life and be dismissed as no rape at all ?
R we lawyers sitting with a fine toothcomb to do this wordy quibbling ?
No we r viewers . And we view what is shown . And the beast in a man is shown in Basant , Ratan Singh and Saurabh equally , so is the violation of a woman .
Violation of a woman , with or without anaesthesia is not hearing her NO
And Ganga screamed No each time for years .
For me as a viewer thats rape . Horror of a woman . No thread around the throat or man made ritual or legal quibbling makes it less or acceptable . Dunno about others who can segregate rape .
I see as a viewer what i see on TV . No one was there to tell Ganga to eat , go for counselling etc . Infact she had to pretend nothing happened and cook for others and see to it that they ate .
Saanchi went to the wild party with her own choice , yet there is an outrage when some say she invited it by saying no woman invites rape .
Ganga did not choose Ratan Singh , she was sold off . No choice was exercised there . Yet what she suffered is dismissed off as theres no such thing as marital rape by law .
Then there is tremendous outrage at the 'legal' rape of Saanchi .
Well , my reaction is Both were rapes and both men must be punished .
Shiv was right when he told Anandi that as a brother i could have considered about the badnaami aspect but as a responsible citizen i HAVE to report it . So true , that monster will go on to destroy other girls by recording them naked and holding it over their heads till some of them opt for suicide .
There is no favouritism on urban rural girls and rape , BV shows it in diferent forms . It simply shows rape as a part of woman's suffering . The indifference to Saanchi's rape apalled many although it stemmed from the fact that the girl would have herself used date rape drugs to get Jagya if she had known earlier , she had gone to all extents , trying to entice him with short dress , bribing pundit , knocking on his room door at night , trying to initiate physical intimacy when he was clearly not ready ...but i think the disgust in the viewers solidified when she hoped and hoped cruelly that a new born infant would die with its mother . Yet this indifference apalled many . Won't be surprised if this legal quibbling apalls many too .