I don't think DM is thrice that of Santu's age; its very difficult to stick to detailing in a daily soap and hence the dialouge writers might have bungled up the age difference! As soap-critic puts it, DM would be around 40+ of age (Actually we might get a better idea when his family is shown...especially his children, if he has any!)
Plus, Ekta has promoted Bandini as a love story and she would know very well that a primarily Indian audience would never accept a romantic relationship between two people who share such a huge age difference. Her two other serials which had the leads sharing an age difference (KZK and KS) were dealt in a very good way and the chemistry between the lead actors was superb! So going by that experience, I think Ekta knows what she is doing in Bandini too!
Coming back to the marriage, DM has not forced Santu to marry her...the scenario here is a village set-up, a place where it is given that a girl once rejected in marriage would probably never get married again. So for Santu, the choice was between not getting married ever again (lets not compare her with Khemi here, because she can get married after six years) or getting married to someone who is much older than her. It is her family and the villagers who had taken the decision on her behalf, not Dharamraj!
Agreed that DM has acted on purely selfish reasons, but then so has everyone...right from Nanaji to the villagers...they all want to see their community's daughter wedded to the richest and most powerful man in the village.
Santu might be the Bali ka Bakra, because she really doesn't have a choice in hands, never did...but at the same time, I don't think DM is the butcher here!
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Edited by soapie - 16 years ago
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