Radhika,Interesting post.
I do feel sorry for Dev and Radhika who are so young but are forced to face a lot more than their young minds can handle.
Dev is asked to give up Radhika to fulfil his duties as the future RP, be an ideal grandson of his grandfather and save RPti. But Dev is bound by the pati dharm of establishing Radhika ashis wife in society which is his priority. time and again he is being asked to choose duty over dharm. Dev is strong and that day is not far off where he will break free and do things as he thinks is appropriate.
For Radhika it is a totally different outlook. Without Dev's support she came into the house to do her dharm. She succeeded in turning things around. She got Dev to accept her too and with the culmination of this mariage her role has become more duty bound for the sake of her husband and his family. People did not forget to point out how cunning she was, manipulative in order to get Dev and sacrificed the dharm, sanskaar and prathishta of the RPti. Radhika being the person she is, will go ahead to prove what she is made of and clear the air surrounding her name.
The greatest disappointment has been RP. He did a mistake 23 years back, was punished by making him loose his son whom he intended to make as the next RP, he also grabbed the child from a mother and gave apromise to look after him well. He was expecting the child to continue to do the sacrifice his parents were asked to do because he was born to them and still wants him to do now. He is a a manipulative dictator and repentence of any sorts is far away. I have no hope that he will regret his actions. He gets scared and threatened when things dont go the way he has planned. He expects implicit obedience and therefore he is not likely to repent for his grave blunders.