Originally posted by: misti73
Neerja I do accept majority of what you have written here expecting for two sentences...
1)Do not know how Gopal das did not have any traits of this family ...Gopaldas has the traits of this family. He was going after Dev because Dev was supporting Radhika...Gopaldas like all the family members is pretty selfish...he did not like it when Dev did that because to him that showed that Dev was going out of their hands. But he is ok when Radhika has again proven that she will not harm Dev and hence the Rajpurohiti...Gopaldas does not actively take part in all the wrong doing but he stays in the house and does not say anything about it...so he is supporting whatever is happening. It is said that when a person silently sees wrong being done and does not do anything about it then that person is no less bad than the person who is actually doing all the bad things. Gopaldas is an escapist and one who runs from responsibility..
Yes i agree with you here , he is escapist, does not wants responsibilities and agree with your above statement also ...He wants easy life where he is safely in his cocoon ..
.he is quite happy writing his poetry but not strong enough to try toearn a living from it...he is quite happy leading a luxurious life and not doing anything worthwhile and like Hari he is also very weak. Yes i agree
2) Hari was a person without backbone , did not have guts to accept his wife , so did the Dev ...It is true that Hari did not have any backbone Dev's case is different. Dev does have a backbone otherwise he wouldn't have kidnapped Rdahika to protect her...that time he did what he thought was right. Dev's problem is that duty and responsibility have been fed to him since he was a child...and that to the wrong interpretation of what is right and what is wrong...to him this is his family and he has known them for 23 years and if he did certain things their way he was given importance and given affection but if she did something not what the family has been accepting then he was abused verbally and looked down upon. The family put him on a pedestal when they wanted to and pushed him horribly from that same pedestal when they wanted to.Then Rahika comes in his life and showers him with love and although he fights the same love but then accepts it and stand up to his dada for it...but then dada dies and Dev looses one of his main supports...so on one side he has this relationhsip...even if it is a toxic one but a relationship that he has known with this family for 23 years and on the other hand is his relationship with Radhika, one he has known just for some months as an adult (I know they met as kids but Radhika nurtured that relationship but Dev didn't ...his work and responsibilities took over)...on one had is duty and responsibility that he has been fed since childhood and on the other hand in this love...at times of stress (brought on by dada dieing)...what do you think a human being will choose. Something is has known and grown up with or something that is new and scary (Radhika was pushing his boundaries then by making him question Barkha which is equal to putting the Rajpurohiti in danger, the same RP that he has been taught since childhood to protect at anycost). S it not not about having a backbone but his upbringing and how he was being used by this family that has lead to this condition.
I agree with you about Dev and his circumstances ...First it was obligations towards this family then It was his duty towards the RP...Misti i agree with you all what you have said ...Yes whatever his reasons were , he betrayed Radhika at the time of RP puja and again her trust ..I think should not be blaming the character it was the CV,s who caricatured his character , who once was an intelligent person with integrity ..
On another note Iwill be interested if they bring back the real Vishwa and show that he left home because he was against dada's principles...that will be a nice twist and I will be interested in seeing that.