Very interesting discussion and very thought provoking replies.
I dont think I want the climax changed as the original one gives a very realistic outcome.
Even by the standards of all the cheating stories that we see around, this one is not a normal wife cheats on her husband story, because of the characters involved. Over here, Anant will be betrayed by his wife and someone he sees as his son for whom his daughter will also be having feelings for.
Hence, it's a lot more complicated than our quintessential stories of unfaithful spouses and it's obvious people emerging from this mess are not going to come out unscathed. Every person involved, even in the most inconsequential way is going to be scarred. He/she is going to have no choice but to embrace heartbreak and intense pain.
And the perpetrators of all this misery will also be the biggest victims, and I think we will realize this when we start seeing the story from their point of view. As someone in one of the comments said, we are taught to see morality in either the shade of white or in black. We are never shown the area that lies in between these two shades and that makes us judge promptly when in reality, most of us reside in that grey area.
As much as we loathe infidelity, we cannot run away from the fact that it happens and it's done by both good and bad people. We can fault/blame/criminalize them for giving into just the carnal attraction aspect but can we really fault them for genuinely falling in love? For being unable to resist the attraction of experiencing by all accounts, one of the most beautiful feelings in the world? I'm in no way advocating infidelity but, maybe, sometimes the society gets too harsh in judging someone's feelings without taking into account the circumstances.
From whatever we have seen so far, Ahana craves love. She misses her father's love and demands answers from her mother as to why despite having a mother, she never experienced the love she so deserved. In her revenge, she will marry Anant, a much older man without any feelings of romantic love. Can we really fault her for falling truly in love with someone and wanting to be with that person even if that is against everything the society stands for? Moralistically speaking, she doesn't deserve the forbidden happiness that she craves, but looking at it through the perspective of a broken hearted girl starving for love - she deserves every bit of it, doesn't she?
And if they decide to loyally stick to the original script, then can we really blame Rehaan for not wanting to hurt the people who have been his world for all his life? Like Ahana he jumped into this irresistible inferno of love, but can we truly call him a coward for wanting to protect his loved ones from being touched by its lethal flames? His attempts will obviously fail but how can we fault him for trying to mitigate the damage of his own actions?
I haven't seen the original show except the climax on YouTube but looking at the comments I have a feeling Behlul/Rehaan's perspective is not properly articulated. I hope they show Rehaan's conflict in detail and explain why he did what he did because in the end he may be called a coward but he will suffer as much as others or even more as other surviving characters, if they try, will still somehow have some room to muster few rays of hope. Rehaan? Not so much.
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