Hi Jyothi, welcome back and sorry for the late response. Pre festival weekend and too much work to do. Anyways, I am not talking much about how Ranaji fell for gayathri all of a sudden as even now, I feel he is not 100% fell in love with her but decided to move on in his life and he doesn't want Gayathri to suffer because of his problems or his past for none of her mistake. Once decided there is no going back and that is why he is ready to give justice to Gayathri even when his first wife (real or not) has returned back from death.
Also it was easy for Ranaji to move ahead with Gayathri as he might not have lived with Sona for a longer time and may not even have celebrated any festival with her especially Karvachuath as RM had told him about the gifting etc is part of the festival. If he had celebrated, he would have known about the gift part as he would have for sure have gifted his beloved Sona.
Even though he doesn't have proof which his BRM asked for to tell that the new entry is not Rani Sulakshana, his heart is not overwhelmed to see her which is a real a great factor for him to think her as fake. Since he can't pin point at his BRM's intentions, he has accepted the lady as his first wife and given her the due respect by crowing her as Raniji but in his mind he is still in dilemma on her return and if at all she was recovered by some Banjara's why it was not revealed during their search for Sona's body? Even they would have heard about Rani Sulakshana's death by falling into a valley and if they found her there, they would have informed someone about this if not the Ranaji. Moreover, normally Banjara's will do anything to get money and they would have come with the lady and collected a fancy price by returning her than keeping her with them for as long as 6 years. So he still have doubts on this lady but at the moment he is going with the flow of happenings and will take some time to investigate the truth.
I think by now, RM would have already started her investigation about this new Sona and how she survived the fall. Why do I feel, I smell some smoke here as Rm was instantly & forcebly rejecting this lady to be Sulakshana? may be she has some hidden truth about the death (proof also) of Sulakshana and even earlier she would have found out that Sona was planted in Ranaji's life by BRM which might not have gone well with RM.
And about him slapping Gayathri is quiet natural given the level of respect and trust h3 gives to his family & his elders. When he can combat with Wilkinson for Gayathri's honour when Wilkinson talked rubbish about her (even when he had not accepted her as his wife), how will he hear something against his Grand maa who had taken care of him more than his mother or shall we say, she had cared for him more than her own son & grand son? So here it is not whether he trusts Gayathri or not, it is about her going against his family which matters to him and unless someone else pin point at something logical in her accusation, he may not even reconsider as a sane person and may keep sme distance between them. Here we can see, BRM shed some crocodile tears and try to ignite his anger against Gayathri by talking nice about her to him and may ask him to pardon her. She will for sure ensure to plant a seed of doubt in his mind against Gayathri talking she is insecure as she is no longer the queen, etc.
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