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The obvious answer to the Q would be that the creatives wanted it that way!
The next answer of course would be that RNJ's brain had gone for a holiday, assuming he had one in the first place!
There is a pattern here though. It started with BRM and now it is Avdesh. What makes RNJ susceptible to the wrong kind of people?
In BRM's case, one can't really blame him because he had been led to believe from childhood that she had his best interests at heart. She had maintained this facade for decades. It was impossible for him to imagine that the grandmother who had hugged him and caressed away his tears in his childhood could actually conspire to murder him?
But why Avdesh? He was not a lifelong friend after all. Even worse, he had just fought a duel with him.
I don't know if the creatives bother to consider the whys and wherefores of a track or even a character's behavior. However, it interests me to probe into a character's mind and understand why he/she behaves in a particular manner.
For example, we know that G has always been a fighter. So it is no surprise that she fights against any form of injustice, without a thought to the consequences. Some of her actions land her in trouble but she does not think twice before carrying the fight forward the next time round too!
Coming back to RNJ, I think he somehow seems to believe in the innate goodness of human beings. It is incredible that such a quality has been retained even after he has been witness to the horrors of World War II. War has not turned him into a cynic. He is still a romantic, trusting and believing that the world is not such a bad place to be in and people are not so bad after all!
Has he conditioned himself to believe this? To block out the horrors of the war? We will never know.
I would assume that Kunwar Chacha's truth has been clearly established before him and hence he does not trust him.
But that apart, although his inquisitive mind wonders, we have never seen him instinctively distrust anyone.
With regard to Avdesh, his first impression of him is that of a savior. He saved G's life after all and that thought can never be erased from RNJ's mind.
When he came back to challenge and fight a duel, RNJ took it as some kind of kshatriya dharma. It is the duty of a Rajput to avenge his forefathers after all.
So, like a true Rajput, RNJ also went ahead and defended the throne that had been handed down to him by his forefathers.
But Avdesh's action in not taking his life when his back was turned made the whole thing personal!
Avdesh claimed that he respected the worth of a fellow warrior and would prefer to become friends with him. He preferred to end the generations of hostility between their families.
So RNJ went ahead and accepted his hand of friendship.
Thereafter, when he met him that evening, he was still not sure what to make of Avdesh. However, when he heard Avdesh's sob story of how he had been wronged by his own family, maybe, just maybe, it struck a chord in RNJ. For he too had been just betrayed by his grandmother. Of course Avdesh preferred a violent resolution to the situation, which RNJ could not really look down upon as a Kshatriya. It was after all kshatriya dharma to kill an enemy and Avdesh had done just that.
However, he was struck by the fact that while Avdesh chose to follow kshatriya dharma with regard to his step siblings, he preferred to break the code and extend a hand of friendship to him. He had not killed him even when he had had the opportunity to.
Somewhere this fact combined with the fact that he had saved G's life convinced RNJ that here was a friend for life. When he appeared heartbroken because he claimed to have no family to back him, the soft hearted RNJ immediately offered him the comfort of his home!
In an ideal world, RNJ would have been a splendid human being. However, we hardly live in an ideal world. So RNJ appears to us a gullible fool.
But somewhere, speaking from personal experience, I do not believe that this will crush RNJ's faith or trust in humanity. He might be a little more wary but he will believe still!
I hope the lessons he has learnt from these two experiences will guide him better in future, teach him that trust is a precious gift and should be awarded with care and not squandered away on the unworthy!
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