Originally posted by: canapoem
Kavi, just for one moment imagine Boney Kapoor being replaced by Arnav, Mona by La and Sridevi by Khushi. It is totally hypothetical and I know both the cases are totally different. But lets just imagine for some time the above situation.
Boney says that his marriage is left only on a piece of paper and he is no longer emotionally connected to Mona in anyway and his was arranged marriage with Mona and he never knew what was love until he met Sridevi.
He feels he is connected in every way with Sridevi, so does not feel guilty about his physical relation with Sridevi. Then how do you judge Boney Kapoor and Sridevi????
In such cases how do you define infidelity???
First of all infidelity is not a crime punishable by law..it can be grounds for a divorce but not punishable legally. It may prick the conscience of a person who may have committed it but that's that..they too move on eventually and lead a normal life (in fact lot of divorces happen in US because of extra marital affairs)
It's important to note that I said the notion of fidelity depends on a culture.
In Arnav/Lavanya/Khushi and Boney/Mona/Sridevi case the difference is when the divorce was filed. Arnav filed for divorce even before meeting Khushi hence I did not consider it as infidelity. Clearly Boney made Sridevi pregnant and then filed for divorce, so it is infidelity.
If Aarav did not die and Arnav continued his marriage with Lavanya and then met Khushi & slept with her then it is infidelity. No question about that. I wont give him a slack just because he is Arnav Raizada. In fact I did not like Arnav divorcing his wife and being with Khushi when thay had just lost their child (just like Aastha) and when we did not anything about his marriage. And Jen told me that I will change my views once the secret was revealed.
Just because I did not consider his sleeping with Khushi as infidelity, I won't consider his actions as such, now. (I'm just being fair ;) )
Dil ka rishta etc and he may not actually sleep with anybody because he deeply loves Khushi- I do understand that part.. But I wont question his character if he does otherwise..
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