I am not sure how many of you will accept my viewsbut I will try to make myself clear here. I am not trying to impose my views on any one of you.
Bhavani was not the wife who was trying to win over her husband's love or affection but a mother who was trying to get back the father to her daughter. In this world we can replace anything including kids, siblings and spouse but not parents. One can have only one father and one mother and others will always be "like a mother and like a father" .We can have many father figures but they can never be father. Suman as a child "till she realised the truth about her father's I'll treatment to her mother would have been dreaming about a loving father who will fulfill all her dreams
Who will walk her down to the mantap and do the Kanyadan with brimming eyes. Who will ask his son in law to take care of his daughter as a flower and request his parents to look after his child as their own daughter and forgive her mistakes. Though Suman could not have the previllage to enjoy her father's love in her growing years, she could at least can her father's blessings while starting her new life, second innings of her married life. So she was just waking up the forgotten father and preparing him for future of their future.
No one is born criminals nor cruel. The environment in which they grow up will make them one. Virender born in a family where man was considered one only when he fathered a male child and to his luck both his brothers had sons while he had only a daughter. In those days, even the family wealth was distributed to the sons and not to their daughter. so he was sceptical about not having a son as his child will not inherit any of the family forlorn.
Though he didn't knew how to express his love or may be he didn't realise his love for his daughter, still he loved her. Otherwise he would not have sent her to college. (no matter what society calls them, he would not have cared, had he not wanted her to go to college, no principal could have convinced him.
Even when he was angry with her on knowing about her love story, he did not get her married to an unworthy man like the Rawat did but he choose the best guy any girl can die to have. Murali was an educated man from a very prestigious family.
Guys aspiring for a son is not a crime. But yes, what he did with his wife and daughter were heinous acts, but no man is perfect. Some will wear it on their sleeve while some may hide it. Even my family (grand parents) wanted a male child in the family rather for their elder son and my parents had 4 daughters in a line and then 2 sons. But neither my grand parents nor my parents showed any partial treatment between the kids.
Even today, when I attend some functions one or the other will ask how may kids and the moment I say a daughter, they were prompt in advise that i should have tried for a son than stopping with just a girl. That is why I could relate to Sudhir and Vindya instantly. My daughter asked me once, when she was 16, were we disappointed with her and whether we wanted a boy. Why did we not tried again to have a son.
What Virender did was crime but if he can change for good, he shall be given a chance to make amends. If we can forgive RV for his coward behaviour during his sister and Tilak's case and accept him whole heartedly, why can't we do the same to Virender. If we call Virender a murderer for the female feticide, should we not call Rajashekar ans Tilak, the murderers of Anu? We applaud MV for accepting Poornima into the family, what she would have done if Ani was alive and Tilak ens up with 2 wives. Who would she given the right of badi bahu?
So guys there is no point in digging the grave. It's better to look forward and to have better and happy future, ine needs to learn to forgive.
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