You have strong points. But here's my point. Saagar did not just secretly pretended to marry Gangaa. He married her in a grand gesture and moved out of his house with her. Then two days later he forgot his so-called ritualistic grand gesture and did court marriage with someone else and threw a party to celebrate.
Can you imagine the level of humiliations not to mention heart break for Gangaa?
Now the whole society knows Saagar discarded Gangaa (sorry if that word hurts you, but you know that's what the society knows because they weren't standing in Niru's bedroom listening to Gangaa's one statement made in anger that made her so-called love dump her in I-will-leave-you-before-you-can-leave-me haste. Gangaa made a statement in anger in front of another person, she didn't dump Saagar yet.).
Then Saagar is out on a date with his current, legal, socially acceptable wife where the previous discarded non-wife is there. They are being harassed. If his intention was clear, why not call manager on the corner and tell him quietly that smoking in public place is illegal, so he better remove those goons. There was no need to make a loud scene. He's have helped his sister-in-law and Gangaa from harassment without them knowing about it or humiliating his current wife in the public.
Now nature vs. character. You are right. Nature is in born, so it is with you since birth. Nature has nothing to do with morality. If one person is stubborn or proud, it is who he/she is. People who love you, accepts you with all aspects of your nature and accept you the same way.
But character is more closely linked with the upbringing you got and your circumstances. Your nature just makes it more comfortable or less comfortable to deal with.
When nature is against character, that creates conflict in personality. When nature is against upbringing, it creates rebels.
For example, a naturally proud person and a meek, subservient person can both be taught to keep their head down. But it's more difficult for the naturally proud person than it is for the later. That's nature vs. upbringing. The proud person will rebel.
Again, throw a person raised in privileged household who was adored since he was born and a person who has only seen hardship into a hard situation, a person with strong character will win the battle, but a person with a weak character will fold. Remember when Saagar was lamenting that he should have taken more money out before his father blocked his access to money?
Saagar's source of rebellion didn't flip on him. She made a statement in anger in private. She did not dump Saagar either publicly or privately. If you pay close attention, Gangaa's source of rebellion took away the family whom she thought of her own, her respect in society and then publicly discarded her leaving her alone without any support while he went back to the arms of his family as if nothing happened. If Pulkit hadn't stepped in where would she be?
Then on the same night of his marriage he comes to Gangaa to verify that she still loves him or not. That not only shows lack of character, it also shows lack of morality, lack of character, lack of any sense of right and wrong. He doesn't even have the strength of character it takes to take a decision and stick to it.
Again my question, what he'd have done if Gangaa made a statement in anger after they were legally married? What extent would he have gone to hurt her? Everyone makes statement in anger, but no one who loves them go so far to be vindictive, cruel and hurtful. They are upset, angry, may be even stop talking. But vindictiveness is a whole different level of cruelty. You can't live with a vindictive person who takes revenge on the person they claim to love based on a statement made in anger in private. There is zero excuse to justify that.
You are right character can be built. But his character hasn't been built yet and until it's done, he is not man enough to be married to anyone, let alone matured Gangaa.
Originally posted by: drummedup
"Weakness in nature is forgivable, but weakness in character is not. Ganga has some weakness in nature, Saagar has weakness in character."
^ Nature in essence is also an integral part of Character. Isn't it? Also, Nature is in-born, default and Character is built - so by that, Is a flaw in nature easily correctable or a flaw in Character? I'd lean to latter as it's in your hands to build or break, right?
Gangaa does have an inflated sense of pride in her self-respect. Otherwise she would not have reacted the way she did in Restaurant. Her tone whenever she uses the word ' self-respect' also asserts the same. As Wafah said, she always walks that thin line.
I agree about all the mistakes of Sagar you pointed out ... But the source he is drawing his strength from to take such big steps flips on him for whatever the reason. In essence, Gangaa has also done some thing that'd make Sagar lose his trust in relying on a person in hard times... Just like how Sagar did by taking insane step of marrying J. His mistake is bigger now because he unnecessarily involved and ruined a 3rd life in their war.
In that same vein, I also muse at how it feels for a Gangaa to see a society against herself ( something which she is used to since forever) to a Sagar who has gone against the norms for the first time depending on her to be at his side always in treading a new path of being ostracized from society. Are we undermining the blow he received with Gangaa's decision here? Yes, he has free will but Gangaa gave him up means she chose to let him be taken, what good his free will alone do when her free will took her in opposite direction of him instead being with him?
Ganga's hard life made her mature and evolve quicker than Sagar... Sagar's protected and privileged life makes him immature n makes him take things for granted. He started learning his lessons ever since he fell in love with her... be it how he needs to give her a respectable position beside him in the society or how much she has faced since her childhood coz of an unfair social structure. We cannot look down on a person who is on a continuous personal evolution and who, eventually, accepts his flaws and mistakes...