Dev Khurana: Crime & Punishment - upd Oct 18/PG 1 - Page 2

@Opti: His punishment is in repenting for his sins, his guilt ridden tortured soul that seeks to be punished and his further journey towards paying for his crimes, he shall pay for his crimes but not in the manner we speak, every sinner need not go to jail or be disrobed in public.

The core of any punishment be it for a murderer or a child molester had always been that they would mend their ways and leave their evil path ~ this is what our Hindu scriptures and Buddhism preach and practice. That one pays in many ways for their crimes and those are all to lead them to DHARMA and that the Karmic chain of crime and punishment is very much about paying for your sins in this life time alone and then seeking your path to DHARMA.

- updated Page 1 with Oct 17th synopsis-

Bri...wonderfully written.

I have to think about this...question for me is...is a person who did what Dev did capable of feeling any remorse?

Jaan 🤗

Beautifully written from Dev's point of view. Dev is a sinner and he has committed a crime. And he has to be punished. The first step to heal is to realize the extent of impact your actions have had on the other person and Dev has started doing that. No better punishment than one's own punishment of his self - Remorse and Guilt are the two things that take happiness out of a person. And I want Dev to suffer within himself for what he has done to Geet.

Bri....that was absolutely beautiful👍🏼...i m so moved by ur writting..i wish Dev actually showed half of this remorse if he actually is remorsefull that is....😕...i really would like to see him being tortured by his own inner demons......but he just moves through everything as if its of no consequences....see how quickly he moved on from the love of his life NT and now he is after or in to appeasing Meera.....Geet, he never gave a second thought to her for so long....i wish his repentence would have sincerity in it...then i might think about his redemption.....after he rots in jail for 20 yrs that is.

Bri: As always, well written. Can I ask a few questions, which came in my mind?

I agree when you say, its karma to pay for your sins and then follow the path of dharma. But is it always about this one lifetime? What I mean to ask is, do you believe that you dharmic intervention occurs in the same lifetime, as you evil doings?? I dont.

Also, why do you think Man chooses the path of evil for destruction? I think he doesnt realize the consequences of his actions for the longest. I have always perceived it as ends justify your means (as you have previously said). Destruction is something that is more of an ultimate consequence, which doesnt always occur in the same span of time. And the eve of destruction forces Man to repent!!

So I doubt if Dev even realized his destruction while committing his act.

Finally, because this thought came to my mind I am voicing it. Devil as you are well aware, is a very good impersonator. So these thoughts makes me wonder whether Devil is playing God to earn sympathy? Or spirit of God has truly awakened in this human?

But yes, if I were the jury, I would be inclined to be sympathetic, but the vindictive self wonders!!!! 😉

@Jaya: Thank you for reading and commenting. As to your question, I think "YES" it is possible to feel remorse for such a character but it is also possible that it could be impossible too 😆

@Ash: So good to have you back 🤗 and am sure you are doing great after that fantastic holiday!!

Yes, I would so love for Dev to go through the whole path of remorse, making amends in whatever way possible, seek his punishment and rehabilitation to the right side this time.

@Smitha: Thanks hon for commenting 🤗 the problem here is that the actor is not able to enact remorse nor are the screenplay writers and director(s) able to display the journey from perdition to redemption in a proper manner. I think they have hit a creative roadblock in building this dynamic into the script and are making it seem TOO EASY to get redemption and probably could use gimmickry like DEV protecting Maan from inevitable death or protecting GEET or her baby from some mishap will be etched out as his path to redemption, which to my mind is just not the correct way to take this tale forward. But then I am not the CV, or the director so all I can do is put my thoughts forward for like minded people to read and agree or disagree to.

@Yash: Thanks a lot for commenting and adding more inputs to this discussion.

I would like to answer your questions keeping in mind my current thinking and beliefs as I do not at this time want to subscribe to an after life hypothesis or reincarnation/rebirth aspects.

1) What I mean to ask is, do you believe that you dharmic intervention occurs in the same lifetime, as you evil doings??

Ans: I strongly believe that one needs to pay for their sins in this lifetime alone due to the fact that this is Kali yuga or the last yug before the final judgment or before the next cycle of yugas come into being as per the Hindu or even as per the Muslim/Islamic, Jewish/Kabbalah, or Christian thought.

2) Why do you think Man chooses the path of evil for destruction? I think he doesn't realize the consequences of his actions for the longest. I have always perceived it as ends justify your means (as you have previously said). Destruction is something that is more of an ultimate consequence, which doesn't always occur in the same span of time. And the eve of destruction forces Man to repent!!

Ans: Basically man knows when he is being evil, any act of evil is a pre-meditated process and has to come from external drivers that make internal combustion. As it is my belief that human beings are modeled to balance the positive and negative ions and that our cell structure is built to keep it balance. When there is imbalance, one knows and leaning towards evil to my mind is imbalance.

3) Finally, because this thought came to my mind I am voicing it. Devil as you are well aware, is a very good impersonator. So these thoughts makes me wonder whether Devil is playing God to earn sympathy? Or spirit of God has truly awakened in this human?

Ans: If you take the analogies of some sinners in history and famous ones too, enlightenment came to them in an instance and they changed their path. In Dev's case, he sold his soul to the devil but still there might have been a spark of goodness somewhere in the bottoms of his heart that could be dredged out and lit up or recharged. That is what "realization" can do; self realization can transform a being a sinner to a saint like it happened for an apostle like Paul or for a betrayer like Peter or for a sage like Valmiki. History is full of men who have tread the worst paths to find their redemption in faith.

Summation: Hope I was able to offer some answers at least to these questions, but let me say this, my answers are NOT AT ALL COMPLETE, as the debate always rages on.

But if you take the justice system or legal system too...punishment is more often than not used as a tool to change the "evil" person to leave their "evil" ways and redeem themselves unless if it happens to be death penalty and there too there have been cries to repeal the death penalty due to wrongful death case scenarios.

Thanks
Bri