Let’s look at Virat’s story. He falls in love with a woman. That woman gets married to another man. He accepts that marriage but pledges to continue loving her unilaterally & staying loyal to her & not making any effort to move on. We all agree that is not only a stupid impractical unwarranted vaada, it is also morally dodgy to pledge to keep loving another man’s wife.
But come to think of it, isn’t Dr Pulkit also doing the exact same thing, albeit as an unspoken vaada to himself instead of to the woman? As far as he knows Devi married someone else. While she may have been “forced” by her elders, she was an educated adult when it happened. If his marriage with her was legal he should have fought all out for her. If he decided to throw in the towel & accept her marriage to another man, then like a gentleman should he not have put her memory away in a corner of his heart, tried to move on & lead a regular life, instead of continuing to hanker after her? In all probability he has pics of her that he might be looking at often.
If Devi was indeed married off to another, how wld that guy feel about a former lover still pining for & adoring his wife’s pics? I feel the show is romanticising these things in a very light way while in reality they are serious moral dilemmas.
I am myself not sure in my mind of the rights & wrongs here as it is a moral minefield. Plus, we don’t know enough of the Devi-Pulkit backstory. But I think we have enough machoority in this forum to discuss this somewhat contrarian view, hence bringing it up 😊
Eagerly look forward to reading more views on it.
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