Originally posted by: doodleberry
I will take some time to analyze what I feel is needed regarding the sleeping arrangement between Arnav and Khushi. Please never look at one side of the coin; always look at the other side of the coin too. The wedding between them was not a compromise; neither was it done in front of the family nor was it sealed with a legal deal. It is purely humiliation and sham. This marriage is a verbal deal between two individuals only for 6 months without any eye witness. Just put yourself in Khushi's position, do you think you can stay every single night with a person behind locked doors when you know that this marriage has NO VALUE in the eyes of law and society??? What will happen when the crude truth of this marriage will be out??? Will the society ever, ever forgive her??? How will she prove her purity??? Who will believe her??? No one. I repeat No One. I am glad that she is outside somewhere and Maami knows somehow that the sleeping arrangement is separate. When this issue will be raised at least there will be one person who will believe this couple. Either way her repute is damaged but deep down she will be happy to sleep separately. Here she is wedded to the protagonist but in real life if any girl, God forbid, is in this situation then how will that girl prove her Purity??? There will be one way to prove that is through DNA/Sexual purity testing. Wouldn't that be humiliation too??? She cannot sleep in separate room for the family on whose sake they are sacrificing themselves will learn the truth. Outside at least she sleeps under the stars and is protected by her parents from heaven above. I am happy with this arrangement as at least she can sleep peacefully there instead of fearing the whole night of getting eaten. Deep down she is a girl and every girl has an unknown fear of losing her virginity. For as Woody Allen says, "The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep".
Usually I'm a silent admirer of your posts, but today I find myself disagreeing.
Mamiji could have as easily seen the separate sleeping arrangement if Khushi slept on the recliner. My problem is not that they're sleeping separately, but that she is suffering in the cold while he is shown 'cutely' waking up in his warm bed and checking her out. Glamorizing Arnav's behavior and normalizing the sleeping arrangement is definitely not okay.
I have slept in the open in cold weather (by choice, I went trekking at the wrong time of the year) and I don't think anyone can be comfortable under the open sky in winter despite blankets. Khushi does not sleep by a fire. Besides, in Khushi's place, I'd be more scared inside than out, cos the outside is a thoroughfare, and it is a wonder Shyam hasn't wandered in there and attacked her virginity.
And no matter what Khushi says, no one is going to believe her if she says she did not sleep with ASR, irrespective of where she sleeps now. So I don't see the point, sorry.