Originally posted by: mango.falooda
okay folks -- after long time, watched the episode and it is just a typical divorce mess. so I have a slightly different view on this. bear with me.
up till recently, divorces even by mutual consent was not an option. so any divorce would take a few years minimum to get and it would often get prolonged especially if one person refused to agree to the divorce.
in the meanwhile, the guy would often simply go ahead and get married to another and even have children while the court case is ongoing with first wife. there were plenty such cases that happened because people got tired of waiting after a few years. I read of contested divorce cases going on for 10 years or so -- some of them were super messy and basically a kind of revenge plot.
now in such cases, people didn't bother about legalities because the court case was too prolonged. so they would informally get married in a simple religious ceremony at home and then just say 'wife' and people in the guy's family would accept as second wife even if the official divorce hasn't come through.
then a few years back, the judges started to say that these prolonged contested divorces are ridiculous as you can't force someone to be with you -- meaning if you disagree to a divorce, you cannot hold the other person hostage to a relationship. you cannot force them to resume a marriage.
the change in attitudes also led to a result in revision in laws. now, even if the other person disagrees, you can still get a divorce. a mutual consent divorce takes 6 months whereas a contested divorce can take about 2-3 years under the current system. I know all of this just from reading the newspapers and so I can't tell you more specifics beyond that.
viraj's situation plays out in the context under the old complicated laws -- in some ways, teji was super sneaky in that by refusing to give him a divorce, she was able to hold on to wealth. so the question will be next on who exactly is gold digger.
she also cut off contact between father and son and spun a narrative to suit her needs -- sadly this does happen in messy divorces. I have heard of cases where people like viaan find out as adults that their fathers did try to stay in touch but were not allowed to.
so this is not a typical affair but more like viraj getting a second wife because teji refused to give him a divorce. however, the drama writers are not making this clear and going off on this tangent about how seema was his true love. 🙄 that is irrelevant.
what they should be focusing on is viraj and teji were already separated, teji refused to give a divorce and that led to prolonged mess. that would tie in to reality and what was happening in our legal system until a few years back.