*Season 2, Week 24* Analysis Thread

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Hello everyone

I loved some of the analyses a lot on our thread last week and the trend continues.

On the topic of the ambiguity of divorce, I have to say, I am not one bit surprised. Not because I am used to the makers taking a palti every so often. It's because the divorce ka mamla had been very ambiguous from the start of S2. They were consistently inconsistent in fact. The red flag was during Saurabh's wedding. Initially it looked like the Boses were letting the guests see Dev as "jamai to avoid any scenes. However, as the episodes during the wedding continued, it became apparent that Dev and Sonakshi's relationship status is more than co-parents to that community. They all knew about Soha (and some of them definitely live in Delhi! Dev Dixit's sheher!) So, I had to do a double take and ask is the divorce just done on paper and Sona's relatives only know that they separated? It didn't look like public knowledge to me. It looked like they are back together after a long public fight. Because there was a point where someone said "they are together and its good for Soha. Especially when its been on TV even and Dev is a celebrity of sorts in Delhi. He doesn't figure on Page 3 but he was out with girls a lot.

So, my takeaway all along was that perhaps mami made sure Dev's relatives know that he is single but ready to mingle (or may be mingle but not marry). Dev & Sona's professional circle/s knew them as divorced. It was all very unclear.

They were not divorced in the sense that they were not ready to move on. And everyone around them knew. They would refer to each other as ex, mostly to remind themselves and to rub it in to everyone else who cared less about their happiness and more about their selfish motive.

Because another biggie was that had the divorce proceedings happened, the legal counsel on Sona's side would have advised her to inform Dev about Soha. Dev & Sona just weren't in a state to deal with any of this. They left things untouched for 7 years. I'd love for them to show us that the room where fire burnt in that Jogeshwari farmhouse is still as it was 7/8/9 whatever number of years ago. Something like we saw in Om Shanti Om with the sets.

Had one of them decided to remarry, I guess, they would have then served the divorce to the other (and then the poor legal counsel, the person who one of them was going to get married and everyone else in between would get Nisha treatment by these pagal premis!).

There was one instance where they convinced me of the divorce. It's in the car when Sona tells that Sunflower story. Dev asks her why had she not married. Which means he assumes she is divorced.. Having had a confirmation of Dev's emotional coma in the last 7/8/9 years, I am thinking he was led to believe they were divorced and assumed he had signed those papers in his drunk/intoxicated state

With that, let's hope Dev and Sona had a lovely weekend and will present themselves with more love and joy on on TV screens later tonight..

Kuch rang complicated relationships ke...

Originally posted by: thedramaqueen

Had one of them decided to remarry, I guess, they would have then served the divorce to the other (and then the poor legal counsel, the person who one of them was going to get married and everyone else in between would get Nisha treatment by these pagal premis!).

There was one instance where they convinced me of the divorce. It's in the car when Sona tells that Sunflower story. Dev asks her why had she not married. Which means he assumes she is divorced.. Having had a confirmation of Dev's emotional coma in the last 7/8/9 years, I am thinking he was led to believe they were divorced and assumed he had signed those papers in his drunk/intoxicated state

With that, let's hope Dev and Sona had a lovely weekend and will present themselves with more love and joy on on TV screens later tonight..

Kuch rang complicated relationships ke...

Originally posted by: Samanalyse

@bold: I actually read that scene a little differently with regards to this information. Dev didn't ask if she was married, he asked why she wasn't (shaadi kyon nahi ki?). He knew she wasn't married because she would have had to ask for a divorce if that were the case.