lovely analysis- a pleasure to read. u hit it with radha's selfishness- i think she cannot help but be that way as her long time yearning has been to hear her son call her mother again. it takes a rare person to feel happy thru someone else's happiness- that is manifest in madhu.
the eternal question that rises its head every time love rears its head is that- love restricted to one person or expanded to everyone. What "idea" of love envelopes us?for rk, who is a sincere person questing that ephemeral idea of love, he finds rejection always because each time he pins it on one person- highly restricted. while for madhu love is not unique to one- she loves her foster father mallik as much as her mother, sister, in laws and rk. remember that wonderful interview she has with the media after rk's arrest, she says what is delightful about a person being in prison? one son is hurt and in the hospital and another in prison neither one gives me pleasure- that is the essence of madhu- her intrinsic sweetness (reflected in her very name) cannot but give love and not restrict to one. and she knows that right now her husband is at a state where he demands that one pointed love and she will give it to him that way too till she teaches him otherwise.if we see deeper- rk is also slowly getting there- now he is atleast open to talking to trishna- some time back he would have kept walk and not acknowledged her presence!