Great going guys .....the discussion is very stimulating .....
My take on the whole story ......
It's true all of us were deceived into thinking it's a simple straight forward love story .......... and we complacently went along looking at the story only in one angle .....
But the creatives had something else up their sleeve ..... they took another path and wreacked havoc with all our favourite notions .....
They made Raj ... look like the devil -incarnate ..... and Kranti the scapegoat ........
I agree with Dew & Nureat that we still have a very good story on our hands now......
The only reason why we can still talk about the RK romance is because that's is how the show has been introduced .............. so like it or not ..... it is there lurking around the corner .....
But how they go up that path remains to be seen .....
As Dew put it ...... pain and suffering are not new to Kranti ....... rise she will ..... and fight she will ...... certainly not the abla naari types .....
But the focus now would be on the redemption of Raj ........... it is not easy to pull him out of the depths he has sunk and put him back on the hero pedestal ........... that whether he deserves to be put back on the pedestal is another question altogether ........... ( which only the story writers can answer) ......
All of us are rightly outraged at the treatment meted out to Kranti ...... I think within the social frame work of that period,..... they will let Kranti fight her own battles and emerge victorious .......
At the same time Raj has to fight his own demons ..... for him it is much more difficult ... cos he is to blame for his own plight ...... it is not easy to climb out of the pit dug by your own actions ......
I think in Raj's case, creatives have a more challanging task .......