Originally posted by: sashashyam
This is not a valid controversy. Purvi has gone thru hell during the party, and watched the man who was promising her eternal togetherness just minutes earlier, get betrothed to another girl, and she probably feels as if the sky had fallen on her head. On top of all this, she cannot even get away and weep her heart out in peace, but has to listen to Ovi's gushing about Arjun and her 'childhood' love for him, and pose for the photo on top of everything else.
Then there is the other track - the fact that Archana and her aaji both kept from her the fact that Tej was Archana's daughter. She feels betrayed by all her 'apne', and what she says about Arjun is the saddest of all, that he has now taken away from her every happy memory of her love for him. She feels abandoned and let down by all those she loves, and there seems to be darkness everywhere.
Under these circumstances, what do you expect her to do? Arjun is the one who has hurt her the most, and he is the only one at hand, so she vents all her fury on him. I do not see what is wrong with her slapping him - it is a catharsis of sorts, and has nothing to do with her loving him. It just shows that Purvi is hot blooded and quick to anger, and not a silent sufferer, that is all. But then we knew this already; she is quite aggressive whenever there is a spat, and this is the mother of all spats! Arjun sees the slap for what it is and does not give it a second thought.
Nor does Purvi mean what she says when she accuses Arjun of not loving her and never having intended to talk to his father. She knows that what she says is not true, but in the white heat of anger, she says it anyway. By the time she is home, she is no longer questioning his love, when she says that one daughter cannot selfishly ruin the happiness of another daughter (of Archana's). She is here obviously taking it for granted that Arjun loves her and, left to himself, will marry only her.
On a lighter note, I was rather impressed with the slap. Excellent technique: a nice swing and follow through, and bang on target! The sound effects were perfect as well. It would have been messy if she had ended up hitting his nose and making it bleed. But that might have been nice too, for one can bet that she would have forgotten all her rage in her haste to stanch the bleeding and patch him up!
In fact the best tactic for Arjun now would be to have a neatly calibrated accident, not fatal of course, or permanently damaging, but with enough of blood and bandages. In the ICU, it would work wonders!
Shyamala B.Cowsik