Dear Kalapi,
Of course the whole bail thing was cock-eyed and it could NEVER happen in real life. That was why I wrote that apocalyptic post about the mystery of the body in the boot, before the CVs reduced the whole thing to a farce.
It is my understanding that bail does not necessarily need a court hearing -otherwise no one could get anticipatory bail - and a magistrate can grant it after a personal application, I believe, if he/she is satisfied. I am not a lawyer either, but I think a court hearing would be mandatory if the police opposed grant of bail. Here, it would seem that the inspector is now convinced that Arjun has been implicated in this by sheer chance, and so he does not oppose the bail. Arjun's family background and the testimonies in his favour would have had a good bit to do with this perception, plus the fact that he can lay hands on him again easily if it should become necessary.
My post about the Indian judicial system had nothing to do with this, as you must have seen since you have read it. That was to in response to a very sweeping and generalised indictment of the whole Indian system based on a few individual instances of corruption.By that yardstick,
no judicial or other system in any country would come out unscathed.
One cannot judge a country's police or judicial system basing oneself on a TV serial, can one? Any more than I would judge the US political system based on the apocalyptic films on corruption at the very top and extending all the way down, like
Viewpoint and so many others.
Why talk only of the judicial system as it is shown here, almost every technical plot point in almost every TV serial is plain goofy, from the ubiquitous 'divorce papers', after signing which, the CVs would have you believe in most cases, the leads can merrily go off and marry someone else. Or the apparent belief that getting bail is the end of the story as far as the person involved is concerned, whereas it is most emphatically NOT the end, but only the beginning of what could be a most trying legal process. The number of bail cases trailing across the average TV serial is mindboggling. So, if viewers of PR or any other serial think that getting bail is so easy, or divorce, for that matter, it is their problem, or rather it would be if they ever ran into such a situation in real life.
And then, in BALH, they showed the opposite: a very serious charge against a very prominent accused, the wife of a top industrialist, ending in being sentenced to 14 years in prison, and the appeals to the High court and the Supreme Court apparently disposed of and lost in a matter of days! It was so laughable that I could not even laugh. The court proceedings were equally ludicrous - the defense could easily have proved that Priya Kapoor had NOTHING to do with the actual running of the company, and that it was Siddhant who ran it, irrespective of the date on the approval concerned. Nor could it have been a question of just one date and one approval for which Priya's sister could give Siddhant an alibi. This is not how any company works, any more than any "project file" could be as thin as the ones that are carted around in every serial. Any self-respecting project file would be a minimum of 300 pages after 2 months! And the number of contracts that OVT gets so easily after making a few presentations - how and by whom are these actually executed? Not by Purvi or Punni or even Arjun, that is for sure. It is all nonsense, and I would hope the viewers factor that in from the beginning.
I personally am convinced that sensible TV serial viewers the world over would not take this pap as a source of information on anything at all, except perhaps on the latest sartorial innovations, whether it is gorgeous evening gowns or Archana's backless blouses! Thank God she at least has a very nice back, otherwise it would be insupportable!
As for DK, you are of course fully entitled to your point of view (which is always the preamble before one begins to differ sharply with it!😉), but I am sure that he would have been keeping track of the situation, just as he was obviously keeping track of Arjun. and if it had seemed to be getting out of hand, he would have stepped in. Even so, in the real world, it would not have been anything like as easy as he makes it out to be.
For anything approaching realism in Indian TV serials, you would have to go to Yashraj's superb
Powder, and the slightest less superb
Kismat. Not to PR or any other of its ilk.
This said, I must tell you that I really appreciated your raising this very solid and relevant objection; it is a refreshing change from the norm. As for my post and the general rejoicings in the forum, they could be called childish, but I think they are genuine and have to be taken as such. After all, the whole concept of the forum is rather like that of the many Sherlock Holmes societies, that debate the Master's Canon (Arthur Conan Doyle's 59 short stores and 4 long stories featuring Holmes) with absolute seriousness, exactly as if Holmes and Watson were real life characters.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: Kalapi
Well, Shyamala, I read somewhere that you vehemently talked/defending about the Indian judicial system against a post that I guess said something about the corruption in the system. So, reading your post today, I was a bit surprised. Yes, Purvi did get Arjun bailed which is great, but the process was anything but perfect I believe. She did not use the proper channel instead she used her personal judge to bail Arjun. The judge should be charged for conflict of interest, which is beside the point. But, the Cvs are in essence portraying a flawed system to the audience outside India, so can't blame members to have less than favorable attitudes towards the Indian system. And can a bail be produced on probably criminal intent without any court hearing? Well, I myself am not a lawyer, but found something wrong with the whole picture.
Coming to Dk, I found his attitude extremely unbelievable. He seems not to do anything becoz Arjun wouldn't like. Have yet to see a parent who will not jump to help especially in a foreign soil (really Arjun has only been in India for 3 / 4 months and and is being/ probably be charged under criminal jurisdiction. So, his sitting and talking to Archana calmly was unbelievable, my POV. I found his priorities were always wrong from the beginning from his relationship with Ashana, his not wanting any kids etc... anyways my 2 cents for what it is worth...
Shiv Shakti
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