first of all archana accepted arjun and ovi's wedding after understanding and seeing how much arjun loved purvi and vice versa...so it is natural for a mother to accept this and think that if they both love each other, they should get married s o that they can be happy. Anyone of us would do this. Even though Ovi is archus daughter, you cannot fuel your daughter's obsessive desire to have A MAN who does not love her at all. So in all circumstances she had to accept Purvi-arjun because atleast two people who love each other would be happy.
Also I think that Archu was rubbing the wedding and cards in Ovi's face fr her to realize harshly that Arjun was not meant for her...She knew pyaar se samjhane pe Ovi will never listen to Archu..so best is to show her the reality which she did. Although, yes...asking Manav to forecefully come and do kanyadaan of a daughter who he has never really known or loved is pushing it a little too far. Why would you ask Manav to do it when technically he is not her father at all. In 18 years never knew Purvi existed, has not seen her grow up, has no attachment whatsoever and plus choosing her kanyadaan over his own beloved daughter's sorrow, is stupid of Archu to push for.
As far as manav is concerned, accepting Ovi-Arjun marriage is like being a blind horse and a headless father who aobviously does not seem to have any sense left in him after his own shattered marriage. He knows the reason why Arjun married Ovi and in this circumstance Arjun can never really love Ovi or give her the love of a husband that she probably deserves ( if she wasn't a psycho mad child) He will marry her, keep her, and give her all materialistic needs but will he ever be able to rise above his love for Purvi to love Ovi in the same way? Won't this be a one-sided marriage for life? IF Arjun can sacrifice his wedding and marry a girl he does not love at all, just because the girl he loves (Purvi) told him to do it for her one hour before the wedding, does Manav think that Arjun will ever stop loving Purvi after proving his love in front of everyone 100 times already, this wedding to Ovi being the final proof of his love for Purvi.
MAnav has gone through the same track in his life before where he and Archu decided to sacrifice their love for Shravani. Was Manav ever able to keep Shravani happy? Was Manav ever able to get over Archana? Was he ever able to forget Archu and her love and fall in love with Shravani? No! He finally left Shravani mid-alter and ran to Archu. When Manav has gone through same situation, how can he think his daughter is going to be happy with a husband in the same situation who loves another woman more than anything else in the world ? How can Manav be alright about subjecting his daughter to the same grief that Shravani had to go through cuz Manav was madly in love with Archu and could never get over that?
AS a father he should have slapped Ovi for agreeing to this union. He should have technically slapped Arjun also for playing with his daughter's emotions once again. just for his lady love. He should have packed up his kids and left for Canada leaving Archu and her Mahaanta and Mahaan daughter behind. As a father, that would have been the right thing to do.
Instead, he is behaving like a brainless idiot who thinks chalo good atleast Ovi ka rona band hoga, she has got her Ken Doll that she wanted. Instead of thinking about how screwed up her future is going to be, he is hapy for the temporary relief in his and OVi's life because at least now he wont; have to pacify her day in and day out.
But anyway, If Manav was a normal father, Ovi would never turned out like this in the frist place. He wold have given her some sanskaar and some sensibility, which obviously OVi does not seem to reflect.
nly Teju seems to have grown up fine. I think Damu must have raised her alone while Manav was fawning over OVi and Savita was fawning over SAchu.