Dear kool,
I am with you 100%.
Janhvi, Ovi is what Ovi has always been, and she does not even have the smarts to put on a suitably chastened look at the reception for Arjun's benefit. She is a besotted, greedy, grasping idiot, who thinks she can transmute fool's gold into the real thing.
But what of Purvi? It is the Deewaar quotation with which I opened this thread, all over again.
She was Arjun's life and his dream. HOW could she not just do this, but as I have stated time and again above, and as Kool has reiterated, HOW could she do this with such unfeeling ruthlessness and brutality?
She abandoned and crushed Arjun without a second thought, and even now, she does not feel a jot of pain for HIS suffering. That much was clear from the Friday scene between them. Nor does her aai, blathering on and on and on about her mahaan tyaag not just at home but at the reception at well, to everyone she can find. She never gives a thought to the idiotic sacrificial lamb of whom her mahaan beti has made halaal so thoroughly.
Janhvi, let me quote your "Ovi does not love Arjun'. Loving would be wanting to see him happy at all costs, much like a parent that would sacrifice all to see his/her child happy. There is no remorse for what she has done, no empathy for his suffering, she is excited and happy she got what she wanted. That is selfish to the core and selfishness is the very antithesis of love" back at you.
Just replace Ovi by Purvi, and "excited and happy" by " satisfied if unhappy", and what do you have? A perfect fit for Purvi today, totally convinced that she has done no wrong. Of course not, for Arjun is expendable and does not count.
No, Arjun is not equally at fault for fulfillling Purvi's part of the deal. That followed, as the night follows the day, from what he is - a man who has lost all sense of self, and all self-respect, for the love of this girl. Rarely does one see a man falling in love so thoroughly.
He is in fact more at fault, but not for that. What he is at fault for is falling in love with her in the first place, and here too, Kool, I have been and am with you. Perhaps I am wrong in trying to save him from you, Janhvi, for I am not sure he has got over this folly or ever will.
Don't worry, this is a serial where the first, and in fact the only virtue is sacrificing others, either per se or as collateral damage (as when Archana dumps Teju, Ovi, Manav and Purvi for Sachin, a 4:1 ratio, better than the US troops in Afghanistan), and then making out, very successfully, that you were the victim and deserved a halo.
Manav is now apparently going to fall at Archana's beautifully pedicured feet, painted toe nails and all, and beg pardon for ever having blamed her for anything since Anno Domini 1 - including her nearly sending him in for a long jail term in the chawl demolition case, and her role in the death (so they all think) of Soham. He has already started on the second, which he has now downgraded, as Jyothi once pointed out, to a haadsa (accident). He will have arrived at the first as well come Monday.
So, as a good damaad, Arjun will also presently unclench his jaw and, with tears in his eyes, fall at Purvi's feet (admittedly not as pretty as Archana's, as the PR team cannot afford pedicures for her, not to speak of any decent outfits, and she is already back to her regulation maroon and brown set, while her aai swans around in see thru white organdy and diamonds).
He will duly beg pardon for even having dared to criticise her for her tyaag or for having complained that she broke all her vaade.After all, they were made mostly by shaking her head, and are thus deniable at will- he just misunderstood which way she was shaking it! Archana, Jyothi, Laurie, I know it is frightful but I begin to feel it in my bones, alas!
Then Purvi will be duly hoisted on to the pedestal built for her by the PR team, where her aai is already enthroned, and the duo will bless us all.
Kool, you are spot on with your "she has got badly in his system while he is last on her priority list", which is pretty much what I have been repeating for the nth time to my unfortunate readers. But what are we doing here analysing this junk? I don't know about you, but I have had enough for the present, and am off to salvage what is left of my Sunday.
Janhvi, relax. You do not even have to chase Arjun and beat him up. He will do it himself very soon, like the albino monk in the Da Vinci Code. Manav will show him the way, and he will follow, the brief flare up of hope in us unfortunate PAPers yesterday, about the return of AK, notwithstanding. This is PR, after all, and strong men are as out of place here as a T-Rex would be, so saare lakshaan aise hi nazar aa rahe hain (all the signs point that way).
DK will join in as the chorus, singing hosannas to the Teen Deviyan (apologies to the late Dev Anand). He is already doing so for Sulochana and Archana, all he has to do is to add Purvi to the pantheon. Come to think of it, it is entirely appropriate. Hamari to hamesha trimurti hi hoti hai (we always have a trinity).
Bye folks, and may we all survive the next week in reasonably good shape. And may I gain the strength, not just to last thru it, but to do what Arjun should have done 3 episodes back. Walk off without a backward glance.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: koolsadhu1000
See this is how I look at it .
Faultwise :
1 ] Purvi : She is the biggest offender of all bcoz she dumped Arjun ruthlessly at the altar and killed the so called true love story by trading him for her mother . The way she did it is more awful than the deed itself . She mulled over it , decided to not give him time to think , decked herself up in the parlour , told him her decision and used the correct terminology to make him concede ...' test of love' and then stood there to see him married off ...that her part of the deal was kept ...so anxious was she that he did not have second thoughts at the last minute . Then , ensuring the deal went through she insisted it was ' not her fault' to her mother in the weepfest where they all applauded each other for their so called sacrifices and then proceeded anxiously to ascertain that the deal was still on by phoning Ovi late in the night although the phone call could easily have been done in the morning .
2 ] Arjun : He is second in this fault line ...his biggest fault was loving a girl who was simply not worth it . He suffered a horrific insult ... getting dumped at the altar . But he had an option ...going back to Canada and never getting involved with this girl again as obviously she flip flopped at the last minute . But so much was the hold of the girl over him that he marrried another girl at her bidding . He did not love this girl at all and quite frankly he needed a break from love affairs and sometime alone . Yet being somehow near this girl who betrayed him was his decision .
3] Ovi :: Her one and only fault was loving a man more than herself , her family , her mother , her self respect , her life ...everything . No guy deserves this much importance but Ovi forgot that and will pay for all her life .
Ovi kept her end of the bargain or deal and insisted that Archana be taken back in the family .
The deal was done by both women but Arjun will punish Ovi to viewer satisfaction and chase Purvi all his life as she has got badly in his system while he is last on her priority list .
This is how i see it Varsha .
Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Kool, agree with everything you have written except the part about Ovi loving Arjun above herself. Would be willing to even concede that she might "love" him above all else except herself. The girl did not give one thought to his misery at the reception, not one, not a glance of sympathy, not an iota of remorse, no toning down of her excitement at having gotten what she has been after.
As I wrote on another thread, "Ovi does not love Arjun, she wants him, she is obsessed with him. Loving would be wanting to see him happy at all costs, much like a parent that would sacrifice all to see his/her child happy. There is no remorse for what she has done, no empathy for his suffering, she is excited and happy she got what she wanted. That is selfish to the core and selfishness is the very antithesis of love."
I looked keenly for some signs to see if I had misjudged Ovi; if she had given Arjun one glance of sympathy, looked a little downcast, I would perhaps have said poor girl, she is crazy about him and now has to pay the price. Not so after watching that last scene, maybe the CVs will change her character around again. She was a nice, sweet, insipid girl in Canada, maybe they will transform her back into a loving, remorseful wife who will do everything in her power to win Arjun even offering up her marriage to give him back his own happiness. Maybe that will be an eye-opener for him that this girl now truly loves him unlike the other one that chose her mother over him and dumped him at the altar and had the steel in her heart to watch him wed another. That last to me was the unkindest cut of all.
But like you said, the best option for Arjun would have been to disappear from the scene and have left both girls bereft of a toy to barter. He was an idiot and for that, Shyamala or not, he will get a batting (for Jyothi's sake, a very mild one) from me if I catch him anywhere near.
And you are right, while Ovi is at fault for bringing the deal, Purvi is more at fault for accepting it and Arjun equally so as Purvi for fulfilling it. In my mind, Ovi is guilty but not as much as the two in the relationship who had so much to lose and lost it anyway by treating marriage and trust as a joke.
Edited by sashashyam - 13 years ago