Dear Kalapi,
I agree with all your comments about the disruption that the 7 year rule can cause, but they have to have some specific time period, and not too short a one. Otherwise greedy relatives would grab the property in no time. Most such cases relate to amnesia or to those missing in action in a war. I think the 7 year period applies in many other countries as well.
Priya does try to call Ram when she learns that she is expecting, not once but thrice, but he is very depressed and he does not pick up the call. When she finally does get thru, it is when he is at a restaurant with Vikram and Neha, and he takes the call. But just at that moment, he spots a lady sitting at another table wearing a pair of earrings that Priya was looking for without success. So he goes across to that lady and starts praising her earrings as a preliminary to asking her for them. Priya hears this part of the conversation, which sounds flirtatious, and so she concludes that he has got over her and drops the idea of telling him about the baby.
So you see, one can blame her, and severely, for her initial decision to promote his 'moving on' and not suffering with a wife in jail for 14 years, as being both very stupid and irresponsible. But one cannot blame her for telling him nothing about the baby.Even now, Priya had
no notion of returning to Ram; she is planning to return to Dubai, and her meeting him at that wedding was a pure accident. She does not meet him and claim him in Dubai at that party solely because, just as she is going to do so, she learns that Ram has married Ayesha, and she does not want to disrupt that marriage. Now of course she knows that it is only a marriage for form's sake, which changes a lot of things.
As for Ayesha, she was the one who got Priya into prison in the first place thru her testimony in favour of Sid.What is more, she doesn't care a hoot for Ram, or for her son Kush, or indeed for anything or anyone else except herself. She has always been a terminally selfish and unfeeling woman, and how she could do what she did to Priya, who stood up for her at every point and never counted any cost when it came to her, passes my understanding. To my mind, horsewhipping is too good for someone like Ayesha.
And as for little Kush, his life would
made, not disrupted, if Priya were to take charge of him. A worse mother than the one the poor kid has now can hardly be imagined! As it is, he is far happier with Natasha than with his mother.
Even if none of this applied, if an amnesia victim regains her memory and returns after 6 years, the new spouse just has to lump it. it cannot be helped. It is unfair on the new spouse (and I do not count a golddigger like Ayesha here), but the law is the law, and the three have to work it out between themselves as best as they can.
Shyamala
Originally posted by: Kalapi
Kool,
Yes, Priya never even contacted Ram when she came to know her pregnancy. Wasn't Ram entitled to this info? She continuously took decisions on behalf of others in the name of all kind of justifications'God, how the leads are glorified, when some decisions can't be solely theirs to make.
Shymala,
Wasn't the 7 yr loophole used cleverly by the Cvs here? How convenient it is to have Priya come back after 5 yrs, when she just knew exactly where Ram lived etc. all these years. She wasn't the one losing her mental stability, either. It was rather a cool and calculated move and then she chose to hide her daughter for Ram, who had every right to this piece of info., in my opinion.
I am especially interested in this 7 yrs loophole. Priya was assumed and in all possibilities considered death after the accident. In this scenario, how can the 7 yr rule be applied? What if Ram really did move on and married someone and is happily leading a married life. It is unfair, for a wife to appear after 5 yrs and just disrupt the other wife/kids family? Somehow, this doesn't seem fair at all.
Now, if Priya was just declared missing, even then, isn't 7 yrs too long a wait. What is there are circumstances like a small kid is involved and the family decides to get the hubby married for the sake of the child. What if the hubby, after awhile of mourning, moves on and finds a girl and gets married? It is so unfair to this girl, because the first wife suddenly appears from nowhere? I find at this age, a 7 yrs wait is just not acceptable'it is a long time to wait to keep life 'on a hold' and see if someone wants to make that appearance. Even if this person lost mental stability or something, that doesn't give the person the right anymore even then to disrupt someone else's life. Unfair, yes, but when is life fair'at best, life is bitter sweetš
In case of Ayesha, she might be evil personified, but she did make a life for herself and for her son. How fair is this to this son, for Priya to come and disrupt a setup that was working, in a sense'
As for Arjun/Ovi and Purvi mess, I too don't care where the banana finally lands up, rather am interested to see who gets to peel it firstš
Ganesh Kartikeya
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