Originally posted by: sashashyam
You see, Janhvi, this is what comes of thinking too much about PR!😉 None of the points you have raised is such as cannot be explained away easily, but if you are determined to see a dark shade in Onir, why then you will see it, for no one can prove a negative. Dear Shyamala, I am almost as enamored by the good doc as you are! Yes, playing devil's advocate again as you rightly surmised😆 Idle mind is after all the devil's workshop and the current epis of PR leave my mind vacant and raring for more masala! 😉
Let us take the organ trafficking charge against Onir, which is patently ridiculous. Mittal raises it to turn the tables on Onir, and kill two birds with one stone. Before Onir dug up that racket in the KV Hospital - which, by the way, was an open and shut affair, which forced Mittal to at least appear to sack Kundan in the spot - all was hunky dory. If Onir had been into organ trafficking, why would he expose Kundan at all? He would have joined forces with him and expanded his area of operations, and milked Mittal for whatever the traffic would bear for cooperating with him. I will not reiterate here as I already explained I was not accusing Onir of being an organ trafficker just pondering the reason behind Mittal's slamming that at Onir. A gaffe or some tangent sub-plot yet to be introduced by the CVs? I am positive not the last as the CVs are floundering trying to tie loose ends from weeks ago. 🤢
For you to think that Onir must be guilty because Why does Mittal accuse him of it? is really not worthy of you, my dear! As for why he does not report Kundan at once, he sees now that it is a mistake, but he does that because he thinks Kundan has been fired and he does not want to get Mittal, now a relative of his, into more trouble. It was ill-advised, as it turned out, but ill-intentioned? No. Not reporting Kundan and/or Mittal, whether the odious Mittal be related to Mishti or not, was still very erroneous on the part of Onir. While I might easily forgive Onir for the baby switch, not reporting a crime, that too a medical crime, especially with him being a doctor is far more serious in nature. Mishti and her relatives should have landed low, low on the totem pole in that equation.
As I noted above, if Onir was a master organ-trafficker, why would he be in any trouble at all now, after warning Mittal that he was going to report him? He would have told Mittal he was a fool to employ an inefficient chap like Kundan, and offered to do much better himself.
To sum up,the idea of Onir being guilty of organ trafficking is completely illogical and untenable. Not that you really believe it either; I suspect it is more that you are tired of liking him and want to play devil's advocate and have some fun.
As for his not wanting Purvi to come to court. It is because he is half afraid that though he has switched the DVD (why do they always call it a CD?), Mittal might have spotted the exchange and got another, correct copy. This would have led not just to Onir being exposed as a liar in open court, but to Ovi becoming hysterical and very likely violently abusing Purvi and Onir. He knows that Purvi is in a depressed and fragile emotional state - witness the way she breaks down and weeps all over him when he gets bail and comes back home - and he probably wants to spare her the initial, and very unpleasant shock of exposure in the open court. And it would have been VERY unpleasant all round. He tells Purvi as much when she asks why he did not tell her of the switch before they left for court. It is because he is not sure he has actually got a reprieve.
He also knows that it is just a reprieve, not an escape.What impressed me yesterday, even more than his cleverness and quick thinking in switching the DVDs, was the quiet strength and calm with which Onir faces his likely disgrace and downfall, even as Purvi seems to be doing her best to drive him up the wall with her lamentations and her panic-stricken weeping. He not only steadies her then, but even after the court hearing is over, he neither discounts the probability that Mittal will have another copy and will produce it at the next hearing, nor does he panic at the prospect, or let Purvi panic. Not too sure. Could be as innocent as it seems or the situation could be milked to other purposes.
He seems almost satvik as he contemplates his bleak future, and one gets the feeling that this is how he really is, he is not putting on a brave face for show. Such detached, clear-eyed courage is admirable. If he is indeed so, yes, he is to be admired, an intellectual, a do-gooder, a husband par excellence, honest, kind, a humanitarian, the list seems endless, almost too good to be true. But if he is real, I could not have endorsed a better guy for my ex-ladli! 😆
Now, if you are insisting that even the adroitness with which he changed those CDs "boded some evil intent behind it all", I have nothing more to say, except that I suspect some very devious ( I was going to say 'evil', but settled for 'devious'!) intent behind your new tack!😉 Janhvi, how can you? I was very pleased that for once Onir displayed some street smartness and some survival instinct. Would you refrain from detecting some 'evil intent' in him only if he had been cornered in court, like a bali ka bakra thanks to his being besotted with your ex-ladli, and sent to jail? I will concede, he is clever, he is intelligent and for once he was not queasy enough to do something shady. But this has become a habit with him! The blackmailer, the baby switch, the not reporting, then this. If he makes a habit of sullying his pure shiny white saintly habit, even you Shyamala will be hard put to defend him at every turn.
Well, as for his stopping Purvi from spilling the beans now, please note that it is he who will cop it in professional terms, not she. She got him into this, and now she wants to chicken out and leave him to hold the bag. What will happen to her? Nothing. She would probably have got another laurel wreath for her tyaag if Archana had not been in a coma. But what about him? If it came out that a gynaecologist had actually swapped babies, no matter is it was with the best of intentions, he would be finished professionally, and for good. It would be the same even if he was not struck off the rolls. He would never get a single patient more, not even the poor from the slums of Kolkata, who would be the first to shun him. Do you then wonder at why he does not want the baby swapping to come out? Ah, so you do grant the man with some selfish intentions? 😆 He wanted to save his own skin, his reputation, his medical practice (non-existent for now) over unqualified love for Mishti! 😉
You might want to applaud your ladli for wanting to spill the beans now in a blue funk -after all old habits die hard!😉- but I do not. I would be more inclined to take a hatchet to the wretched girl. She should have thought of all this before she bamboozled him into it - clinging to his hands, weeping all over him, Onir, aapne har waqt mera saath diya hai, ab bhi mera saath denge na? She plays him like a violin, and the benighted idiot caves in. And dooms himself to being at the mercy of this undependable, irresponsible and, as far as he is concerned, completely selfish and uncaring woman with whom he has had the misfortune to fall in love. In his place, I would also have emptied a jug of cold water over her bewigged head! I wish he had, when she suggested the baby switch! It was his duty as husband and doctor to do so.😭
As for his preemptive and decisive "no" to her sudden wish to share her wrong doing with the family, that is because that is the only way to handle a hysterical female, who bleats Onir, ab ham kya karenge? Sab kuch khatam ho gaya! Some wife to have at his side when things go wrong! And it is not as though he does not cite any reason against the disclosure, for he does tell her that once she knows the truth, Ovi will reject Pari. That is enough to silence her. He is the strong silent type, isn't that the kind of girls those guys typically go for? 😉😆
Oh yes, the marriage, into which he 'bamboozled' her. Of course he should have let her carry on as an unwed mother in Kolkatta. The NGO would have dispensed with her services as soon as she started showing, fearing a scandal. No landlord would have rented accommodation to a 'loose woman'. Women would have sneered at her in the mohalla and assorted men would made passes at her thinking that she would be readily available. Why did it matter to him? Because he was head over heels, besottedly in love with her. He lost his reason. I am not doubting that he saved her from a fate far worse than death for which she should be eternally grateful. And that is why I think if Onir is all that he is purported to be, she needs to stick by his side, rain or shine.
Yes, Onir should have left her to face all this, in order not to be accused by you now of having 'bamboozled' her into marrying him. Of course he bamboozled her also so that he could have the incomparable delights of being dragged to Mumbai, stuck with her dysfunctional relatives, carted to the K house when Ovi kicks Purvi out of the D house and, last but not the least, sleeping on the hard floor and making her morning bed tea, and all this without any spousal benefits or rights. Yes, Shyamala, exactly, he is an "older" man in love with a chit and ready to do anything for her, right or wrong, ethics out the door. Shades of color, please! This hitherto straight and staid doctor, with no thought other than humanitarian in his head all of a sudden slips into this morass of emotions and now is overwhelmed and ready to do anything it takes to land her, whether she wants it or not, means do not matter anymore! There is a devilishly intent look in his eye, a constant plotting in his brain as how to ensnare her so that she never ever leaves his side! Just saying. 😆😳
So do enlighten me, dearest Janhvi, why would a supposedly devious Onir do all this to marry a penniless girl who neither loves him nor even cares for him, unless he happened to love her? This last was a capital mistake, but then all lovers are insane one way or the other, and why should Onir be an exception to this? No exception, but a blinding example of what not to be in a besotted lover! 😉
Now for the blackmail money that Onir manages to salvage by grabbing it while Vinay runs off. It is 3 lakhs, or USD 6000/- .Onir does not need to collar this amount to say afloat; he would have been paid 10 times that much for a short attachment to a foreign hospital, and if he wanted it, he could have made tens of lakhs with any of the big hospital chains like Apollo. But he chooses to avoid all these options, and lives on a budget so shoestring that even his mishti complains about the funds squeeze. If he so was money-minded, why would he do that, pray? So where does this new doubt about him, concerning those 3 lakhs, come from? No doubts regarding where he procured the 3 lakhs, just noting the change from his hitherto unseen attachment to money or even the awareness that money exists in this world 😆
Have I left out any of your reasons for turning a jaundiced eye on Onir ? Yes, why does he not dissuade Purvi from the baby swap. It is, I think,because, for all his talk of hamara bachcha, he does not think he has any real right to it. If it had been his kid, I do not think he would have allowed it,for then he would have had a right of refusal. Why the difference in thinking in this holier than thou art man? He should have advised her, helped her with the right decision, impartially and the thought of whether the child was his or Arjun's should not have arisen if he really was thinking of Mishti's good or for that matter Ovi's good.
Lastly, I am surprised at your being dismayed that Purvi is not in the least concerned about what not just might but, as far as she knew, was going to happen to Onir, personally and professionally. She is like that only, and has always been like that only. They talk so much of her sacrifices. What she specialises in is human sacrifice, and her score in this now stands at 2.5. Ah, that Purvi, the enemies that she has made! 😭😭
And with that, Your Honour, I rest my case!😉 Not that any of the above will stop you from peering at Onir with a giant magnifying glass looking for sins and sleaziness.😉 Fabulous case, counsel, tempted to judge in your favor but need to ascertain the facts that no card has been left unturned in the pursuit of justice.
But as I told Naava earlier, Onir is not a good candidate for a villain. Sometimes, I wish he was, and that he would become a sleek, silky, suave arch-manipulator, like Hrithik's Zafar Khan in the excellent Luck by Chance. That would be much more interesting than this goody two shoes. But Ekta has modelled what I am told is one of her favourite characters after another such, Rajat Kapur in BALH, and he is a preux chevalier to the end. So, I am convinced, will Onir be, alas!😉 And we will be subject to his endless "kaisi ho and davaa kaayi" dialogues, ain't it sad that the villains with the devilish glint manage to catch our eye more so than the seedha saadha boring types who should justifiably make a place in our hearts? Such unfortunately is the way of the world! 😆
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