Newt 2007, today's episode clinched it that to Arjun Ovi will always come first.
As I wrote elsewhere, Ovi has always been family to him and he is used to protecting her. The night of the engagement, even in that first flush of love, he did not think twice to put Ovi before Purvi. He might have made half-heated attempts to tell her of his love for Purvi but he stalled. Remember the car scene where Ovi was fawning all over him with Purvi in the front seat, he did not show half the same concern for Purvi that she might be hurting.
Thank you for pointing it out, Arjun has privately thanked Purvi for changing him but publicly has always acknowledged Ovi for his success. Even after he tells Manav he loves Purvi when Ovi hugs him on the street, Arjun does not tell her he is going to live in the chawl for Purvi, he tells Ovi, he is doing this for himself.
Ovi is long habit for Arjun, Purvi was a novelty, a diversion, wish he had not gotten her pregnant though. And as you say, no good would have come out of Purvi sticking around in Mumbai after discovering she was pregnant, nothing would have happened, she would have been the other woman, blighted, cursed while Ovi would have humiliated her further, and Arjun would not have been able to tear himself away from Ovi.
I have always felt that Purvi asking him to marry Ovi was a test of sorts, she desperately wanted him to say no, when he said yes, it only proved to her what she had always known that Arjun was Ovi's, not hers.
Today's episode as well as yesterday's showed Arjun worried over Ovi and how she would receive the news. His overriding concern is for his wife (natural) and it proves that he has long moved on. The kiss and the stroking of the hair bespoke volumes, there was tenderness and concern. Arjun has grown and so has Ovi.
Ovi was not suspicious of Purvi's call, they share a normal husband and wife relationship, she trusts him, she knows he will never give her cause again for worry. He perhaps feels reassured by Ovi's obsession for him especially because Purvi left him. He understands Ovi is here to stay, they began as friends, had their ups and downs, had a baby, lost a baby, and have settled down. Purvi might remain a nostalgic lingering pang but she has been relagated to a what might have been.
Arjun's silence this time is not forced upon him by Purvi. Neither was it after the marriage when he said what he wanted to do would turn purvi's family topsy turvy. She told him then "Do what you think is right (perhaps she had found out by them that she was carrying his baby?). He did what was right, he did nothing, he remained in his marriage with Ovi.
No, I still don't forgive Ovi for what she did, she still needs to acknowledge it to both Arjun and Purvi or at least to Purvi and then she can move on merrily. She needs to find out the truth about Pari, that will be just desserts in a way but she deserves her Arjun now and the happiness he can give her.
Edited by soapwatcher1 - 12 years ago
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