Since when have defending attorneys bothered about the court's time? If I had been Sachin, I would have put her on, crying buckets effortlessly, and let the judge have it with both barrels. It is all for emotional impact., and in fact the point that she does NOT testify looks strange. Sachin must have known when the judge started summing up that Arjun was never going to make it, and so why not use the second string to his bow?
But then Sachin would give a clod an inferiority complex. Someone was complaining that Manav should not, out of solidarity with his daughter, have let him defend Onir. What I think is that he must have deliberately let him do it to make sure that Onir did not get off by some chance!😉
If nothing else, Purvi could have got up and said something between sobs from where she was; the judge would have shushed her, but there would have been some effect, including on Onir.
If I had had a wife who does nothing but cry while I am going down the tubes for something that is 75% her fault,then comes up when I am feeling like crawling into a hole and pulling it in after me and puts a tentative hand on my shoulder like a compassionate passer by, and finally, when I come back from wherever, I see her crying all over her first and only love., I would have been more than disappointed.
I agree that she meant nothing wrong in that scene, but it would look VERY odd to anyone in the court, and all the more so to anyone conversant with their past history. Most husbands would have cut up very rough, whatever the nature of the marriage.
And as for Manav, if he thought it was not reprehensible, I would be much surprised. Knowing their past history, how on earth, Janhvi, would he think that it is innocent?A married woman in India does not cry all over a man in public unless he is her brother or father or equivalent thereof. And what was Arjun thinking of? The minute he gets near her he starts holding her hand, and she does not have the good sense to pull away.
If I were not convinced that she is not immoral, I would not believe that this touching scene was innocent either. I only hope that, as with that gandharva vivah in the shack, she does not make me fall flat on my face once again. And you as well.
And where, o where was the ever vigilant Soham, who was looking on as Onir came down from the box, with a despairing look on his face? Why was he not there at hand to prevent that touching scene between his pyaari behna and his bete noire? Should he not have been there to grab Arjun by the collar and summarily boot him out, and then offer his own shoulder for the distraught lady to weep on? Very curious.
I would also have liked to see Onir's reaction if he had come back in time to see it, and find out if nature, red in tooth and claw, would have triumphed over his eternal 'understanding'. I would have respected him more if it had, and his Mishti would also have had a salutary lesson in the limits of tolerance and the constraints imposed by marriage.
That Manav listens to Damodar later does not mean that he thinks Arjun and Purvi are not guilty. It only means that he wants Ovi's marriage not to fail (the typical traditional track) and he wants to pull back the erring son in law. I am sure that he would not be as accommodating if it was an erring daughter in law. She would have been thrown out on her ear pronto!
Shyamala
Originally posted by: soapwatcher1
Gotcha! 😆 "Hang him not, innocent " vs "hang him, not innocent", you must have heard that one?I knew exactly what you meant with moving on 😃 but I was expanding and cautioning you not to move on in Ovi fashion. 😉 Yes, have read a few of Dorothy Sayers' but do not remember reading that scene or book at all.Purvi should have, would have, could have 😆, Sachin is her attorney, he has already asked for Arjun to testify, the party that was harmed.The court already has proof that Purvi instigated Onir to switch the babies, it was her idea, the CD stands testimony to that. The judge while rendering his judgement makes the statement that while he realizes the intent was good and done for the benefit of someone, the act was wrong and hence no jail time but revoking of the license for Onir. Purvi had no "new and further" testimony to provide on the stand, reiterating what was on the CD could possibly have been interpreted as a frivolous waste of the court's time.
Originally posted by: sashashyam
Janhvi, my Janhvi.
What all do you make me do - in this instance backtrack on what I wrote just hours ago! Well, let me at least save some face by keeping it brief.
- Varsha was just an example and not the core and even less the sole basis of the argument. What I stressed was in the highlighted part:
And one makes such efforts in a crunch situation, whether one believes they will work or not, because one cares.
Purvi did not need to make a scene or a lot of nose, you know. In her place, I would have insisted that I testify, and in simple and telling language, I would have made clear to the judge that I was the moving force behind the swap, that Onir had voiced reservations that I had overridden, that I had done this out of purely altruistic motives, and that he had done it, despite his initial reservations,as he was ultimately convinced that it was the morally right thing to do. That might have made an impression on the judge, who was already convinced that Onir had not done this for any nefarious reason. It might thus have led to a limited, and not an open-ended suspension of his medical licence.
As things turned out, she did not even make an attempt, which I find unbelievable in a loyal and caring wife. No, I do not think that she did nothing so Onir could remain behind bars, any more than I think that there was anything shady in her crying in Arjun's arms. But she should never have done that, it would have been most inappropriate anywhere, and all the more so in the courtroom. If Onir had happened to come back just then, I am sure even his fabled tolerance and understanding might have failed
And she does not even try to comfort him with a hug -and it is not as though she does not hug him - but there perhaps your guilt argument would be more applicable.
Shakti was wonderful in that little scene as he descends from the box and comes up to her. He does not look at her at all, he is in a private web of misery of his own as he looks up at the ceiling and then lowers his head on to his hand. She cannot reach him at all, and she does nor really try.
Janvhi, do you read Dorothy Sayers and her Peter Wimsey mystery novels? There is one last scene in, I think, Busman's Holiday, where Peter Wimsey, who gets badly affected by acute feelings of guilt whenever a criminal he has helped nail is hanged, retreats into a shell where his wife can no longer reach him. In the end scene in the book, his wife is sitting in her room at the top of the stairs (in those days, husband and wife always had separate bedrooms) as he comes up them dragging his leaden feet. She holds her breath, and thinks to herself that if now he does not come in to her for comfort, she has failed completely as a wife. The door does open, he comes in, kneels at her feet, and buries his head in her lap as she cradles it and holds him close.
Purvi might have to pass some such test soon. It is high time she stops viewing her husband merely as an eternal support and lightning rod, and realises that he too has his vulnerabilities, and badly needs support and reassurance right now. She has to be clear-eyed and strong for him of she is to pull him out of his depression, and not the kind of eternal watering pot festooned with umpteen wigs that she has become.
Finally, the Ovi reference is " I, like Ovi, am moving on"and not " I am moving on like Ovi". The difference, and it is a huge one, is in the syntax and the commas!😉
Shyamala
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