Originally posted by: Laila2009
You do not get it do you? This is a father-son relationship (and it does not have to be biological) - that's the difference. They are uncle-nephew. My guess you have a whole different set of moral codes.
Just because the two of them do not have a bond does not make it OK.
In all these romances above except in Basera, these were romances with individuals who were of the SAME generation. They did not carry on in front of the person either - they were dead. They waited until after the fact. In the first there the person was pressured due to circumstance.
in the first they wanted the child to have a mother, the second to save the izzat of his sister-in-law, in the third - this was zarbadasti and a sad practice in punjab done out of economical necessity, and in Lamhe the mother was dead, she never loved Anil Kapoor either. However, despite this A LOT of people - and I was one of them - thought the romance was disgusting as he lusted after the mother and then later the daughter. Showed the male lead had no boundaries. It would be like TVS going after Sugni's daughter with Aditya - gross. And in my view and even in our liberal west, marrying your siblings spouse for whatever reason is not acceptable or appropriate either.
We only do it on Indian television and film. It's a practice that had an 'economical' necessity devised by patriarchal societies that we should not be condoning today. Ready up on some Sociology and you'll see.
