ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY
I'm so glad I'm not the only person here who found the Chabras to be, for lack of a better word--Cheapres. If you are such a modern, high soch wali family being all mahan and accepting of Dev, why did you try to hide his truth until AFTER the Roka, which is a religiously binding ceremony for most families?
And Prinku--I'm now convinced you are not shy, you are brain dead, and the O-bros are right to be so over protective of a ninny like you. You know Dev for, what, less than 24 hours? You have so little respect for yourself that you've started to make excuses for a blatant attempt to CON your family, AND CON you? So ga-ga over the first boy you've met that you'll go against your brother who adores you, who stopped you from a relationship based on a lie? I felt for Shivaay today, even if the line he took was based on his own prejudices. He is NOT wrong when he says..kash aisa hota, par this is not reality. What he said, about illegitimate kids-- that is what India (AND THE CHABRAS) believe. And no elder brother or father will deliberately give their sister/child over in an arranged marriage, to a boy who is illegitimate, and moreover, who HIDES it.
What I saw of Dev made me dislike him anyways, and that had nothing to do with his parents. What could Dev have said AFTER the Roka to Shivaay, that would make him accept getting tricked into giving his sister to a lying, manipulative, hypocritical and morally bankrupt family? I can just imagine Shivaay nodding mistily along as Dev explains : Ha ha, I tricked you guys, and BTW, I'm illegitimate, but don't worry, even though everyone knows all about it (it just took a phone call to uncover this raaz, after all), and even though this is India where these things matter, and even though this is an incredibly damaging detail about my past I've hidden, don't worry!! Somehow, your sister wont be negatively affected if she's married to a guy who's birth/ identity isn't accepted by the very society she is a princess in!!
How can this idiotic Prinku (or Rudra, who was giving this some credit) buy the "I was JUST about to tell you!! But-- halaat!" bull from Dev anyway? He has a working cell phone, why didn't HE tell Priyanka when he called her the night before to whisper sweet nothings about taking her out to dinner? And the Mahan mata rani? If the Chabra mom was vague about the kundli, it wasn't because "Dev is such a good boy" its because she was complicit in hiding her husband's extra marital affair until it was too late. she was using the Oberoi name to cover the taint on her name by getting the Oberoi's only daughter for her "son." If I was Dadi or Janvi, I would have slapped this woman till next Tuesday for trying to do this to my daughter ---lying about the Kundli to a family who believe in matching horoscopes and family histories was especially nasty. It was even worse because she was BUYING TIME not because she saw both sons as the same. If both sons were truly the same to them, why would they have hidden Dev's details?
Also, the hypocrisy of the senior Chabra going...yeah, my actions were najayaz, not my son...umm, dude, you had an extra marital affair, and the son was, by definition, extra maritally obtained. That's not his fault, but it damn well is yours. If you are so "naye soch" you would have told your old buddy Tej the truth when you saw him, not rushed everyone into a Roka with as little time to check stories as you could manage.
The whole family was, each and every last one, a nasty bill of goods. I think Soumya might actually have dated the least creepy Chabra, and look how great the LEGITIMATE one turned out.
Bullet DODGED. Someone buy that SSO a thank you card and some cake.
PS- Anyone else noticed these creeps had come to India to find themselves a simple, easily controllable bahu? Come with a very tight schedule, where the chances of anyone knowing about Dev's truth was pretty slim until you happened to be the protective and paranoid Great Wall of Shivaay? Are all the good, naye soch wali girls in America dead?
Edited by napstermonster - 9 years ago