Dev & Devdas!!! - Page 6

Originally posted by: fandw

Awesome Tia and everyone else. Loved your discussions and every bit on this thread. Hats off to you tia for excellent analogy and how you put your thoughts through so crystal clear, true and rational in every sense.

Originally posted by: areeba_blossom

I wanted to do a post on a similar aspect but I'll share in this thread because of how much what I have to day connects to the folk tale and underlying narratives in the script:

Since day one I have observed that Sonakshi relies heavily on validation of her actions by others. Sonakshi like Part, loved Dev before he fell in love with Dev. She was also ready to forgo her love for him when Natasha came into the picture because she believed in his happiness. Sonakshi required very open, expressive and clear words f validation to belief that Dev Dixit does love her.

During the courtship phase of Dev and Sonakshi, Sonakshi repeatedly promised Dev that she wouldn't ever leave him even if he leaves her and that is the only promise she hadn't kept through out their partnership. She fulfilled all the other promises and tasks but the one that mattered most to Dev was her promise of being with him regardless of him wanting to be with her or not. I very much believe that this unfulfilled promise is the reason of Dev's bitterness and anger with Sonakshi that refuses to die down. He had went to extreme lengths to avoid hearing about her or learning about her in past seven years because he cannot fathom remembering her betrayal of not fighting for him when he in his very dysfunctional way was fighting for her by keeping her presence in his life to be separate from the presence of his family's which only gave him baggage to carry. Dev's failed attempt of being a bridge and not allowing Sonakshi to integrate into his family's life pushed Sonakshi to the extent where all of her attempts to gain approval of Dev's god - "ishwari" failed and the last words she heard from Dev were of disbelief in their love, invalidating her love for him and calling her feelings to be of unrequited lover.

Sonakshi's resentment roots from the fact that this man made fun of her feelings only to get something in his life his way. After the first break up, Dev attended Sonakshi's engagement and congratulated her in a way to mock her choices instead of being supportive. If Dev hadn't been restricted by the expectations of his mother, he would have turned into a tame version of Vicky. A boy/man who believed whole heartedly that he is entitled to the things because he likes them. Sonakshi met Dev in his most ugly form where he ripped her off her life's hard work just because he needed his mother to be following a healthy diet. Sonakshi had seen the worst of Dev but then she had also seen that the man was honest in his words and didn't manipulate his words for other's disadvantage. All of Dev's flaws allowed Sonakshi to believe in the worst of him when he refused to hand her the validation she required so much in a testing time where we realized she couldn't be a mother. She wasn't a priority in the moment she needed Dev's attention the most. It was his mother and like the first time when they broke up, Dev chose his mother in moment of weakness because for him the illusion of his perfect family was more important then understanding how to make sure that perfection remained perfect.

I am sorry if I am not making sense. To conclude my understanding of the script to the folk take, I believe that we are witnessing now a vision Dev's story of living through his pain by once again throwing tantrums except this time Part aka Sonakshi wouldn't come back to him when he validates his love for him. He made impulsive decisions without thinking and the decisions that needed to be thought out were taken through heart. His mother never asked Sonakshi to leave. He never asked Sonakshi to leave but Sonakshi wasn't important enough and Suhana's existence and him missing out on his perhaps only daughters childhood would be a knock out realization of Dev Dixit finally figuring out his mistakes.

It would interesting to see weather the colors of love in Dev's life that will allow him happiness of his own would be through the family his mother gave him or family Sonakshi gives him seeing he is a family oriented man. Weather he needs to reach the brink of destruction to rise from the ashes or he's already half way there is something I am still figuring out but the parallel of folk tales, everyday problems handled in KRPKAB is amazing and the new slate to clear out the old baggage is wonderful.

> Also want to add that i love how Sonakshi has bought half of Dev's office. Goes to show how Ishwari pushed Dev to build up his success and his family's collapse and downfall which was initiated by Vicky has resulted in a profit of sorts with Sonakshi utilizing the distress to build up her own business on the same grounds.