I don't mean to offend anyone, I just want to give my two cents.
All this would mainly depend on who manages to get a good lawyer. (and we know that would be Malini thanks to her mother.)
At the beginning, when they were forcefully married, both Adi and Imlie were victims.
Then they left Pagdandya and got to a place where they were safe, and there was no threat to their lives. After coming to this safe place, Adi calls the forceful marriage, an illegal marriage. He is a successful and experienced journalist, so he should be knowing that even though it is an illegal marriage, it is still a marriage. He should be approaching a court and getting the marriage annulled. When he is not doing that, in the eyes of law, he becomes a silent/willing participant. When he is not legally challenging the validity of the marriage and dissolve the marriage, then legally speaking, it would mean he has accepted the marriage just like Imlie, especially when he took the wife to his own house. But still he is a victim just like Imlie.
Adi did try telling Malini the truth but she ended up fainting. So, he lies to her to keep her safe. Malini without even questioning him on playing such a cruel prank on her or investigate why he would just makeup a story like that, simply accepts what he was saying, effectively turning a blind eye to the truth. That time, she was a fool and stupid, but still a victim. Imlie also a victim. Adi a victim of circumstance.
Instead of waiting and finding the appropriate time to confess to Malini and dissolve his first marriage, he decided to marry Malini without disclosing about his first marriage, he stopped being a victim and has become a criminal. He has in full conscious married another woman while already married to someone else. Even if he tried telling Malini the truth, he ended up misleading her in the end and married her by hiding his marriage. (Even if Malini knew the truth, then also Adi would be a bigamist and his marriage to Malini invalid.) And here, to an extent, however helpless she was, legally speaking, Imlie becomes his partner in crime as she in her full conscious had hid the fact that Adi was married to her and had let Adi get married to Malini. Here the only victim is Malini.
If things go to the court in the real world, and both Imlie and Malini gets good lawyers to fight for the validity of their marriage, then also, Imlie would be the real wife whose marriage the court could annul if that is what Adi and Imlie want. All because Adi wasn’t smart enough to file a case against the villagers and dissolve the forced marriage. Even if his marriage to Malini had thousands of witnesses, his marriage to Imlie also had witnesses and main being the village head.
While Malini’s wedding would be declared invalid. And Adi would be punished for bigamy and fraud.
Though everyone started of as (legally) victims,
Adi because of his stupidity, stubborn nature , misguided and shortsightedness, is no longer a victim. he is a criminal - bigamist, fraud and adulterer(if Adi-Malini have consummated)
Imlie even though helpless, she is in a way both a victim and partner in crime because she could have informed Malini about their marriage and stopped the fraud from happening.
Malini so far, even though is stupid and plain dumb, is still a victim.
On a side note, Even though they are criminals🤣, you can understand why I am shipping Adilie because, I see only them as the married couple here.
And the main reason, I believe only in the validity of Adi-Imlie marriage is the 10 sec clip that plays before each episode showing us their marriage in the titles🤪.
Edited by book.worm - 4 years ago