Originally posted by: Lonelythots
Ok this is something i have been feeling about raghav lately everytime pallavi went “mera pati” , there was always a reaction to this particular term. am not really sure how to put it but what i meant re. husband vs lover thing is that..Raghav has always craved to belong to someone. Raghav wants to be the “main tumhara hoon” types more than the “tum meri ho” types is what i feel.. The husband tag gives him just that..being a husband is a much more tangible term for an insecure loner like him than being just her lover.
During the abortion fiasco, pallavi takes out his kerchief and wipes the dirt off her hands and puts it back on him.. something about the act probably moved him cuz he actually looks at the kerchief and decides to investigate the issue and clear her name. Although he said that he couldnt bear the disgust in her eyes, i thought it was the kerchief act that made him react that way. In restrospect, it was may be the haq that she exerted over him through the act. In several other instances, raghav has done her bidding when she has demanded from him .. be it to extend the mall payment deadline or sth as inconsequential as holding the saree high up.
Also, i dont mean he doesnt want to be her lover. But he wants to be the husband first.. the way he categorically denies love when his amma or farhad asked tells me he is not in that headspace at all. But he is aware of the pull he feels towards her so ya, he will get there eventually. Going by the latest promo, the angst, the feels are all hoing to amplify.. but
the pull.. It has always been there na since their first highway meeting where he wipes her sweat away or fixing the pallu from falling.. Ah the feels.. got carried away..
Ah! I get what you mean now. Thanks for elaborating. I totally agree.
I like how you put it, that he wants to belong to someone more than having someone belong to him. I think the last 10 years has cemented this feeling of insecurity and I think it's quite realistic that he will continue to feel this way. Just because Amma and Pallavi are in his life now doesn't mean this feeling will suddenly disappear.
@bold, I think so too, and yes he wants to be a husband first. The role is so important to him because I guess somewhere in his mind, he knows/feels marriage is forever and that gives him the framework within which he can ensure she will always be in his life. Amma and Keerti are his blood relations so no matter how many arguments or issues they have, they will always be connected to him in some way. With Pallavi there is no such guarantee. Also, he is fully aware how tumultuous things have been between them since day 1 and he wants to ensure that by having the right to be her husband he gains some permanence in her life. Even when he was trying to stop her going to Kolhapur, he gave her all the rights of a wife and didn't expect anything from her but now he wants her to fully accept him as her husband, which is why that term 'mere pati' triggers these emotions in him now. That's why the haq jataana makes him so happy and proud, because people only do it with those they consider their apna.
Oh that highway scene, he had gone there hellbent on scaring her but the way he looked into her eyes, something stirred in him and he was never the same again. He bent his rules for her the first time and has been doing so ever since. 😉
I am so loving the nuances in the writing. 
Edited by inlieu - 4 years ago