Originally posted by: hotchoco
Agree. I can't understand why Dharam is getting so much respect. For what?! Look, love doesn't happen at first sight - it takes time. So if you keep putting yourself in a position where there is a chance to fall in love with someone else, you are willfully doing it. If you find someone attractive and you are married, you can just keep yourself away from them and the actual falling in love part will never happen.
Dharam never wanted to divorce as is being said here. He's old AF now and he still lives with his first wife. It was Hema that was shunted off to another house and he only visits her occasionally. His daughters are treated like step-kids. He was barely even involved in their weddings. On the other hand, he kept funding movies with for his sons and lives with them and their families in a joint family.
In these types of situations, the man has nothing to lose. He is having his cake and eating it too. He gets to maintain his old family and he's got the other woman tucked off to the side where he can enjoy her too. The *only* difference is that he fake-changed religions to give her a more respectable title of second wife instead of just a mistress but those are just technicalities.
What example did he set? His sons turned out the same way. Bobby as far as I know was having an affair but will never leave his wife because she is rich and he is a flop. Sunny Deol is married and involved in a life-long affair with Dimple Kapadia. Men like Dharam should not be encouraged.
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