oh wow another remake
. This was another toxic show with remarriage.
. Not against remarriages, but as usual Hindi remakes will always have an angle where the "dead" or "divorced" husband will return and eventually become a great villain - this is to glorify the remarriage and the leads especially the male lead (who was once behaving as a jerk, drunkard and emotionless man hurting the female lead)....lol!
The angle that you describe was on Mehandī Hai Racanevālī, where Mandar's family remembered him lovingly, and his widow Pallavi respected him enough that when her forcibly marrying second husband, violent chauvinistic drunkard Raghav, asked her in Mandar's name to let him prove his remorse, she couldn't refuse. Yet Mandar came back from the dead with no reaction to his family's hardships caused by Raghav, and pursued Pallavi as if his motivation was to provoke Raghav. As you know, I am totally rewriting that track in a fan fiction.
https://www.indiaforums.com/fanfiction/1763
On Punarvivāha, everything was the opposite of your criticism. The first husband Prashant was always a scoundrel whose own parents disowned him after he dumped pregnant Arati to run off with another woman. Prashant eventually became a rather tragic character who thought he could redeem himself by raising his son, but proved his inadequacy by reacting with disgust instead of reassurance when the frightened boy urinated on him.
The second husband Yash didn't need Prashant as a foil character to glorify him by contrast. Yash treated Arati sensitively and respectfully from the beginning, and their marriage was based on a mutual understanding that they loved their late spouses and only needed co-parents for their children. After a cannabis binge broke their resolve not to get too close, Yash gave Arati the silent treatment out of guilt, but later on, getting drunk made him feel amorous.
I found Punarvivāha unrelatable, but good writers could develop the same premise of two broken-hearted single parents, whose families believe they deserve to find love again, into a modern and authentically Marathi story.
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