I get it--vivaah is marriage, and the show is reflecting some issues around the ever-sanctified institution of marriage between terribly flawed people and families. But VIVAAH in my mind is also about love, responsibility, tradition and trust. The best of marriages have these features, and any vivaah that is based on wrong premise or lie or lack of love are sometimes very ugly things.
I wanted to get your perspective on a reply someone had posted to another topic that got me thinking. The gist of it was that the show would show Tanya and Yuvraj and Rajdeep and Trishna in their respective vivaahs. Weddings are done, consummated by one of the couples, hence everyone will learn to live and love each other. I found this idea very disturbing--fine, making the best of problems in a marriage, working them out is essential, but what if you love the man that loved you who is sleeping next door? What if the marriages are based on BIG lies? Do human feelings go away very easily?
Many believe Tanya and Yuvraj make a cute couple. Responses cite their mutual respect, caring, closeness. I remain skeptical because it does not show the human condition even dramatized. What Tanya and Yuvraj are is friends. Is the show going to take the cheesy way out and not address the feelings of Trishna and Yuvraj, or that now the vivaah are in effect, it's all done and over with.
I guess you could say that I like to see a couple that loves each other (in the romantic way) stay together. I feel very sorry for Trishna and Yuvraj because they were denied their happiness by a gold-digging mom, a martyr (Yuv), and loyalties. It's just a shame. And I hope the show shows us the complexities--you know, it's just as possible that Yuv and Trishna remain in love and even foster a relationship. I feel they are due the truth coming out, and vindicating their love.
As for Deep, he should just remarry, this time the girl that loves him and/or his mom wants him to marry. As for Tanya, I feel sorry for her for what she's been through, but her decisions (keeping the Kanaiya thing secret, agreeing to this shit) have hurt her sister and Yuvraj the most. What a tangled web we weave, when we seek to deceive. How does she live with herself every time she sees Trishna? And, no offense to anyone out there with a different perspective, I am just incredulous that others think Tanya and Yuv should be together because they're "cute", are "nice", "look good together." HELLO! Two people that should be married were separated by circumstances and greed, and this is so wrong on so many levels, because they like everyone else, they deserved a shot at love and happiness, and were cheated of it. I hope the show does not shy away from how complicated and "immoral" vivaahs can be.