Originally posted by: nandinidev
Well, the scene immediately after Armaan first sees Sid and Rids together in that room, if you watch with a little care, shows you that Armaan does have an inkling that something's up...hear the way he says "meri" in his exchange with Sid, and you'll know what I mean...the difference is, he's telling Sid to back off becaue he isn't suspecting any involvement from Riddhima's side...like someone said already, he's naively in love with Riddhima and it's almost like he's willing himself into believing that things are the same when even he can sense something's changed...he said that to Sid in the basketball court...he sensed a change right after he met Riddhima, when she ran away...but he's not willing to admit even to himself that the change is anything more than a minor tiff, because the very thought probably horrifies him...all the more reason why I really think they should just tell him now instead of prolonging the agony for all three characters, him particularly because he has not even the foggiest idea of what's really going on...it's the show that's slow right now...stupendously sluggish, really, for the past three weeks...🥱
Also, Armaan's saying she's his Riddhima is not a marker of her being some sort of object he owns and keeps on his mantelpiece...it's an affectionate way of saying they belong together...and if Sid ever says so in the same spirit, it's perfectly okay...but if someone else says that Riddhima belongs to Sid because he married her, then well, that'd be speaking of her like a lifeless object that gets thrown around all over the place without any voice of her own...not something I'd really like to see or hear about any woman in today's day and age...but that's just me...😳
Then there comes that whole moralistic bit on marriage...there's one thing someone said that I really take issue with, not for DMG but the statement in general really irks me, no offense meant...just my point of view...something about Sid having more right on Riddhima physically since he's her husband...for me personally that's incredibly regressive in the context of today's world...alot of people still stand by it, of course, even in my own family...but with all due respect to them, I can't stomach a human being's life and preferences being dictated by social norms all the time...I just can't, I'm sorry...who has right over a Riddhima is something she gets to decide, not a half-heartedly followed social convention that says so and so...of course, it
is ethical that there be physical intimacy within marriage, in keeping with the sanctity of the bond...I'm totally for that...a transgression would be unethical, totally...but unethical is different from mortal sin...don't know if I'm making the distinction clear enough, but there it is...she's a flesh and blood human being, for crying out loud, and has a head and heart of her own...I know she's been highly annoying for some time now courtesy her abla-damsel histrionics, but she's an individual with her life in her own hands at the end of the day...who she's married to is quite irrelevant, as far as I'm concerned...to clarify once again, I completely agree with you when you say that marriage is not a game...it is absolutely not a joke...it is also true that human beings are fallible creatures...they make mistakes by the dozen...and this is not with reference to SR, but in general...if a marriage is not working, and is a mistake made for some reason or another, must that mistake be lived in the form of a miserable life? Can it not be rectified, even if that entails separation? That wouldn't apply to SR if love happens there, of course...which is also why I'm a little okay with Ridz choosing Sid, if the choice arises out of genuine affection...It'd hurt, since I'm an AR fan, but I'd be okay with it at least to some extent...but if she chooses Sid because he's her
husband and to leave him is a sin (oh, bite me) then that's me saying a hearty good-bye to a saddening display of modernised decadence...👎🏼
Damn, I went on for quite a bit...sorry about that...when something arouses feminist tendencies, I'm usually on a roll...not something I can help very often...lol...😛
Cheers! 😊