Can't resist posing this side's take of a disagreement which apparently is not finding its peaceful burial…..(though, perhaps, quite out of date by now...)
Also can't resist starting with a 'dictionary quote' (?!)- As frequently accused of its 'purposefully purposeless' exploitation.😆
"Slap in the face" (as an insult or, alternatively, as a reproof against a lewd or insulting comment, often done as an rejection or affront with out deliberation)"
But in our all 'deliberate', all 'comprising', all 'knowing' sensible world of PR land, this is an uproarious violent act equivalent of a murder;
The mad woman Archana has planned out this wholesome act of punishment so well in advance that horror of such a deeply strategic mind's devilish 'deliberations' should have been instantly exposed and put to the censure in no uncertain terms. So damn the slap.
The berserk Archana is so malicious that she acted purely out of malice when defending her 'illegal' paramour- especially so while looking at her happy sisters' contented faces – so hateful when reckoning her own failed affair. And when such is the spite of this outlandish spirit, it ought to be derided in gravely indignant terms. Double the indignation as she had not 'respected' a reasonable proposal of 'civilized talks' on why was she defrauded by the Fat troll and his mousy satellite and hence she fully deserved the 'provoking' onslaught-brought on to her by her own self. Just slam the slap.
The schizophrenic errant has history of sins. And hence it is reasonable to suspect her motives and morals. Let us check. She must have known well in advance that her parents will mortally suffer the repercussions. She must have also calculated with neat deductions that this should lead to the ruin of her sisters' domestic prospects. Why, by now she ought to know enough of her Annadata's rapacious nature- that he will not fall shy of transferring the significant exaction of 'revenge' in the lot of his own wife- so deplore! She must have reckoned full in advance that sister's apparently genial in-laws will turn gustily hostile to all from the maykaas and life long feuds are inevitable. These all point to only one doom. The fore bearing 'knowledge' of an evil thinker's unrelenting heart which considered no reasonable/ 'civilized'/ appropriate conduct of a Judicial recourse- an act, which surely would have saved all the ensuing tortures that the parents+siblings had to go through, (shame facedly), in the hands of reasonably/appropriately/ righteously injured In laws and The Victim. And hence lose not a moment to slap the slap.
p.s. All above surmises are corroborated with due haste and beyond a shadow of doubt, by the apologies on the part of the 'antagonist(A.K.)' and 'sufferings' in the fate of 'innocents'. The script writers have furnished additional proofs on instability of The Offender's mind with her continued forays in the science of slaps and then, the conscience of 'payment'. So the viewers should desist from taking any affront on her behalf on a personal level.
Just one wonderment- who is next in line CVs? If by chance, a mere viewer (though, in virtual sense, it has fairly become their daily staple), then me too…me too.