My perspective on friday Sept 09, 2011 episode...

Here is my comment from 9/9/11.

I thought Dev performed the best RP role under the circumstances. He thought about announcing to the society about Radhika and realised this was not the time. The society would have stoned Radhika away. He held Radhika's hand tightly in the Puja making her understand I rule form now on "Sit down, hold my hand and do as I say" That was my interpretation from RP Dev's action, holding His wife's hand.

The track is going perfect. Dev RP will accomplish all well once in power..

Give time.

Beautiful work by Dev and Radhika.

I am trying to locate that phrase

Yes, Dev is human and he succumbed to a weakness brought by Rahdika's words and also Dada's words. It is true that he realized that he had to take RP title because no one else in his family was able to do so. Also he is at a emotionally low point after all the revelations about his parents and then on top of that, Dada died after his marriage. So his only support is Radhika who was telling him that he would lose her (emotionally) if he accepted her. So just as his cruels words drove Radhika to take that drastic action of acting as a fake wife of Rohan, so would Radhika's threat of going away from him would make desperate to lie like this. So he went with her lies to hold onto her. After all, she is his only family left.

Now if they had shown it in a different way where Dev realizes that at this point, there is no support for Radhika because of the double standards of the society that would not support a poor girl but would forgive a rich guy (Rohan) for his sins. Also that he doesn't have the influence his Dada had because only now he has been declared the heir and people haven't known his work (Mahants do but they are big time hypocrites). So the only way is to play their game and then bring in the change (afterall you can only bring the change when you are an insider).

So then they could have shown him talking to Barkha and asking her if she is willing to go this far with him where she would pretend to be his RPtain for a short time. Since Barkha has already broken society rules and is considered his wife in the society, she would have agreed to this.

So that would have been more palatable where Dev is shown to buy the time as well as make his position strong by bringing a lot of religious heads on his side so that when he brings out the truth of Radhika, they are accepted. Of course they can still go with their fake track by showing that Dev misjudged Barkha when he didn't realize that she is some sort of fanatic the way she does things. He thought of her lies as innocuous, but they weren't as they caused huge problem in Dev and Radhika's lives. So he would have trusted her but then later on she could have been shown betraying that trust. So his wrong actions would have haunted him and Radhika too.

Instead, they showed him springing this as a surprise on Barkha with Radhika praying to Kanha that Dev makes this decision. IF they had shown this as either a strategy on Dev's part or a human weakness, it would have gone better. Instead they showed Radhika and Dev justifying it in the name of dharam and Kanha. That brought down both of their characters.

because on what kind of a day it happenned as all this could have happenned over a month or 2 thats how a story would have moved forward and while doing all that rohan,virat and bb could have tried to bring radev down and in the end all the evil guys would loose

there would have been no need for dev to lie the faithfull vierwers like us understand the complex thinking of radev but aam janta who watch these just for fun get mad and think what the heck is going on

tell me if my 2 cents are really 2 cents or better