Originally posted by: neel_jay
...I'm sorry to say that Vidya has not been able to win my respect! She has played the victim card too long... When she found out that G was gay and that there was no hope with him, plus, on top of that, he wanted to get back with karan, she should have walked out of his life and not look back.
...She takes a bullet for G and then uses that to emotionally blackmail G into staying married to her! She refuses to leave Gaurav even when he once again wants to get back with Karan and the worst part is that she still cribs and whines about what a victim she is!!!
I haven't seen today's episode yet so I don't know how much she might be whining now, but when has she "played the victim card"? When has she cribbed and whined about what a victim she is? From what I remember, ever since her suicide attempt, she tends not to even talk about these things unless it's dragged out of her, and then it's whoever is listening to her who expresses outrage about her having been put in this situation.
I think that Vidya's stubborness about staying with Gaurav is illogical and unwise, but I also think her love for him is a reasonable explanation. She's not making the right choice, but she's not using her judgment - she's letting her heart rule what she does. Yes she *should* be moving on in her life, but if everybody automatically did what they should, there'd be no emotional drama; instead of humans we'd be robots, following the program of rational decision making.
I don't think it's emotional blackmail to tell Gaurav that she will stay with him to prevent Brahma really finding out his truth and coming after him again. To me, this commitment to and desire to protect Gaurav comes from her love for him. In my opinion it's not the same as saying "I took a bullet for you, so now you have to let me be your wife forever." None of this means Gaurav has to let her stay - I'm just saying that her desire to stay with him has an understandable cause, the fact that she's in love with him.
Originally posted by: likarsh
There's one thing that I think is off. Vidya at first was willing to get a divorce and live her own life. She didn't know how, or what. But her original question to Devyani was whether she also shouldn't have her own dreams and life.
She went back because she was promised a divorce. I guess spending time with Gaurav and his taking her care of her brought back a lot of hope and feelings.
But then through Adi's words, Priya's words and even Vidya's own such words we hear that that girls like Vidya never would even think about divorce or leaving their husband. This is true generally. But with Vidya in the beginning, it wasn't true. And now after the Cheenu revelation she's sort of gone back to the older thinking, though still not completely.
Good points. My understanding of why she no longer wants a divorce comes back to the issue of being in love with him - after being shot, her priorities changed completely because she decided loving and protecting him was more important than her own happiness. Really not a reasonable choice, but after such a traumatic experience, how could she be reasonable?
You're totally right that it's inconsistent to say Vidya had enough sense of her self-worth to want a divorce when she first found out, and then later say that girls like her would never leave their marriage. But I don't really buy that as her reason for not leaving/not being open to Cheenu. Cheenu never realized how fully Vidya loves Gaurav, so when she's not even the least bit receptive to his love for her, he is surprised and decides she is acting from duty, not love for Gaurav.