Arjun-Purvi and us :A fatal attraction
I was not planning to inflict another long post on all of you, but after reading "A few more episodes of ArVi", I felt that I needed to say something. So please bear with me if this is too long!
Please, please, please folks. Do NOT carry on in this gloomy fashion. There is no need at all for it unless the writers have decided to perpetrate a character assassination on Arjun. Please consider the following:
1) Arjun has simply had NO time as yet to tell Purvi about Ovi. Have a heart! When the chap has just finally, after losing all hope, landed the love of his life, he will be full of only that for a while. Also, the sensible thing for Arjun would be to tell Purvi only AFTER he has spoken to Ovi, so that he can present Purvi with a fait accompli, and leave her no room for any 'sacrifice'.
Moreover, as you must have seen from the conversation over the masala chai, Arjun is so intoxicated with the fact that Purvi returns his love that he seems to have forgotten all about Ovi for the moment. He talks about telling his dad as soon as possible about his love for Purvi, and is sure that DK will back him. There is not even a secret thought about his having to dispose of the Ovi angle. Once he remembers about Ovi again, he will of course try and contact her, hoping to be third time lucky. But he will not be able to get her, as she will not pick up calls from him, so as not to spoil her "surprise".
2) For plot purposes, of course, Arjun will not be able to contact his dad and tell him about Purvi before the party. Now, if DK and Manav were, at the party, going to restrict themselves to announcing an engagement between Arjun and Ovi, the chances are that Arjun will wait and clarify matters as soon as the guests have left, and thus avoid a public scene.
But then, the CVs seem to delight in scandalous scenes in full public view, like the one at Punni's engagement, when Archana, who could easily have taken Manav aside and told him whatever she wanted to after her latest 'great sacrifice' decision, insists on doing so in front of all the assembled guests. I could not digest that at all.
So, following in this grand PR tradition, and as indicated in the SBS segment. DK and Manav would have organised a full scale sagaii ceremony, complete with rings. When this is revealed to him without any warning, Arjun will have no option but to state, in front of all the guests, that the whole thing is a mistake and he cannot go thru with this because he loves someone else (he will, most likely, not mention Purvi's name at this point).
There will a full blown screaming match, the only one not shouting being DK, because he never raises his voice. Ovi will probably throw a faint or cling hysterically to Arjun. Arjun will probably walk out and avoid all this hysteria, which is exactly what any sensible man would do. His priority would be to find Purvi, who has probably run away BEFORE Arjun speaks his mind, and reassure her that he will take care of everything and all will be well. Whether he is able to do this without having to do another all night dharna in front of her house remains to be seen.
The only way in which this scenario can be ditched and Arjun shown as getting engaged to Ovi is if the writers completely alter Arjun's character and make him a kind of Manav II. I do not think that they will do this. Arjun's character has been remarkably consistent so far, and he has his mother's words to guide and steady him. Moreover, Manav had a different and far more serious reason for offering to marry Shravani which did have a certain rationale - to give legitimacy, Silsila-style, to his brother's illegitimate child. There is no such compulsion for Arjun now. He will, as he tells his mother, look out for his own happiness, and Purvi's, especially now that he knows she loves him too.
3) I do not think Punni or Sachin or anyone else can or will reveal the Arjun-Purvi relationship. Punni will have no chance to do so; I think her role will now fade away like DK's birthday party. Sachin knows nothing about it. Nor does Savita, and they will not let her come to India for the present anyway. It would be in line with Arjun's character, as developed so far, for him to tell the whole lot about it himself, most likely at the party.
4) It seems very unlikely, but even if DK threatens to disinherit Arjun, I do not think Arjun will back off. But if he has to build a life for himself and Purvi from scratch, that will be a very different and much tougher challenge. Even more than the luxuries of daily existence, Arjun has been used, all his life, to being in charge, and working for others would be VERY difficult for him, even with Purvi's love and support. She would have far less problems, as she is used to a very simple life, both personally and professionally.
5) I realize that all of you are much more familiar with Indian TV soap conventions than I am, especially wrt the Balaji serials. However, you would have noticed that in the ArVi track, the problems, though very serious, have been sorted out remarkably quickly, and the catalyst was always a parent. For Arjun, there was Aashana and then, after a fashion and indirectly, DK. For Purvi, there was Archana. I feel that now, for Ovi, and for Purvi as well, there will be Manav. He has promised Purvi that he will never let injustice be done to her, and he also says very recently that one should only marry for love. He is a fair-minded man, and he might well, once his initial anger dies down, persuade Ovi to back off and not create problems. Archana too will, I feel, back Purvi, and that because Purvi has no on else to fall back upon and thus needs her more than Ovi, who will in any case not accept any help from her at all.
6) So it might all boil down to how they develop Purvi's character. Archana, for all her 'pavitra rishta' let Manav down on the chawl demolition issue when he needed her the most. Now, faced with this crisis, Arjun will need Purvi's love and understanding, not angry looks and a cold shoulder. From what she has seen of him so far, she should know him better that to believe that he would deliberately cheat here about Ovi. And if she loves him, that love should, first of all, lead to faith and trust in him, whatever the apparent circumstances. If she fails him at this crucial juncture, there is no use talking of an undying ArVi romance. Anyone can be lovey-dovey in good times. It is when the chips are down that one has to stand up and back the person one loves.
7) As for Soham, there can be no question to any engagement or marriage between him and Purvi. When Soham appears along with Varsha, everyone will know who he is, including Purvi. He will be her brother, her Dada, just as she thinks of and calls Sachin, and just as she will think of Teju and Ovi as her sisters. Relationships are more of the mind than of the blood. How then can she even think of any such relationship with him? It is a non-starter.
So, while we are guaranteed a hefty dose of melodrama in PR in the near future, I for one cannot believe, and this for the reasons set out above, that we are heading for tragedy on the grand scale. I would thus request you all to relax, and let us enjoy whatever we can, especially some more of the charming Arjun-Purvi episodes like those of Friday last.
Finally, if I fall flat on my face and prove to be completely wrong about Arjun and/or Purvi as they will be developed, PR will no longer be worth watching anyway. So it will not matter any longer! But I do not think it will come to that.
To conclude, there seems to be a kind of fatal attraction between all of us and the Arjun-Purvi duo. It is quite amazing how we rejoice, collectively and eloquently (witness the lovely posts by munni, soapwatcher1, the amazingly evocative one by desi chic, and so many more about the last 3 episodes), when things go right for them. Even more so how we tremble at the thought of things going wrong, because of the malice of the gods or of their earthly instruments. As for me personally, I must confess that though PR is one of the very few serials which I have watched almost regularly from the beginning till a year ago, I never reacted with such fascination to any of the PR characters as I do now to ArVi. This might be true of very many of you too.
The truth it that we have fallen in love with them just as they have fallen in love with each other, and this love makes us vulnerable and afraid. I read somewhere that when love comes, it is not always cock-a-hoop with feathers, but sometimes it drags itself along on bleeding feet. We are, all of us, afraid that the road ahead will be so rough and strewn with broken glass that not only Arjun and Purvi but we too will end up with bleeding feet. I hope fervently that the CVs will let both of us escape this fate.
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