Originally posted by: Champa2012
My thoughts:
1. zoya wanted to buy as much time as possible for Mariyam to run away. Farther she goes, harder it is for these people to find her and get her back.
2. Asad came to help her because he feels she is his responsibility since she is a guest of his mom. He doesn't agree to what she does, but wants to protect her for the same reason. It was not his uncle who came behind them. If I have watched it carefully, it was the sarpanch or someone of the village along with groom's side people. One need not know if a person has done something wrong to call a person a gunda. Their weapons and chasing is enough.
If Zoya had made it apparent to everyone that she was not the bride and what the groom has done to Mariyam, she would've been killed and they would've gone after Mariyam and brought her back and either killed her or get her married to the same guy.
At the end of the day, it is fiction. We all need to remember that.