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@mango pudding.it was interesting to see his reaction with mouli tearing the photographs. as I was listening to him, I was reminded of our earlier discussions of how people are either vaguely unhappy and keep moving in life or don't know if they are happy at all because they are so busy... basically those photos are good memories and so it wasn't a lie that he cared for her and had affection for her. but did he love her as a woman?
Did he love her like a woman?? I don't get this. Kunal and mouli were not just in a relationship. They are husband and wife. They had two years of courtship five years of marriage. In marriage they would have had all those intimate moments of husband and wife. To give it any other name as affection or friendship just because he found what CVS would call as true love is disgusting. If they try to say that it was friendship then kunal is worst character on tv for he has used a woman physically and financially. Better they come up with something like he did love mouli but felt a little more love for nandhini. Anything else would lead to comparing kunal with raj deep, one is aggressive and the other passive.
it sounds confusing right? am not sure if this concept has been explored in indian television (I have a short attention span and so I end up dropping many serials after 50-100 eps+) but have seen this concept in other cultural dramas. the first few times I was like "what???" but I have mostly got what writers mean when such line is uttered in the drama.
(EDIT: this was sort of explored in bepannah but not that well...)
just yesterday, was watching this confrontation in another cultural drama (they are engaged and she finds out that he is in love with another) and so her Q was "did you love me? not as a sister/friend who you felt affection or responsibility for but as a woman at any point?" and he answers with silence.
now obviously this sounds strange in this context considering mouli and kunal have been married for several years but what writers/CVs mean by such line is that it is possible to be in a long term relationship (even with intimacy) and have care and concern but still have that missing ingredient of that kind of passionate love where a man is willing to go all out for that woman he considers special.
now it is sad that this would occur but at least to me, this concept helps contextualize this drama as well as stuff that happens in real life. while I understand your point of view, I really hope that kunal does not say that he loves mauli but he loves nandini more. at least to me, that would sound like somehow mouli is second best and while I am not any team, in terms of character, mouli is a better person.
concepts like true love or falling out of love is harder for me to understand. tend to be a bit math oriented and so my instinct is to then ask "so what is false love then?" hahahahha... :D there is obviously no good answer but us viewers as well as mouli and the rest of the family do need some sort of clarity on what did happen here. hopefully, the CVs won't bungle up in that area.
the divine angle was really weird but it may have been more a foreshadowing technique that happens in literature classics but bungled up horribly by the CVs. if they wanted to justify an affair, then mouli would have been written as a bad character -- that has happened in a few ITV serials as well and so we accept that the person is choosing a kinder individual.
so as long as mouli is still being written as a good character, then despite the few mishaps, it still feels like the CVs are simply trying to explore a relationship drama. most relationship dramas are by nature messy and show how humans are flawed. so there is no particularly good or bad person and eventually everyone pays for the mistakes they make.
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