Originally posted by: trifolia
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Anjalg,
I actually was impressed by Motaba (as an ex Sarpanch) pointing this out. In the context of this serial, superficially, it might seem unwarranted - but according to the law of the land in India (and in several legal systems across the world), a person who fails to report the facts about a criminal incident as grave as a murder (even if he/she is not an accessory to the crime) is considered complicit to the murder and is liable for punishment as is the offender.
This serial seems to have had an underlying agenda of social messages to its audience (even if it sometimes gets lost in the drama) and this was one those instances. Vasanth's murder was a crime that impacted so many people - hence Gulaal's sense of martyrdom was a bit naive - by hiding the Dushyanth's murder she worked on the assumption that she knew best since she was Vasanth's widow. She denied an entire family/community justice and hence did commit a serious wrong...laws exist in a community for a reason...she set an example that it was OK to forgive a murderer because she needed to keep her family together. What if Vasanth's murderer had been Durgesh or a member of the village? Would the same warped logic have applied?...I love Gulaal's character because she is the anti-perfect "anti-heroine" if you will in all these saas-bahu dramas with their "perfect" brides who always do the right thing...Gulaal (as opposed to all the other bahus) makes you think, not cringe...
@orange - excellent point raised trifolia. I think at one point or the other we have all agreed that the beauty of this show is how each character has its own share of fall outs, which makes them real and credible! They aren't the next thing to perfection after God, or even before him, or some avatar of him *cringe indeed*
And Gulaal precisely falls short of perfection, in the irony of striving for it! So extreme is her pursuit of selflessness and righteousness that it is bound to backfire - and thanks to the CVs and the script it does! As you point out, we don't just get another sequence for the nth time on a TV show where the bahu is proved right in her warped 'saving the family pain' logic irrespective of how wrong it stands in objectivity! If there is a law - the idea is to let that law rule, and not take it upon oneself as a personal undertaking to decide the best. You put the hypothesis of Durgesh (which could well have been possible, you know!) what if Dushyant himself had never reformed quite as much as he did? Say in his soft corner for Gulaal he did change his ways for her, but what if his overall ways had not changed? Was it fair to leave a 'criminal' at lose in the society only because you did not want your family to fall apart in the process?! While from Gulaal's perspective it was the height of nobility and selflessness in letting him off the hook - in the big scenario, she was wrong, period. And like you say, what a wonderful change from the usual melodramas this is, for that error of way to get pointed out, challenged, and eventually corrected!
I hadn't really thought along this tangent - so thanks for pointing it out! 👏
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