You do realise that your posts are so exhaustive that by the time I finished the third I forgot the first! So read it all over! And repeated this a few times..😆 And now concluded that there is actually NOTHING to add to this at all..😳
But let me still try and say something for the sake of making you say something more since you really are on a roll today!! 😉🤗
Im gonna stick to just one response here for all ur posts!!!! No chance I'll ever get around trying to respond to each separately🤔
Humm.. So Mani.. I for one am slightly biased in favour of this character!! From the beginning!! I'm very close friends with a guy for the longest time and he's still single! I have seen/heard his opinions on relationships and I've to agree that a) men look at relationships differently from women b)single men look at relationships way too differently from women c) single men continue to look at their relationship the same way even with married friends!! Now there have been several several instances in the past one year that I've had relationship convos with my friend.. And each time I have realised that whatever they may say, feel, do, most single men tend to always evaluate other relationships they see.. They tend to pass judgements on what is right or wrong in their opinion... And to be fair to them, they say it keeping utmost care and love for the other person in mind! But that even women do.. If we see our friend in trouble with her partner, don't we tend to advise her/him what we feel is right?
Mani to me is a very very good friend.. But he's only Ishita's friend hence he's not able to see the whole picture.. I feel like comparing Mani to Mihir.. Both are sorted men in their own right.. But Mihir has always only talked of keeping the family together.. I agree RKB has never been put in any trouble by Ishita the way Ishita has been by RKB's kin but still.. Even when they thought Ishita had made a wrong business decision, when Raman had to give up his presidentship, Mihir always had a scene telling Ishita she did wrong or telling Raman to think twice but never did he pass a judgement on Ishita.. And even when Mihika repeatedly suggests Ishita should leave that house or leave Raman, after the Param fiasco, Mihir calms her down.. Mihir is by nature a very binding person.. And that maybe cos he has seen what happens when a family breaks! He has seen what happens when a person is left stranded by the one he thought would be his life long partner..
Now Mani has not been by Ishita's side in the most crucial time - the aftermath of Subbu betrayal.. He has no idea how committed Ishita can be and how broken she can be by betrayal.. Yes he's her best friend and he's seen the happy go lucky Ishu who was always happy and cheerful but he's not seen the change in his best friend in the last few years.. The Ishu who was rejected and broken and lifted herself up and emerged strong from a heartbreak! If this wedding was indeed a deal, it was a deal from both sides.. Ishita wanted to enter the deal as much as Raman.. And dare I say moreso Ishita.. Of course Mani is not privy to the circumstances under which the wedding took place and so he has a very limited view of the entire scenario.. He talks from just the last weeks when unfortunately things outside of the bedroom have been going more wrong than right!! So given that he's right in being concerned as a friend.. And he's right to think Raman may choose Adi over Ishita..
But here is where now my question comes in.. Raman had told ishita in as many words that "Adi apni jagah hai aur tum apni jagah". Yes, in the accident case he chose Adi, but was that a choice between Ishita and Adi - no it was between truth and Adi and he chose Adi. Then he did what a father would do.. This time around he's a husband who's wife has been insulted. And a husband who loves his wife dearly, a husband who has seen what his wife's condition is. Will the father in him win over the husband? Now can we for argument sake compare what amma said and what he overhears Mani saying? One talks about what a husband should do and the other talks about what a father would do.. I for one wonder if Raman would evaluate both... Raman needs Ishita to get Adi on track.. Even if he has to do it with Shagun (cos separating Adi from Shagun will only make the kid a bigger rebel IMHO) he will still need Ishita by his side.. And even if we forget Adi for a moment, Ruhi will always need Ishita.. Whether Raman thinks he failed in this relationship or not, whether he feels Ishita will be better off without him or not, he certainly has to know Ishita's happiness is Ruhi! He certainly will have to evaluate that right? Will he pick Adi over Ruhi? Hell why consider Adi, Ruhi at all, will Raman be able to move a single step ahead without her by his side?
Again, I have to think of the "I dont give up on anyone" dialogue.. He may have said it in any sense but he did mean it.. And now, when he KNOWS - very very clearly that Ishita loves him too - when they have just made a promise - one where he was the one to ask for it in the first place - to stay by each other forever - how will he break it for whatever reason??
If he has to think of Amma's talks, if he has to listen to Mani's thoughts, shouldn't he also listen to his own? And of Ishita's? Shouldn't they have a bearing on his decision as well??
Phew... bas.. I don't even know what I have typed...😆 I just went on typing.. LOL.. Sorry for typos and lack of coherence or sense 😒
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