In fact... this confusion is a clear indication of poor writing by the CVs..just like glaring bloopers...which can actually be very irritating!!
Actually.. I was responding more to the May 1991 fact-fiction marriage.. 😆
It's like the main CV has the path laid out...and the junior writers scramble to write the actual scenes..and the wavelength sometimes doesnt match
I will illustrate this with an example... suppose Ms Shashi Mittal ( just an assumption here, it could be anyone here..) has an interest in relating an event in the love tale of say how in the times of technologically challenged times the two lovers kept in touch...obviously she will only provide the broad idea whereas the actual creative team will scramble to work out the flow; they have a date and event but unfortunately the scenes leading up to this track hasn't taken into account the misalignment of dates logic etc which is why the date sticks out like a sore thumb... the better thing ideally would be to refer to a fictional instance but I suppose that is a challenge here becos they are calling it a event that has actually occurred in the past 😲
I know as viewers we will attach different amount of importance to how the narrative is being presented but I 100 % agree that writing is showing a bit of strain in these emotion charged episodes...when the need of the hour was to keep distractions away.