Originally posted by: rose2015
I think people need to stop saying he was emotionally blackmailed into marriage as Karthik is not a kid. He made the decision to marry Vedika and he didn't fulfill his duties as a husband and he needs to be fully accountable for it but here everyone is angry on Vedika only. You can repeat it a 100 times but that doesn't change what happened.
Whilst I agree that Kartik took the decision to marry Vedika on his own, I would disagree with the statement that he wasn’t emotionally blackmailed. I remember the scene in which Dadi was in the hospital and Manish accused Kartik of being responsible for Dadi’s state. He said if something was to happen to Dadi, it would be due to Kartik’s stubbornness of not moving on in life. Even said something along the lines of everyone’s lives being at a stand still because Kartik wasn’t able to move on from Naira. I skipped the scene in which Kartik asked Vedika to marry him but from what I have heard, he clearly implied in the proposal that he was only marrying her as a friend.
That proposal might have been selfish because he was doing it to save his Dadi’s life but the fact is, the truth wasn’t hidden from Vedika. Vedika knew the circumstances under which Kartik proposed her. Having lost his mother, brother, newborn baby and his wife, and then being told that he would be responsible for his grand-mother’s death as well if he doesn’t agree to marry another girl is emotional blackmail imo.
Sawan Milni was celebrated a few days after the proposal. Kartik saved Vedika from falling from a swing and Vedika took that as a sign of him being happy with the alliance? She thought about that moment as if he had intentionally touched her or had come close to her. This was literally a day or two after he had been honest with her about his situation.
If you wanna talk about the mehendi (my facts might be wrong because I had skipped the entire episode), Vedika saw Kartik’s breakdown and broke the alliance. Kartik didn’t react instantly. It wasn’t like he convinced her to marry him right after she did her drama. He saw how distraught everyone was and only then did he say he would try to move on. I do think that it was foolish of Kartik to make a promise he knew he won’t be able to keep, but again, he was blamed by his own father for being the cause of everyone’s misery literally a few days before.
On the day of the marriage Kartik told Manish he will only ever love Naira to which Manish replied “get ready for the marriage”. Before Swarna took Kartik aside to ask him whether he was ready, Kartik had witnessed a frantic Vedika screaming “I knew he was gonna leave me on the mandap”.
If this isn’t emotional blackmail then I don’t know what is. I am not justifying Kartik’s attitude towards Vedika and Naira post-marriage and the face-off. It was wrong by all means. What they are showing now is illogical as well. Kartik and Naira getting engaged while Kartik is still someone else’s husband is wrong on so many levels, but again, Kartik shouldn’t be the only one to be blamed in this situation. Goenkas and Vedika are very much responsible for bringing this situation upon themselves.
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