Agree with all the thoughts here. I don't want her to go completely negative. I think compared to the Bengali version, the Tamil version did more justice to her character which also brought less pain. Yes, she remained grey in the entire story but eventually accepted the truth and moved on. In the Bengali version, she was more like Komolika.
Someone posted on the daily chat group about how there is patriarchal mindset that makes us hate PP. But I would beg to differ. We don't hate her. We cannot relate to her and her illogical desire after having made a decision for herself. And no one is absolving Virat from the stupid, false, implausible vaada he made to her. It is his vaada that has chained her to her hope. And repeating it over and over again is his fault because as Ashwini pointed out -- "Dosti ki maryada honi chahiye". You cannot call yourself "friends" until you have decided to acknowledge that maryaada. To me, the whole idea of "kisi aur ko aane nahi doonga" is not friendship. It is the same chain which binds him and her for an illogical reason - the same chain that he saw in his dream/nightmare. Now, he has to break it for himself first and then for her.
So far, PP is not a demon. Her pain is understandable in that house of strangers, but she chose it. But the problem with PP is this this -- She has trust issues with people. She is insecure. She is impatient and impulsive to the extent of self-destruction. It could come from being a spoilt brat of a rich family, where she always got whatever she wanted. Although the mother tries to debate with her for the sake of "itne bade ghar me shaadi", the father is shown willing to call off the wedding with Samrat without second thought and go ahead and bless her union with Virat. Or the second option- don't marry anyone. She had the choice. Her action of blocking Virat's number after one assumption that he was flirting with her and then her willingness to throw her self-respect out of the window when he is actually telling her that she means nothing to him compared to his family are contradictory. I still get her heartbreak. I still get her feisty nature by which she wanted to convince Virat to change his mind and fight for their 'promising relationship'. But when Virat rejected all her suggestions, she had the choice and support from her family and also Samrat to back off from marrying Samrat. But she chose to go ahead. My question is: expecting what?
Even if we blame Virat for giving her the senseless promise, we cannot call it emotional manipulation. A woman entering into a marriage is well aware that the man she is marrying will be her husband and not his brother. She was not compelled to marry Samrat, she chose it. She has been grey right from the beginning --when she blocked Virat and said yes to the marriage for the wrong reasons. And if she really did think she was making the sacrifice by accepting Virat's illogical promise (which was also pointed out to her), she should better adapt to the new identity. She was so swayed by the promise that even on her wedding night, she asked him "Sai kaun hai, what is your relationship with Sai?" without even thinking about her own fake promise that she made to Samrat. If she thinks Virat has cheated her, so has she cheated Samrat by giving him not one, but SEVEN fake vachans at the time of marriage -- these are pious promises made between a man and woman and no third person can help the couple fulfill them.
I cannot defend her because i cannot identify with her action. I understand the reason for her bitterness. I also understand her jealousy and obsession like any other jilted lover. It comes from her loneliness and her misplaced idea of the "friendship" that Virat has offered her in exchange of her marriage with Samrat. I also understand her anger in seeing Virat going all out to fight and hurt his family for Sai, which he refused to do for her even though it would have been much simpler and possibly the family would have even swapped the dulhas for the Shahannav Kuli bahu. But beyond that, the blame lies with her. She has to pick herself up and see reality that Virat is not the man for her. Samrat is. He left her respectfully and like a gentleman, without asking a question. I think he would want her to confess herself instead of being an investigator so that they can start afresh.
I think it takes immense courage for a man to protect his newlywed "presumably cheating" wife's honour in the way he did while allowing her the space that she needed. I too hope they bring back Samrat- the actor and character both looked promising.
I hope we see a parallel story of Samrat and PP making a fresh start. It would be refreshing.
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