Don't take this personally, but your comments on Sudha leaving the hospital w/ a 'paraya mard' are downright appalling. Here she is, living w/ spousal abuse, and too afraid to take legal remedies, since her 'husband' (it's still unclear whether she married him or was just sold to him) has bribed the police in the past. If she simply runs away on her own, she's bound to get captured by RA & his employee thugs. Under these circumstances, what's she to do - commit suicide? She tried that as well in the past, but it didn't work. What's she supposed to do - go back to her 'husband'? This is the problem a lot of battered women face - despite serious abuse, they refuse to leave their husbands or rat on them, making their ugly situations even uglier. Berating her for turning to Murli for help just b'cos you fantasize about Murli & Bharti re-uniting is a really perverted extent to which one romanticizes about a jodi. It has nothing to do w/ Western vs Indian women, but everything to do w/ whether a woman in a dire situation should be able to approach a helpful stranger for support - even if it is another married man - w/o being looked at as a s**t by some really uptight samaj. It was what Murli had in mind when he advised his parents not to consider the narrow views of 'society' while determining whether or not to help Sudha.
Vrish, what is appalling is that it is SUDHA who has these double standards. I am just contradicting what she said to Amit.
Why was it okay for her to leave the hospital with a man she doesn't know but it wasn't okay for her to accept a scooter ride on a say-so of a friend whom she has known longer than Murli? Sudha looked at Murli once and decided he was a "bhalla admi" and set out to ruin her life knowing full well what Ram Avatar would do to her. Who in their sane mind does that?
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