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This really calls some food for thought.
It's not about right or wrong in this case per say.
Whatever his faults might be, at the end of the day Harshad is the only living relative that Alya has got...somewhere deep inside she cares for him deeply and him being sent to jail was a reluctant decision on her part not exactly for the sole reason of him hurting Fab5 but also for a desire of seeing him redeemed...the others have given up on him but she hasn't, she can't, she shares blood ties with him and whatever else he might be, he too cares for her in his own twisted way. She can't give up on that hope of him changing for the better. Her emotional connect with her brother prevents her from seeing through the deception of Harshad, she of course can't see him suffering and she feels that as her friends the others should understand her position and spare Harshd for HER sake if not his. She has always chosen Fab5 over Harshad in the past and this time when she wants something in return for her unwavering loyalty, they outright refuse. She takes it as an ultimate betrayal from her friends.
Also, Cbir is not wrong on his part. He has lost everything as a result of the Harshad drama and is now facing cold reality. He has no money, no place to live, no family to support and no love to stand by. That one incident has changed his life forever. But Alya doesn't realize that. To her, the whole things seems like a tit-for-tat kinda thing. As genie said, Fab5 has always bullied ppl in the past without putting themselves in the shoes of the victim and Alya as a result doesn't see cabir or Manik as a victim but she sees the whole sequence of events as one party trying to one-up the other like thay have been doing since time immemorial. The only difference is that this time the wounds are too personal, they have hit home, destroyed many relationships and shattered many beliefs in the process to the ppl directly involved. Mukti and cabir have lost too much personally to actually see it in Alya's perspective and I believe Manik too wouldn't be so ambiguous regarding his stance if Nandini had been hurt badly.
Nobody is wrong here. This is just a difference in opinion shared by the Fab5 due to various external factors like family loyalty, blood ties, personal tragedy and being hit where it hurts the most. They have reached an impasse of sorts and it would be interesting to see how each of them deal with this from hereon.
As for the audience, I think it depends on how u look at it. From Alya's perspective, it seems reasonable that she ask such a favour and the audience can sympathize with her. If we look at it from Cabir's pov, whatever harshad has done seems unforgivable. And personally, I do think that ppl would not support the "forgiving Harshad" thing if it was really a question of rape. The audience here is strictly female and all humans tend to react to things from their own experiences and perceptions. We as humans are still not sensitized to the feelings, emotions and the difficult lives that homosexuals have to live with on a daily basis but when it comes to rape, we can empathize as we are able to put ourselves in the shoes of the victim. Thus probably I think that a certain section of the audience would react to Mukti being raped in a different way than Cabir's isolation because of his sexuality. Mukti's rape would trigger a far stronger hatred for Harshad than what happened with Cabir. Also, I do think that some people too do like to think like Alya, if what Fab5 did in the past didn't call for a jail sentence then the same treatment should be meted out to Harshad for doing exactly the things the fab5 were infamous for.
Edited by medha16 - 9 years ago
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