Apologies for jumping into the conversation.
@ Pooja: I'm sure people would like to see a truly reformed Dev.
The problem, for me as a viewer, is that I see absolutely no hint that he is repentant for what he did, save the words of repentance mouthed whilst in Delhi. As Usha has said, it's almost like he was crying for cake and he was given the cake on a platter. The redemption was too easily earned and was not attendant with true remorse (from the point of view of us viewers, at least some of us). Therefore, it is difficult to empathise with Dev. It may not be impossible to weave a story where the viewer empathises with a character who has committed a wrong and faced up to the consequences. For instance, how many of us who have watched Guide have not felt empathy for Raju Guide, despite Raju being a character who had committed adultery and who had resorted to forgery?
Now, the past here appears to be completely forgotten. We are shown a young man in the throes of love all over again. And, in a bid to ensure that the girl he fancies is not betrothed to another, he takes recourse to defaming that girl.
At the end of the story, they may yet surprise us with how he is truly a reformed person (if all is forgiven and forgotten) or Dev getting his due comeuppance (if all is not forgiven and forgotten). But, unless we get a hint -- even the slightest of a hint -- that such is in the offing, we can only respond to what we see and what we have been seeing for the past month. And, my fear, misguided as it may be, is that the said scene of revelation may last a bare minute before the curtain falls on that particular plot.
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