Chotti Bahu.. part VI
Kahani ab tak (= The story so far)
Dev yells : "I don't want to, i don't care. I'm going back to the States and that's final."
Dev's father, hearing this, collapses
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Dev urges Birju to call a doctor then his father tells him there's no need, it's this way it's supposed to be. Dev apologizes for making him suffer like that, he didn't mean to yell but his father says it's okay, he doesn't want his son to feel burdened and he understands that Dev has to leave just like he has to leave too. Then he dies. Ceremony follows after that, Dev is mute and angry at himself. Radhika wants to hold him but she can't she is hiding in the temple (with the help of Birju) where Amma sees her and tells her it's her fault, she entered a temple with her dirty feet (blablabla). Dev hasn't cried yet and Birju is worried. He goes seek for Radhka and begs her to go find Dev once. Radhika feels she has to, because SHE is his wife. She finds him alone near the fire ritual and talks to him. Dev is surprised but more angry. She tells him that now he has a responsability, for his father sake he is a "Rajpurohit" (= direct heir)" and he says : "i shouldn't have loved you. It's all of this love's fault. If i hadn't love you, i wouldn't want to go to the USA to forget about you and my dad wouldn't have died. Just leave me once and for all". Radhika is heartbroken and leaves. Dev then turns around to search for her but he says "You are always in my head, like right now, i'm talking to your illusion, i regret everything i just said, fortunately you were not really her". Then he tears down.
(The vid below is the confrontation i just talked about)
Click to viewAt the Purohit mansion (= Dev's house) the uncle feels he has got an opportunity back and says that his brother made Dev the heir but Dev wants to go to the USA so what can we do, my son will fulfill the duties. Dev comes home and says : 'i am the rajpurohit and i will take my responsabilities, i'm not got to USA anymore". Vishaka gets annoyed because Dev told her once in USA they will live separately and she will be free so she was thinking she will go to the USA that she made her mind and thought about HOllywood instead of Bollywood, now back to square one, she has to act like a daughter in law ! In their room, Vishaka yells at Dev and he tells her he is sorry but now he will try to make everything right, he has decided to accept her as his wife like he should have done a long time ago (and in his mind he prays to God to help him forget about his dream girl).
There are rituals to be performed in order to become a dignified Rajpurohit. His wife has to perform that as well, things Vishaka hate and she tells she won't do it to, she doesn't want to be the chotti bahu anymore : she yells that in the house to Dev's family. Everyone is shocked and they think she must be tensed and tired so they tell her to go to rest but they are worried, because it is for the wife to pray for her husband long life and healthy career, it's really important. It's like a second marriage rituals that has to be done carefully. It includes a vrat (not eating) and to shower early with milk in the morning and pray. Vishaka doesn't follow that and eats in secret [ LoL i can't hate her even if she is a pain in the ass, she makes me laugh, and i partly understand how she feels, all those rituals.. !! ]. Radhika decides on her own she will do the ritual for Dev, as a wife's duty.
(see the vid cut below)
After that, Dev comes to his room to take Vishaka downstairs and there he founds a note by her saying "she can't stand it anymore, she is going". Vishaka is meeting Purab and about to go to Mumbai to an audition. Dev is worried, he tells Birju and they try to search her everywhere. Then he decides to call Vishaka's father but Radhika is on the phone (note by me : they had many conversations on the phone after the illusion accident and Dev likes her voice, it reminds him of his dream girl, if only he knew~~ lol). Radhika searches too but tells her parents. Finally the father apologizes to Dev and says he doesn't know what to say, etc.. then Amma comes with an idea (one really familiar lol) by saying "Just take Radhika to the ceremony while we search for Vishaka more, until then she will stand as Vishaka". [Radhika is hiding in a room and hearing that she is shocked]. The dad and Dev are also shocked but yeah well finally they agree but then Dev tells he won't do it without Radhika's agreement. They start talking - she is still behind the wall [how ridiculous~~] and finally she says :
"I will perform it with you."
(See the vid cut about this scene below)