Ravi Mohan’s arguments are so bizarre!
Setting your sympathy for a “crying man” aside, can’t y’all see how bizarre his arguments are? Black magic? Seriously? Y’all believe he has a point when he purports that his wife has cast a black magic spell on him? He also seems to be wallowing in too much self pity. “I’ve been working every single day”. Yeah, like every other human? He himself conceded that it’s literally “his job” to romance attractive women. We second you, Ravi, you’re making a killing out of such a “pleasurable” career. Others like labourers or those in the lower echelons of society are probably clocking in more hours a day and still dying of heatstroke. You at least have it relatively easy.
“I pay 50 lakhs for my kids”. Had you enrolled them in government school, it wouldn’t have cost as much. But you decided to give them a higher standard of education because they’re your flesh & blood. So why whine? Even if your wife is a black magic practicing witch as you claim, you can’t victimise yourself for just coughing up school fees. It’s your duty and burden to shoulder, and they’re your kids after all. (I read he had stopped forking out their school fees since last year. A deadbeat?)
If at all she’s diabolical, you should have fought tooth and nail over your kids’ custody, not toss them to her and keep yourself engaged with your side chick at parties. Why didn’t you ever raise the topic of kids until your side chick left you?
I can vividly recall reading his excerpts in Kungumam or Kumudham, where he was “joking” about how he’s such a lover boy who had to put his foot down by slitting his wrist to make the marriage happen. Now he’s trying to imply otherwise (that she was the one who boxed him into the marriage by indulging in self harm). But even in this very interview he claimed he’s still slitting wrists now (proving my point that it’s his nature to threaten self harm to make others bend to his will). To be clear, I’m not saying he’s putting on a show of self harm to manipulate others. He may have really inflicted wounds on himself, earlier to get married to her, and now to leave her.
Apropos how many claim she “tormented” him by choosing to manage their finances- my mom is a homemaker and has the keys to our locker till date. She’s the one running our home, paying our house help, segregating expenses, and managing our resources. So did my grandmother. Our house is registered under my mom’s name and my father does ask her “permission” before making big purchases. Hasn’t this been common practice in all Indian households as we grew up? What’s so “vile” about it?
I can enumerate so many loopholes in his claims but some folks will never capitulate because sympathy is right now clouding their judgment. Yes, it’s normal to feel bad for a person who is shedding tears. I admit that crying does evoke sympathy in all of us. But they don’t realise the dangerous precedent this is setting. What if a married man threatens sui€ide claiming he needs two wives at once to survive? What if a woman demands that polygamy be made lawful because she needs both a husband and a “comfort” boyfriend? We can’t condone debauchery just because someone cries in front of the paps or threatens self harm. Parading a side chick even before your divorce is wrong. If you do, don’t bawl your eyes out when people tear you down for the same. Face the music.
(Ps. Before anyone comes full guns blazing at me, lol, I’m not paid by anyone, nor am I anyone’s pr. I’m a tech girlie who spends her downtime on Reddit, that’s all).