u/smart_zeal

Now it's becoming clear that many viewers are happy to see Vijay finally move on. From his perspective, he got the closure he needed - he believed Radhi had hidden the truth from him for years, so he chose to move forward.

That made me wonder: if Vijay moving on is understandable after believing Radhi betrayed him, then why is Radhi moving on and marrying Dev often judged so harshly? At that point, she believed Vijay had never come back, and she had no idea where Rina was(as she cried to RK sir that she didn't know where her child was)

I feel like the writers are slowly addressing many of the assumptions people have made about Radhi over the last two seasons. Whether they completely justify her decisions or not is another discussion, but they do seem to be giving us more context before asking us to judge her.

One thing I’ve noticed throughout the series is that most of Radhi’s pain is spoken about through dialogues...but rarely shown directly to us.

We often hear

• She suffered a lot

• She felt terrible after that

• She broke down

But many times, the audience never actually gets to SEE those moments from Radhi’s POV.

For example:

• RK sir said to Rina, Radhi cried for you. But we were never shown such scenes.

• After suspending Rina, TR tells Rina that Radhi felt really bad about it. But we never got a direct scene of Radhi feeling for Rina. (TBH I badly expected a scene when TR told that dialogue to Rina)

• Radhi while talking to Rina before her surgery tells some of her emotional struggles and how she gave birth to her. But, lack of direct scenes there too.

• Even the support she offered to her interns and other hospital staff are often implied through other people’s dialogues instead of direct scenes.

And I honestly think this is a very intentional writing style.

The writer seems to have written Radhi as an emotionally “withheld” character - someone the audience slowly pieces together instead of fully understanding immediately.

But sometimes I wonder…

WHAT IF THE STORY HAS SHOWN RADHI'S STRUGGLES FIRST?

What if we had seen:

• Her loneliness

• Her guilt

• Her fear

• Her emotional damage

• The trauma of a 14-year-old mother

BEFORE the daughter reveal happened?

I genuinely feel the audience would have viewed their relationship very differently.

Instead of: “Why is she behaving like this?”

People might have thought: “Radhi never really healed from what happened".

Instead of "Selfish Radhi"

People might have said “Radhi wasn’t heartless…she was carrying wounds no one fully saw.”

The story would have become less about judging a mother and more about watching two emotionally broken people find each other again.

I’m not saying Radhi was perfect. But I do feel the writing style made audiences judge a 14 year old mother before understanding her pain.

Do you think viewers would have seen Radhi differently if the show had emotionally introduced HER STRUGGLES FIRST? 👀

Just had a thought...

Vijay while confronting Radhi at her house shouted "Kaarana m---- ellam sollitu irukeenga..."

But what about bro's kaarana m---- for not coming to Radhi 25 years back???

When Radhi came to Vijay's house, he said some lame reason for not coming to Radhi on that day and Radhi even accepted that reason, understanding his situation (even after all those trauma she went through at such a young age).

This might sound strange😄 but

when Rina said to Radhi in s1 8th episode that she came to know that she suffered panic attack only when some doctor told her that on the next morning.

And

when RK sir saw Rina for the first time said the dialogue "unna engeyo paatha mathiri iruke maa"....

I got this weird thought😁

Sharing this here so that I can get this out of my mind🥲

1) What if Thiyagarajan abandoned Radhi for her decision to go with Vijay at 14 and left her there?

2. What if Thiyagarajan told the truth to Vijay(that they left the child in orphanage) when he saw him at his house after two years?