{"id":17733,"date":"2018-03-01T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/times-when-we-fell-in-love-with-the-bollywood-adulteress-on-screen\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:53:45","slug":"times-when-we-fell-in-love-with-the-bollywood-adulteress-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/times-when-we-fell-in-love-with-the-bollywood-adulteress-on-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Times when we fell in love with the Bollywood adulteress on-screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infidelity has always been a much-discussed subject<\/h2>\n

It has been trending worldwide even before Twitter came into existence. We have written books, painted masterpieces, made countless films and we have talked. A lot. For years. And we still don\u2019t seem to be done with it.<\/p>\n

What makes the whole thing difficult is that it\u2019s never a clear black and white matter. All the parties involved are human, they all have their hearts in the game and they all mostly get trampled in the process.<\/p>\n

How do we brand just one person evil and the rest two as mere victims? There\u2019s also the argument that monogamy in itself is the problem. A theory has it that humans are naturally polygamous and it is illogical to expect monogamy from them. Yet we do expect monogamy and keep suffering. This dilemma has been well documented in various films and some of them try to humanise all the parties involved. Here are a few \u2018other woman\u2019 characters from Bollywood that have touched our hearts.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> He told me he had broken up with his ex<\/a><\/p>\n

Maya from Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna<\/h3>\n

Rani Mukherjee is the portrait of heartbreak in this 2006 film, which is about two couples and their broken marriages. Maya is the poster girl for the good wife. She takes care of the house, the husband and runs their lives. She\u2019s however indebted to her father-in-law who\u2019s the one who took her in as a child. This weighs heavy on her soul and reflects on her awkward marriage. We could look at KANK as a film that shows us two people trying to save their marriages and yet fail miserably. The selflessness of the characters when they are sorry about their infidelity makes them look human.<\/p>\n

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Read more: <\/strong> What happened when her husband caught us sexting<\/a><\/p>\n

Chandramukhi from Devdas<\/h3>\n

The whore with the heart of gold is a narrative trope that\u2019s been used throughout history. In Devdas, Chandramukhi embodies the trope and elevates it. Madhuri Dixit doesn\u2019t just bring beauty to the character, but cuts her heart out and leaves it for the audience to see. Paro being married to someone else technically is \u2018the other woman\u2019 except in perhaps the movie Devdas. But considering Paro and Devdas as the main couple, Chandramukhi becomes the other woman. She\u2019s someone who is willing to settle for even a small piece of Devdas\u2019s love. He\u2019s abusive, drunk, not worth it and yet she loves him. Chandramukhi is Devdas\u2019s knight in shining armour, making her much more than a mere narrative troupe.<\/p>\n

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Veronica in Cocktail<\/h3>\n

Often called Deepika\u2019s breakout role as an actor, Veronica is a nuanced character. The lines between the three characters are blurred beyond comprehension and we can\u2019t help but feel sorry for them. Veronica shows grace and heartbreak while letting her man go, that too to her best friend. We see her grapple to make her relationship work, even when she knows that her partner is in love with another. That grappling is visible in her actions, on her face, in those expressive eyes. Veronica is all of us in how hard she tries in love, but like some of us she fails, and we feel her pain like it\u2019s our very own.<\/p>\n

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Saba from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil<\/h3>\n

Saba knows when she\u2019s the other woman, she also knows when to leave and Aishwarya Rai gives a masterclass in this scene. She tells Ranbir\u2019s character who\u2019s her boyfriend at that time, that she doesn\u2019t want him to explain to her why because if he does she\u2019ll understand and it\u2019ll break her. She says you can\u2019t control who you fall in love with, but you can control when you leave. She tells Ayan to leave. This is the opposite of \u2018Ja Simran Ja\u2026\u2019 and it just works. Saba is in a way the other woman for Ayan because he\u2019s never stopped loving his first love. She\u2019s stronger than him and can let him go. She is strong enough to make the tough decisions but loving enough to convey the decisions without hatred.<\/p>\n

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Kavita from Arth<\/h3>\n

The 1982 film was a confession of sorts for Mahesh Bhatt, about his affair with Parveen Babi. The late Smita Patil embodies the paranoia of the other woman in Arth thoroughly. Even after her lover leaves his wife, her paranoia doesn\u2019t recede, only to be turned into guilt later.<\/p>\n

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The range of emotions that she goes through may not always paint her character as morally superior but that is precisely what makes her human. We may not condone her behaviour but we sure end up understanding it.<\/p>\n

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She cheated on him and now fears he might have a counter affair<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What differentiates an abusive relationship from a normal one<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Infidelity has always been a much-discussed subject It has been trending worldwide even before Twitter came into existence. We have written books, painted masterpieces, made countless films and we have talked. A lot. For years. And we still don\u2019t seem to be done with it. What makes the whole thing difficult is that it\u2019s never …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}