So here is my first post about what I find inexplicable - in this sequence from Jab We met.
Geet is stranded in the middle of the night at a railway station, with all her luggage left in the train and she is being teased by shady characters.
Now this one is an educated, city bred, independent girl. Question is why doesnt she bother calling home? and informing them of her situation, better still asking them to come and fetch her.. I would call my people first thing If I was in that situation. Most of us would. Geet does not. Is it because she does not want them to get worried? Come on, at that moment is her safety a priority or is it how her family would react. Her family of course has enough young and not so young Punjabi men who would have been able to tackle the situation.
Why doesnt she. Is it because, otherwise she would not feel insecure and to save herself she would not run in to Aditya's arms? Did the story teller not have any other pretext under which he could get Aditya and Geet to meet again?
Of course, there is a another bit of abusrdity in she running out of the station and into the lonely streets of Ratlam. I mean she could have easily tried to find a policeman or at worst gone back inside the station master's office. When she runs out, she does not know Aditya is out there and with that knowledge she runs out. She just runs out in to the streets to feel more secure. Wouldnt staying back on the station been more secure.
But how would she then meet Aditya and how would the story progress :). Well, leaving this bit of running out from the station aside, main issue I have with this sequence is - Why didnt Geet call home?
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