At the offset, Vikram is a ‘good’ husband by the traditional benchmarks of the society – he earns well, loves his wife and gives her all the comforts required to lead a content life. Yet, misogyny is so deep-rooted in his system that after the slap incident, he finds himself completely at sea as to what wrong he has done and he makes no efforts to make amends for his behaviour. As one of his friends wryly puts it that a slap is also an expression of love, Vikram, unwilling to unlearn years of conditioning, instead blames Amrita for making a mountain out of a molehill. Even Amrita’s mother and brother fail to understand the brouhaha created by her and while we see traces of Vikram in Amrita brother’s Karan when he misbehaves with his fiancé, he quickly realises his mistake and profusely apologises to her, something that Vikram is unable to comprehend in the first place.
