Adultery My wife through the lens of CCTV

[tharkibudda]

The post event watching husband is headed to a dark place if he is not careful ... if Lakhan had defeated Dhristi then, he seems to be defeating the surveillance video watching husband now ... is this darkness necessary to give him the motivation of watching the rest of the videos ... if that's your plot, will he be able to get out of it ... how?

That last parts are well written and the last three paragraphs are perfect, but in the ones preceding that from the time he comes home, it might be a good idea to provide more explicit separation of the response of the husband then, visible in the video when all this was happening, and remembered by the husband now about her withdrawal and growing disconnect with him, and the husband now, who is watching the videos of what had transpired, specially in the scenes where he's watching himself and Dhristi interact in those days. The part where you talk about him remembering her avoiding sexual interaction is a bit more clear in this regard, but I had to read the one below twice or thrice to get what you are actually conveying.

e.g. "... pushing it around her plate with a plastic smile that didn't fool me for a second. Her eyes had been elsewhere, lost in a world I was not welcome to enter.  ..." - did not fool the husband for a second now or then? The realization that she was lost in a world he was not welcome to enter, did this realization dawn now or was it being felt then too. The way you have written these lines, it can be interpreted both ways and cause some confusion, because it does not make sense then, even if he had felt the growing aloofness.

Its an intricate dance you've chose to dance, almost Inception-like. See if you can dance it in distinct costumes(metaphorically speaking, of course), so that readers don't get confused between the two husbands - the one then and the one now. Its not that the one then was blind; he saw what was happening, but did not know the reason and was confused and did not know how to respond, and may be made a few mistakes of omission along the way. The tango between the two avatars of the husband can be as fascinating as the one between Lakhan and Dhristi.

Thank you for ur analysis and I want to tell a real life incident of a person I knew where his wife was cheating him for close to a year. He said that there were so many clues of what she was doing but he never connected those as being wrong but once he discovered her cheating, he realised that she was playing with him for a year.

The same was happening here, he assumed that she was being moody,tired, irritating etc because he made her in a rich colony where half the hpuses were empty and rest were high class to talk to her.  Manav is literally watching himself getting fooled by her in every recording and her changes.  

In the previous recordings, he saw her being completely helpless as Lakhan forced on her but this time she participated with his instructions and at night, she was crying not because she was violated because she might have enjoyed and Manav can sense that from the recordings which is making his anger waiver because all these times, his wife was a victim and now she is participating