loved the movie, not the bride

I agree with you completely. I have to rewatch the movie though because I'm sure I missed something because I don't recall a scene where this was addressed after she told the groom what she did.

No, I'm female and I agree with you. Just like The Notebook. I think the women in both films are despicable.

It was two nights before the wedding, if that makes any difference.

The behavior of Aditi the bride was bad, but she didn't feel any great loyalty to her arranged partner Hemant. Given that they had met only a day before, I'm not sure she should've felt any great loyalty to him.

Anyway, she confessed her sins and walked away from the marriage, potentially shaming herself and her family. I.e., she grew up, acted maturely, and took her punishment. Luckily, Hemant decided to give her another chance. They opened up to each other and started falling in love for real.

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This is why I really don't love this movie. The bride is despicable and the groom seems like a decent guy. It's implied that he went back home to India to marry a good girl and instead he's marrying a girl who is knowingly having an affair with a married man. In addition to that, she keeps seeing the married man even after she's engaged. I was hoping he would call the wedding off during the entire movie. The "happy ending" didn't sit too well with me because she got off way too easy.

I didn't find her character to be very likeable either. Not really sure why he gave her a second chance except that maybe he really was optimistic and found her honesty to be enough to build upon.

Though it is true that the marriage was arranged, her sneaking off to see Vikram like that was just gross. Once she accepted, she was a fiance, and I still believe it constitutes as cheating.

Her whole personality is just not appealing. One the rooftop when he wants to talk and she's like "why talk" and hints towards a deeper sexual makeout session. I mean, I'm all for passion, but she just expressed a worry that her fiance will think she's a slut because she went after her ex like a dog in heat and then reinforces the fact that she apparently has no control over her vagina by being sexually aggressive again.

Jeez. I bet he'll feel really secure during week-long conferences away from home.

Although this film is ostensibly about a "wedding", it isn't the traditional wedding flick that centers entirely around the bride and groom's romance alone. I think the intent in showing the bride's secret affair wasn't to portray her as a morally despicable character, but to reveal how the many traditionalist customs and elements of the family and their Indian culture contributed to an ambiguous moral gray area that was difficult to reconcile.

The bride's marriage was arranged, she hadn't even spent much time with the groom to be, and she was clearly conflicted about her actions. I think it was actually admirable that she chose to discuss her affair with the groom rather than hiding it; she wanted to begin her new life without any deceit, which is more than what her grandmothers before her probably could say. This is also the same family where older male relatives were "taking advantage" (to use a euphemism) of younger, more vulnerable female relatives for years in sexually inappropriate, psychologically damaging ways. In a climate of arranged marriage, pedophilia, and possible repressed homosexuality, I found in the end that this film had a very hopeful message about the ability of human beings, and even entire families, to grow, to become more accepting, and to stand up for those who have suffered great abuse.

You mention the bride being self-centred and reprehensible. Was she supposed to instantly not the love the man that she loved? Don't you think the adjectives you used are more suited to her family, who are forcing her to do something against her will, marry a stranger when she is already in love with someone else? Why would you think she would suddenly stop loving someone because her family wishes to force her into doing something against her will?