Everything in this post is like a satyavachan - no lies detected 😆
I very much enjoy the way Veer's character has been shaped, and indeed how Sharad plays him. Veer is dominating and strong and has a healthy ego, but he doesn't confuse 'love and passion' with 'humiliating a woman'. So many times you see the prototype alpha male lead who is so out of touch with his own feelings (often only towards the female lead, otherwise he's respectful to everyone else in the world🤔) that he basically uses the woman as a personal punching bag until he's ready to learn how to be a grown-up. By which point of course the woman is deeply and madly in love with him for some reason, and so there's never any redemption of his unnecessary aggression and humiliation.
Yes, Veer too does and has done the "chasing the heroine around the room to corner her" thing, but it was never with the intention to humiliate or scare her, or to prove his manliness over someone smaller or "weaker" than him.
One moment that always stands out for me is from one of the earlier episodes - when Bani literally pushes him out of that party venue because "it's not yet 9pm", and he's out there lying back against his car, waiting. His brothers are surrounding him like the devils on his shoulder, affronted by Bani's actions and egging him on in a way to teach her a lesson. And for a moment it looks like the show will have Veer do exactly that as he jumps up off the car. Any other show, any other male lead probably would have done that - stalked back in there and found a way to "teach her a lesson" for daring to stand up to him. But Veer just looks at his brothers and is like, dudes, this is bad advice. I like this girl, why would I want to hurt her. He just straight up rejects that whole line of thinking, and this is before we've ever seen him do anything particularly nice, this is even before (by his own admission) he's ever truly cared for a human being.
That split second of a scene shouldn't have been remarkable, but to me, it was, because it feels so rare on Indian TV.
I guess the biggest plus to Veer's character, the thing that shapes everything else, is that he is not emotionally repressed, by any stretch of the imagination jo dil mein hai, woh bolne ki himmat zuban par bhi hai. He's also not a fool about it - he's not trusting of every idiot who wanders into his path, and his brain is sharp and calculating - but it is so nice to see a ML who isn't afraid of the softer emotions.
Edited by psawyer - 4 years ago
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