They seem to have succeeded with a few people. I have lost interest and not even able to enjoy Sairat for whom I started to watch the show. I know a few more friends who had stopped watching it too.
I gave this a thought sometime last week but since they were showing Sairat even when they were separated, I thought it is probably just me thinking that way.
The show might be popular for Sairat, but there are many who have said in this forum too that they can't show too much of Sairat because the drama would only be fetching them the TRPs. So, if we go by that, they probably might be losing Sairat shippers but not TRP audience who are liking the drama. The question now is how many of the Sairat shippers contribute to the TRP.
There was a point where I could just understand what Virat was doing, I didn't have to think or try to understand him too. These days, I am trying to make sense out of his actions. Now, this has made me lose interest in the show. I know that he is flawed to some extent but whatever they are showing doesn't make sense anymore. I gave a thought about his actions even today, but the more they make him act soft towards Pakhi, the more people will have aversion for his character. He is being misunderstood a lot because of this action of his. Which audience would tolerate a guy standing mum when a set of people are attacking his wife while he defends his bhabhi whom he doesn't even think should call a bhabi by just one person like his mom or his friend who were not even wrong? The worst part is that the guy claims that he loves his wife. I might or might not post about this behavior of his but the problem is why even show him like that in first place?
I have no doubt that Virat doesn't love Pakhi, no doubt that he has any feelings for her but I have also not been able to believe what Virat has for Sai is love. She is whom he wants, whom he likes, whom he desires, whom he loves to spend his life with but not whom he he is actually loving. His feelings for her varies as per the situation and that is quite alarming. He is coming across as a selfish, self absorbed guy who keeps victimising himself at every opportunity that he can find. That is troublesome. That is a flaw in the character by itself if we all pay attention to the pattern of his behavior. But in addition to this, I believe the offscreen equation, the uproar of fans terming Pakhi's actions as harassment and the inability of a certain person to accept the reality of their own character is the reason behind a lot of variations from KD wrt to Virat Pakhi's relationship. Rono also felt guilty, tried to protect RK, but since Virat is a soft person, when they tried to make him even more soft with Pakhi for their own reasons, they have managed to create an aversion for his character.
The way I also see is that they want to show that Virat is some mahaan who stood quiet even when his wife misunderstood him, who is willing to get misunderstood by his wife, who doesn't know want to fight for himself, doesn't want to defend himself or give explanations because he wants to protect a girl, who has a lot of virtues to not malign a girl's character and because he is a person who is trying to protect his brother's life.
In all this, they have failed to see that he will also come across as a selfish, self absorbed coward who cannot protect his own wife. They didn't balance it the way they should have to show that he wanted to protect his brother's life and a lady's reputation. He is anyway a hypocrite, a guy with double standards, so asking questions like why he behaved this way with Sai and why that way with Pakhi or his family members doesn't make sense. As I havs already mentioned, some are flaws in the character itself because he cannot go against his family for his wife beyond a certain point.
Edited by laksh - 4 years ago