Virat and the women

Let’s talk about the 3 women in Virat’s life - Pakhi, Sai & Shruti. Not the actors, just the characters. While they all come from different backgrounds, they are introduced as strong characters. I know Pakhi is not our favorite, but please bear with me. My point is that whether positive, negative or gray, each of these women was introduced as an independent and strong woman initially.

1. Pakhi: Raised in a wealthy, connected family with love. Highly educated. Independent. Trained to be a dutiful wife and daughter-in-law. Supposedly very beautiful.

2. Sai: Raised with love by a single father who happened to be policeman. Strong, willful and fearless. Brilliant mind. Go getter. Heart of gold.

3. Shruti: Left the comforts of home life to marry a terrorist. Lived with danger. Pregnant and willing to give birth to her child in a forest. Respected by fellow terrorists. Tough as nails.

All these women started off as strong women and then met Virat Chavan and became little lobs of glycerin. Pakhi became a glorified waitress serving tea and assorted beverages to the seniors. Sai became the family punching bag and Shruti, all of a sudden, couldn’t handle labor pains by herself. This is what the writers reduced these women to. All for Virat Chavan. Who are these writers? Do they even know women? Do they understand women?

Do you think an educated woman like Pakhi would spend her life chasing after a guy who wants to have nothing to do with her when she has a perfectly fine husband? Wouldn’t it have been more plausible to show Pakhi dealing with residual feelings for virat while building her life with Samrat? There was so much scope for Pakhi’s character and she has been reduced to serving tea and making faces.

And Sai!! She is a 20 year old!! It would be been so nice to see Sai and Virats’s relationship arc - age difference, career choices, upbringing differences and what not. But we get a man who continues to give mixed signals to his ex and keep her in a holding pattern. At the same time, he believes he is in love with his wife, but refuses to tell and continues to emotionally and verbally abuse her. Yet he wants her to read his mind and know that he loves her.

Now let’s talk about Shruti. Considering that she is a terrorist who was married to a terrorist, she is tough as nails. She is expected to lead her band of terrorists after her husband’s death. Instead, she runs off with the police officer (the great VC) who killed her husband, so she can give birth to her child in a hospital. Just like that a tough terrorist needs a man to hold her hands and keep her safe. And they’re now going to play house. What woman would blindly trust a guy who just killed get husband??

So tell me, who is truly writing these characters? Can’t be a woman. Because a woman would be on the floor dying with laughter. This is 2022. Women like these don’t exist. This is a mockery of women and, yes, I’m including Pakhi in this because this character had so much potential and the writing team ruined her. Every character with the exception of a few has become one dimensional. It is so sad!!

It’s sheer laziness. From writing to editing to costumes. With the exception of Bhavani and Ninad, most characters are now caricatures to point that you can’t really related to them. The costumes are horrendous. Which medical student goes to college wearing bangles 3 inches deep and outfits meant for Sangeet. They have a lead who can pull off modern lehengas with ease. Why not use them. And what 30 year man wears double breasted jackets with pocket kerchief? Someone tell the costume department that the uncles retired that outfit in the 70s. Ugh!!! As for the editing, the home chefs on insta do a better job than the editing department.

Yes, we know you guys are #2. But they also said that the Titanic was unsinkable. And all it took was a measly iceberg. All the best. Rant over 🙏🏼

Most of the online audience are waiting for that day this attitude of team shud sink. The sequence of worst departments in ghum are

1. Editing team

2. Costume team

3. Dialogue writers

4. Make up team

5. Camera dept and so on

Agree with much of what you note

out of all the 3 characters, Sai is the only one that was given some thought and layering.

Sai- I think is reasonably well etched out - as much as we can expect from this otherwise lazy copy-paste team. You see her immaturity, innocence as a young girl who is being forced repeatedly to mature faster than others her age, you see her imperfections and insecurities and you see her be fierce and speak up for herself even while she gets attached to the people in the household including her "Deal" husband whom her father trusted a lot and even gave his life for. So obviously such a guy must mean a lot to her dad if he took a bullet for him. Sai is not a pushover but yes she is emotional. Despite becoming family punching bag, being told to "fit in" to the mould, she holds on to as much of her core as she can while not being ungrateful because at the end of the day - being a 20 year old with literally NO family is scary. It is the most vulnerable thing.

If you are an orphan from childhood, life shapes you a certain way. Life isnt easy but there is a certain degree of familiarity to it. If you orphaned in adulthood, its not easy but atleast you have a way of fending for yourself. But Sai's situation where she is neither a child nor an adult - where she has ONLY known love and affection of one person- her whole world and then suddenly losing that- its really the worst possible

Despite all the emotional manipulation, sai has been shown as having the courage to not just take a stance for herself and her self respect but also not lose her sanity and become all villainous and bitter about things. She clearly is hurt by Virat, has called him out and left but she is not losing her marbles like PP has been shown to do. Sai is the only character who actually has an arc on this show. Sadly they will ruin it if they show her take sole blame for everything and accept Virat's actions as mahaan.

PP and Shruti look like utter idiots who have no ounce of self respect and just want to play bechaari and give impetus to Virat's ego. PP despite ample rejection constantly goes back to targeting Sai and expecting a future with Virat- utterly ridiculous. Shruti is just confused. From wanting to kill virat for murdering her husband, she now cries about her guilt and yet doesn't do anything to actually help virat reconcile with his wife. How hard would it have been to get a nurse to call Sai in the hospital and give her the facts.

And Virat is just this guy with a savior complex who will always screw up his priorities in life or fail to take proper ownership for the choices he made. He was initially at the start of the show given more depth, more character and shades- but nowadays he lacks any logic and has NO personality, no POV, no arc.

So basically pretty much all the characters are a joke

The editing, direction and dialogues leave much to be be desired.

Unfortunately I got addicted and now I am too attached and cant stop watching. I am invested heavily in Sai as a character because the actor lives/breathes and infuses so much sincerity into her part.

I have a doubt. Is Sruthi a naxalite or terrorist? Because i have seen many saying she is a terrorist and many says she is a naxalite ? Both are not same. Naxalites are extremists but they aren’t terrorists. Either you guys are ignorant to it or the show.

Originally posted by: ArshiAK

I have a doubt. Is Sruthi a naxalite or terrorist? Because i have seen many saying she is a terrorist and many says she is a naxalite ? Both are not same. Naxalites are extremists but they aren’t terrorists. Either you guys are ignorant to it or the show.

Shruti is a nexalite ..Fans have been saying that only... Mostly we are riled up because being a cop Virat is sheltering a naxalite.. Fans often referred her as a terrorist because she had been involved killing many innocents to fights against the system.. That's how it was mentioned in the show as well..

Originally posted by: Shaome

Shruti is a nexalite ..Fans have been saying that only... Mostly we are riled up because being a cop Virat is sheltering a naxalite.. Fans often referred her as a terrorist because she had been involved killing many innocents to fights against the system.. That's how it was mentioned in the show as well..

In the original Shruti was just the wife of the Naxalite and not a Naxalite, so Rono protecting her was in the right direction, considering there was a chance of her getting tortured. I have no clue what is the purpose in showing Virat an IPS officer, cheating his nation and being proud about it.

I totally agree with you. It's high time this ship should sink. Then only makers will understand where they hv gone wrong.

I hvnt seen the OG. But whatever little I know it used to come in a regional channel. It was made for a certain or limited audience. So makers or channel can't show such a regressive concept on national channel.

Writers could hv played well with the character Pakhi. They could have shown her either moving on with Samrat or could have made her out an out negative. Taking revenge from Virat for destroying her life. But here she is still waiting for him while making Sai's life hell. Her dialogues are so cringeworthy eg in yesterday's episode she said atleast Virat aankhon ke samne toh tha Matlab kya.. most of the time what she says,in the next moment she will do the exact opposite thing . Pakhi character is become a joke now,the actress playing the role making it worse.

Coming to Sai, honestly I watch this show for her and Ayesha. But makers hv made her weak now. The thing which infuriates me that after all this she will go back to Virat as per OG😡 why why why... I mean we are in 2022. A young medical student who is strong, has all the potential to become a good doctor, can do somuch for the society, will go back to a person like Virat (I hv no patience to talk about this character, I just hate him) ,also to that toxic Chavan family. Don't know what plans makers hv for the other characters. Absolutely zero progression from the day one. I still don't know why Sonali, Karishma hate Sai somuch, why they hv no problems with Pakhi,why they show concern for Virat sometimes, then taunt him other times. what exactly Bk wants Ashwini and Shivani are also good for nothing.

I hv nothing to say about Shruti. Royally ignored her scenes so far. This show has failed in all most every department. Whether it's acting, directing, editing, screenplay, costumes,dialogues and all. God only knows how come they are still getting such high trps. Some insane luck these makers have actually. I just wish makers use their luck and get a good storyline for Sai. Coz for me it's Sai Joshi 's journey that I wanna watch. Baki sab jae bhad mei. I don't care😆 Sorry for my language, but I just can't tolerate these people on my tv screen anymore. I wanna see a hardworking Doctor Sai Joshi, a new ML and a new set of family members.

I know this is not gonna happen. Par umeed pe duniya kayam hei 😃

I was seemingly interested in Pakhi the character, the character had so much scope to perform. My old posts rave about how much interesting it can be for an actor to preform it. The dimensions were vast. In the original there is a reason why RK is more famous than other two, the actor was phenomenal. She needed no monologues to speak the words they give Pakhi.

Originally posted by: asmi_joya

I was seemingly interested in Pakhi the character, the character had so much scope to perform. My old posts rave about how much interesting it can be for an actor to preform it. The dimensions were vast. In the original there is a reason why RK is more famous than other two, the actor was phenomenal. She needed no monologues to speak the words they give Pakhi.

So so true..

She was so graceful and beautiful at the same time .

Shruti is a Naxalite and she is a criminal because she is involved in making conspiracies to kill people. She has been shown involved in it and admitting to virat about her dubious actions. So he is sheltering a criminal.

Also @shaome

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