Pirti cha vanva uri petla - Page 14

However, if he can switch from gawking at her to dehumanizing her all day long, his feelings for her aren't real and his character doesn't have much integrity. Bad writing.

This! This is what I hate and usually makes me lose interest in the characters and I drop the show. Especially when all this he's done, he probably won't end up apologizing properly and a few episodes later they both shall pretend this never happened for the sake of story progression. Nope.

Arjun, better apologize properly and it's alright if Savi doesn't respond positively. She's hurt, she need not forgive you. Just because you love someone doesn't mean you forgo their shitty behaviour.

I thought it was bad writing earlier when Savi, assigned to beguile Arjun, was retorting just as rudely as Arjun was accosting her, but now that Arjun is supposed to feel respect, gratitude, solicitude, and physical attraction to Savi, his cold mistreatment of Savi is even worse.

I understand that TV writers have to churn out drama at a fast pace, so they write shocking conflicts and no apologies. However, deliberate cruelty makes a couple unpalatable, especially when the abusive behaviour comes from one partner all the time, punctuated by the supporting characters chiming in that these two really love each other.

Heartfelt apologies can be the feel-good scenes that audiences want to watch!

I make a conscious effort in my Mehandī Hai Racanevālī fan fiction to handle conflict and redemption in a way that was missing from the show. In the first chapter that I shared (my very first post on India Forums), a character who thought his wife had moved on from his abuses discovers that he's loved but not forgiven. In my second story, this character feels the conflict between his impatient temper and his commitment to look after his wife's family. In my longest story, this character at first lashes out when he can't dictate his wife's feelings, but gradually he learns to listen to her supportively while working through his own frustrations. I like to think that when one of my characters lashes out, it's for a good reason that even the target can understand, and by forgiving each other, they demonstrate love instead of just talking about it.

I was going to share an excerpt from my story where this happens as well. The brother gets to know about something but there's a misunderstanding and he lashes out without listening to the sister. She's upset, and one thing leads to another and she's hospitalised. Meanwhile brother's friend talks to him and forces him to look at the other perspective and listen to her, at least. He realises his mistake and apologizes, multiple times but sister doesn't accept because she can't let go of the words - they hurt. Almost a month passes when she says to him, he needs to stop apologizing every other day, it's not helping her move on from that moment. She hasn't forgiven him, for those words but decides to ignore/pretend that was never said and knows that they both love each other much more than that one moment that ruined things. It included him saying you're not my sister anymore as well.

Wanna read the portions? I'll share somewhere else.

"Nagaland-cī rājadhānī koṇatī?" Arjun is suspicious of the story told by Bhaiyu, Shali's fresh-out-of-prison brother summoned by Balaram.

What is Bhaiyu's assignment? His touching of Nanda and his interest in Priya being grown up both suggest that he specializes in sexual assault.

Shali, by her own admission, isn't aristocratic like Nanda, and now she has an ex-convict for a brother. Shali herself put poison in Arjun's soup, but she's not quite as dangerously criminal as her murderous husband, Balaram, or even her foot-breaking vigilante brother-in-law, Arjun. The Kawathekars really don't have moral high ground to look down on women who marry into the family for status and money.

Is that Arjun's real reason for being mean to Savitri? He told Priya that he rejected so many brides because they're not interested in him, only interested in his status and money, but if Arjun thought that Sneha was like Shali, who tolerates Balaram's infidelities because he's rich, why did Arjun think that Savitri claiming an affair with Arjun would deter Sneha from marrying him?

When Arjun was looking for words to say to Savitri, planning a visit to her mother, and making origami for her pleasure, he must have thought about proposing marriage. Arjun who sneered about what Savitri might have done in a hotel room with Naresh, and later kidnapped Naresh to force him to marry Savitri, probably thinks that anything short of marriage is dishonourable. Arjun does not want to behave like Balaram. He knows that Krishna'i and Vidyadhar and Priya want him to marry Savitri, and his scenes with Priya showed that falling in love with Savitri made him happy.

It was the realization that fantasizing about Savitri distracted him from work that made Arjun insist that they have to be professional and he doesn't even like her.

Did Arjun in the past cause problems at work because he was infatuated with someone? Is that guilt what made him repeat, "I'm sorry" in his sleep?

Did Arjun in the past cause problems at work because he was infatuated with someone? Is that guilt what made him repeat, "I'm sorry" in his sleep?

That sounds interesting. But I somehow thought he was apologizing for something he didn't do but should have.

So, misogyny and emotional abuse ruling here as well. I hope Savi isn't used as a doormat, allowing people to walk over her. She's a fighter.

It is misogynistic of Arjun to scoff at women for noticing his status and money when his own behaviour is driven by those things.

Arjun refers to his labourers as his brothers, stands up for his watchman, tells his secretaries to take all the time they need for their ailing mothers, and wants to build the power plant so that all of Kawathe-Bhairavgad can prosper. He's so down-to-earth! Yet, the only reason Arjun gets to call himself a game-changer is that he's a rich banker, the only tiger in his jungle. Arjun doesn't need to think twice about snapping at Hetal, calling her "useless" and "duffer," just as he calls Savi "Miss Vaśilā" in front of everyone. He's the boss, and everyone else can be replaced.

What would Arjun's identity be if he could separate it from his power and privilege? What would a woman find attractive about him if he was an ordinary man who couldn't veto bloodsports when the rest of the festival committee voted for them?

If Arjun had to follow orders at work instead of deciding which meetings to attend personally based on proximity to his crush, if he couldn't spill coffee on purpose and order someone else to clean it up ... would he be sure that it was his flute music that called Savi to him?

When Arjun was gloating about not having to marry Sneha, Savi mocked him for being rejected. Now she is enjoying ignoring Arjun while he misses her and pursues her.

Savi fighting her kidnappers with a bag over her head was an intense scene. Her heroic, courageous effort got me involved in a way that action scenes rarely do.

I appreciate the creative team for making Arjun tell Savi to make a police complaint. He should have reported the kidnapping to the police in the first place, but maybe Pankaj was doing that while Arjun followed the clues. The story would have been irresponsible if Bhaiyu and his gang were assumed to learn their lesson from Arjun beating them up.

It was good to see Arjun calmly and kindly telling Savi that reporting a sex crime would invite gossip about her morals, but he would support her. Arjun has privileged access to police resources, but he didn't speak like a boss. He accepted that the process would be tough for an ordinary woman to fight.

For months, I've wondered, where is Savi's guilt for killing Sahil? Vishvambhar mentions once in a while that Savi could go to prison for sadoṣa manuṣyavadha, but Savi herself never has a moment of regret that her stealing a car cost a cyclist his life. Self-doubt could have been worked into the story instead of Savi's counterproductive pranks against Arjun and Nanda and Shali.

At last, when Savi told Arjun that killing Bhaiyu would have haunted him all his life, she implied that she is troubled by the memory of striking Sahil. Arjun suspected that she was speaking from experience. Will he someday discover that Savi is somehow not guilty?

Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour

Savi fighting her kidnappers with a bag over her head was an intense scene. Her heroic, courageous effort got me involved in a way that action scenes rarely do.