@TM: What you have said is completely true. 👏 However, your topic will unfortunately probably be closed, since for some reason expressing that particular point of view is forbidden in this place...
Seriously, if someone has an opinion, they're allowed to express it. Not everything is necessarily construed as an attack. The TM hasn't said anything outright offensive - simply that they feel that Toral looks too old to match well with Sid. That's not an insult. If they had used abusive names for Toral, then yes, that would be an insult. But the majority of people on here are being accused of bashing simply for saying that they don't like Toral's acting, that she doesn't suit the role of Anandi, and that she lacks chemistry with Sid and the rest of the cast. I don't see why it is considered so incredibly unreasonable to hold such opinions. Furthermore, why do we have to have separate spaces for our separate opinions? It's as though Prats fans have no right to post in the rest of the forum and must be confined to the SY AT and one or two threads specifically for discussing Prats, and that any viewpoints that are anti-Toral are simply not tolerated because they spread "negativity" and ruin the forum atmosphere. Why should comparisons between the two actresses not be permitted? The role of Anandi is the same - if someone feels that one actress did more justice to it than the other, then why shouldn't they be allowed to say so?
When Prats was still playing Anandi, people had disagreements on all sorts of issues regarding the show. There used to be so many Gauri fans vs. Anandi fans arguments. But it was never said then (and rightly so) that Gauri and Anandi should not be discussed in the same thread in order to prevent arguments. This to me is just another issue on which people disagree. So why the ban? It's not like it's helping maintain forum peace. It's only acting as a band-aid for the deeper issue, and a poor one at that.
Implying that people should stay in their designated spaces (SY lovers vs. "true" BV lovers) is not solving the problem and has only created more tensions and resentment on here.