what if the roles were reversed? - Page 2

Why go so far

@gudima I was watching that show. But the day the male lead cut his wrist publicly and stopped the female lead's engagement I stopped watching it. Making a suicide attempt well I dont call it love and that too a tamasha in front of so many guests. My mom watches it.

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

Bold -but when did i say that i accept or don't accept?

My post is about universal treatment of grey male characters and female characters.How they are written or shown in various mediums nothing about my personal opinion.Universally, grey male characters do get redemption and happiness when they fall in love but grey female characters rarely get that chance.This is a fact not an opinion.

Now for my personal opinion i like any normal girl i do like bad guy good girl love story😆.Yes may be not to the extend of other's like i can never ship Christian grey with any one but there are relationships that i ship in which male character is grey or has done terrible things and female character is good..So i do like those stories but i just feel that a bad girl good boy love story will be something different.Since its very rare to read about it or watch it onTV. Personally i prefer flawed characters to perfect ones as i relate more to flawed characters male and female both.

Excellent post

Indian telly is prone to scarfing females who should worship their husbands like god. Even if they had extra marital affair she would reform him and accept him.

Like shurthi said Indian women hood was not shown weak before ektha era began.
Smitha Patel and shabana asmi had done many roles which is quite unconventional.
Shanthi was one such heroine played by mandira bedi.
She was bold and fearless
After her I don't see any heroine with attitude like her.
Few year back there was a series called anamika where a spirit falls in love with a human.
In the end his sacrificying mata bakth Wife saves him.
Indian telly always show women either black husband snatching money hungry greedy vamp or white who loves her husband even if he cheats her and treats her like dormat or he man handles her.
There is no term as Grey for woman.
But grey shades man is highly on demand.
Like arnav maan or rk
At first I thought behad is different.
But no.
I fear they are going to take same old conventional root of good always wins

I like your point.

That's the reason as to why I never liked any of Gul's shows. The male leads of her shows are always half mad, and borderline abusive both physically and mentally. They are apparently 'misunderstood' men. The heroines are the epitome of goodness and naivete. And they, very unsurprisingly, change them and repair their broken souls.

But again, Maya is a notch above. She's not merely arrogant and misunderstood. She can be downright dangerous - even if she's not the killer of Ashwin and the pundit, we can't overlook the fact that she's repeatedly made attempts to kill.
And it's extremely difficult to live in a toxic relationship where you can't stand your wife. So I don't blame Arjun for wanting a way out. A suffocating long relationship can take a toll on you. Moreover Arjun has always been a "duffer" , literally. Understanding Maya and helping her cure is not something he can do, not at all.

@whitewitch I completely forgot Shanti. She was a bindaas character.

Do anyone remember a show called "Dil Se Di Dua... Saubhagyavati Bhava?"
If not, then do search for LifeOk's show starring Sriti Jha and Karanvir Bohra

So had the role been reversed that's what we would have got.

When things are difficult they are difficult, there is no role of gender. In that show, Janvi too moved on to find someone worthy, totally not happy about it.

I am not gonna be gender biased here, but be it Indian show or any other drama, most of it have their own ways of perception of portraying psychological illness, which is sad! Being into the field of psychology, these are the reasons why have I decided to give them a try. These are not simple topics to be taken lightly.

Well, it's different that in both the shows, "Beyhadh" and "Dil Se Di Dua.." main leads were the one suffering from the "harmful" illness, and in most of the shows, all the villians, and third angles have these inclinations, which are obviously ignored by makers and fans bash "evil" and "villians". So in that matter these two shows are different as leads are the sufferers.

What I expect is a good message to be given out to not ignore such people. Honestly more then "Love" they need healing. Analysis and guidance, which NONE of the show so far ever portrayed on television, some movies did. But looking at the show, I have 0 expectations.

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@whitewitch I completely forgot Shanti. She was a bindaas character.

she reminds me of how modern woman should be. The courage she had was lacked by current new age heroines who stuck between good and bad.

In between have you watched Swabhiman. I mean not the one which aires in rangeela channel.

One which aired in doordahrshan in late nintes . Actors like Rohit roy, Manoj Bajpai and Ashuthosh Rana acted as their debut serial.

if arjun would have been obsessive one, her wife action would have been totally depended on the type of person she was, not every girl is same.