Originally posted by: TheJake
This Arjun angle is so blah. I don't know why people are going aww about it. He's milking it and people are falling for it.
It's because of his behavior. His consistent behavior since Sridevi's death. He is a guy who has spoken about them in interviews and said at one point they don't exist for me. In many ways he was justified to feel that way. His father cheated on his mom, he was never part of the happy family tableau the foursome of Boney, Sridevi, Jhanvi and khushi presented. It's like Arjun and his sister did not even exist as part of that family. In the USA even if the parents divorce and the father cheated, the kids do go and visit him regularly, If he marries again and there are children born to that marriage, they become a blended family. It is not easy but many families do have bonds. We have heard they took vacations together, but obviously not a cordial relationship. Boney's brothers have openly stood for Arjun and Anshula as a father figure.
In that scenario, when Sridevi died what did Arjun do ? Flew in from shooting. Stood for his father when he needed support. Carried Sridevi's body, the body of a woman who was cause of so much heart break to his own mom. You can say he did it for the cameras. But he is there in pretty much every frame even when the camera was not supposed to be there like at the funeral ground. The pure human compassion he and Anshula showed for their half sisters who are walking the same path ironically like them is what I like about them.
No one can understand in the Kapoor family like these two what it means to lose a mother. No one other than Arjun can understand losing a mother just before debut like Jhanvi did because they both are walking the exact same path. So his support for her despite the past and her bonding. How she speaks of him, the smile on her face, the words she uses, the bonding in pictures. Well, if that is fake and brother and sister are milking it for all it's worth, they are better actors than I give them credit for. In fact I have criticized them both rather badly for their acting. So I think I can smell fake or putting on a show if I see one. I really don't have that high regard for their acting.
A lot of things in BW are fake. Ask me to talk about KJO and his fake ness and I will write an essay. But this somehow seems real to me. A true human moment in which tragedy united a broken family, where siblings who should hate each other instead bonded, the love between them, of a father who was not the greatest but has managed to have the best kids in that family. Great upbringing. If all that is fake, give them an Oscar for I for one completely believe them.
Edited by Justmoi - 7 years ago
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