Article reinforces it's Jhanvi's fight not Raghav'

I'm glad I'm not the only one, not happy with this whole 'damsel in distress' runt Jhanvi/Sia is in. It really bugs me that she is still such a weak character, who can only cry and lament at the torture Viraj has put her through.

The only inspirational things Jhanvi/Sia has done were leaving Viraj, and finally publicly outing him as the abusive, cruel and sick man he is.

Even then her 'big' reveal came too late for me, when you consider that she had dozens of opportunities, and reasons to open her mouth a lot sooner.

Also although I have no issue with Raghav supporting her and aiding her against Viraj, I've hated the way he's taken charge and become the 'knight in shining armor'.

I've said it before and I'll say it again CV's started off well with Raghav by showing him as someone who wanted to make Jhanvi strong and independent; but the moment he fell in love with her, his character took a drastic U-turn for the worse.

Has anyone ever watched the film Dushman where Kajol plays a dual role of twin sisters Naina and Sonia? It's the film where the excellently portrayed sociopathic villain Gopal, rapes and murders Sonia.

Her sister Naina then goes into revenge mode, and decides to get justice the vigilante way when Gopal cleverly evades justice through legal means.

In her quest Naina encounters Suraj (Sanjay Dutt), who is a retired blind army Major, who she finally convinces to train her, both mentally and physically.

Now the reason I'm bringing up this film is because of how the rista between Suraj and Naina builds up, and how Suraj becomes her 'savior'. You see initially Suraj saved Naina, from a dire situation, and when she laments about how being a woman hindering her from defending herself he in turn blasts her. He snapped that she 'having all five of senses couldn't take care of herself whilst he not having the sense of sight still managed to save both himself and her'.

Suraj later whilst training her taught her that if 'you don't help yourself then how can you expect anyone else to?'

Finally in due course he does fall in love with her after respecting how much she has learnt from him, but when he tries to take over and fight Gopal, Naina refuses to let him. She reminds him 'not to fight her battles as this was war, as it was her sister who had died at the hands of Gopal, so it was her right to defeat him'.

At the end Suraj tries to help her but is hurt badly by Gopal, and finally a terrified Naina has to face Gopal herself and succeeds in killing him in self-defense.

So in fact Suraj ended up being Naina's 'savior' not because he saved her from the villain, but because he saved her from herself, and her despair. He taught her that sometimes in life you can't wait for a hero; sometimes you have to be your own damn hero.

Any way my point is I just wish we could have some Raghav/Jhanvi scenes where rather than him doing all the fighting and thinking, he rather teaches her to defend herself. Would a 'Dushman' style scenario have been such a bad thing to show?

Ok fine CV's didn't want to show an ass-kicking Jhanvi, but they could have shown her out-smarting Viraj. There were always hints she was smart; for instance the time she could have easily beat Viraj at chess. Chess is a mind game, where to some extent you have to be good at fore-planning and strategy, which we all know Viraj excels at. Yet Jhanvi could have won that game, which shows she too is has pretty good mind for scheming too.

So why have the CV's never shown her having an ultimate battle of minds and wits with Viraj?

Honestly IMO I think I would have preferred it if rather than building up Raghav as Viraj's 'equal', CV's had focused on turning Jhanvi into Viraj's match and more.

As personally I would have found that a lot more of an inspiring and motivating tale then the usual fare 'of the prince saves the princess and they both lived happily ever after'

Hmm how about just for once the princess saves herself, and made her own 'happily ever after'?