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I saw all of your posts on my live-reaction thread! Thank you, I agree with everything (even the incoherent fangirl giberish 😆) that you all said. I have a lot of work this week (the week before break is always really hectic) so rather than shut out IF, I just want to focus my energies on creating new things for ShraMan, posts, and will get back to replies later on. I hope you all understand ❤️ though every word is read and appreciated (and many fangirl-ed and YASSS-ed over 😆❤️)
Also, I wrote this on another post, and want to just leave this here, felt the need to share this with my AT-soul-sistahs:
Additionally, I cannot compare Shravan to any other male lead on Indian TV that I've ever seen. Because there is no comparison.
Yes I'll say it, most of the male leads that I've liked, now in retrospect were rather abusive, dehumanizing, and condescending. I love that despite Shravan being an Oxford grad lawyer, he doesn't see himself as above anyone, especially Suman. He gives her the same respect he would give himself. Which I LOVE. Yes he'll laugh or smirk at her antics, but out of endearment, never embarrassment and he never has any haughty *I'm Shravan Freakin Malhotra the Mothaeffin BOSS* airs about him, and nor will he put that aspect of him on display unless he needs to (to defend his own, like he did with Verma).
The other major thing is that in the name of "tortured," "tragic past," and "angry young man" Shravan is not an inconsiderate, abusive, asshole. Shravan fits ALL three of those tags that as you said, make women swoon, but yet he (and the writers) know that not only is it flat-out wrong, but inconsistent to show a character who knows such pain to inflict that on others and use his "mom running away" and his heartbreak & humiliation as a reason to constantly dehumanize people whenever he wanted. ANGRY YOUNG MAN DOES NOT EQUAL ABUSIVE ASSHOLE and I LOVE that Shravan is the only male lead I've seen who embodies that.
His smoulders, his ghussa, his protective rage, they all make us swoon like other male leads, but the fact that there's more to him, that is so endearing, realistic, and above all RESPECTFUL, is what separates him from others, making a comparison with them just an insult to the amazingly etched character that Shravan is.
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