Hey chicksoup(cute name!),
I am thinking the CVs did a brilliant job with the serial. When Ramnath was portrayed as misogynistic did we all care? We thought well ya he is like that. Cannot help him and he needs to deal with his son liking Suman for who she is.
But what they have done now is turning the game on its head. They have created a very lovable man Shravan, who is till now shown very supportive of the lead. He is shown as the 'ideal' person for any girl with any sort of hormones to fall in love with.
So when he makes misogynistic statements there will be an explosion. There will be fireworks. There will be millions of girls across India who suddenly wake up to the fact that this man is insulting them. And men have always been insulting and they have never taken notice. Now they decide it is time to fight back. Cannot help but admire the ingenuity of it.
It is not surprising that Shravan is capable of reacting this way. He is possessive, jealous, intense and ferociously passionate. When such a person is scorned he would react very strongly and destroy everything in his path. They laid the seeds of this in the party episode.
I think this is a purposeful move by the CVs to make us empathize with Suman as a woman more. Yes she has flaws dammit. But she better fight this one. Not for herself but for US!
Warm regards!
A girl who always hopes even though she may not make sense