Originally posted by: Deltablues
Do people realise that being 'flawed' is neither an excuse nor an absolvement to be abusive? All of us are flawed— we aren't God after all. Most of us still, sonehow, manage to not commit crimes— like bigamy, obstruction of justice, labour exploitation etc etc etc.
When was Aditya written in such a way that he was worthy of Imlie. Most of things enlisted above happened months before the advent of Aryan. This was the same guy who instructed an 18 y/o employee to not forget her "jagah" within first 20 episodes of the show. This was the same guy who said things like "tumhari himmat kaise hui? [...] Kya socha tha, munh mangi keemat de denge?" when Imlie tried to assert her wifely rights 270+ episodes prior to Aryan's advent. Could he not council Imlie into breaking her socialisation that ratified the coerced wedding? She was the traumatised teenaged highschooler, he the award-winning journalist, after all, albeit traumatised himself.
Yet he chose to obfuscate the truth to Malini on his own volition. He chose to not spare a thought to Imlie when this misguided teenager, he'd just met weeks earlier, told him to get married to Malini without nullifying his marriage to her
Then he continued to be nasty towards her as a trauma response—because she reminded him of the truth that his spineless ass had used a highschooler's idealistic drivel as an easy cope-out?
Sorry but the perpetuation of the cycle of abuse makes you an abuser as well. A person csn be a survivor and an abuser in different contexts.
Then he became a hero when he realised that he loved Imlie?
When had he ever considered anyboby else's feelings, trauma, consequences? Dil behlane ko Ghalib yeh khayal accha hai ki Aditya was rendered completely unsuitable for Imlie to highlight Aryan's suitability. If anything, Aryan has been written as a complete antithesis of what Aditya had been from Day 1.
Which is to say, Aditya Kumar Tripathi comes across as a raging naricissist in the posts above mine.
To say that Gashmeer's acting or his chemistry with Sumbul made the Adilie equation palatable is to Ralph's superlative acting turned Voldemort into Mother Teresa.
People can love a shitty character for the crafty way it's written or enacted without resorting to literary and mental gymnastics to excuse their shittiness. Aditya loses out even on that front.
His character development was within the scope of how the story is written! The interpretation of his character is from the assumption that the situations in the story are what happened in real, not something that can be changed. So if the story had been written to where he revealed the truth to Malini of the forced wedding, and Mlaini has either chosen to not marry him or have him divorce Imlie or complain to the police about the practice of forced weddings in Pag Dandia, the serial would have finished in the first 50 episodes! Would his use of words pf apni jagah and aukaat been less wrong if Imlie's character had been 22 instead of 18, a college going kid whose dream was to pursue a PG degree or some other competitive exam? If we argue that the character should have been written differently, I can point that out for almost every character in the serial. Satyakam who is supposedly this revolutionary rebel leader who fights for justice for the villagers supposedly would not have let this happen if he had been there when the wedding happened. Shouldn't the doting father have come after his teenaged daughter who was forcefully married off to a visiting journalist? And what's more, knowing that the wedding was forced upon both of them, and knowing he had another family, though it justified to come and act as a vigilante because at some point, a lady whom he loves/loved was cheated by an urban babu, and hence all urban babus are bad! So there are many probelms with the general characterization and the story itself. And the interpretations we make for the characters are within the confines of how they have been written.
It's not like the character could have gone off to do the right thing by himself, if the story demanded something else of him entirely. Here's where I guess the credit goes to the actor, in making an extremely problematic character like that of Aditya relatable and somewhat likeable. And believe me, the forum at one point used to be fun to come to, and not be this constant barrage of threads and people trying to virtue signal, because the old members were watching it for what it was, a fictional story, and not really looking to take any inspiration or life lessons out of it. So we have been as critical of Aditya as a character as we have liked him, according to how the story was progressing!
In that vein, I find ASR's characteristic as a boss also extremely problematic. But it's drama and hence meant to be OTT, and beyond the problematic storyline, his characterization, as a complete opposite to that of Aditya's is quite nice!
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