Originally posted by: Sg2013
Great post!!! I love your take on this and how to connect this with Mahabharat.
Shlok is definitely a very complex character for sure. His dialogues are also double meaning and sarcastic which we can take it either way we want. He does have some feelings, care,concern for her. My take is he does not understand or does not want to understand his feelings for her. He is already lost in love once. His huge ego prevents it to accept the fact. He is not understanding how much he is losing ie., all her love. This is his story to understand his love for Astha.
For a min let me think that he loves her and he is under hate mask. If he loves and he is doing all this for a purpose then his plan is definitely convoluted. And some of his actions do not explain this plan to me. His emotional black mailing of Astha, his gloating at patipoojan, his monologues (I was actually banking on this to find out his feelings). But in this process isn't he losing Astha's love and her trust on him? He hurt her a lot and is hurting her now too. Poor gal he she is hopelessly in love with him and unable to forget him. When you take others factors in mind like Abhay, Sojal, Jaya and now Kalindi too who are trying to seperate them. He is just totally losing her now with the divorce thing. isn't it??
I for one always thought Shlok is more shrewd and manipulative and want to stick to that. One point is I love Shlok to win over his baba no matter what...I think he is more manipulative than his baba. Look's like Cv's are slowly opening up him for us now. We have to W&W.
Thanks and appreciate your views. Do you think then Shlok told Astha that he hates her because he actually hates her for all the apmaan of his baba and his own ego and all he wants is revenge and to make her life miserable. Does he get anything as he is the real loser then. He won' t have Astha , nobody in his house really cares for him, his baba only wants him so that he can manipulate him and increase his empire . All he got then is a satisfaction to his ego that he has crushed a beautiful, simple soul who really loved him. Oh that is disgusting , so I think I still want to believe that he loves her and she will accept his love for her as the CVS showed us previously in one of the episodes.
MY POV why Shlok married Astha: He married her because she called him Rakshas the first day, she rejected his marriage proposal by his dad and told on his face that he has no good qualities and now in front of his whole family she said she cannot live with him, he wanted to keep his revenge in private but she brought it in public. So, to satisfy his EGO he has married her and he wouldn't have done this to any other girl . He is just giving a color of his baba but it is all about him. In the process he developed some feelings/attraction for her but he brushed it off whether it is Kolhapur or Jungle sequence. He doesn't want to acknowledge that. He is a male chauvinistic who thinks women are weak. Yes he did crush a beautiful and gentle soul in this process. He is slowly coming to terms with this and will be redeemed. He does have good qualities too, he has a humane side which Astha brings them out whenever he is with her. And he is failing to understand that himself. But again he loves his sister and niece. Shlok's character intrigues me a lot. If he had a plan before he wanted to use Astha as a puppet to get his work done is my take. So, this is his story again to understand his love for her.
I have written a post before on Shlok's Astha mania or is it not trying to understand his feeling for her after the jungle sequence.
http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3863814
and that this show is like a chess game who is manipulating who (I could not find that link)
Edited by asthak - 11 years ago