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Just thought of bringing this to light:
Recently, Times of India TV published an article talking about how effortlessly artists are playing negative roles. One of their mentions was @fenil_umrigar Di who plays Gauri in Kaala Teeka.
As all of us know, Gauri is not an inherent negative character. In fact, she does not even fit in the category of an antagonist as she has never hurt Kali knowingly or done anything to cause anyone harm. Instead, she is just a normal modern naive girl who does have some attitude, but that obviously is a common phenomenon in today's time and surely does not make one a villain.
In fact, let me just mention few instances that show she is so NOT a negative character:
1. She is the reason that Kali was allowed to educate herself. Without her insistence, Kali would have turned out to be an uneducated, superstitious girl.
2. She has this dominant sibling kinda trait which makes her boss over Kali, but she saves her too.
3. She gave the opportunity to Kali to portray her singing talent, without which the story after the leap would not have progressed.
4. She has been grown up in an environment where she gets what she wants. She has never manipulated others to do what she wants, instead she is a pawn in Taiji's game to teach Vishwaveer a lesson.
5. She always gives ointment to Kali when she is hurt/ injured because she knows Kali will not take care of herself otherwise.
6. She listens to Kali and sometimes does things quite unlike her because that makes Kali happy and that proves how much she values their childhood friendship.
7. She has casually implicitly mentioned to Kali a lot of times that it is not okay or normal to be trapped and blindly follow Badke Papa like this.
8. She was genuinely worried about Kali's wellbeing when she came back from the temple after the fire incident and when the bus left her behind.
9. She equally opposed and reprimanded Neelu Bhaiya when he did wrong to Sharmila Di.
10. She stopped the girls from calling Kali her servant and acknowledged her as a sister figure. Basically, she has the best interests for everyone, including her own self at heart.
Now please clarify, how does that make her a bad person?
Needless to say, even Fenil Di felt hurt and considerably upset with the misappropriation of her character in the article. She replied to them:
Even after this happened, neither the website nor article writers have issued an apology for the same. It is my humble request to everyone who reads this and is on Twitter to show support and help the TOI article writers understand her character before labelling her as an 'antagonist'.
Thanks for reading.
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