Originally posted by: psawyer
Winnie, like I said, I don't necessarily think Shruti is right - but come on, in such situations people think they are the only ones suffering. The thing that really hinders me from hating Shruti completely (apart from a)she's Tina and b) her initial relationship with Om and Paro) is the fact that, good or bad, her reactions are HUMAN. I can relate to her (not literally, but in a human sense) because she makes mistakes - she is not claiming or portrayed as perfect. For example, I can't relate to characters like Tulsi, because she seems to have this aura of "I'm infallible" around her - so even though we can see the mistakes she makes, she considers them to be right. Similarly, I can HATE characters like Meera or Mandira because I cannot fathom their hatred and their reactions to the protagonists - what kind of revenge are they looking for? The thing about Kahaani is that most of its characters are not ONE-dimensional, not even Pallavi and not even Sasha. Sasha felt cheated because his mother was not given the respect that perhaps Anamika was given in the AG House, and Pallavi - she's had a lot of bad stuff happen to her, even though it may not directly be the family's fault. Thus, I cannot hate Pallavi, because I see that her love for Krishna is real, if nothing else is.
Similarly, whatever I may dislike about Shruti, at least she is real and human - the circumstances may be ridiculous, but her reactions are something that can be related to. I do not claim to know much about psychology or the human mind, but I guess because of my own analytical nature, I tend to try and see things more deeply than is perhaps normal😆😆 And the thing that really stops me from hating Shruti, is that the main reason she went against Paro is OM. Not some stupid, outside misunderstanding. I mean, if it was simply about Sameer, I would have hated her. Like in KZK, when, during Mukti's rape track, Sneha went against her mother for Sharad, I went - WHAT? I hated her from then on, because she placed a man she barely knew over her mother. But here, while Sameer is a major part of Shruti's life, the only man she has ever placed over her mother is her father. And that is a tiny, tenuous ray of hope for me - that whatever she does, it is because she does love her family.