KKB Character Metas - 2. Aaliya (PG-4) - Page 2

Originally posted by: -mina-

Kay I'm pretty sure the writers only care about AbhiGya, everything else is an afterthought 😆

Originally posted by: Diahh

Hello advena!😃

Pretty interesting! First of all thanks for this post! Enjoyed reading it. Will contribute to this as we continue. I am glad that you can't keep your opinions to your self.😆

As Kat mentioned I am also waiting to see your meta post on Aaliyah, the most.

Okay, Coming to Suresh, I must say I liked his character very much in the beginning. He was kind of eccentric, boring character but still there was something in his character which made him quite strong IMO. But after AbhiGya marriage may be coz we didn't get to see him as much, or may be coz he was always coming in the way of the much loved hero Abhi, I began to get kind of annoyed. It continued to grow till I saw his drunken confession few days ago.

He is always known for his saying the wrong things at a wrong time trait and this was one such occasion. But what made this different, was the fact that there was no inhibitions this time. It revealed a lot about the character.

However, I must admit that I don't ship SuBul. Well, at least not till day.

Advena I look forward to read about the other characters. 😛

Diah

Originally posted by: kdsubs

😆. You can't keep your opinions to yourself. And you have a deadline looming, and you are here 😆. What are you - my long-lost twin or something?

And since you have been brave (or foolish?) enough to ask for our vote/opinion, and since i cannot keep my opinions to myself either (though... i have learnt the hard way to ... at least be more diplomatic about 'em, especially on IF): as far as i am concerned, you can skip #s 4, 5 and 7 with my blessings. Perhaps even #6 - though Sarla has potential which peeps through once in a while. Daadiji now - which one did you mean? Abhi's Daadi or Pragya's? You should do both. The older ladies are atom bombs here 😊. And now you know my vote - hands down - Aliya. She is the most complex, most layered and hence the most interesting character in this show.

Suresh now. Ekta probably did see Family Matters and base him on Urkel. He even looks like him.

Yep, you nailed him. Suresh is not quite Col Brandon (my most fav char in the novel, which btw was a hard one to like after P&P). But he shares some of the Colonel's most honorable characteristics. And he is the everyday hero. Who suffers from both a hero complex and a severe inferiority complex at the same time.

My 2 cents (and as usual, i differ from over 90% of the audience), its Bulbul who does not deserve Suresh. She has no depth. She may be pretty and bright - like a moth. But she does not have the depth of character some one like Suresh needs long-term. (I am no fan of BB's as you can tell. She is no Marianne. But i don't even see her becoming one in the show. No potential in this one).

But - love is blind. And stupid. And Suresh will continue to wallow in it. Continue to make a greater fool of himself. Continue to make himself into the enemy of the very family he yearns to belong to.

Originally posted by: renukha871

Suresh is definitely one of the most underrated character in the show. He's like the puppet who's there only when someone needs his help and left forgotten at a corner when they don't need him. And he is also one of the most disliked character in this show and that's a sad thing. I mean just because he gives importance to being just and right? And also because he speaks his mind and isn't an eye-candy??? He definitely made mistakes along the way and so have other characters. But I find it extremely unfair that Bulbul pinpoint him for not marrying her sister. I get why she finds it wrong to like him. I mean her sister had feelings for him. But she needs to move on from that, because Pragya clearly has.

Originally posted by: -mina-

Interesting thoughts, advena. I think I might just have opposite opinions from yours on just about everything related to KKB, but you express your opinions so compellingly that I'm happy to read them.

As for Suresh - wow oh wow, did I ever get a different sense from him, from the beginning. I get what you mean about Suresh being the everyday hero - he's definitely supposed to be the model citizen, an upstanding and righteous man, etc etc. Did you ever read Georgette Heyer? He's like Venetia's "worthy" suitor - which both is and isn't a compliment.

But from the beginning I've viewed Suresh with dislike and mistrust, in relation to Pragya. Rather than a white night, I saw him as a potential traitor - he was so close to Pragya, which meant he was in a perfect position to hurt her, whether he meant to or not. I never wanted them to get together, and his suppressed longing for Bulbul - which was at first shown ambiguously, so that viewers would think he wanted Pragya - made me suspicious of him.

I have to disagree with you that he's never done anything we can hold against him - going along with his initial engagement to Pragya was a huge mistake. A man of sense would've been honest with his best friend about the misunderstanding. In this case an excess of sensibility - as regards doing the right thing and not causing problems - kept him silent and pretending for far too long.

He's a caring friend and he never meant to hurt Pragya, I'll give him that. But for all that he can fight whatever social justice cause comes his way, and for all that he's willing to butt into others' lives to set things right, he severely lacks courage on his own behalf. What would have me swooning for him would be a stoic and honest confession to Bulbul - I love you, I know you don't want me, but I'll keep loving you, and the choice of what to do with your heart is yours - instead of lurking around her family and hiding his feelings and nursing hurt in his heart in a slimy passive-aggressive way.

I think the writers have been inconsistent with Suresh (well, with everybody, but we're talking about Suresh right now); the way he went along with Abhi's second-marriage farce made no sense to me. I want to ship SuBul or even a refreshed Suresh-Pragya friendship where Pragya could draw strength from her sensible friend, but I'm not finding Suresh interesting or likable now. I don't know how he could recover in my eyes - I've lost respect for him.

And all that being said...I don't dislike him. I want to like him, but as you said...something just makes it so I can't.

My vote is, let's do Purab next. He grates on my nerves too, so maybe between us we can set out all his flaws and come up with what would make him better 😉.

Originally posted by: chair1992

Correct me if I am wrong but Bulbul never really liked Suresh even before the whole marriage drama with Pragya. He too is vain in a way, he fell for Bulbul the pretty sister instead of the good hearted one.

Suresh though is not afraid to speak up, I loved it how he told Abhi off after the mms fiasco.

He is a good guy but not perfect. Though I think he is the better guy than Abhi.

My only big complain about him is the love he helds for the beautiful sister Bulbul. He just proved like alll the other guys he too choses beauty over a beautiful heart but than again he is a man.

Originally posted by: Kay08

finally a post that I like!! I agree with almost everything you said.

Suresh is indeed most underrated character in KKB and I liked him from the start because he's normal citizen when compared with everybody else. His dialogues in the beginning were great. I still like him more than other main leads, for some reason Purab just hasnt been able to impress me yet!🤔

Mina I think reason behind your feelings is because CVs rather than developing his character, have used him as a puppet to be included wherever they need a bit of drama or drag the story. When do we ever get to see normal everyday scenes with suresh? He only appears when hes needed and mostly in the horrible situation which makes us question our likeness of him. And writers have been horrible in writing his dialogues as well, perhaps they only care about other two couples and their love stories!😆

But hey I still like him, call me an idiot for this, but if i like someone from the first day, i tend to stick with them throughout! 😊