You have hit this one out of the ballpark 👏 👏 👏
Reasons I love Prithvi Saxena
1) He was a real man as in he had flaws - he was not some ideal husband you would find only in movies and on TV. He made mistakes and he was an idiot and got called on it (his "dhakkan" phase though not one of my fondest memories of him, is a case in point, want another one how about the whole aloo paratha fiasco ).
2) He was a stand up guy who made sure that no harm came to him and the people who mattered to him. Woe betide anybody who tried to harm anyone he cared about. 😛
3) The guy could make not a plan and all his plans went nowhere or backfired spectacularly 🤣 🤣 - this made him all the more endearing. Want proof check this out
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/love-ne-mila-di-jodi/1295674/prithvis-brilliant-ideas-and-their-outcomes
Somehow this made him more human. 😃
4) The guy could not ask a girl out for nuts 🤣 🤣 ... watch him mumble and put his foot in his mouth before the first PriDa dance when he compliments Damini (and unwittingly takes it back ) by telling her she looks good in Indian clothes when she is wearing a western outfit and frantically back-pedalling to make up for it. It is one of the best scenes ever. 🤣 🤣
He has to be frequently aided by his more "experienced" younger brother, Sameer, in trying to make an impression on Damini whom he was trying to date and even later when she became his wife. It is only later after Ila's death that he started taking matters into his own hands. 😉 😉 and how ☺️ - the candle light scene and the moonlight scene are some of the best PriDa scenes ever. 😳
5) Last but not the least none can match the brooding intensity that GK brought to the role of Prithvi. He has said he was unsure he could pull it off and had to be convinced that he could pull it off. And he pulled it off with such style that I cannot imagine any other actor in that role. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Prithvi rarely smiled but when he did it was like the sun came out from behind the clouds 😃
Finally I have the agree with Mru and Khushi that I will take the "brooding handsome hunk" over the "wimpy waffling good-looking crybaby" or "the smiling knock-a-girl-off-her-feet charmer" any day, provided the brooding hunk smiles once in a while for me 😉 .
Jhan