But I do *not* want him around the RK-Madhu pairing in any shade, positive or negative. I would also not have wanted any actor I *liked* in such a role vis-a-vis the Kabir-Aditi pairing.
Pairings we love should not have actors we like as third angle. It makes for unpleasantness - because there's no scope for conflict. I want the pairing preserved. The actor can always get another role.
Third angles - at least in Hindi serials - are generally never good for any pairing. However differently or well it's handled, everything soon descends into the absolute realm of cliche. TRPs never permit anything else.
And one keeps reading about jealousy helping RK and Madhu draw closer.
But RK's character does not seem to be the type to draw closer through jealousy or displeasure.
He tends to distance himself if he feels he is being made insecure, whether or not it was intended by the other person.
If he feels the other person is prioritizing someone else, he estranges himself or strikes out to hurt or both.
This is not going to be an ego battle that Madhu will win if she tries to play hard-to-get.
If her attention strays or he starts to feel jealousy, his past experience with Dips will be the spectre at his side eating away at his trust in Madhu.
The more Madhu gives in absolutely to her feelings, the more RK is completely immersed in their relationship.
There are so many points that would be playful or sweetly teasing between a couple in marriage and/or romance, and almost all of those are potential landmines for Madhu in establishing her relationship with RK, given the number of bad memories and absolute erosion of regard for most aspects of marriage and relationships that Radha and Dipali have caused in him.
If RK feels a third angle is making advances towards Madhu (even without her reciprocating), the indeterminate effect it will have on his tenderness towards Madhu is a horrid downside so early in the relationship.
This is not the sort of story in which Madhu would get an ego-boost from her guy going wild with jealousy.
RK's mild version of jealousy was at the party, when he thought Madhu had come to the party at Radha's telling rather than his own.
It reduced Madhu from his 'beautiful wife' that he proudly went around introducing to each guest directly to waitress.
That was his jealousy with his *mother* as the third angle.
I do not want to see what his reaction will be if his jealousy is provoked with a potentially - even remotely - romantic third angle, negative or not, antagonist or not.
Madhu's loyalty and devotion get her the right to bully him, scold him, be irate or tease him.
Madhu as someone else's focus would destroy the growing tenderness of RK's focus on her.
And as someone who was depressed with the waitress stint, I do *not* want to see the hurt she may suffer from any fresh bout of jealousy he may feel about her with another guy in the picture.
This is a relationship in which jealousy is likely to be a corrosive rather than a building agent, and wish to God the CVs had not decided to bring up a third angle when the two basic angles of the relationship are still a long way from being stably bonded to each other.
Anupamaa
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