Originally posted by: Arshi1195
I think Hassan made a really good point about audiences forgiving bad characters just because they are good looking or because of the actor who plays them. In Beykhudi, people were actually supporting Noor Hassan even though what he did was beyond disgusting. Put a less popular or attractive guy instead of him and people would not forgive him. The actor Penn Badgley from the show YOU spoke about the same thing. Fans actually sympathized with his character and fans downplayed his filthy actions just because he is the one playing a despicable character. I think audiences need to learn to take away the so called "hero" from the character and see them for who they are on the show.
Hassan definitely has a point, people have definitely glorified characters just because good looking actors played them, but Hassan has chosen the wrong examples. His examples are Zaroon, Asher, Hamza, Mir Hadi, and honestly, when Asher and Mir Hadi happened, Fawad and Feroze were still not as big as they are today. The characters he chose as an example all had human arcs, arcs that made them redeem their bad/unlikable actions, I repeat, characters only deserve forgiveness if they truly repent and show remorse and all of the above characters did, then why did Hassan blame the audience, the writers justified Asher/Zaroon and Mir Hadi, so why cannot the audience? The writer did not justify Hamza though, yet gave him a redemption arc.
Coming back to YOU and Joe goldberg, he is disgusting and sick, a serial killer, he cannot have and he did not have anything close to what can be called redeemable, I wonder which people have actually sympathized with him 🤢. It is disturbing, he was scary and terrible. I did not watch beykhudi though, but I trust you when you say that some disgusting act was sympathized. Also, I remember the ITV show saubhagybhati bhava, omg that abusive and rapist woman beater was glorified and the good male lead died, it was so disturbing and pathetic I cannot even tell you.
Coming back to this show, the whole debate is that neither Asher, nor Zaroon, and not even Farhad has done anything disgusting that they cannot be forgiven, choosing to crucify a character because he gave a baddua is again an opinion, but it is no way a sin and criminal to not get an reasoning by the writer. Asher mistrusted his wife, Zaroon was chauvinistic, Hamza was borderline aggressive, but yet none of them crossed that boundary where they came of as inhumane and disgusting to the point of no return, they had redemption arcs and Hassan failed to see that arc and blamed the audience.
Hassan definitely has a point when he says that good looking actors sell a problematic character, but audience makes the character iconic only when the writer wants to make it iconic, that is my opinion, and I agree with your opinion too. Instead of going with Asher, Zaroon or Farhad, Hassan should have gone with characters like the ones you have mentioned, his point was right but he chose wrong characters.
Edited by SteFanSalvaTor - 4 years ago
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