This may be an unpopular opinion !
I don’t dislike Shiva, I dislike Raavi being held at a much higher standard of fault than Shiva!
it’s a long post, please do read and share your thoughts
Sharing some thoughts that are running in my head!
About Shiva’s sacrifice and how Raavi should be grateful!
I disagree, Shiva’s choice to marry Raavi was heavily influenced by Dhara! I would say almost 90% or more, a small part 10% may have been influenced by seeing Raavi hanging from the noose!
I think seeing her like that for the first time in his life, he realized she’s a human who has a gamut of emotions. She feels pain so unbearable that she doesn’t want to live anymore!
without the wedding drama, this may have mellowed him down towards her and he may have silently cared for her from afar!
but it honestly didn’t affect him so much that he willingly stood up and tld he’ll marry her! It’s tv tropes abt Raavi being left at the altar and stuff, but even then he didn’t volunteer coz maybe in the back of his mind he knew she’ll never get over Dev or it won’t work between them!
also nor did maama maami demand that Raavi get married right then and there, they were respectfully walking out of the venue!
it was dhara who came up with this solution coz Suman was harping on abt losing her brother and threatening to throw dhara out!
Shiva said yes only for Dhara and his family! To save them from humiliation and dhara from getting kicked out!
he made a sacrifical choice for his family, one out of the many he’s done including quitting his studies maybe!
he took on the burden of the decision of his family, which his family should have helped him shoulder!
To expect Raavi to be eternally grateful to Shiva and put him on a pedestal is unfair and wrong!
She didn’t ask for it nor did her family, nor was she the only deciding factor in his decision! She was also a byproduct- ill do it for my bhabhi also I’m very affected by looking at her like this!
All said and done, he made a choice, we can’t expect Raavi to keep telling him how grateful she is, she will when she reaches there and put him on a pedestal, but putting the burden of Shiva’s decision on Raavi is unfair.
Also didn’t Shiva call Raavi a “panauti” when the bike didn’t start? I remember him calling her that multiple times which is very bad since it means like a bad omen, also the way he says it seems like he didn’t want to be married to her but was forcefully tied to her, if he was forced , it wasn’t raavi who forced him right?
Isn’t that name calling? So he’s also been doing that since the wedding!
He also continuously argues with her and makes her feel unwanted right from the day of the wedding! He also like a typical husband goes off on her for insulting dhara during the bus journey when Raavi did no such thing!
Raavi is wrong to place the blame entirely on dhara, but she’s atleast gone off on her, Shiva never has, all his frustrations he takes out on Raavi!
While Shiva’s family has constantly abused him physically and emotionally alot, all that blame has been placed on Raavi coz she’s at the center of it, which is not the case, Dhara was the one who started it and Shiva should take it out on her!
Again reiterating my point of how men get away with a lot of bad behavior,
Shiva’s name calling, his using raavi as a punching bag is unnoticed just coz he made a sacrifice!
His sacrifice was heavily influenced by his love for his family, Raavi had a small part in it, so she shouldn’t bear the biggest brunt of it!
Edited by wanderer102016 - 4 years ago