Hi All,
Posting this in a hurry from school as the internet's down at home for some reason.
For those complaining about Shravani:
a) Should we expect the creatives to give us "normal" behaviour from any of the characters - least of all Shravani in this awkward situation - when the circumstances are so completely abnormal, the plot so forced, and this trio in the Deshmukh household so outside the bounds of plausibility?
b) Also, think about what Manav likes: definitely not this paranoid, possessive, shrieking,shrewish creature Shravani's turning out to be. There was give-me-a-break distaste and annoyance on his face. Things couldn't be going any better for Archana on the Shravani front if she had sat down and planned them. Shravani, for whom Manav's giving up the love of his life and taking on his brother's baby, is yelling about not being treated right. And in contrast, Archana, who he knows has been genuinely wronged, is spouting the virtues of his mother, a mother even he's begun to realize is really an awful harpy. Perhaps Archana isn't actually as dumb and submissive as the creatives want us to think she is? This is, after all, the smartest way to get him back, isn't it ? Create situations where Shravani appears at her worst, and meanwhile convince Manav that she herself is a long-suffering saint, willing to live with - no, also love and respect - his mother, in spite of all that woman's ill deeds? (Of course I don't believe this alternative hypothesis; just pointing out that no regular serial vamp in strappy blouse and scarlet lipstick could have thought it through or executed it better. 😊 If we credited Archana with even average intelligence, strategic skills, and self-respect, what she's doing now would have been absolutely the ideal way to win back a man like Manav.) No? 😆
C
Edited by commentator - 15 years ago