Very true, Varun seems like a very positive & mature person in real life who takes his career (& personal life as a married man), very responsibly & seriously. Why should anyone think he is arrogant and why as a positive character in the show and down to earth person must he depict himself in the negative light as the villain?
Let me first throw some light on to your second question and how it directly affects the first.
Here is a quote from Varun Badola, a few days ago:
"...The fact that i would want to be remembered as someone who tried out different things. even if i don't get a chance to show my metal on the silver screen, i just hope i do enough on TV to be remembered as one of the best."
There is a saying:
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
I think when any prominent actor says things like he wants to be remembered as 'The Best on TV', some people may wrongly interpret this and pass negative assumptions about him being proud, or arrogant, or is self-adulating. People are after all people, full of mistakes, like anyone and can make the wrong assumptions.
Sometimes also, a person's present state affects him/her, for example when they are emotional, an understanding of language is often misunderstood due to lack of skilful use of language, and where proper expression is supposed to be used, rushed jargon is used instead, therefore it seems that personal attacks are made. When people do make personal attacks it's not malicious but sometimes out of pure frustration. If for example, a person says "you are arrogant" it is totally different from saying: "I don't think arrogance is the right course." The former would be taken as a degradation or insult while. the latter is a non-judgemental, general comment, respectively indicating that arrogance in any given situation, (not attacking the person himself) is not the correct course, if that were to be the case.
There is another saying: "Before you criticise walk a mile in their shoes."
IMHO, however, since we do not really know Varun Badola, in person then we should all be careful not to pass any negative or judgemental comments about him or anyone's personal character when we have neither met them in person or conversed with them. We would not be liked to be hurt by negative remarks so we should treat others with the same honour & RESPECT which we all feel that we deserve.
Varun Badola, seems like a very nice, intelligent person and naturally has similar amount of self-respect as the rest of us. He is only trying his best to perfect his goals as an actor and he is setting out to achieve his own personal aims in his career with his full effort. He feels that by doing different challenging roles he will be able to get more appreciation of his work. However we have all tried to make Varun understand how a positive protagonist role would suit him best for this show. He has already said in another post that he doesn't really listen to what the audience wants. (This too may be wrongly portrayed by others as arrogance). The more his fans tell him, the further he moves away from pleasing his audience, the more he feels he needs to do other challenging roles...and this circle continues.
Although I do not have a TV at home, nor watch watch many dramas - I certainly watch none of the UK soaps, however, I applaud Varun Badola's performance on all grounds of his best humour, thought provoking, protagonist & respectful acting roles such as shown in Aek Chabhi Pados Mein & Phir Subah Hogi.
If Varun is using universal values to 'charm' the audience in his acting then I believe, Takur Vikram Singh is only going to be interpreted by the hearts & eyes of the general audience as a Hero, but not as an 'obsessed psychopath' that sorry to say, Varun, you so desired. It's important to know what the public are interested in and pleasing the audience is one of the crucial aspects in directing any movie or show and in acting, as you most probably are already well aware.
If Varun decides to continue ahead with the negative role of another sinister antagonist in this show then this is his choice. He has the right to act as he chooses, but he may also risk of losing many viewers who may stop watching this show (as I have already done). People, like myself, have been already horrified to watch perversion on their PC/TV screens and will no doubt feel so dismayed to see a Hero turning into an 'evil psychopath' that they will run.
People do not want to sit feeling more angry & frustrated, in their already stress-filled lives and many also do not recognize how to deal with these ill emotions. The feelings of hurt, disappointment and humiliation, the endless episodes wasting their precious time, being in front of a screen every day. Many decent people can not smile at perversion and treat it as 'mere entertainment'.
Joyful, meaningful and thought provoking reflections are what people want to see in entertainment, which I am afraid to say even if this was there, many already have made up their minds that TV addiction is not one of them in their already busy lives, filled with personal troubles & responsibilities.
With the on screen slaughter of the character of a once chivalrous & noble man, the audience will no doubt feel insulted that humanitarian values are being trampled upon and that good virtues & principles which they abide by in their hearts lives, which they so deeply venerate are being butchered and made a rude mockery of. Furthermore, the audience is least going to trust Indian actors on stage shows thereafter, if promiscuity is promoted and devaluing of morals & ethics continues. Showing excessive violence, rape, emotional & physical abuse is not only off-putting but no woman watching continuous senseless violence who is living alone will probably ever feel safe or secure on the streets. Your sisters, mothers & daughters may never trust a man again, no matter how rational, respectful, sweet or caring.
Finally, dear actors, your audiences are already now seriously reviewing the potential harm of the big screen as well as the time consuming & harmful nature of TV addiction itself & fearing the harms & outcome TV programming in the minds of the youth while watching and waiting the new disaster of the next generation yet to come, I am sure many will desert the TV resorting to applying real life natural skills, studying, literacy and of course reading more books.
Going back to question I was asked here earlier again IMHO, If you, Varun like writing, perhaps only as my suggestion, you can take teaching, or writing as a serious second career, helping eradicate illiteracy, while educating the impressionable youth of today, standing by the best moral principles.
'It's never too late to learn'
I know I have slightly gone off-subject, and apologize if this seems like a 'rant', but just as a consolation to the Morally Conscious & God fearing people watching/watched this show and reading my comment; whatever you may decide to do in your personal lives, I am sure it will bring about much deal of Greater Good.
Wishing you all Peace & Blessings & God Bless
Istila