@siriuslysujal
I had vowed on another thread that I will not engage with fans because that means getting into a ceaseless cycle of replies and misunderstood counter-replies.
However, I'm replying just one last time because the comments that have generated so much ire were made by me or have been attributed to me.
I have been accused of lampooning a child birth delivery that Jagya did while in Mumbai. To the best of my knowledge I was not an active participant here at the time. The fact that in the last two years I have made only 200-odd posts testifies to my inactivity on the forum.
Besides, I'm only too aware that emergency deliveries are made in all kinds of circumstances. So it seems odd that I mocked a delivery by a qualified doctor. But assuming I did, I was at worst being insensitive. I certainly don't deserve the kind of condemnation I'm getting.
Jagya being a farmer has been entirely torn out of context. I said this by way of comparison. If Anandi had been made a doctor and Jagya a farmer ( I cannot make him a house-husband can I? Hence the analogy of a farmer), would that not have hugely upset the Jagya fans?
Anandi was a brilliant student but she had no interest in medicine. She passed up the chance to become a doctor so as to pursue her interest in social service. If I'm not mistaken she took a degree in social service.
She has demonstrated her natural leadership qualities over and over -- whether in stopping child marriage or conducting adult education classes or in devising ways to reach the canal water to needy villages, or finally in pulling off the daring rescue of mannu. Her work turned a village into a district and earned her an award from the Chief Minister.
With all these qualifications, she is reduced to pandering to an endless series of regressive in-laws while Jagya, who has shown no interest in social service, gets a double career as a doctor and a politician.
The irony is compounded by the fact that the family structures in BH are geared to offer him support in both endeavours while A is confined to the kitchen-- whether in BH or in KB. If this is not absurd what is?
The angst from our side was because of this: BV showcases itself as a carrier of progressive messages. And yet when it comes to execution it becomes a vehicle for the same gender discrimination that it rails against.
The voiceover message always harp on this or that injustice but BV CVs seem to have completely missed the paradox of a Balika Vadhu, subjected to all kinds of horrors in childhood, being subjected to more domestic tyranny after marriage.
Where is the message in this? And if there is none, should BV not stop broadcasting all those silly little homilies at the end?
I did say Jagya was an MLA more in terms of his sartorial elegance. What is so objectionable about it?
The forum will become dead place if we cannot be irreverent with the characters. I have made even more fun of Anandi and her penchant for carrying trays to people who can't bear to be near her.
Shashank is a great actor and his forte is portraying multiple shades. My own personal favourite scene in BV is the dialogue between Bhairon and J over the latter abandoning Anandi. I was on A's side but J's arguments were completely convincing and the acting was superb and compulsive.
I said he is a good actor but he has not been able to pull off the politician act. This means the script is not working, at least according to me. And I'm entitled to feel this way.
I said the character looks tepid in a "milky white" role. And the reason for this is that A is already "milky white".
We can't have the entire cast becoming clones of A. It is terribly boring to watch the same scenes being enacted again by a different person.
What was point of making A a sarpanch and show her stopping child marriage and so on, if someone else is to do the same things later on, and unconvincingly at that?
I will end by quoting from a post I made in another thread: If people can learn to distinguish among criticism of the character, actor and fan groups there would be no problem. The first is 100 per cent kosher, the second too is perfectly legit provided it is restricted to the acting and does not descend into personal abuse. The third should be avoided. Trouble starts when criticism of the character and, occasionally even the acting, is confused with and taken as criticism of the fan group
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