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KhatamKahani

@KhatamKahani

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Posted: 10 years ago

How does Sarfaraz, the man who was standing his ground in protecting the Bharadwaj family suddenly get such an about-turn regarding the Mandir, which conveniently allows for the Panditji to drop the bomb on him, which of course paves the way for him being the villain. And then of course, the Bharadwaj family who really haven't properly apologized or made up for their assholish behavior to Sarfaraz (yes, that includes Sunder) continue acting like A-Holes.

Sarfaraz turns into convenient villain.

The people who should have apologized and had some true narrative acknowledgment of their wrong actions either become 1) martyrs, or 2) heroes fighting to save the loved one from the situation and separation for which convenient villain Sarfaraz is responsible.

Bravo, CVs. Bravo.

Yes, Partition was horrible. People were horrible. But you really had to make every Muslim character, or rather all the males turn out to be active participants? The least could have been that Sarfaraz and Anwar were afraid and stopped taking a stand against it. That would have been realistic and even understandable. But no, we have Sarfaraz the villain. Anwar (maybe hesitantly) going along with the mob, etc etc.

I don't understand. During this whole process there wasn't anyone who went...wait...and saw the problems with what they were writing/showing? Or is it that they didn't really care, or weren't heeded to? And don't tell me this was the plan from the start?

Anyway enjoy the rest of the show. I'm out.

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: KhatamKahani

Yes, Partition was horrible. People were horrible. But you really had to make every Muslim character, or rather all the males turn out to be active participants? The least could have been that Sarfaraz and Anwar were afraid and stopped taking a stand against it. That would have been realistic and even understandable. But no, we have Sarfaraz the villain. Anwar (maybe hesitantly) going along with the mob, etc etc.

I don't understand. During this whole process there wasn't anyone who went...wait...and saw the problems with what they were writing/showing? Or is it that they didn't really care, or weren't heeded to? And don't tell me this was the plan from the start?

I have to agree with this. I really don't understand the writing decisions taken regarding this. On any other show I would expect it - but from what we had seen so far on Lajwanti I had thought it would explore the themes it raised better.

... all that subtle and muti-dimensional characterisation seems to have been thrown out in favour of a more binary conflict. Very sad.

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Posted: 10 years ago

Now no one will be shown saying sorry for their bad behavior:

Not Mataji - who constantly called the Muslim servants names

Not Kishorilal - whose silence has led to a mother and son living a life of hardship

Not Chaman - who burnt Sarfaraz's hand

Not Sunder - who started hitting a loyal employee of his shop under the incorrect assumption that because he happened to be a Muslim he must be the one who burnt their shop and his wife. Ironically, ofcourse the guy had actually been trying to keep her safe. In fact Sunder instead gets mad at Sarfaraz for getting mad at being wrongly accused and with a sense of entitlement reminds him of his position instead.

I enjoy flawed characters and was hoping all these issues will be explored with nuance and eventually get addressed. But instead the writing has done such a u-turn that one minute Sarfaraz is protesting against violence towards the Bharadwaj clan and the next minute he is converted into an object spewing hate and actively abusing the same Bharadwaj family - thereby making it convenient to ignore, negate, or worse, validate the objectionable actions of the Bharadwaj family members themselves.

I'm also tuning out of Lajwanti actually because it seems downhill from here.

A few months down the line, no doubt the "other woman" Gunwanti (as the narrative constantly tries to imply by juxtaposing her against Sunder/Lajjo and by refusing to give her any other storyline) will also have been turned into a vamp...

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