Originally posted by: richa1792
I have been watching Beyhahd for a while now. During the initial days, I checked out the forum and to be honest, the posts kinda scared me away. I have a lot of opinions on all the characters and I love a good character/ episode analysis but the negativity here kinda put me off.
Personally, I feel that members here are not able to differentiate between Jenny and Maya. Their love for Jenny seeps into their defence of Maya and they justify actions that are frankly abhorrent. This is my first show where I am following any of the actors. I had quit DMG long ago before Jenny made an entry, I haven't watched any of Aneri's shows and I kinda thought Kushal was a brat during his Bigg Boss days. I wasn't a fan of any of these people and I came with a clean slate.
Beyhahd promised to be a thriller. It was intriguing. It was different. While a love story was supposed to be a part of the main plot, it wasn't all it was supposed to be. The love aspect was supposed to be incidental to the whole story. It is about obsession, about control, about how our past shapes our present and out future. It is also about the mistakes of the youth, the allure of short cuts to success and the consequences once the illusion shatters. It's about one sided love and how you maintain your friendship in the face of love, and how difficult it gets and how you slip up sometimes. It's about the failure of the parents and their vain attempts to stop their children from making mistakes.
What it is not is about ArYa or SaJun. If I wanted a love story, there are hundreds of them on every other channel. How boring would it be if Amy in Gone Girl just turned into a goody two shoes? The book packed a punch because the author wasn't afraid to show a psychotic protagonist who goes to any length to get what she wants. I hated her. But she was the hero. She was the whole book. Same way, Maya is supposed to be psychotic. She had a horrible childhood. She had a good for nothing mother who gave her no help. She was abused. She coped how she could. She is a control freak, somebody who just wants to win. She does/is doing things that are on the wrong end of the moral spectrum. I don't agree with her actions. But I still understand where she is coming from.
Irrespective of that, she isn't justified. What she needs right now is some help. Yes she also needs some TLC but that won't do shit for her unless she gets some professional help. She needs to figure herself out, understand who she is without all of the external influences surrounding her. With Arjun, she is searching for something that she thinks she needs. May be he is t what she needs. She needs to introspect her life, her happiness. If Arjun is unhappy and she doesn't care about that, all she wants is to cage him then it isn't love in the first place. She may not know it because she has a really warped view of love but irrespective of that, what she feels isn't love.
As far as Saanjh is concerned, I personally see no problem in her hugging Arjun. It's just a hug. This is the twenty first century. You are allowed to hug your friends. It's not a big deal. I am friends with my exes who are married and I hug them when I meet them. It's not a big deal. That does not make her characterless and that does not imply that she is going to sleep with Arjun. That being said, the Holi sequence was messed up. I think that it was extremely presumptive of her to colour Arjun first. He is married and that right should go to Maya. Also the whole song sequence was not okay. I feel both of them crossed a line there. But you know, if this happened with me, I'd talk to the friend and let her know I wasn't comfortable with the situation. But Maya manipulated the situation and there in lies the whole concept of the story. That Maya's mind doesn't work like us. She doesn't see a problem and thinks to solve it and forget about it. She sees a problem and instantly destroys it.
Beyhadh is about Maya. It isn't about Arjun or Saanjh or Vandana or Ashwin. It's about Maya and her faults and her pains. It's about Maya's abuse and her obsession. It's about her virtues and vices. So if a show is revolving around a particular character, I am going to find the good and the bad in her. I am going to berate her if I feel she is a manipulative control freak and I am going to feel bad for her at the same time because if only she had gotten help she wouldn't have to be like this. Expressing my views shouldn't start a war.
P.S. The only reason I decided to comment today is because yours is the first post that I came across devoid of any negativity. I love a healthy debate but super aggression kinda scares me off. I guess I am a chicken that way. :)
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