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Well,I am mostly a silent member of the forum but the way the story (or the lack of it) is shaping up,I couldn't refrain myself from taking out my frustration.
I am not a fan of any of the actors or characters of the show.I have,however,watched the previous drama of both the actors,enjoyed their acting thoroughly and started watching the show because of the thrilling tone of the promos and the assurance that the two actors were brilliant at their work. However, I never really shipped either couples because from the promos it looked like Vyom and Sharanya were a couple whose happiness was overshadowed by a bereaved 'deewana'. I did not ship Sharanya and Shiv because shipping a ghost and human did not make sense for me: she may or may not have loved the person in the past, may have been or not have been in a relationship with this man, but the fact was that he is no longer alive, so they can't possibly be together. For all we know, she was the reason for his death, directly or indirectly and therefore, rooting for them didn't make much sense to me. I am not a Vyom or Sharanya shipper because for all we know, Vyom could be the villain. What I wanted was Sharanya's story: a girl who, after waking up with partial amnesia, found herself, discovered her past, found ways to let go of it (finding a way to help Shiv find peace, being with Vyom or choosing to not be with him because she had no feelings for him irrespective of what she had felt in the past) and walked forward in her life (I don't buy the theory that getting back memory and getting back feelings is the same thing: even if Sharanya remembered her time with Shiv and Vyom, it is not necessary that she can feel love for either of them. She may get her memory back but not her feelings.)However, what I feel I have been given is no one's story, no story at all. A girl, who lost her memory, is not struggling to remember,to get back her memory by contacting people in her facebook, or asking Vyom to get her in touch with her friends and teachers, showing no interest to visit her college and the area in which she must have spent significant amount of time during her college days etc. No effort, absolutely no effort has been made by this girl to get her memories back.
The boy who madly loves the girl, Vyom, seems obsessive at times and accomodating at times: there is no consistency in his character. He has been shown to be okay with her friendship, he cannot be blamed even once for putting her in a position where she had to legitimize their relationship by giving it a socially accepted identity, on the contrary, his attempted molestation on her,if anything, should have discouraged her to get married to him. So the argument that he wasn't really possessed and did this intentionally doesn't make sense as Sharanya already thought the spirit was evil so he didn't have to make the spirit seem evil to Sharanya and there can be no logic behind his actions.
So what was the attempted rape all about? Shiv possessing Vyom? Shiv who was seen to want Sharanya to jump from the hospital roof and kill herself, had almost killed her with a falling tree while she was cycling, had attempted to rape her and thrown her in water tank (if he had possessed Vyom), had not come to her rescue when she was being molested by Vyom or thrown in water tank (of he had not possesed Vyom) is the deewana who loves her even after death and cannot even see a small cut on her face from a glass splinter? Shiv tries to protect her, kill her, scare her, help ber get her memory back, what is it that he wants?
From where I see it, none of the leads are well-etched characters. The CVs have no idea what they want to show and if they are asked to talk about the personality of either of the characters, they won't be able to do so because there is absolutely no character sketch. None of their behaviour makes sense and I would absolutely hate to have someone like Vyom in my life who insisted on being a part of it despite by constant rejection when I couldn't even remember him. This guy would make me feel suffocated and annoyed all the time. If my memory came back and I realised I was in love with Shiv once, I would hate myself for loving someone who thought he had a right to assault me (if he had possessed Vyom) although he didn't let others do the same or he didn't come to my rescue when I was being assaulted by my fiance probably because he wanted me to break off my engagement (if he had not possessed Vyom, he was definitely nearby), that is just sick.
Shiv and Sharanya were obviously never meant to be together, he was a ghost after all. But what Sharanya meant to Shiv and what he had meant to her once and how her presence in his life had brought about his untimely death was the crux of the story against which Sharanya and Vyom's present and future (whether Sharanya finds it in her to love Vyom, whether Vyom was somehow instrumental in Shiv's death, whether they ended up together or went their separate ways) would be developed. But it seems that there is no story,not at all.
Sorry for all the ranting. Watching a story that could have been so good being wasted is frustrating and what is more frustrating is that I have wasted my time on something this pointless. The CVs have made the story into Shiv-Sharanya camp and Vyom-Sharanya camp to keep audience at hand whereas there could be no camps if the story was properly executed:people would respect Sharanya's past and her present decisions if only they could relate to her and her two deewana's characters.
I am not a fan of any of the actors or characters of the show.I have,however,watched the previous drama of both the actors,enjoyed their acting thoroughly and started watching the show because of the thrilling tone of the promos and the assurance that the two actors were brilliant at their work. However, I never really shipped either couples because from the promos it looked like Vyom and Sharanya were a couple whose happiness was overshadowed by a bereaved 'deewana'. I did not ship Sharanya and Shiv because shipping a ghost and human did not make sense for me: she may or may not have loved the person in the past, may have been or not have been in a relationship with this man, but the fact was that he is no longer alive, so they can't possibly be together. For all we know, she was the reason for his death, directly or indirectly and therefore, rooting for them didn't make much sense to me. I am not a Vyom or Sharanya shipper because for all we know, Vyom could be the villain. What I wanted was Sharanya's story: a girl who, after waking up with partial amnesia, found herself, discovered her past, found ways to let go of it (finding a way to help Shiv find peace, being with Vyom or choosing to not be with him because she had no feelings for him irrespective of what she had felt in the past) and walked forward in her life (I don't buy the theory that getting back memory and getting back feelings is the same thing: even if Sharanya remembered her time with Shiv and Vyom, it is not necessary that she can feel love for either of them. She may get her memory back but not her feelings.)However, what I feel I have been given is no one's story, no story at all. A girl, who lost her memory, is not struggling to remember,to get back her memory by contacting people in her facebook, or asking Vyom to get her in touch with her friends and teachers, showing no interest to visit her college and the area in which she must have spent significant amount of time during her college days etc. No effort, absolutely no effort has been made by this girl to get her memories back.
The boy who madly loves the girl, Vyom, seems obsessive at times and accomodating at times: there is no consistency in his character. He has been shown to be okay with her friendship, he cannot be blamed even once for putting her in a position where she had to legitimize their relationship by giving it a socially accepted identity, on the contrary, his attempted molestation on her,if anything, should have discouraged her to get married to him. So the argument that he wasn't really possessed and did this intentionally doesn't make sense as Sharanya already thought the spirit was evil so he didn't have to make the spirit seem evil to Sharanya and there can be no logic behind his actions.
So what was the attempted rape all about? Shiv possessing Vyom? Shiv who was seen to want Sharanya to jump from the hospital roof and kill herself, had almost killed her with a falling tree while she was cycling, had attempted to rape her and thrown her in water tank (if he had possessed Vyom), had not come to her rescue when she was being molested by Vyom or thrown in water tank (of he had not possesed Vyom) is the deewana who loves her even after death and cannot even see a small cut on her face from a glass splinter? Shiv tries to protect her, kill her, scare her, help ber get her memory back, what is it that he wants?
From where I see it, none of the leads are well-etched characters. The CVs have no idea what they want to show and if they are asked to talk about the personality of either of the characters, they won't be able to do so because there is absolutely no character sketch. None of their behaviour makes sense and I would absolutely hate to have someone like Vyom in my life who insisted on being a part of it despite by constant rejection when I couldn't even remember him. This guy would make me feel suffocated and annoyed all the time. If my memory came back and I realised I was in love with Shiv once, I would hate myself for loving someone who thought he had a right to assault me (if he had possessed Vyom) although he didn't let others do the same or he didn't come to my rescue when I was being assaulted by my fiance probably because he wanted me to break off my engagement (if he had not possessed Vyom, he was definitely nearby), that is just sick.
Shiv and Sharanya were obviously never meant to be together, he was a ghost after all. But what Sharanya meant to Shiv and what he had meant to her once and how her presence in his life had brought about his untimely death was the crux of the story against which Sharanya and Vyom's present and future (whether Sharanya finds it in her to love Vyom, whether Vyom was somehow instrumental in Shiv's death, whether they ended up together or went their separate ways) would be developed. But it seems that there is no story,not at all.
Sorry for all the ranting. Watching a story that could have been so good being wasted is frustrating and what is more frustrating is that I have wasted my time on something this pointless. The CVs have made the story into Shiv-Sharanya camp and Vyom-Sharanya camp to keep audience at hand whereas there could be no camps if the story was properly executed:people would respect Sharanya's past and her present decisions if only they could relate to her and her two deewana's characters.
Advocate Anjali Awasthi
Health and Fitness
