Pakhi Character Analysis 🧐 - Page 5

I would dislike Pakhi even if she was not the real life partner of the Male lead. My dislike towards her would not be any lesser even if the actress playing Pakhi wasn't a real life partner of actor playing the character of Virat.

I actually wanted to write a post about the character a few days back. There were reasons why the actress used to say that it is a very difficult role or she just rehearsed intense scenes.

Let me tell you that I am no fan of Pakhi. I have tried to understand her like any other character and these are my observations and understanding.

We all know it was her fault that she and Virat are not together. But, if we look at it from her shoes, she did a mistake, yes, but she could have also got a chance, which Virat had denied. He of course denied it for his own reasons, for the sake of his brother's happiness.

Whatever it is, she lost her happiness. She tried to fight for their love but that could have only succeeded if both the parties had fought and when one had given up, it was like, she was fighting a lost battle.

So, keeping aside her behavior towards Sai, she actually lost her love. Yes, she is the reason why Samrat left, but that was unintentional, she didn't plan it.

The only thing she planned was, to get married and to live in the same house as that of Virat so that he stays in front of her eyes all the time.

Again, here, she had no clue what she was doing. She was heartbroken. She was lost in her love, I am not defending her but sharing my understanding. She had lost it. She decided to get married when she wasn't in her right sense or should I say, wasn't in her senses at all.

Pakhi's marriage

Don't mistake me, but if we look at it from her point of view, I think she decided to do what Virat had promised to do. While marrying Samrat, she was in a trance and also kept waiting, dreaming that Virat would break their marriage which never happened.

She was brought to reality when Virat himself gave the sindoor ka dabba or Mangalsutra (don't remember) to Samrat.

She then saw him leaving the mandap and that shattered her. She didn't even know what she was getting into.

She thought he was going to be around but he had left for his duty. Not that, any of her expectations were right, but she was lost in her own love.

She had actually thought that she will keep loving Virat forever in her life. She will never give the place to anyone else. She didn't realise in her trance, that there was someone named Samrat whom she was actually marrying. She spoilt his life too.

She realised that she was married, only after she entered Chavan Nivas. She called up Virat that night because she really was in pain and had broken down. She wanted to tell him that she won't be able to love anyone else, because that was what she felt. She was brought back to reality.

She never wanted to get married, wanted Virat to fight for their love. When Virat gave her a promise, she just took it thinking that he will never love anyone. Though, she never gave him the promise, that was what she also planned to do.

Yes, she did confess her love for Virat, but that was, when she was shattered, she didn't even realise that she actually was getting married to someone else. Though, I sympathize with Samrat, I also did not like that he left her and the family for this reason.

My views about Samrat

Yes, Virat and Pakhi shouldn't have done this. Nevertheless, Virat did it for Samrat and only for his happiness. But why couldn't Samrat think what his brother did? Why didn't he confront his wife? If not, immediately, he could have done it later too. Why should he go missing? Doesn't he have a mother or a family who loves him? He has abandoned everyone.

He gave her the chequebook? What does that mean? That he thinks, that she is wife and is his responsibility? Then, how did he not think in what state will she be after he had left her like that? So what if she loves someone else? He could have confronted her about it, either tried to make it work or end it. Why didn't he do it? I am sorry, I don't sympathise with Samrat entirely. He is also wrong.

Pakhi and Samrat's relationship

Pakhi is in a way right when she said that she hardly knows anything about Samrat. Yes, they never had or shared any kind of relationship. It could be her fault too, but he could have made it work. Not that Pakhi was going to let him do, but without her facing it and us seeing how she was going to react about it, I do not want to judge her.

Sai and Virat's relationship

If you take the example of Sairat, Sai did like him in GC days too but always had it buried deep within her. She then started to hate him due to all the circumstances but those hate, were never actually real hatred. If a persom hates someone so much, they would at no cost agree to get married, whatever be the circumstances. She was under pressure, but also only because she never hated Virat, she agreed to marry him.

Because of Virat's past, she couldn't accept the wedding.

Virat also did keep thinking that he wouldn't be considering it to be a real marriage. However, if it was for not Virat's efforts in this relationship, Sairat would have never been possible. I am not saying Sai didn't do anything, she had to go through a lot in his house and the atrocities committed by his family. But her contribution towards this relationship is nowhere compared to Virat's.

Let anything be the reason, I know her reasons and is justified too, but in spite of Virat's promise, he let it all go subconsciously and valued his marriage more than anything else. He has done mistakes, I don't deny but he kept ignoring any number of insults hurled at him by Sai too.

If Virat hadn't done, whatever he has been doing as a husband, not as a person who took her responsibility, Sairat wouldn't have been possible. Sai stops herself and it is justified but Virat never gave up. It doesn't matter even if the reason for Sai's indifference, is he himself. He need not have bothered, but he wanted to make it work. He liked her, wanted her and kept pursuing her.

What Samrat failed to do

The reason I brought is, to say how Samrat could have also done something about their relationship. He never even tried. Either try to make it work or end it, what is the point in vanishing and after handing over cheque book? Oh, I hate that.

He could have showed Pakhi the right path, asked her what she wanted or tried to make her move on from her past. Pakhi is wrong, but what are relationships for? If Virat was wrong, Sai should stand by him and show himthe right path and if Sai was wrong, Virat should do the same. In the same way, Samrat should have done something.

Pakhi and what she considers herself as to Virat

Coming back to Pakhi, Samrat is really no one to her, in terms of relationship. By relationship, I don't mean an official one. She anyway had already decided to give Virat a place in her heart and no one else.

The marriage, never is a real one, since she is only the bahu, not a wife. It was easy for her to live the way she wanted, continuing to love Virat. Though she is the wife of Samrat, she actually never became his wife in any sense. I am not defending her character, but this is how she thinks it as. It is very natural for her to think that way too.

What would have happened if Virat and Sai never liked each other and if Pakhi wasn't his brother's wife? Virat might have buried his love for Pakhi deep within him.

Pakhi doesn't see Virat as her husband's brother at all. She only sees him as a person whom she loves. Samrat, not being in picture is the biggest reason, why she is not able to see Virat as her husband's brother. She might talk to Virat that Samrat is your brother and all, but she doesn't consider Samrat to be her husband while talking that way. In her head, Samrat the husband and Virat Samrat's brother, both do not come into picture together, ever. So she is not at all able to see him as her devar.

Pakhi's jealousy

Also, she was a little ok while talking to Sai right after they moved to CN. Jealousy then took over her.

She noticed how Virat kept siding with Sai and could also notice that Virat had soft corner for Sai. She noticed the chemistry between the two. And as and when time passed, she could see Virat moving on. Virat was doing everything to support Sai. He fought with his family for Sai. It looks to her that he didn't fight for her but is now willing to do it for Sai. Anyway, these we do know.

But the jealousy grew so much, that she has started to see Sai as a third wheel. Pakhi believes that if Sai had never entered Virat's life, Virat would be in Nagpur and he would have continued to love her. No one else would be in his life.

I know, I fall under the minority or may be the only one who thinks this way. I don't think Pakhi ever wanted an affair with Virat. All she wanted was to keep loving him and Virat to hold her in high regards. She has desires or wishes that Virat also loves her, but nothing more than that. The jealousy evoked a lot of other emotions within her and she has started to desire for the place that Sai has, unintentionally.

Everytime Aai or Sai taunted her, she gets shocked because, that is not what she actually wanted to do, but she ended up doing it. All her hatred towards Sai, is not done in a trance. However, her physical advances towards Virat, I believe is as a result of jealousy and she has no control over her emotions anymore.

Let me explain this. We sometimes decide that we would never have any expectations from a person. Or in some relationship, the nature of the person is such that, they generally do not expect anything or have never thought of a few things at all. But as and when the relationship progresses, the person starts to develop expectations involuntarily, without her/his own knowledge.

Let's take the example of Sairat. Both were thinking that the deal marriage was going to be simple and never expected that they will ever expect any kind of affection from the other. But without their own knowledge, they started to get attached and also started to develop expectations from each other.

Pakhi's case, in my understanding is no different. She never expected anything from Virat. All such expectations and desires started to develop only after she saw Sai with him. Emotions started to awaken in her when Sai was getting a few things, she wanted them for herself. She wanted that love, the care and affection that Sai was getting.

That is why she gets hurt, though it is not acceptable and entirely wrong, she actually is very hurt.

We all know she is expecting from her brother in law and also husband of another guy.

He is not that for her. He is in a marriage, which according to her, he never wanted. Even if it looked like he likes Sai, to her this marriage would have never happened, if not for the circumstances.

She also doesn't consider herself to be Virat's brother's wife as I had already mentioned. So with absolute no guilt or shame (which she was supposed to feel), she is expecting a lot of things from Virat.

She yearns for Sai's position. In the recent episode, she cried that he was not her husband, that showed her wish. She is in pain actually.

How she would have wished for him to be her husband.

These thoughts starts to become venomous when she sees Sai and Virat together. The hurt and pain remains as only hurt until Sai and Virat start to get close to each other. At that moment, her pain gets converted to hatred for Sai and also her desires start to surface.

I have a feeling that Sai is evoking all emotions and desires, that are buried deep within Pakhi for Virat. I have a feeling that, if there was no Sai, she might have cared for Virat, concerned about him, might dream about him but would not pursue any affair. I don't know, sometimes things doesn't go as planned or as how one would have thought.

Sorry about such a long post. Whatever I have said is only my observations and my understanding of the character. None of these can justify the character's behavior or actions. She is wife of someone and also Virat is someone's husband and she has to respect that relationship.

Sai is a target for her now. She loathes the girl and can go to any extent to make Virat dislike Sai.

Originally posted by: jane_austen

I don't know if we get affected by off-screen equations. I don't follow any celeb on SM - because I really don't care. I just want them to act well on screen so that I can enjoy. Sometimes, when I'm too invested in a couple, I start day-dreaming about them. In such cases, news of real-life relationship does jolt me..then I laugh it off and get back to day-dreaming about the reel couple.😆

As far as morality of devar-babhi relationship is concerned, I tend to approach it in terms of characterization. Because a lot of characters in books/movies are not at all relatable in real life. So they have to be seen as fictional characters - when we understand their motivations, their actions, and it is written well, we start liking the portrayal. For example, in the series "Game of thrones" - there is a character who has an incestuous relationship with his own sister. But his characterization - his complexity, his background, his motivation and finally his redemption arc is so well-written that he is one of the most beloved character in the series. If we met such a guy in reality, we would obviously run away horrified. The same is the case with the protagonist of "Gone with the wind". She is not at all likeable - she is selfish and manipulative, marries men to meet her own goals, doesn't even care about her children - and yet is one of the most iconic heroines. This is how I approach fictional characters - I'm sure everybody's viewpoint is different.

P.S. Did you just use the word 'vetti'?😆

I dont follow anyone in SM. like you said just happy with watching them on screen. Today I had a thought if Pakhi actress didn’t go home with Virat actor will my dislike for her be lesser? It was just a question that popped and hence the poll and discussion.

Regarding the morality I think it’s me. I don’t have problems in watching Woody Allen type movies. But when it comes to itv I become very sanskari 😉😁 and find it difficult to digest a devar bhabhi relationship.

We cannot compare the writing of English series with our itv drama. Pakhi character is not well written at all. I doubt it’s going to improve or have any arc except a sautan angle for the TRP drama.

PS: I used vetti word! 🤩

Originally posted by: KBBofRCIBC

I agree to all the above. Today I felt after watching the segment there is a minuscule probability that I dislike her more because of her real relationship?

For me personally it bothered me and I just couldn’t watch it. It was cringe worthy lusting after ones devar.

Today's segment only made me think that the creatives are using the real life relationship to show intimate scenes between Virat and Pakhi. But, as a friend of mine already pointed out to me, that they probably could have added this scene even if Pakhi wasn't his real life partner.

I know and feel that way. However, I feel that the probability of them deciding to show such scenes became high because of their relationship.

I would have disliked this scene even if any other actress acted as Pakhi.

Originally posted by: laksh

I would dislike Pakhi even if she was not the real life partner of the Male lead. My dislike towards her would not be any lesser even if the actress playing Pakhi wasn't a real life partner of actor playing the character of Virat.

I actually wanted to write a post about the character a few days back. There were reasons why the actress used to say that it is a very difficult role or she just rehearsed intense scenes.

Let me tell you that I am no fan of Pakhi. I have tried to understand her like any other character and these are my observations and understanding.

We all know it was her fault that she and Virat are not together. But, if we look at it from her shoes, she did a mistake, yes, but she could have also got a chance which Virat had denied. He ofcourse denied it for his own reasons, for the sake of his brother's happiness.

Whatever it is, she lost her happiness. She tried to fight for their love but that could have only succeeded if both the parties had fought and when one had given up, it was like she was fighting a lost battle.

So, keeping aside her behavior towards Sai, she actually lost her love. Yes, she is the reason why Samrat left but that was unintentional, she didn't plan it.

The only thing she planned was to get married and to live in the same house as that of Virat so that he stays in front of her eyes all the time.

Again, here, she had no clue what she was doing. She was heartbroken. She was lost in her love, I am not defending her but telling you my understanding. She had lost it. She decided to get married when she wasn't in her right sense or should I say, wasn't in her sense at all.

Pakhi's marriage

Don't mistake me, but if we look at it from her point of view, I think she decided to do what Virat had promised to do. While marrying Samra, she was in a trance and also kept waiting and dreaming Virat would break their marriage which never happened.

She was brought to reality when Virat himself gave the sindoor ka dabba or Mangalsutra (don't remember) to Samrat.

She then saw him leaving the mandap and that shattered her. She didn't even know what she was getting into.

She thought he was going to be around but he had left for his duty. Not that, any of her expectations were right, but she was lost in her own love.

She had actually thought that she will keep loving Virat forever in her life. She will never give the place to anyone else. She didn't realise in her trance that there was someone named Samrat whom she was actually marrying. She spoilt his life too.

She realised that she was married only after she entered Chavan Nivas. She called up Virat that night because she really was in pain and had broken down. She wanted to tell him that she won't be able to love anyone else because that was what she felt. She was brought back to reality.

She never wanted to get married, wanted Virat to fight for their love. When Virat gave her a promise, she just took it thinking that he will never love anyone. Though, she never gave him the promise, that was what she also planned to do.

Yes, she did confess her love for Virat, but that was when she was shattered, she didn't even realise that she actually was getting married to someone else. Though, I sympathize with Samrat, I also did not like that he left her and the family for this reason.

My views about Samrat

Yes, Virat and Pakhi shouldn't have done this. Nevertheless, Virat did it for Samrat and only for his happiness. But why couldn't Samrat think what his brother did? Why didn't he confront his wife? If not, immediately, he could have done it later too. Why should he go missing? Doesn't he have a mother or a family who loves him? He has abandoned everyone.

He gave her the chequebook? What does that mean? That he thinks that she is wife and is his responsibility? Then, how did he not think in what state will she be after he had left her like that? So what if she loves someone else? He could have confronted her about it, either tried to make it work or end it. Why didn't he do it? I am sorry, I don't sympathise with Samrat entirely. He is also wrong.

Pakhi and Samrat's relationship

Pakhi is in a way right when she says she hardly knows anything about Samrat. Yes, they never had of shared any kind of relationship. It could be her fault too, but he could have made it work. Not that Pakhi was going to let him do, but without her facing it and us seeing how she was going to react about it, I do not want to judge her.

Sai and Virat's relationship

If you take the example of Sairat, Sai did like him in GC days too but always had it buried deep within her. She then started to hate him due to all the circumstances but those hate were never actually real hatred. If a persom hates someone so much, they would at no cost agree to get married whatever be the circumstances. She was under pressure but also only because she never hated Virat, she agreed to marry him.

Because of Virat's past, she couldn't accept the wedding.

Virat also did keep thinking that he wouldn't be considering a real marriage. However, if it was for not Virat's efforts in this relationship, Sairat would have never been possible. I am not saying Sai didn't do anything, she had to go through a lot in his house and the atrocities committed by his family. But her contribution towards this relationship is nowhere compared fo Virat's.

Let anything be the reason, I know her reasons and is justified too, but in spite of Virat's promise, he let it all go subconsciously and valued his marriage more than anything else. He has done mistakes, I don't deny but he kept ignoring any number of insults hurled at him by Sai too.

If Virat hadn't done whatever he has been doing as a husband, not as a person who took her responsibility, Sairat wouldn't have been possible. Sai stops herself and it is justified but Virat never gave up. It doesn't matter even if the reason for Sai's indifference is he himself. He need not have bothered but he wanted to make it work. He liked her, wanted her and he pursues her.

What Samrat failed to do

The reason I brought is to say how Samrat could have also done something about their relationship. He never even tried. Either try to make it work or end it, what is the point in vanishing and after handing over cheque book? Oh, I hate that.

He could have showed Pakhi the right path, asked her what she wanted or tried to make her move on from her past. Pakhi is wrong but what are relationships for? If Virat was wrong, Sai should stand with him and if Sai was wrong, Virat should. In the same way, Samrat should have done something.

Pakhi and what she considers herself as to Virat

Coming back to Pakhi, Samrat is really no one to her in terms of relationship. By relationship, I don't mean an official one. She anyway had decided to give Virat a place in her heart and no one.

The marriage never is a real one since she is only the bahu, not a wife. It was easy for her to live the way she wanted, continuing to love Virat. Though she is the wife of Samrat, she actually never became his wife in any sense. I am not defending her character, but this is how she thinks it as. It is very natural for her to think that way too.

What would have happened if Virat and Sai never liked each other and if Pakhi wasn't his brother's wife? Virat might have buried his love for Pakhi deep within him.

Pakhi doesn't see Virat as her husband's brother at all. She only sees him as a person whom she loves. Samrat, not being in picture is the biggest reason, why she is not able to see Virat as her husband's brother. She might talk to Virat that Samrat is your brother and all, but she doesn't consider Samrat to be her husband while talking that way. In her head Samrat the husband and Virat Samrat's brother, both do not come into picture together, ever. So she is not at all able to see him as her devar.

Pakhi's jealousy

Also, she was a little ok while talking to Sai right after they moved to CN. Jealousy then took over her.

She noticed how Virat kept siding with Sai and could also notice that Virat had soft corner for Sai. She noticed the chemistry between the two. And as and when time passed, she could see Virat moving on. Virat was doing everything to support Sai. He fought with his family for Sai. It looks to her that he didn't fight for her but is now willing to do it for Sai. Anyway, these we do know.

But the jealousy grew so much that she has started to see Sai as a third wheel. Pakhi believes that if Sai had never entered Virat's life, Virat would be in Nagpur and he would have continued to love her. No one else would be in his life.

I know, I fall under the minority or may be the only one who thinks this way. I don't think Pakhi ever wanted an affair with Virat. All she wanted was to keep loving him and Virat to hold her in high regards. She has desires or wishes that Virat also loves her, but nothing more than that. The jealousy evoked a lot of other emotions in her and she has started to want the place of Sai unintentionally.

Everytime Aai or Sai taunts her and she gets shocked because that is not what she actually wants to do but she ends up doing it. All her hatred towards Sai is not done in a trance, but her physical advances towards Virat I believe is as a result of jealousy and she has no control over her emotions anymore.

Let me explain this. We sometimes decide that we would never have any expectations from a person. Or in some relationship, the nature of the person is such that, they generally do not expect anything or have never thought of a few things at all. But as and when the relationship progresses, the person starts to develop expectations involuntarily, without her/his own knowledge.

Let's take the example of Sairat. Both were thinking that the deal marriage was going to be simple and never expected that they will ever expect any kind of affection from the other. But without their own knowledge, they started to get attached and also started to develop expectations from each other.

Pakhi's case, in my understanding is no different. She never expected anything from Virat. All such expectations and desires started to develop only after she saw Sai with him. Emotions started to awaken in her when Sai was getting a few things, she wanted them for herself. She wanted that love, the care and affection that Sai was getting.

That is why she gets hurt, though it is not acceptable and entirely wrong, she actually is very hurt.

We all know she is expecting from her brother in law and also husband of another guy.

He is not that for her. He is in a marriage which he never wanted as per her and even if it looks like he likes Sai, to her this marriage would have never happened if not for the circumstances.

She also doesn't consider herself to be Virat's brother's wife as I had already mentioned. So with absolute no guilt or shame (which she was supposed to feel), she is expecting a lot of things from Virat.

She yearns for Sai's position. In the recent episode, she cried that he was not her husband, that showed her wish. She is in pain actually.

How she would have wished for him to be her husband.

These thoughts start to become venomous when she sees Sai and Virat together. The hurt and pain was only hurt until Sai and Virat started to get close to each other. At that moment her pain gets converted to hatred for Sai and also her desires start to surface.

I have a feeling that Sai is evoking all emotions and desires, that are buried deep within Pakhi for Virat. I have a feeling that, if there was no Sai, she might have cared for Virat, concerned about him, might dream about him but would not pursue any affair. I don't know, sometimes things doesn't go as planned or as how one would have thought.

Sorry about such a long post. Whatever I have said is only my observations and my understanding of the character. None of these can justify the character's behavior or actions. She is wife of someone and also Virat is someone's husband and she has to respect that relationship.

Sai is a target for her now. She loathes the girl and can go to any extent to make Virat dislike Sai.

Perfect just perfect.not only u I also believe that Pakhi never wanted an affair with virat.

Originally posted by: sukri

I don't care about offscreen dynamics/ relationship, what they outside the show doesn't impact me or my experience while watching the show.

I do feel that Pakhi's character was not explored in Bengali or Tamil version much because of it being regional show, which is why many find her acceptable or sympathize with her.

I do not sympathize with RK or Sathya as they are the same girls who married Samrat to be next to Virat. They do the exact same things that Pakhi does (worse in future, which we are yet to see in GHK, be prepared).

Though the actress is not doing a great job in acting, we are still able to project the anger on her character due to her actions, immoral behavior, due to the way her role is expanded and written in Hindi. I think it makes sense. Infact I enjoy some Virpakhi scenes as it gives clarity from Virat's perspective and how didi is spiraling down.

I found many of the scenes in Tamil (since I understand the language) incomplete when it comes to Virat-Pakhi.

KD/NM would leave their scenes abrupt (like when he leaves the room shouting Pakhi give me food, to talk to Pakhi by the swing, when she leaves their room angrily etc ).

Bengali/ Tamil wanted to keep it vague and let the viewers assume what they might have talked fearing the backlash if they showed Virpakhi scenes.

Despite showing very little interaction between Pakhi and Virat, the original actress playing Sathya in Tamil received so much backlash that she quit the show and was replaced with another girl who plays negative role. So they couldn't show what Sathya wants in detail, even during confrontation scene, she only asks him so do you not accept me, etc as a roundabout and not directly. I expect Hindi dialogues of their confrontation to be much more straightforward, open and detailed.

It is clear to us that she married Samrat to be closer to Virat. So it is obvious that she will do everything to achieve that. So when the makers show her doing that, why to be upset with them? I expect them to continue showing Virat Pakhi scenes and her interference in Sairat's life.

@bold

Agree she is the third angle. But she comes across so vile it’s bit difficult to digest her. I feel they can make her a full on villain and it would work. I feel CV’s are showing us as a character who has grey shades otherwise a nice person which she is not.

I don’t mind the virpakhi scenes because it will show Pakhi’s true colours to Virat. But my problem is showing her as a victim. I don’t know about you all I felt that way today.

between did the Sathya actress quit? I just checked she is there with samrat in the last few episodes pa🤔

Originally posted by: Jrf2021

Perfect just perfect.not only u I also believe that Pakhi never wanted an affair with virat.

That's great to know 😊. It is difficult to actually explain that.

Originally posted by: laksh

That's great to know 😊. It is difficult to actually explain that.

Actually emotions are very complex especially negative emotions .it just make u blind to the reality.in this state a person do stuff which he/ she never actually want to do.

Thats what is happening right now I guess with pakhi.she is so high on emotions that she is doing stuff which she did not even think once to do.

Originally posted by: Bechain_Bulbul

I dont agree with any of the reason. I dont find anything wrong with Aishwarya's acting. I dont even feel like pakhi's character was any better in any other version. I also dont mind she being the third wheel between sairat because we all knew from the starting that this is a love triangle so I was kind of prepared for this extra wheel to be there always.

Yes its irritating that pakhi is always mean to Sai but then given their situation when she see Sai as her competition, her behaviour is natural. I dont even hate her as she is unfaithful to Samrat. I know what I believe here is an unpopular opinion but I held Samrat equally responsible whatever the situation today between Sairat and pakhi. Pakhi doesnt feel anything for samrat because he didnt even live with her for a day. He just ran away from the situation. However good his intentions were but he kind of pulled up a coward act. Virat moved on easily because he got someone as his life partner so it was always easy for him but pakhi didnt have anyone. If Samrat had stayed and then also pakhi had nurtured love for her devar then it would have been really toxic and unbearable.

So in my opinion , reason for irritation from her character is somewhere similar to the option that her role is not nicely written. She lacks depth. Even if she had been turned to vamp then it would have been a great choice. but she is shown as miserable confused person and keeps blaming everyone else for her situation. Never accepts her feelings for virat even when sai directly ask her. She is shown just as attention seeking, self obsessed person. who doesnt have any logical base of doing her actions.

Thanks for sharing your views. this is a new perspective for me. I do agree to your point about Samrat finding a easy way out. Running away is the easiest solution to lives problems sometimes! And he chose that.

Yes we can blame the cvs for poor writing of Pakhi character as well.

there are few things I cannot comprehend regarding Pakhi. It was her choice to block the number which created all this mess. But she could have still made a choice of not marrying Samrat. Who marries the brother to stay close to the lover? It was her conscious choice to marry. irrespective of Virat’s wadha she could have said no she could have walked out, her father was supporting her. Still she chose to marry.


@bold You are right. She doesn’t take responsibility for her actions and plays victim.

@Laksh,

Very beautiful analysis. I wish CVs shows this complexity well and Aish potrays it well.

Originally posted by: laksh

I would dislike Pakhi even if she was not the real life partner of the Male lead. My dislike towards her would not be any lesser even if the actress playing Pakhi wasn't a real life partner of actor playing the character of Virat.

I actually wanted to write a post about the character a few days back. There were reasons why the actress used to say that it is a very difficult role or she just rehearsed intense scenes.

Let me tell you that I am no fan of Pakhi. I have tried to understand her like any other character and these are my observations and understanding.

We all know it was her fault that she and Virat are not together. But, if we look at it from her shoes, she did a mistake, yes, but she could have also got a chance which Virat had denied. He ofcourse denied it for his own reasons, for the sake of his brother's happiness.

Whatever it is, she lost her happiness. She tried to fight for their love but that could have only succeeded if both the parties had fought and when one had given up, it was like she was fighting a lost battle.

So, keeping aside her behavior towards Sai, she actually lost her love. Yes, she is the reason why Samrat left but that was unintentional, she didn't plan it.

The only thing she planned was to get married and to live in the same house as that of Virat so that he stays in front of her eyes all the time.

Again, here, she had no clue what she was doing. She was heartbroken. She was lost in her love, I am not defending her but telling you my understanding. She had lost it. She decided to get married when she wasn't in her right sense or should I say, wasn't in her sense at all.

Pakhi's marriage

Don't mistake me, but if we look at it from her point of view, I think she decided to do what Virat had promised to do. While marrying Samra, she was in a trance and also kept waiting and dreaming Virat would break their marriage which never happened.

She was brought to reality when Virat himself gave the sindoor ka dabba or Mangalsutra (don't remember) to Samrat.

She then saw him leaving the mandap and that shattered her. She didn't even know what she was getting into.

She thought he was going to be around but he had left for his duty. Not that, any of her expectations were right, but she was lost in her own love.

She had actually thought that she will keep loving Virat forever in her life. She will never give the place to anyone else. She didn't realise in her trance that there was someone named Samrat whom she was actually marrying. She spoilt his life too.

She realised that she was married only after she entered Chavan Nivas. She called up Virat that night because she really was in pain and had broken down. She wanted to tell him that she won't be able to love anyone else because that was what she felt. She was brought back to reality.

She never wanted to get married, wanted Virat to fight for their love. When Virat gave her a promise, she just took it thinking that he will never love anyone. Though, she never gave him the promise, that was what she also planned to do.

Yes, she did confess her love for Virat, but that was when she was shattered, she didn't even realise that she actually was getting married to someone else. Though, I sympathize with Samrat, I also did not like that he left her and the family for this reason.

My views about Samrat

Yes, Virat and Pakhi shouldn't have done this. Nevertheless, Virat did it for Samrat and only for his happiness. But why couldn't Samrat think what his brother did? Why didn't he confront his wife? If not, immediately, he could have done it later too. Why should he go missing? Doesn't he have a mother or a family who loves him? He has abandoned everyone.

He gave her the chequebook? What does that mean? That he thinks that she is wife and is his responsibility? Then, how did he not think in what state will she be after he had left her like that? So what if she loves someone else? He could have confronted her about it, either tried to make it work or end it. Why didn't he do it? I am sorry, I don't sympathise with Samrat entirely. He is also wrong.

Pakhi and Samrat's relationship

Pakhi is in a way right when she says she hardly knows anything about Samrat. Yes, they never had of shared any kind of relationship. It could be her fault too, but he could have made it work. Not that Pakhi was going to let him do, but without her facing it and us seeing how she was going to react about it, I do not want to judge her.

Sai and Virat's relationship

If you take the example of Sairat, Sai did like him in GC days too but always had it buried deep within her. She then started to hate him due to all the circumstances but those hate were never actually real hatred. If a persom hates someone so much, they would at no cost agree to get married whatever be the circumstances. She was under pressure but also only because she never hated Virat, she agreed to marry him.

Because of Virat's past, she couldn't accept the wedding.

Virat also did keep thinking that he wouldn't be considering a real marriage. However, if it was for not Virat's efforts in this relationship, Sairat would have never been possible. I am not saying Sai didn't do anything, she had to go through a lot in his house and the atrocities committed by his family. But her contribution towards this relationship is nowhere compared fo Virat's.

Let anything be the reason, I know her reasons and is justified too, but in spite of Virat's promise, he let it all go subconsciously and valued his marriage more than anything else. He has done mistakes, I don't deny but he kept ignoring any number of insults hurled at him by Sai too.

If Virat hadn't done whatever he has been doing as a husband, not as a person who took her responsibility, Sairat wouldn't have been possible. Sai stops herself and it is justified but Virat never gave up. It doesn't matter even if the reason for Sai's indifference is he himself. He need not have bothered but he wanted to make it work. He liked her, wanted her and he pursues her.

What Samrat failed to do

The reason I brought is to say how Samrat could have also done something about their relationship. He never even tried. Either try to make it work or end it, what is the point in vanishing and after handing over cheque book? Oh, I hate that.

He could have showed Pakhi the right path, asked her what she wanted or tried to make her move on from her past. Pakhi is wrong but what are relationships for? If Virat was wrong, Sai should stand with him and if Sai was wrong, Virat should. In the same way, Samrat should have done something.

Pakhi and what she considers herself as to Virat

Coming back to Pakhi, Samrat is really no one to her in terms of relationship. By relationship, I don't mean an official one. She anyway had decided to give Virat a place in her heart and no one.

The marriage never is a real one since she is only the bahu, not a wife. It was easy for her to live the way she wanted, continuing to love Virat. Though she is the wife of Samrat, she actually never became his wife in any sense. I am not defending her character, but this is how she thinks it as. It is very natural for her to think that way too.

What would have happened if Virat and Sai never liked each other and if Pakhi wasn't his brother's wife? Virat might have buried his love for Pakhi deep within him.

Pakhi doesn't see Virat as her husband's brother at all. She only sees him as a person whom she loves. Samrat, not being in picture is the biggest reason, why she is not able to see Virat as her husband's brother. She might talk to Virat that Samrat is your brother and all, but she doesn't consider Samrat to be her husband while talking that way. In her head Samrat the husband and Virat Samrat's brother, both do not come into picture together, ever. So she is not at all able to see him as her devar.

Pakhi's jealousy

Also, she was a little ok while talking to Sai right after they moved to CN. Jealousy then took over her.

She noticed how Virat kept siding with Sai and could also notice that Virat had soft corner for Sai. She noticed the chemistry between the two. And as and when time passed, she could see Virat moving on. Virat was doing everything to support Sai. He fought with his family for Sai. It looks to her that he didn't fight for her but is now willing to do it for Sai. Anyway, these we do know.

But the jealousy grew so much that she has started to see Sai as a third wheel. Pakhi believes that if Sai had never entered Virat's life, Virat would be in Nagpur and he would have continued to love her. No one else would be in his life.

I know, I fall under the minority or may be the only one who thinks this way. I don't think Pakhi ever wanted an affair with Virat. All she wanted was to keep loving him and Virat to hold her in high regards. She has desires or wishes that Virat also loves her, but nothing more than that. The jealousy evoked a lot of other emotions in her and she has started to want the place of Sai unintentionally.

Everytime Aai or Sai taunts her and she gets shocked because that is not what she actually wants to do but she ends up doing it. All her hatred towards Sai is not done in a trance, but her physical advances towards Virat I believe is as a result of jealousy and she has no control over her emotions anymore.

Let me explain this. We sometimes decide that we would never have any expectations from a person. Or in some relationship, the nature of the person is such that, they generally do not expect anything or have never thought of a few things at all. But as and when the relationship progresses, the person starts to develop expectations involuntarily, without her/his own knowledge.

Let's take the example of Sairat. Both were thinking that the deal marriage was going to be simple and never expected that they will ever expect any kind of affection from the other. But without their own knowledge, they started to get attached and also started to develop expectations from each other.

Pakhi's case, in my understanding is no different. She never expected anything from Virat. All such expectations and desires started to develop only after she saw Sai with him. Emotions started to awaken in her when Sai was getting a few things, she wanted them for herself. She wanted that love, the care and affection that Sai was getting.

That is why she gets hurt, though it is not acceptable and entirely wrong, she actually is very hurt.

We all know she is expecting from her brother in law and also husband of another guy.

He is not that for her. He is in a marriage which he never wanted as per her and even if it looks like he likes Sai, to her this marriage would have never happened if not for the circumstances.

She also doesn't consider herself to be Virat's brother's wife as I had already mentioned. So with absolute no guilt or shame (which she was supposed to feel), she is expecting a lot of things from Virat.

She yearns for Sai's position. In the recent episode, she cried that he was not her husband, that showed her wish. She is in pain actually.

How she would have wished for him to be her husband.

These thoughts start to become venomous when she sees Sai and Virat together. The hurt and pain was only hurt until Sai and Virat started to get close to each other. At that moment her pain gets converted to hatred for Sai and also her desires start to surface.

I have a feeling that Sai is evoking all emotions and desires, that are buried deep within Pakhi for Virat. I have a feeling that, if there was no Sai, she might have cared for Virat, concerned about him, might dream about him but would not pursue any affair. I don't know, sometimes things doesn't go as planned or as how one would have thought.

Sorry about such a long post. Whatever I have said is only my observations and my understanding of the character. None of these can justify the character's behavior or actions. She is wife of someone and also Virat is someone's husband and she has to respect that relationship.

Sai is a target for her now. She loathes the girl and can go to any extent to make Virat dislike Sai.

Nice post laksh

Bold : pakhi really cares for virat ? Sai was no where in d picture when vaada thing happened b/w virakhi , where was d so called concern or care for virat ? Shailesh pakhi's father asked why she wanted to see virat without any support whole life( any sane person would ask this only ) , pakhi's answer pyar paagalpan hota hain. Can u explain this laksh ?

I agree with u samrat should have think about his mother & family but why should samrat work for a relationship jisko neev jhoot or dhoke pe rakhi gayi hai. Samrat ne shaadi ki hain adopt nhi kiya tha pakhi ki usse jhoot or dhoke ko bhi tolerate karega

Regarding sairat unka rishta ke neev sach pe rakhi gayi hai both were aware what is other person feeling regarding marriage . Virat to tell truth to sai before marriage coz he dint wanted to cheat her , he dint wanted that she keep expectations with him which he can't fulfill coz that time he was not in love with her thou sairat feeling changed after marriage.

Samrat ko ye mauka diya gaya tha ? He kept on asking & kept on listening lies , he may have thought d gloominess of pakhi can be coz of marriage. How rudely pakhi behaved on d mentioned of honeymoon samrat might had not left but after seeing pakhi's reaction he made up his mind . Samrat virat ko mauka dena chahiye tha pakhi ko nhi jisse already itne mauke mil chuke the. 4 virat samrat may think what made him do so even samrat had guilt to snatch virat's happiness but what excuse pakhi has for d lies .

Jis tarah pakhi don't consider samrat as her husband how can samrat except a woman who gives him only lies , samrat don't deserve this nonsense .

Or ek jhoot milega samrat ko jab vo iss rishte ko khatam karna chahega.