Originally posted by: nautankitadka
I will put the onus of some of this on the writing, which in my honest view has not accorded Pallavi the stature it should as a young widow living in society and not given us more depth on her story before she married Mandar and came to Hyderabad with the Deshmukhs. I would have personally loved to see any of them mention about her past apart from the Mandar and how his death affected them as a family, where she was forced by circumstances (Vijay Deshmukh's heart attack) to take up responsibility to hold the house together. Forget Raghav, all the Deshmukh scenes she has had so far only talk about how Aai-Baba lost their son and she lost her husband, not about how she loved to dance but had to probably give it up, how she survived without her parents, her struggles, maybe some of the benefits she had as Pallavi Sawant (maybe they were well-off, hence she has never had any interest about business or they were barely earning so she had no resources to educate herself properly which is why she was excited when Mandar wanted to support her to study further and broaden her mind). Even about her relationship with Mandar, we only know that they spoke on phone and emails and she has never really interacted with him decently as a person to get to understand him.
As for Raghav, he does notice certain things about Pallavi too, just that he does not want to know any of it till this point, coz like he has reiterated time and again, he does not see her as anything more than the Saree ka Dukaan. But at the end of the day, he does have enough sense to bail her out when he feels she has been wrongly accused or the courtesy to offer to drop her home and get her back incase she gets wrongly caught up beyond the first few instances of him disrespecting her, which me or Keerti or even his Amma will condemn. They seem to be setting the stage for Pallavi to fall for Raghav, which is why the multidimensionality of his personality is being shown before hers. It is only when he realises that she is an orphan and a widow, and maybe if something comes to fore about her not knowing Anjali or donating blood to his mother, which is of personal interest to him will he be interested in digging deep on that aspect. He does not want to actively know anything about her beyond what is needed for the challenge, that is how he basically is. Again, this is something that I would want the CVs to explore and do justice to it when the times comes for HER part to be explored. Again, yes, I do want him to now discover her too, which will most probably happen post this marriage.
If you do feel like any of the above does not make sense, let us agree to disagree.
I do agree with the fact that the execution of Pallavi's character arc has been very haphazard, cause her identity has been from the beginning that of a Deshmukh widow, nothing else. What she was and used to be hasn't been shown for us to know more about her. This is why, it's up to Raghav only to discover what she was, what her life was, what her dreams were, everything.
Now coming to the love angle, it could very much be that Pallavi falls in love first, cause as I said when it comes to feelings, she is very much expressive and she has a hold on what she feels and why she feels. So she may start feeling and falling first. But I think Raghav again might do something that Pallavi has to step back again and deprive herself of feeling anything for Raghav or express anything related to him.
The intensity of emotions will always be from Raghav's end, cause he suppresses most of it. So, when he understands what he feels, it will be overwhelming for Pallavi. When Pallavi is around him, he does not feel the need to figure out what he feels. But whenever there is an inkling that she is withdrawing or probably stepping away, he goes berserk, which happened when LION came into the picture. I guess this is why we need LION again, to give Raghav some clarity with his feelings which otherwise is within, but he does not realize.
I am still in two minds about who will fall first or both will together and unaware of the other.
Another execution and writing problem I feel is with what Raghav actually thinks or feels about Pallavi. We don't get many monologues, and we cannot gauge his feelings, unlike Pallavi. So I would really like to know someday. Don't want them to drop it some kind of truth bomb.