Originally posted by: nethraa_99
I feel you laksh. I have been so irritates seeing this idotic joke of a show.
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As we all know, if this was real life, Sai would have been forced to leave CN long ago, thanks to someone's pendulum nature. In fact anyone who wasn't Sai might have become an emotional wreck. Since it is fiction, we keep rooting for SaiRat with the hope that we will be rewarded with a satisfactory progress in their relationship as well as their own flaws.
True, I could see some feelings for each other in them which made me ship them.
TBH, understanding Virat has been a rollercoaster ride. Like I have said before, everytime they lowered Virat's standards, I have been disappointed, then come to the forum to read different perspectives and then accepted his flaws. This compromise has now reached to such an extent that I have accepted him as a very passive and weak character. Everytime he fails in protecting Sai from the insults of his family and Pakhi, I learnt to be patient. I believed that Sai's ousting will be a catalyst to change - he will finally realise the (lack of) integrity of his family members and also be shaken from his apathy by the possibility of losing Sai. I cheered when I saw the his angry avatar against his family for the first time and also breaking his vada with Pakhi. I was hoping this will graph will only climb. Alas, he was cold towards them (family and Pakhi) for two days and after that the old level of pleasantries. I was so disappointed. After someone pointed out, I began accepting that Virat will never be vocal or decisive in any issue, but he was learning to trust Sai's judgement & capabilities over his own as far as handling his family members were concerned. I even wrote a post on how we were wishing that Sai & Virat will learn from each other's strong points but what the writers had in mind was a familiarly passive Virat learning to trust Sai and lettinh her handle his family in her own terms. As much as it is not much fun in watching a weak character on screen I accepted. I began looking at him with that benchmark. Even in 200 episode when Pakhi insults Sai, I looked at it positively noting that he did not stop Sai from giving as good as she got and also started setting some boundaries with her atleast (bank account). One might say that it is a very low standard for an ML but there was nothing else to do but to take what the writers were dishing out to us. I was ready to cheer every baby step Virat took in opposing his family or Pakhi as his realtionship with Sai strengthened. What I was expecting was for him to retain his honesty and basic intelligence, that's all.
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And the last couple of days, they have butchered him even in this basic aspect. They made him compromise with his family's crimes making him a hypocrite.
I am not sure how much of this is butchering. It is him reacting that was to his family and that is all. That is how Virat would have reacted anyway looking at his behavior from the past too:
Today the way he convinced Pakhi by invoking their 'friendship' was nothing but manipulation. And he acts dumb all the time about Pakhi's interest in him and expects Sai to believe this. He was always insensitive to both Pakhi and especially with Sai regarding his yoga-wala past.
Manipulation doesn’t mean one will be forcing the other when the other says no repeatedly. He started to share about his sister and her daughter. He then started to talk about his heartbreak. Started to share about his wishes. When she didn’t budge, when didn’t show any interest or didn’t care even after all that he had said, he used friendship to get her to accept it. Not sure what else is this other than manipulation. I would have been happy if he had said that unintentionally you had helped Kaku hide her mistakes, it is a chance for you to rectify it. Why didn’t he say that? Why did he use friendship card to make her accept it?
The first time he had tried to make Sai stay back in CN on the first day of her college, many felt that he was manipulating Sai by speaking that way. I couldn’t see that or think that way. Even if that was, it is different. He knows what Pakhi feels about him, keeps acting confused whenever she shows her hurt or anger and has the audacity to bring up friendship? What friendship? I don’t even understand where is the friendship? She doesn’t think him to be her friend and she has made it clear many times and even after that he says tumhare dost hone ke naate? How? Doesn’t make sense at all. He struck a chord with her by using the word which he knew would actually help him.
Whatever it was, I didn’t find it even necessary for him to share his dukh bhari dastaan with a woman who says has feelings for him. He can’t just go cry to her telling how he felt when his sister didn’t accept her daughter or act as if she was really a friend to him. Is he happy with a friendship being one sided and for him to share his worries with her when she is not looking at him as her friend?
Virat is one half of SaiRat. With one half butchered what is there to cheer?
I can’t call everything as butchered. Some are his character traits anyway.
Even Sai is being slowly but surely butchered. I didn't like her convincing Virat to speak to Pakhi - because it is uncharacteristically stupid. Sai has always been annoyed with Virat's friendship with Pakhi. How will such a woman who respects herself make puppy faces to get Virat to talk to Pakhi? I'm not buying the "she is so caring towards Devyani" argument anymore because it is just a typical ITV FL trope. If she didn't like Virat convincing Pakhi and suggested Karishma to play the role instead, would that make her less caring towards Devyani
Of course not, she shouldn’t have asked him to convince her. I think she always sees Pakhi as someone close to Virat and know that Pakhi will listen to Virat. She tells it without thinking much about the other aspects but when she actually witnesses Pakhi’s eyes on Virat, she starts to get upset. The night after a Virat had been to Pakhi’s house also she had asked if she didn’t even listen to his words and return to CN. She is wrong to have asked him but don’t think she even thought through it. She actually doesn’t have or wouldn’t have so much problems if Pakhi had not openly showed her interest in Virat, if Pakhi had not interfered in their business or objected to their closeness or disrespected their privacy. She has issues with Pakhi because Pakhi always creates issues and always keeps targeting Sai. Until the time Pakhi did all these, she was being nice to Pakhi.
Sorry for my rant.
Nah, please don’t feel sorry. Many are upset with the past few episodes.
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