Originally posted by: laksh
I am cool. The reason I said that because I hear that a lot whenever something goes wrong with Virat's character and many of us from the FD feel the same as me. But when Sai goes wrong it is actually called as a flaw in the chatacter, like she is the most horrible girl, she doesn't care about anyone but herself, she likes to make tamasha and all. So when we speak about butchering every action that the FD despises should be looked at as butchering and not just MLs I mean. I am kind of tired of hearing this because no analysis would make sense if we justify MLs character this way. I agree that he was butchered and gets butchered some way but not all the time.
I support and criticise both, so it becomes difficult for me to hear about butchering only while talking about ML.
Sai doing drama is not OTT, Sai climbing tree is not seen as OTT, Sai barging into Deans office is not OTT, Sai behaving disrespectfully with Virat and not apologising to him also shows as a character written weak to me. Hence I pointed it out to you. No offense meant.
@bold And none taken.😊
I'm surprised because as far as I have seen, Virat gets bashed much more than Sai (and understandably so). For me understanding Virat has been a rollercoaster ride. He has been poorly written. To invest so much time and grey cells on a character and to see him behaving dumb irritates me to the core. Like you, I'm a neutral person who wants to see SaiRat's progress. Most of the times, I take Virat's characterization to be his flaws (no matter how much I don't like it). But when they compromise with his core values or show no progression or inconsistent I cannot but attribute it to butchering.
Sai also does fall into the trap of being made mahaan - that to me is butchering. She is good enough the way she is. TBH, I could not connect with either Sai or Virat during DevKit wedding. They made Sai do all kinds of dumb and out-of-character things like lying, hiding things (butchering). They made Virat a super dumb UPSC cheater with his idiotic investigation. Could not the same outcome (separation) be achieved while being consistent with their inherent flaws, without butchering their characters? The plot was so ridiculously written. We moved ahead with assumptions made for either characters - but it was so uninteresting to watch.
The recent whitewashing of Bhavani - Virat and Sai both were butchered beyond belief. Do I assume that both are this way only? Sai can never accept such injustice. And Virat's "I understand your POV and I still respect you" to Bhavani made him seem like a shallow person. But I still refuse to believe that Virat is shallow or that he is not butchered. Whatever his flaws, he was supposed to be caring and with good moral values - how can he now suddenly turn shallow? Just as I cannot believe Sai will be so blind to a crime. I can only conclude that they butchered Sai and Virat for the sole purpose of whitewashing Bhavani. It killed some part of SaiRat for me already.
As far as butchering of ML and FL is concerned, it happens too frequently in ITV. ML is constantly butchered to increase FL suffering. And FL is frequently butchered by making her mahaan/self-sacrificing/ and or hiding the crimes of the family.
My irritation is - if Virat is supposed to be like this, show him like that from the beginning. He won't interest me and I would not watch the show. Don't set up a string of good qualities - only to show him as dumb, hypocritical and shallow. It doesn't make any sense to me - and I can only suspect that it is being done to achieve some outcome/goal.
Edited by nethraa_99 - 4 years ago
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