Originally posted by: aye-masakalii
💯 this.
Man, it took me forever to warm up to Raghav as a character. For a good 50 episodes I was in it just for Pallavi. But boy, once I warmed up, did he catch up quick! (It has to be noted though, that the fandom at large is willing to cut Raghav a lot more slack than they are willing to cut Pallavi. That part has always and will always upset me) As frustrating as some episodes can be, these two individuals, their personal journeys, their journey together...they have my heart.
I think Sai really should distance a bit. Thing is, people really struggle in differentiating real and reel. They project excessively. I'm just thankful that Shivi isn't on Twitter, because the kind of things said about Pallavi there (not just right now, straight from the beginning of the show), I'm sure if she were more active they'd be tagging her in everything.
Fans ka sach mein samajh nahi aata mujhe. I feel like just telling them to grow up and get a damn life
@ bold : yeah i agree. i'll give you two reasons why, as superficial/dumb as they are, its just the truth of the matter (i'm going to use general terms like us, we, etc. for the sake of writing but I don't mean specifically you and me, etc.)
1) he's hot AF and I think most of us (forum members, people on twitter, insta,etc.) are heterosexual women and the majority will always forgive someone who's handsome and dashing because of the association of good looking = good person.
2) I think most of us are also some shade of brown - so Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, etc. So we all most likely come from a culture of longstanding misogyny and patriarchy that is deeply rooted within a lot of us, no matter how woke we are. We hail from a culture that vilifies the woman more than the man in almost every situation. "It's the woman's fault the marriage didn't work." "It's the woman's fault the husband strayed (she wasn't pretty enough, she wasn't kind enough)". "It's the woman's fault that she got r*ped because she was walking alone at night," etc. etc. etc.
The whole "boys will be boys" mentality is hard to get out of. Men often get a gold medal just for "trying" whereas women have to consistently be good and better to get any praise.
So in the past when Raghav would do things wrong, he'd be forgiven because "omg look at those puppy dog eyes, he said sorry!" or "look he did help her out" ... and people would fall back on the fact that he's hot and should be forgiven bc that's just how their brains work or because omg boys will be boys, it's fine. (Now I'm also someone who's like ok they said sorry - its your choice to forgive and move on or not. I don't like when people hold grudges either.)
I will say the redemption arc for Raghav is one of the best redemption arcs I've ever seen for a ML. If they had a convo of their past and he apologized for everything - that would be the ULTIMATE cherry on top.
@italics. facts. me too.
.. I hope not bc that's not what I meant at all.
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