Hi everyone
I am new here and just have been a silent reader till now. But today’s episode really made my blood boil and I wanted to get it all out here (on a side note : love the positivity and the friendly vibes in the forum ♥️)
So, my question is what is love without passion? It’s still love, isn’t it? The kind that is comfortable, relatable, and adaptable. But all of us have either read novels or seen movies where the Hero falls madly and obsessively in love with the heroine. His obsession translates into moments where he acts in ways he has never acted before; the rock-hard astute man falls for a cute feminine girl who ignites fire in his veins just by a mere touch (all the millionaire and poor n sweet girl cliche tropes lmao). But what makes these tropes work is the evergreen aspect: the Hero would go to the ends of the Earth for the heroine, would cause bloodshed just to protect her and burn down the whole world just to keep her to himself. What hooks us to such tropes, however cliche they may be, is the classic “ a man falling for the girl so deeply and madly that he loses his control, his senses at the mere proximity of her”.
This is what disturbs me about MeetA and his gold digger runaway-bride; he becomes the same cliche Hero with her whenever she is even a meter away from him. Even the sight of her wreaks havoc at his senses and her touch makes him tremble (lmao). What kind of love is this? This maddening obsession MeetA has for her, it has no real basis. And YET they are portraying him to be affected by her as if she is the only woman who evokes the ‘man’ in him.
Now let’s come to compassion: the emotion MeetA feels for MeetH. He likes her personality, her character traits, her spirit, her resilience, her heart even and last but not least, her company and the support that she provides him with. He feels compassion towards her and so cannot hear a single word against her; he cares for her, worries for her and gets restless when he thinks she is avoiding him. This makes for the basis of a very strong, very profound love that builds up gradually and that creeps up on you like vines creep up on a wall and then cover it completely. So would this love one day inhabit the entirety of his being.
But...and a very big BUTT here 🍑 : when a man tastes the morsels of something delicious, wouldn’t he want to devour the whole meal? I am talking about passion. A person needs compassionate love to flourish and live to the fullest, but what he wants is passion instead, something that will consume him entirely. We all do this: neglect what we need and go after what we want. So when a man has had the touch of passion, would he crave the compassion? Ideally he should. But in case of MeetA, he can’t shake off the clutches of this ‘passionate’ touch of that girl; he is so deep in his ‘feelings’ that he doesn’t realise what he craves is only skin-deep. And that’s where the flaw of the show rears it’s ugly head: MeetA not feeling a smidge of that passion and intoxication with MeetH’s presence. Why, because she is not ‘conventionally’ beautiful? The answer is yes! He recognises her character, but not her beauty: not the wide doe-eyes, not the cupid-bow lips, not the button nose, not the way her slender neck stretches when she looks up at him, not the way her eyelashes flutter when she is nervous. Nothing! Nil! Nada!
So what we as audience are to assume? That after these pathetic displays of ‘trembling hands’, ‘teary eyes’ and ‘yearning heart’, MeetA would magically start to find MeetH attractive and try to ‘move on’? MeetH DOES NOT deserve this. Cause the poor, emotionally abused, and hardly-ever-loved soul that she is; she would probably accept his ‘moved-on’ persona and take up the rest of the emotions he might bestow her with. Does she not deserve a man who falls madly head-over-heels for her? Who would have his pulse race and heartbeat speed up just because she touched him lightly? I am not saying that I wanted this sort of love between MeetA and MeetH but the extent to which MeetA’s “deewanapan” is shown, now if they start to take him back towards the compassionate love for MeetH, it won’t suffice. It would pathetically fall short because now we would expect the guy who can show this sudden passion for 2-week-old love to now have the maddest obsession for MeetH cause otherwise, are we to assume that she was just the easiest option that he settled upon after he got to know Kunal ki baby ki reality?
Ps; literally just penned down all the frustration that was building up since a few epis....phew🤭. Hopefully it doesn’t bore you all. Also, since I am a newbie, I probably won’t be able to reply much (not sure what the rules are). But would love to read each and everyone of your views♥️
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