Originally posted by: Yahvi
Even I felt that. The way Shiva was never outright dismissive to her made me think that. I felt at that time writers wanted to show Disha perfect for Shiva, who understood him, said all the perfect things. They wanted the audience to like Disha. The thing they underestimated was how much connect Raavi had with the audience. Even more than Shiva. They thought people would love someone like Disha with Shiva but it backfired on them & how!
yes.
And credit goes completely to Alice. We have discussed it many times on edts, how even w/o dialogues- focus she stays true to the character & portrays all emotions with ease.
Raavi, as a character has grown beyond creative's control. they try to ruin her every step of the way w/ ott dialogues, dobiness, insensitivity - too late! She ends up gaining more sympathy.
Abt Disha- u r right. that was the plan. A third angle, which people will lap up for sympathy w/ shiva.
carefully created scenes, costumes to reflect prewedding Raavi- added takkars, added BTS clips, influencers were on overdrive clipping Disoo clips, justifying kiss saying he deserves love- how good they look together. Justifying every abuse hurled at Raavi, every situation she was made to face came w/ comedy bg music. To degrade Raavi's character further, they even added a comparison scene on day 1 of disha entry.
Shiva was muted- he was shown hanging out w/ her w/o any hesitation. was shown chatting w/ her on phone, was shown she had his picture - he tok part in public event w/ Disha, He was seen w/ disha spending time at store - where she goes of demeaning Raavi & he quietly obliges - no reaction. He even compared two. He was okay talking, holding hands across Raavi's lap in auto. ... So Many things- Just so many were shown horribly wrong.
Offscreen- you can tell she was signed on for longer run- by a. similar costume colors (when she comes home: white top + jeans, instore- maroon dress, etc) 'Raavi is just a side character, this is dhara & shiva's story, Raavi's character does not have depth' .. all sorts of influencer posts were filtered through.
WOrked otherway! connected people to Raavi more.
She was included in sbs clip alongside KDice- was made to talk more instead of Raavi.
InBts pi of Bhoomi puja- Careful pic by staff photographer with Suman in middle- Disha & dhara on ether ide- wiht caption 'us' / Pandya women something was floated.
Actor's offscreen attitude was also quite sure- of long run too.
Alice's defaming article was also planted around then...
Though in this all,
Raavi Won! More they showed all these- overall- across te mediums- social media, print, even sbs/bb journos, And most imp. trp audience- online & on tv both - overall rejected this adbhut plot of Writerben.
WIsh post that, they had brought back Shekhawat! we would have got wonderful ShiVi progress by now!