I think it's about the segment interview where KD was justifying Shiva that chhote shehar me log aise react karte hai & all.. Although I didn't say at that time but mujhe interview KD ke POV se bahut misleading laga.. I mean if chhote shehar wali baat bhool bhi jao, but he made it seem like Shiva is a victim here. He said waha sab ladke the, Raavi akeli thi to wo to bas chinta kar raha tha, chhote shehar mein aisa hi hota hai. Shaq nhi kiya. But episode me to body language se clearly laga that uski tone accusatory thi towards Raavi. Kabhi kabhi mujhe sach me lagta hai uske scene cut ho jaate hai, bcz jaisa show me dikhta hai & jaisa KD Shiva ko narrate karta hai is not the same most of the times..
Anyway I won't comment on TT ppl or what they think about us.. But it's just my personal opinion. Instead of using chhote shehar so many times and justifying character saying chhote shehar ke log aise hote hai, why not just say pandya family is like that. They are not perfect, but will strive to be. Bcz in my experience, choti badi soch is not about shehar, education, it depends upon a person. I'm from chhota shehar Udaipur which is even smaller than Somnaath, lived in bade shehar too like Mumbai, Chandigarh, now Ahmedabad. Did my internship from Florida. I've never seen family like Pandyas in my childhood in chhota shehar. But ppl like them exist, but they exist both in bade & chhote shehar.
My Dadi made all her bahus complete their study and asked them to do job, bcz she said financial independence is mandatory for women & she was illiterate. I've seen a doctor family in Mumbai who tortured their DIL for dowry who later did suicide. In Florida my colleague's husband used to hit her & he was addictive. One should stop themselves from chhote shehar, chhoti mentality generalisation. It doesn't sound good.
Both my MIL and my mother are from chote shehar and my Dad and FIL grew up in Chennai (only bade shehar in TN) at that time. They both went to college, great education and had awesome career through their lives.
When it comes to my MIL and my mother, there is a stark difference - my mother lost her mother when she was young, had several siblings. Her education was stopped by my grandfather and he got all his daughters married by 19 and 20 and didn’t send even one of them to college. The irony is he was a teacher and a farmer who owned acres of agricultural land, Chote shehar -choti soch. I have even questioned him later in life, his answer was that he was raising his kids as a single parent and it was getting difficult (one thing I had to appreciate him for that he did not remarry which was very common if Men became a widower at a young age back in those days, he raised them all as a single parent and his notion, another woman might not treat them the same way as their real mother, for that he needs to be applauded)
But my MIL had a different upbringing in Chote Shehar with both parents alive- She is the eldest of 4 daughters, was sent out to Chennai to complete her College education- Bachelors, Masters, M.Phil, became an Associate Professor and then was married to my FIL. In her mother’s family she was the first one to get college educated, her sisters followed suit and they all had successful careers including my MIL, all coming from Chote Shehar. I couldn’t be more proud of my MIL and her sisters ( maasis ) and I look upto them all.
I agree it is not about Chote shehar or Bade Shehar, it is about the thinking and pettiness is out there in both the places,