I am very excited to see how Sai Satya will play out. IF they repeated so many Sai V moments on VP then it will be awesome to see many of those moments play out on SaiYa like hug, khaana khilana, etc etc. It'll be good to see her growing bond with this guy with similar beats- starting with nok jhok, tashan, mutual respect which is only known to themselves but in front of everyone- still nok jhok and then finally friendship, support, respect and maybe love.
These were the same beats that Sai V went through. So sai Satya is not quite like V and his farz waale "affairs" with P and Shruti.
VP mein this kind of slow burn and genuine gradual knowing each other didnt actually play out which is what most real relationships are like.
He thought he "loved" P as soon as he saw her- or atleast was coaxed to by Sunny and he intended to date her but gradually drifted away but both of them were in denial and then he keeps feeling obligated to go above and beyond to care for P and also to praise and acknowledge her more than necessary even for simple things. HE seems to enjoy her obsession with him and feeds it to massage his male ego. He likes how she keeps "wanting" him even after knowing that he was Sai's husband in every way. He doesnt identify that she is problematic for obsessing over him even when he was married to another woman whom he was planning a family with. Its pathetic how he has done so much for women he never loved and has abused the one he claims to love repeatedly.
Long term, if Satya is loved and super popular and their chemistry is magic, people will definitely demand SaiYa just like Aryan Imlie and the makers will be forced to consider it. And if they wanna bring back Sai V in the end due to kids then V will have to be redemeed atleast a little- imo he is iredeemable but if they go with the narrative that I personally am not at all in favor of- Sai V endgame then atleast it should be after V gets atleast a 1% taste of what pain and suffering he inflicted on Sai by choosing other people over her. If he cant tolerate a man in her life now when he is married to another woman and calls Sai his EX wife then how would she have felt when he always broke her trust as her husband - its something he should be realize and regret. He needs to rise above token namesake apologies which are meaninglessly delivered.
NB as an actor even in the past has done a lot of scenes that were very unappealing and toxic as per script like hand holding, food denial but back then when he didnt let his personal life affect the script, he was able to salvage those scenes by purely his nuanced and good performance. But ever since the narrative and characterization of V has been compromised and butchered- mainly shruti kaand onwards- it is now impossible for even his good performances also to invoke any happiness in many of us. I will acknowledge that he acted really well in the holi scenes as pure performance. But that didnt strike a chord. Do I feel more sympathy, or understand him just coz now he is soft or in majnu mode- NO! and when he has reached such a point where his good acting also can no longer salvage his character. And this butchering is due to makers- yes. but its impossible that the offscreen is not a factor. Theres just too many things that are way too obvious in public domain for it to all be coincidence. ITs also clear that he has more BAD days than good days on set. HE hits the mark like maybe 10-20% of the time. The rest of the time he fails. He was unable to show the difference between pain, angst, longing versus hate, disgust. He always went way overboard in his negative emotions towards Sai in all scenes where he needed to be nuanced and show that he still has love and longing for Sai in his heart. And when the toxicity and negativity and butchering is to such a level, dream scenes, random lollipop scenes of him being supportive to Sai or saying something pro Sai will make no difference to audience perspective. The makers and NB in his performance did not establish enough love, longing, angst for V missing Sai, V yearning for Sai, etc.
Showing him not only marry P but going so overboard in recreating all sai V moments on them and also doing them so distastefully and then expecting audience to like it- thats stupid. Infact audience is forgiving enough that even marriage with P- if it was genuinely only on paper and he lived in a different room and had always maintained boundaries and ALWAYS refused to allow himself into being guilted or manipulated into doing really sacred and important things like phere, vows, rituals of puja together as a couple, honeymooning, anniversary etc - then audience may still have given some leeway. Ki ok chalo he was really cornered while he was in a vulnerable situation. But they show him do everything voluntarily himself. P didnt ask him to take phere or go on honeymoon. He decided to do it out of "guilt" and manipulation by Ash, BK etc etc. They could have shown that Sai assumes that V married P for love but in reality its a sham and he has never shared even a room with her or allowed her into his space, asked Vinu call her kaku even though she was mother on the adoption papers...if all that had happened instead of VP cringe then many more people would have been more forgiving and rooted for Sai V to be back. But here he has done WAY too much with P. He has literally given her every haq of wife except sex. Every little thing. Right from really domestic things like helping him dress up or having access to his wardrobe like a wife- including to even his undergarments and to feeding him, doing puja and sacred rituals with him over the years to more OTT things like anniversary and declaring her wife in various public platforms like school functions, media ke saamne, work colleagues ke saamne. He has had no hesitation in accepting P as wife publicly. So it was never a sham marriage just for adoption.
After all this, how do you redeem him?!
On what basis should Sai and audience trust him?! He has literally nothing except empty words to give. honestly Sai would probably be able to get over a one night stand little more easily than this emotional infidelity. He has shared too much everyday life and space with P. A single drunken ONS can be perhaps be justified as happening in the spur where he imagined Sai or hallucinated her. But this marriage cannot be justified.
Today he says he loves Sai but his actions have shown that he really doesnt. He would never have been able to allow P to exist in his life after all she did if he truly loved Sai.
Edited by Nja91 - 2 years ago
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