I didn't even watch those episodes of Sam's death and Shruti track and post leap long time because of how triggering V's behaviour used to be... he was always a problematic guy, it's just that many of us were blinded by his grand gestures, just like Sai.
@Bold
I agree with this however- I binged few old clips and actually he is not too off from his character.
Back then also his way of making up to Sai was doing loaded dialogues, grand gestures, gifts etc but he still didn’t tell off PL or CN sternly- except when it was about her studies and post remarriage even that changed.If you go back and rewatch those episodes one can think that - did writers wanted to tell us that he is not a perfect man all along and we overlooked?
Just like Ajinkya incident made me realize how problematic his jealousy of Aniket time was. That scene has never been same for me after Ajinkya incident.
Closure Sai gets to him- he starts taking her for granted and its always about his feelings-
he made deal, he made Vada to PL so Sai shouldn’t expect anything, he in his head broke Vada to PL so Sai should accept him-
Sai rejected his anniversary celebration so he was miffed and abused her in anniversary and Shruti track.
Sometimes I feel makers went extreme because they wanted to show Virat is a problematic guy but because of Sairat popularity people never accepted that. So they took extreme route to make them ‘unlikable’ purposely.Atleast for me there is no other explanation of why he behaved the way he did post Sam death and Sai miscarriage where he allowed PL to slap his pregnant wife and went on to console PL instead of wife. Cant wrap my head around it even in name of drama.