Originally posted by: joliefemme
Yes I'm not keeping tabs on this as well and I had almost forgotten that Agastya did ask her about it. They have written his character in a way that shows he has his reasons. Ofcourse for a story to progress there needs to be one person (always the male lead) who will have a misunderstanding about the female lead (who is always right and pious) and then your redemption track comes. Unfortunately this makes it difficult to root for the male lead as the female lead always takes the sympathy of the audience. This is how ITV works for 95pc of the shows.
You should make a post if you have points to discuss, I'd love to contribute as well as the AT can be restricted due to rules.
Ofcourse I'm not condoning any sort of physical or verbal abuse, be it the one done by Agastya or done by Imlie. While there will always be an outrage when the female leads are pushed or held tightly (and rightly so), why no outrage when a man is slapped? It's taken so casually and normalized. All of us the other day when Agastya got slapped said he deserved it. Not a single person said why did Imlie take the extreme steps of slapping him to get the point across?
Could the makers have avoided that scene? Why is it ok (for whatever reason) that a male character is slapped and doesn't get the same amount of outrage or any outrage.
Imlie the other day broke his car (kyu bhai, just coz he broke down the door of a house he owned because you were not opening it?) Had this been some unknown person, she would be behind bars for vandalism and destruction of property.
ETA: This slap point was raised yesterday in BB by a male contestant that a slap is more humiliating for a man than any other form of physical hurt which got me thinking about this. And ofcourse took me back to all the times Sai's characters in his earlier shows were slapped. Of course, I'm not a man toh I could never previously think this way before but he does have a point and now I know better.