Originally posted by: shwetha85
One such female character did thrive on ITV - Pratigya in 2010. I think at that time ITV was a little different and gave chance. Even Suhana from SGP was rude to Ishaan who had done a lot for her pre-marriage and post marriage. Ishaan was exactly like Neil. But now I think because of shit shahi - ITV has changed to toxic MLs liking. It started with Karthik in yeh rishta, even Naitik was humble and non-toxic though he had some anger issues.
I was a kid when those shows aired but I've heard about them having a lot better characters than the ones today. Television used to be niche back then, and I believe there was room for variety, practicality, fun and light heartedness. That should've been the norm.
I always thought that entertainment is supposed to make people happy at the end of the day by showing lighter moments and distracting them from their daily stress. But it evolved the opposite way. People are getting happy by seeing characters suffer on screen. They love such always-angry characters who have loads of nonsensical psychological issues, complete psychopaths with no sense of kindness and humanity. Only toxicity. I seriously don't understand why men can't be portrayed as understanding creatures and women having their own agency.
I don't say this kind of comments (not mature physically). I didn't even log in during the morning today. If you were talking about Vaibhavi, I like her. 
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