Originally posted by: EkPaheli
Don’t remember Kasam Se too much tbh. They brought in bad boys for all 3 OG shows. Ansh, Shasha and UD. Shasha iirc goes insane after his lover is killed in some tragic accident that happens courtesy of his attempt to kill Parvati or Om or someone in the family. The guilt of being inadvertently responsible for her death drives him into an asylum. The rest of his family - mom and siblings just disappeared after that.
UD IMO was never half as bad as those two. He just had an attitude problem. Otherwise he was an actually good but damaged child. The trauma of losing Mukti mellows him down and I think then he marries her lookalike iirc.
The one thing common among all these men was that they were all phenomenal actors who did justice to their parts and made us hate them or pity them, depending on the show and character in question. I found Karanveer to be extremely creepy and frankly terrifying in Saubhagyavati Bhava which he did later as Viraj Dobiyal. If anyone could give a run to Ansh in the worst husband competition ever it was Viraj and the husband from Neha Marda’s show played by Mohit Mallik. I don’t remember the name atm. But he was extremely violent too.
Back then shows weren’t afraid of showing hardcore stuff and if that meant airing scenes that made people uncomfortable then that was intentional. They wanted people to feel those things and spark conversations.
I remember thinking that the two most horrifying scenes of that era were scenes which frankly didn’t even show anything graphic but the implications were so scary.
The first one was in Balika Vadhu. Neha Marda’s character Gehna is married to Basant, a man old enough to be her father. In fact, they do show that his first wife had a series of miscarriages and died while giving birth to his 8/9th child. There’s a legit scene on that show where she confronts him and asks him had his first child survived, wouldn’t it be true that said child would’ve been older than her by a whole year? Then why did he marry her, despite their age difference? He is stunned and shamed into silence.
The scene in question has her limping into the Pooja Room the morning after her wedding. The minimal music as everyone observes her discomfort, the gentle jangling of her bangles and anklets as she moves is frankly nerve wracking when you understand what the scene was about. How it projected her trauma without a single word said.
The next scene was in a promo of all things! Again Colors with Na Aana Iss Des… you see a newborn child wrapped up and then passed around a lot of people and assume that this child is perhaps being taken to an elder for blessings. Then we see there’s a gigantic black pot that has milk almost ready to spill out as it bubbles over the surface when the child reaches the intended person.
The person raises the child above their head with both their hands as a lot of people, all men, dressed in white stand silently when this person’s voice echoes loud and clear - Agle saal chhora. The people repeat the same in unison as you watch that child being thrown into the bubbling pot of milk.
I can’t even imagine anyone having the courage to depict something half as horrific today. Neither actors nor writers today are capable of bringing such issues to screen.
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