Originally posted by: sadiltl
What i think is this. Shalini and shiv are both insecure due to the truth they are hiding in their marriage. Shalini is more insecure because she is "apparently" on the wrong side. She is constantly bothered by the question "what if he knows?". I could be wrong. The way they both "interrogate" each other and also "pacify" each other is not normal. One thing for sure is that they love each other immensely but the lies are making them behave like this way. Thats the whole point of the story. Writing is good that it is bringing all these points out. As audiences we are also wondering what will happen if they know the truth.
Do you think Shiv is worried about consequences of Shalini finding out his truth? Nope, in my opinion, he has his own ways of convincing Shalini and to me he does not seem to be as worried.
Infact, he does seem to like Hero tag, and wasn't bothered much when his son found out, which is way riskier. And he was quite upset when Shalini and Chintu were laughing how Shiv is incapable of dealing with goons and situation, but how did he expect Shalini and kids to react after seeing what happened in restaurant? They love him without the hero tag, but that tag really adds layer of glory. As I mentioned, Shiv is trying his best to play a common man, without understanding very important dynamics of managing safety and family's emotions and his best approach is always distraction, may work sometimes, and may need more efforts of I Love Yous and Please, but he is managing it.
And I agree, he loves his family alot! He takes up with everyone who does wrong to them, but I do not know if it's execution or that's purposeful writing, and I hope it's later. For example, today when Shalini was crying out of guilt for her family plus she just recalled one of the most recent traumatic event, I was honestly expecting a hug and an attempt to cheer up. She is his wife, who is seemingly upset, but his way - Oh look food is burning (sorry, I don't know what food they keep referring to); and emotions are pushed under the carpet.
As for Shalini's traumatic recall of being pointed a gun and all, we have seen the precap, Parshuram will deal with avenging those experiences. For her family part, Shiv considers them as Rakshas and doesn't give two hoots to them. There was no dharam sankat for him to choose to punish Kabir, because he doesn't love his wife's family like Shalini does. Two times he has initiated any relation, it has been for the investigation - Balram taking sweet and call to Dipali for Kabir's case; so those sweet throwing actions affect Shalini more than him. He has created a clear barrier that he will only love and cherish his son, daughter and wife - and they have repeated this dialogue so many times! So, real dharam sankat will be what if ONE of them is a criminal - which of course will be wife
though I think I should completely stop trying to decode her. I completely fail to understand her point of view.
I won't talk about the family side of their story. But yes, as a character she is coming out to be very fiesty. She has guts to really deal with extreme situations. So, only exception was kids kidnapping, apart from that she has been very fierce, with Dodo, Kabir, and even those goons. In that sense, I always felt that she should be better paired opposite Parshuram
This post turned longer than I expected.
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