Originally posted by: EkPaheli
To begin with, I didnât get personal with you when I mentioned thereâs nothing to say to someone who finds Mandira better than Karan. I didnât use any slurs, personal attacks or any derogatory language so I donât understand what exactly youâre referring to here as âbelow the beltâ.
My comment about not being sure regarding what to say here stems from the context that when a person equates Karan with Mandira or the likes of Dolores or Voldemort simply on the basis of his interactions with Vaishnavi theyâre operating from a place of bias wherein theyâre already against Karan for whatever reasons they have and itâs not an assumption given that these comparisons are literally being made with vile, evil characters who enjoyed killing, torturing and hurting people because thatâs how theyâre. Karan on the other hand has been awful to Vaishnavi on 2 occasions so far but heâs certainly not doing so for any enjoyment, thrill or because he is a sadist getting a kick out of humiliating others or getting angry at them.
The first time Karan behaved badly with Vaishnavi was when he believed that the girl his son loved and one who loved him back, whom he had married not a few days ago would skip his last rites. The next instance was when he found out she was in love with Nakul, Parthâs cousin out of nowhere after a decade in which he presumably kept no contact with her and neither did she. This girl who had gotten engaged to Parth and Rio on two consecutive days and was accused back then as well as having designs on Nakul suddenly popped up after a decade with the said boy as her boyfriend. Karan saw her as a girl who had repeatedly getting involved with brothers and was likely responsible for the death of his two sons too. Of course he was bound to be awful towards her when he has no idea about the truth.
Comparing him with villains for this phase when heâs been a good character otherwise clearly demonstrates that the whole thing is not coming from a place of objectivity but bias. Because had there been objectivity his actions wouldâve been seen as the result of a grieving father lashing out not as evil.
I remember Mihir choking Tulsi for Pariâs sake when he believed that she was out there trying to ruin his daughterâs life. Tulsi clearly wouldnât dream of hurting Pari ever intentionally or not but Mihir disregarded the truth that he had to have known all along without it even needing an explanation or a verbal acknowledgment of the same and chose to choke his wife in a fit of rage when he felt his favourite, his darling daughter was suffering courtesy of his wife in no time.
Mihir was rightly called out for physically attacking Tulsi back then on the forum by the very people who liked him always but no one compared him with Bellatrix or Grindelwald or anything else at the time and still doesnât. His lapse of judgement and wrongdoing was acknowledged and called out but he wasnât suddenly vilified and called names for the same by anyone at all which is the case here.
So when I made that comment it came from a place of seeing that the criticism while justified is also being directed towards a character for reasons beyond the justified wrongdoing and has no basis in genuine critic that takes into account the whole arc of the character and his motivations as well when literally everything we know about Karan is the opposite of the likes of Voldemort, Bellatrix or anyone else. What conversation can be had when there is no intent displayed to genuinely understand the situation and the actions as well as reactions of a character based on the story at all but the comments likely stem from a place of bias held against the actor/character for reasons best known to the people making the same.
Just as Karan and Nandini arenât to be deified and placed on a pedestal as the best thing that happened to Kyunki, neither can they be vilified when other characters have had their similar phases be it when Mihir was repeatedly humiliating or hurting his wife, sometimes even physically in this season for his daughter or when Tulsi was refusing to take Nandiniâs words seriously about Ansh being evil which fell on deaf ears until Tulsi quite literally walked in on Nandini after her son had sexually assaulted her and later when she almost got slapped by the same son who was stopped by Karan at the end moment, even though for months Tulsi had been treating him so abominably and had practically disowned him.
If Karan is the father who has been raging out at Vaishnavi, heâs also the man who has had the gall to stand by the woman he loves and not abandon her after she had been violated by someone else. He is also the grandson who braved a fire to save his grandfather and the son who has stood by Tulsi like a rock when the rest of the family had abandoned her. Heâs not one thing alone and that thing certainly isnât in the same league as the likes of Voldemort or Bellatrix or Dolores Umbridge whose sole character traits were being evil.
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