Of Saints & Sociopaths

Fantastic. Brilliant. Superb. You've outdone yourself this time, buddy. And that's a heck of a high level to top.

Wonderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrful! 👏👍🏼😃

@Pankaj205, I am rubbing my hands in glee…just itching to respond. Absolutely impressive post my friend.

The Anti-hero…DV… more than our affiliation to the underdog, what we fell in love, and, felt intriguing about this character can be captured in one dialogue that he speaks.

"Acha ya Bura, kaise bi hoon sirf thumara hoon"

That was what created affinity between him and us. It is said that love conquers all. But love in itself is a very erratic emotion. You fall in love with someone because of your perception of him/her. So how did we fall in love with DV. This is where kudos have to be given to the creator of the character and to the Actor.

The creator of the character from the very first instance shows us two parts to this enigma DV. The man who is loves his family but is slave to his desires and deceives them and the man who is passionate but would go to inconceivable lengths to attain what he wants. So you are shown so many colors of a single man… you are intrigued. What hooked you here in this character was the fact that how much ever he wanted Amoli, you could always see that he wants her to respond to his overtures.

Then the Actor…Sharad simply became DV for us. However well chalked out, a character is only as good as the actor. What the actor needs is a challenge to show themself and DV did that for Sharad. What the character needed was for the actor to make it his, and Sharad did that for DV. Personally, I have seen may be 2 or 3 episodes of saath phere and an interview of Sharad at one time…may be he was on his learning curve but to me, I would say that the character was too close to him, and not a challenge that would make him give his all. DV did that for Sharad and he reciprocated by giving his all. His ability to move into lighting quick character changes - from anger to calm, passion to cruelty, pain to love, fury to patience… he was impressive and affected at the same time . There are many times in the series that various people tell DV that he changes character like a chameleon. He does because all through he is pulled between his obsession on one side and his need to be free of this obsession on the other. Sharad portrayed this struggle very well.

How could you not fall in love with the big bad DV?

Another titan has come on the field, and some of us mere mortals are content to watch in awe. Great riposte, dear.

wonderfully written dear love the way u write, superb👍🏼 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Originally posted by: leelaa9

Another titan has come on the field, and some of us mere mortals are content to watch in awe. Great riposte, dear.

......seriously...another titan enters the field.....oh what an absolute pleasure....
@pankaj great post......@G superb analysis

......what made the character of DV so fantastic for the TV audience?????.....
......it is all that @G & @pankaj say........
.......but it is also that the character was consistent throughout.....it remained honest
to its drawing board image.......that is what made the character so impreganable.....

......let me make my point......look at LTL.....(.i know...i know ..i have a grouse
against the program that took BP's place.....but forget that for the moment.....)
........the hero is supposed to be an underworld don......but he is softer than a bugs
bunny.....he even has manicured fingers!!!......you see a perfectly .....in fact primly
put together guy.....no rough edges.....no bare knuckles kind of tension to him.........
......his wife gets kidnapped......and he just rescues her.....thats it......no torment
of how wrong things could have gone.........

...compare this to DV........when Amoli goes off to the rally and DV drags her back
home......when he says 'agar tumhe kuch ho jata toh ? main to jetey jee mar jatan?'
....the raw torture of that moment is so there......that was DV...

....the cvs did not do a 'character creep' towards goodness......they held the
character.....it would have been so easy to just slide DV to goodness but
they didn't......fab job by Sharad & Cvs for authoring it.

We had to fall in love with DV....no choice....

TOI had sometime back carried an article where they compared
Amitabh & Rajnikant. They made a very very valid point when they
stated that Rajnikant is far far superior because he does not mind crossing
over to be the bad guy....whereas Amitabh remains the good guy even when
he played a bad guy.......he always remained a polished gentleman (on screen that is)........even when the role was an underowrld don......the character got sized down by Amitabh's version
..... TOI claimed Rajnikant would have given it the teeth, the necessary rawness, the edge....

Sharad in the role of DV ....was a tv version of that Rajnikant...
we had to love this bad guy.....so well carried off by Sharad.

All right. Another titan has entered the lists. This superb writing is taking our forum's standard flying at a very high level.

dear Pankaj
beautiful post ,wonderful👏👏👏
best of luck

@oh-wow you just talked about my fav actor of all times...Rajini... He is a style master, an absolute showman but he always stayed true to his role. And the best thing about him, he'd smile and you'd smile…he'd cry and you'd cry…if he got beaten, you'd want him to beat back….but if he was pure evil, you'd want to slap him and still like for his performance.

But… this is BP forum and we are talking about SK….

Be it the thunderous drama of the haiwan DV or the monumental anger of the passionate DV or the smiling patience of the family man DV or the soulful portrayal of the Lover DV, SK did it all to perfection.

The scene at the water's edge when Ranveer is talking to Amoli… (or) On the terrace (after he acts like old DV with Kajiri) when Amoli gets upset thinking he is back to his old tricks (or) when he is accused of murder by balwant, she questions him, you keep telling me you did everything for me .. so now who was this for? (or) when he is to be arrested and he tells her that this time I will not come back even if you come to release me.

In each of the above scenes you see his struggle and his acceptance… and you cry with him or cry for him, smile with him or at him, get angry for him or with him, melt with him or melt for him….