Shyam...I am maha disappointed!

Dear Shyam,

I am maha disappointed with the way your character is being developed. I really enjoyed how you came on the scene and slowly revealed your developing feelings for Khushi. I even sympathized with you for being stuck in a loveless marriage to a clingy, needy and overly sweet Anjali. I thought I could understand the fact that a person can be in a relationship and still meet someone for whom they have no control over their feelings. Now every day my sympathy, my understanding and even my desire to understand you is being eroded.

In the beginning there was a sweetness to your devotion to Khushi, that was before I knew you were Anjali. After that fact was revealed I thought okay you can't help who you fall in love with. Then the rickshaw driver beating up incident. I can't condone any act of violence let alone against an innocent man. Then all the lies uttered in such a sweet voice to Anjali and family. Then your weak lies about a friend's accident, how can you wish a friend ill? Then the drama around asking for money from Anjali. And finally the premeditated plan to have Khushi declared a thief? After the police incident how can you risk Khushi being sent to jail?

You had such potential for being a broken hero, Abbas is a wonderful actor who is capable of delivering so much more and the CVs are ruining your character. They are hell bent on making you into some sort of a deranged stacker who is going down the road of being hated more and more as the days pass.

What happened to man who was helpless against his feelings instead we are getting a man who is moving towards be a full fledged villain!

As the subject line says I am very disappointed because I really wanted to like you. I hope the CVs reverse where they are going with your character otherwise I am going to have to hate you like everyone else on the forum.

Sincerely,

Shelly

Word.!.They have reduced him to a lunatic now.🥱..I had genuine interest in the character at first..he was creepy in the beginning too ..they made sure we got the message with the lame psycho BG tune lol..but it has just gone downhill ever since he was revealed as Anjali's hubby and his unhealthy and dangerous obsession has made this character lose its edge.

Dear Shelly:

This is Shyam. I write to thank you for having been on my side throughout this Khushi situation. I feel you are entitled to a slight retelling of whats been going on from my perspective. I am especially pleased to note that you seem to have been taken in by the fact that I am a high functioning sociopath. I do feel, however, that the revelation of my character as it has been done so far is a particularly interesting, dare I say it, even subtle portrayal, of madness and obsession by this actor Abbas, who is playing me onscreen.

I think we'll eventually find out that the first act of violence I committed, in saving Khushi and her parents from the abusive crowd when we first met was in fact, orchestrated by me. I have always been a man of violence, and the fact I'll react with my fists, whether its a hapless cup of tea, or a doctor (when I went looking for one to help an unconscious Khushi) to get him to do my bidding shows I have no actual, sane control over my impulses. Its because I wear the mask of perfection in one place that i have to be a maniac in another.

The fact is, I might be stuck in a loveless marriage with someone who's more like a cardboard cutout of an ideal wife rather than a flesh and blood person. If she brings me one more badaam ki doodh and fasts for my long health, I'll go mad(der), since its really quite stifling to be so idealized.

Anjali (and I actually mean it as a taunt when I call her Rani Sahiba) has, of course, done me no wrong, but her biggest sin seems to be that she actually has the audacity to love and cherish me. If you know my disease, you'll know I cannot stand anyone who cares for me, because they really should know better. Plus, she's rich and Im a poor lawyer, which frankly, makes me completely insane with jealousy and with a desire to hurt her with her own wealth, since Im petty that way.

However, I have been married to this woman for three years, during which I have built up such an image, with such care and manic control, that even my brother in law worships me. I, of course, clearly despise each and every one of them, and I probably hate my wife the most out of all of them. I have to be a serial womanizer, since I am way too slick for this to be my first foray. I clearly have an unhealthy need for excitement, and danger, since i run risks of ruining both my parallel lives.

I need to feel like Im the smartest one on the room, the one who thrive on making others dance to my tune, because I am a rabid narssicist who enjoys pulling the wool over people's eyes, just for the power of being able to do it and get away with it.

Finally, please note I frequently talk to empty chairs and photo frames. Its been wonderful unburdening my soul to you, but now I must run off, as I am late for my Psychotics Anonymous meeting. There might be jelebies there (which I'll naturally poison)!

Yours,
Shyam


However, please give me some credit for sustained and planned evil-

i m also dissapoointed, why cvs r making shyam such a cheap. they could show better thing such that in past khushi was shyam's love, khushi never see shyam but shyam always saw khushi. or he just falls in love after marriage. but cvs r ruining this character, they show that shyam is after arnav's money, now he is creating problem. now i completely hate shyam. but i always wanted abhaas in ipkknd, i really like him,i dont like shyam but i like abhaas, still i want to stay in ipkknd, but the way cvs r ruining shyam's character ...i m hopeless

Dear Shyam,

OMG, I am all girly and giddy that you replied to ME! (Even at my age but that is a different story best saved for another time) Never in my wildest dreams did I expect you to reply to my fan mail and it was fan mail because I have enjoyed your character best out of all the others. As one of the previousposters (I believe Zainab25) said that all the other characters are underdeveloped and one dimensional. From the cavity inducing Anjali to the angry/regretful Arnav, immature, peppered with some maturity Khushi, silly socialite La, shy Payal/Akash to the elders mami, bua and nani! They are all one dimensional. Perhaps if given the opportunity those actors would also shine but so far your character has a lot more facets than anyone else and therefore the most interesting.

Thanks for the reminder that violence has always been part of your character. How could I have forgotten the circumstances for Khushi and your first meeting. And of course the poor tea cup. You're so right you have always displayed your violent tendencies and remained true to them.

Abbas is doing a fine job of portraying the subtle nuances of your craziness, your creepiness and let's not forget the sweetness.

My problem isn't necessarily with the character so far. My problem is the distrust I have for the writers of soaps. They have a tendency to brush negative characters with evilness and that is it, there is no where else for the character to go. I would have preferred if Shyam remains sympathetic and likeable. That can be done by keeping him human.

Anyway I don't want you to misunderstand I still kind of like you and would really like to keep liking you. Don't go to the dark side too much. A little bit is fine!

Until next time.

Love, Shelly

Dear Shelly:

You are seem to be an excellent replacement for my current obsession with Khushi, as you are both sweet and write amazingly well. I dont know what Khushi's writing style is, but the amount of jelebis she eats, Im assuming her very blood is loaded with sugar.

In order to further my potential move to you, please respond to the following requests:

Please be completely unaware of people standing behind you and staring creepily, and be incapable of realizing when I have crossed my boundaries as a friend and am in "controlling your life/decisions" territory.

Please confirm you have compromised eyesight so you wont see the whacking great picture of me and my wife hung prominently in the house where you spend your entire day wandering in and out of rooms.

Please immediately send me your address so i can move into your house as a paying guest and creepily hit on your buaji,if you have one, thats great or any other older female relative, since I'm not picky.

Please note that i prefer my objects of obsession to be chirpy, to readily dance on tables, and to be completely unaware of my latent craziness.

Looking forward to your affirmative response,
I remain,
your potential stalker/jailer/killer,
Shyam

Dear Shyamji,

I must say that I am honoured that you consider me worthy of your stalking...kaha Khushi! Kaha hum! I have a special appreciation of stalkers as I engaged in such behaviour towards the object of my affection at 12 by riding my bike around his house until he agreed to become my friend. But I digress.

Internet is a safe place to meet people so I am sure there will be no problem giving out all my personal information and invite you into my home without knowing anything else about you except that you're a sweet talker and that you're easy on the eyes. I don't have a bua but hope husband and kids will do...they are part of the package I am afraid. As I plan on remaining oblivious to the holes in your stories and lies I am sure everything will be fine.

Since I started watching IPKKND I have had this unexplained craving for Jalebies. So if you can make those we are all set.

Bye for now.
Shelly

I have to say I agree with you 100%.

I don't understand why on earth does the third person of a love triangle ALWAYS have to be negative in the end? It's like... in the beginning he's all nice..and then SINCE he is not meant to be together with the lead, he must do awful things...so that we hate him...and we can't imagine him being together with the lead...blech. It's not like that in real life. At least most of the time. I started to like him less ever since he told lies about him being unmarried to Buaji...and then gradually this hate kept increasing all thanks to the CVs...