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While its undeniable that our lovely leads stole the show, its worth reminding that it was made possible by the disturbing haunting, and menacing Shyam, acted beautifully by Abhaas Mehta. To me, Shyam is the epitome of a psychopathic lover and Abhaas Mehta brings Shyam to life by beautifully juxtaposing a charmingly beguiling face, against the layers of complexity and sinister intentions that miss the naked eye.
Shyam knows Khushi inside out. He knows her strengths, her vulnerabilities, her joys and her sorrows. He knows how to endear himself to her if needed and how to abuse that knowledge against her when it suits him.
His words delivered to khushi today, "I know your qualities fairly well Khushiji, why do you think I fell in love with you?" - MAN!!!!! that was a punch line for me. I wish the CVs would explore this aspect of Shyam more. It is so easy to make a villain hateful by giving him completely negative shades but it takes sophisticated writing to make seem Shyam's love/lust for Khushi real and want us to believe that yes, he does love her and at the same time put us in direct opposition to the menacing motives that drive him to love/lust Khushi.
His motives are spurred by his psychopathic need to possess Khushi. It includes his dire need for money to give Khushi a life of comfort, his misguided approach to secure that money by extortion from Arnav, his fear and intense hatred of knowing that Khushi spends time with Arnav and might be in a physical relationship with Arnav, thereby, shattering his image of purity of Khushi, making him a madman. Wouldn't that be some bad-ass writing and acting? CVs are you listening?
In Shyam, I would love to see shades and depths of a truly bad-ass villain, in line of scores of psychopathic lovers who use, abuse and discard their lovers as needed. While its easy to make us hate him by giving him simple evil motives like stealing Arnav's money, the CVs should write him such that it becomes hard for us to hate him because he has this intense feeling for Khushi but at the same time he has this maniacal side to him that is purely animalistic and primal
Oh Wait, Did I just describe Arnav??? 😆
Imagine a characterization like that could not only thrust Shyam to a level of villainy never seen in Indian TV and explore Abhaas Mehta's incredible acting skills to deliver those punch line performances.
Gul and CVs - Can we shape Shyam along the lines of serious psychopathic lovers from the following movies?
Fear
Swimfan
PromNight
Fatal Attraction (Glenn close character)
Matchpoint
Crazy Love
Asylum
Cruising
Love the Hard Way
Queer as Folk
Hindi TV Shows
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Anupamaa
