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Trishna Malik is a wonderfully complex character, if the creative team allow themselves the liberty of using her. She is an icon of abandonment and deep psychological hurt-- to a degree no other cast member is. This is a child who emptied her bladder in terror as her own father shot an apple off her head. And this is one symptomatic piece of abuse we have seen-- there must have been countless other instances of horrifying cruelty that have forever marked her psyche. Nobody can grow up undamaged from that kind of abuse. Her own father wanted to kill her for sport, her mother died and left her, and the grandmother was just another horrifying, abusive presence in her life. Her stepmother comes in at an age when she recognises kindness, and then she has a terrifying journey with this mother figure to save herself.
It is just the two of them then, but they are safe, and for the first time in her life, the child knows security, even though it is on the hard streets of a metropolis. The film set becomes her first home-- a place of support and kindness. Malik and Roma become her foster-family. And just as she forms these bonds, Madhubala is born and she must immediately share what she has so recently acquired-- her mother, her family and her home. And madhubala gets all this as a birth-right-- she doesn't have to live through terrified days of being hunted by a psychopath father.
No wonder Trisha is a sea of jealousy. But the cause for her unrest runs deeper than the luxury car and superstar husand waiting for her lucky sister in the courtyard of her humble home.
Plus, the more I see of her, the more I like the actress who pays trishna. I hope the writers give her a consistent and believable character, and not just a hysterical mess.
And I must say, Vivian has been killing it in the past two episodes. Get this boy a good script and a good director ( and some tooth polishing) and he will be a star as big as RK. Because he sure can act>
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