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Here I am again with another fired up post.
I saw a lot of posts today (by the wonderful girls who love the adorkable Saras) which criticized Kumud. While I really think your sentiments are great, I am here to defend Kumud with a few questions. I am too lazy to type any essay cause I am doing an OS next! Stay tuned. Plug in done. Moving to questions -
1. Why should a girl always be uber nice and meek? Don't we have enough nice, little meek girls in soaps? Since when are real life desi girls so meek? I thought Indian women had a great reputation for being fiesty.
2. Why is it okay when someone like Arnav, Asad or any other soap MALE character is arrogant, but not okay if the FEMALE character has some pride? Or even some arrogance? Is arrogance an object of male ownership? Or it simply that we are mostly girls and like the male character no matter what?
3. A girl like Kumud hasn't had a lot of men to wield power over and she can feel that Saras is at her mercy. This is the guy who was intended for her. If she can't be a little bit of a tease and ask him to fetch her something...then when will she ever have right to flirt with a guy?
4. What would you do if someone brutally rejected you like that and hurt all your family and indirectly embarrassed you for falling in love for the first time? Since when is love so fair and rational that you can just forgive and forget?
5. If Kumud didn't know, why so much anger? This is her man 😳, she can demand anything she wants from him, isn't that romantic?
6. Kumud is competitive and it is in her character to shine and be the winner at everything from school to kite flying. She is the queen bee of the Desai family, no doubt about that. Wouldn't you get competitive if someone who rejected you and put you down unintentionally (however nice he may be) suddenly stole your limelight?
7. As a reader here pointed out and I agree...why should she accept Saras' flirtations nicely when he has rejected her and is just bidding time to do so. Why should she show her face just so that he can make her feel more humiliated (her point of view) by rejecting her after seeing her? How much would that hurt?
8. Why should Saras not take her tantrums. He slighted her so badly. Why can't she slight him? He gave up his chance, so why does he want it now? Why would she want to get burned again by showing her face? If a guy loves you, you would hope he loves your tantrums too. 😉
Kumud is human, flawed, smart, fierce, fiesty and yes, a little arrogant. Well-earned pride and vanity too. That's why her characterization is nearly perfect to me. I don't like meek mousies from other soaps, so I don't want her to be nice and blend in. What do you say?
This is just my set of questions to you from my very biased, Kumud-loving point of view 😃. Please comment.
Mary.
I saw a lot of posts today (by the wonderful girls who love the adorkable Saras) which criticized Kumud. While I really think your sentiments are great, I am here to defend Kumud with a few questions. I am too lazy to type any essay cause I am doing an OS next! Stay tuned. Plug in done. Moving to questions -
1. Why should a girl always be uber nice and meek? Don't we have enough nice, little meek girls in soaps? Since when are real life desi girls so meek? I thought Indian women had a great reputation for being fiesty.
2. Why is it okay when someone like Arnav, Asad or any other soap MALE character is arrogant, but not okay if the FEMALE character has some pride? Or even some arrogance? Is arrogance an object of male ownership? Or it simply that we are mostly girls and like the male character no matter what?
3. A girl like Kumud hasn't had a lot of men to wield power over and she can feel that Saras is at her mercy. This is the guy who was intended for her. If she can't be a little bit of a tease and ask him to fetch her something...then when will she ever have right to flirt with a guy?
4. What would you do if someone brutally rejected you like that and hurt all your family and indirectly embarrassed you for falling in love for the first time? Since when is love so fair and rational that you can just forgive and forget?
5. If Kumud didn't know, why so much anger? This is her man 😳, she can demand anything she wants from him, isn't that romantic?
6. Kumud is competitive and it is in her character to shine and be the winner at everything from school to kite flying. She is the queen bee of the Desai family, no doubt about that. Wouldn't you get competitive if someone who rejected you and put you down unintentionally (however nice he may be) suddenly stole your limelight?
7. As a reader here pointed out and I agree...why should she accept Saras' flirtations nicely when he has rejected her and is just bidding time to do so. Why should she show her face just so that he can make her feel more humiliated (her point of view) by rejecting her after seeing her? How much would that hurt?
8. Why should Saras not take her tantrums. He slighted her so badly. Why can't she slight him? He gave up his chance, so why does he want it now? Why would she want to get burned again by showing her face? If a guy loves you, you would hope he loves your tantrums too. 😉
Kumud is human, flawed, smart, fierce, fiesty and yes, a little arrogant. Well-earned pride and vanity too. That's why her characterization is nearly perfect to me. I don't like meek mousies from other soaps, so I don't want her to be nice and blend in. What do you say?
This is just my set of questions to you from my very biased, Kumud-loving point of view 😃. Please comment.
Mary.
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