A Song Medley for Soulmates & Sacrificial Lambs - Page 2

Originally posted by: Neerjaa

Angie , always liked your comments , but your fairy tale with songs is something else . Quite hilarious and your song selection is great .

Originally posted by: Angie12

Ekta, no problem with your lashing out. I no longer get irritated at soaps after my last experience with Hindi soaps or maybe Misti/Myra's attitude has rubbed on me. This is going to be nature of the soaps to exaggerate characters.

I understand to an extent that Divya is feeling guilty. She has been shown to be a generous person who puts others before her. Everything is happening too soon for her. She came back to Bhopal after putting her life on hold for 10 years only to have her illusions broken. Then she gets engaged to make her family feel better, but is being pressured to marry within a week even though she is not ready in her heart. Then she finds out that her idol Raj for whom she has intense love, gratitude and respect has stopped in his life and has actually destroyed his life. Then soon after she is confronted by his wife who puts all the blame for everything gone wrong in her life on Divya. So there is no time for Divya to process her feelings and there is nobody to confide.

Gaurav is the one who is slowly becoming her confidant because he has shown her so much understanding so far. In some sense, she has also started trusting him because he has shown her that he has a lot of love and patience where she is concerned.

Divya is a very impulsive person who makes instant judgments and takes instant actions. She thinks she knows Raj very well, but she misjudged his hurt when she left him. She is not ready for marriage, but is desperately trying to move on. Also, more than likely she is going for Raj only because she want him to be happy in his life and with his choices.

The problem is the way they are executing the story where in order to make one Sarita extremely sympathetic to audience, they have neglected to show Divya and Raj's viewpoint. For example, they are showing Sarita's pain and they showed her pain at seeing Raj like this. But they only showed a minute of broken Divya when she realized that Raj stopped somewhere in his life. Since meeting with Sarita, they are not showing her pain that he too waited for her in a way (however convoluted) for 10 years. They are so obsessed with their theme of a girl helping her lover's spouse and making her lover fall for the spouse, they are in process making Divya come across as an unreasonable character.

So far everything is in precap. But I will make my judgment in how they show Divya today with Gaurav. Does she apologize to him and make him understand her actions? I just hope they concentrate on Divya today rather than only drama. I want to see emotions of these three characters - Raj, Gaurav and Divya. So far in three weeks, they have only concentrated on showing emotions of Sarita. But my sympathy for her is getting shorter and shorter as instead of a character who has been wronged (and she has been), she is coming across as a clingy, selfish character to me.

Originally posted by: Angie12

Neerja, thanks. Since the show has been concentrating on Sarita the tragedy queen and she is becoming Padma (of CB2) to me, I wanted to bring some relief to irritated viewers.