Empathy: A selective elective applicable to just 1

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Posted: 12 years ago
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Sultan, the character!

A child who was abandoned by his own dad.

A child whose identity was taken away from him.

A child who was callously separated from his mother by the callous hands of his biological father, no matter what the reasons there are.

A child who had to fend for himself and fight for staying alive.

Some poor family takes him under their wings, and shelters him - Nazia and Rashid.

Nazia departs and the man responsible for her departure makes Sultan chose a path where he pronounced the judgement and became the jury in avenging the wrong that was done to his adopted mother, though he only knew her as his real mother.

His adopted dad too left him.

A homeless little boy, a juvenile delinquent, where does he go? Who does he seek? Who offers him solace? Orphaned and left in the cold, he had to chose to survive or die?

Of course, some favorites who hate him to the core, will want him dead, or would have wanted him dead right when he was young.

But, gladly for us and sadly, for those haters, Sultan, the child survived to become Sultan the man.

A man is not his occupation, his occupation may be that of a gangster.

But let's not condemn the man for being a human being, a man, let's not condemn him for choosing to survive with the only options available to him.

Everyone's life is not so darn rosy nor are they cossetted that they can all become superstars.

For some life is terrible, the betrayals, the pain, the losses turn some in directions that may be hard for people to understand, BUT WHAT ABOUT EMPATHY?

We don't know the reasons that he is a gangster now, nor do we know what those gangster activities involve. Just by mere labels, we condemn.

Is EMPATHY so selective that you all feel sorry for only one character that sheds copious tears while forget that there are other less fortunate ones who have also faced a lot of trials and tribulations. What makes us pour out our sympathy and outpouring of overwhelming empathy for the chosen ones while we demean and destroy those that are truly in need of our empathy?

Sultan - the person, the character needs your EMPATHY not your condemnation. Condemn his crimes if there are any, but don't condemn the man.

PS: Bashers stay away...
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Posted: 12 years ago
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omg...kaka also lied..poor sultan..is there any true person in his life..what the hell and where gone aryan..atleast we will get to see aryan comforting to sultan 😭
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Posted: 12 years ago
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so true Sona 😭

and the rest just use him and let him be abused
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Posted: 12 years ago
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tragedy but it's true sultan is alone in his life.😭😭
so sad .sultan is only best character in the show yet..
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Fab post!

:( feeling sad for sultan :(
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Mehu, Lov, Zorica: Thanks much

I always wonder why the viewers sympathy is loaded on the first lead that is introduced in the show while the subsequent lead is booed out

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Posted: 12 years ago
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Lovely post. You made me shed more tears of empathy for him. This gem of a man - life took away EVERYTHING from him... people used, abused, lied, cheated him... and to top it all they even refused to be connected or related to him by denying him his basic rights of a family, relations... I truly think no other character on Indian TV has made me feel this much bad today...
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Posted: 12 years ago
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To me it seems RK and Sultan share kind of same type of life story.

I empathize with both RK and Sultan.

Like you understood Sultan, many understand what made RK the cruel man.

Let's see their father turned out to be a coward. His mom married a man like Kuku Bhatia, who might have taken all the money from his mom. Then he meets Deepali, who betrays him by marrying his step brother.

So you want people want to have empathy for Sultan, but not with RK.

RK became a superstar with his hard work. You just do not become a superstar without working hard.

RK also did not come from money, he is also a self made man.

You just did the same, what you accuse of RK's fans.

RK and Sultan have been cheated by the people around them.


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Posted: 12 years ago
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Ms. Sunflower: I never asked you NOT to empathize with RK, did I? Please go back and read what I wrote, I asked why people ONLY choose to empathize with one while condemning the other when both their situations are similar and while RK at least had a mother of sorts and a step father in Kuku Bhati, Sultan was thrown to the dogs (literally) and forcibly removed from his mum.

So, both situations are entirely different.
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Posted: 12 years ago
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Originally posted by: mozart66

Lovely post. You made me shed more tears of empathy for him. This gem of a man - life took away EVERYTHING from him... people used, abused, lied, cheated him... and to top it all they even refused to be connected or related to him by denying him his basic rights of a family, relations... I truly think no other character on Indian TV has made me feel this much bad today...



True that Mozart, u nailed it on the head...this character's pathos is of tragic proportions...that scene today where he slumps to the ground and picks up the photo was classic Shakespearean to me

😭


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