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Nice post Ash. I too had said exactly these same things in several posts earlier but I think people weren't ready then to hear that Soham himself should be responsible for his own actions. So it's good that you brought it up again.
In the final analysis this is true for everyone...unless someone is mentally ill and cannot function normally. So I would like to throw out a challenge to both of us, putting out a caveat regarding Soham. As the writers have now portrayed him, he is mentally ill. His obsession goes beyond normative behavior on all levels.
There is of course history of obsession in the family. Varsha who stole him was obsessed with him and the results are obvious. Ovi's attachment to Arjun was bordering on obsession, and of course many felt it was ...
In Soham's case however, they have taken it a step further and included his violent & criminal upbringing to boot. Varsha's obsession was centered on her and Soham, and Ovi's centered on her and Arjun. They were both suicidal and wanted to hurt themselves if they couldn't get what they wanted. Of course there was much peripheral damage in both cases.
With Soham however, it is different and obviously much more dangerous. Soham was depressed & drinking (hurting himself) but now he also wants to hurt others when he can't get what he wants. Anger and depression are just two sides of the same coin...one turns inward and the other outward but they are the same thing clinically speaking. Except in my personal non professional opinion the desire to harm or kill others is much worse. In addition, whilst suicidal depression is treatable and often healed, violence towards other is rarely changed. Not always, there are cases but very very few.
All this to say, it is even more dismaying that the writers Ekta and the CV's took such a loved character and made him this way. Not much hope now to redeem him...or heal him.
But of course, as i've posted many times before...Ekta and her magic wand can do anything she wants!! abracadabra !! š
Anupamaa
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