It is now a universal lament, let out by all viewers, fans, former fans and haters that Krishna Singh is slowly but surely turning into a Lappu-jhanna.
He used to deliver the most delicious one-liner with consummate charm.
He now stutters, he grabs and gasps at words. Ends every conversation lamely with a weak "kuch galat kaha rahein hai tho batao?"
He used to look like dynamite.
He now looks confused, defocused and hunted.
He would lope in like a panther or stride in like a prince. He would stand like a nawab or a cock-sure young turk.
Now he shuffles into rooms and shifts around uncomfortable, jiggling a thigh or waving a weak hand.
All of this is very difficult to watch.
When the transformation first started I did not realize it was deliberate. I wondered what was wrong. What could be the problem? Has *horrors!* Arhaan lost it?!! Are they neglecting K's character because its usability is on the wane? Have his jeans and shirts become too tight? Is that why he looks uncomfortable in his skin? Should we just BEG Wardrobe to give him new clothes? Will that help the problem?
But like I said all that was before I realized that this was a VERY DELIBERATE step taken by the CVs and carried through by the redoubtable Arhaan Behl!
I remember asking the question " What should motivate a change in Krishna?"
His love for Pratigya?
His disappointment in his own beliefs and values?
His sense of justice and fairplay and basic humanity?
But as usual the CV's have the right answer. People don't change for others. In general people don't suddenly start to feel others' pain when they have been avoiding looking at it a whole lifetime. They don't transform for love even! But sometimes love serves one unique function. Love acts as a mirror. And sometimes when love holds up a mirror, and we take a look, we find that we don't quite like what we see. We work then to change this image that we catch of ourselves. We change FOR OURSELVES. That is always the most effective and permanent of changes.
Krishna Singh who is viewing himself in the mirror of Pratigya's love is seeing himself as the spoilt younger son of a family of ruthless, cruel, evil people. A man who lives off these very people and so has neither the moral or the financial authority to truly protect his wife from their abuse and remove her from their sphere of influence. He has tried to ignore this image of himself, by blustering his way through, demanding his share but his family is not helping him along in this deception; they spare no opportunity of telling him that he lives on their mercy and he is not wanted if he does not toe the line. They have not truly sent him packing yet because it will be an incredible failure to them to lose a son to elements outside their system of dominion. Krishna has also tried to over-compensate to Pratigya in the most obvious way by showering her with all his demanding attention, babying up to her and giving her a surfeit of sex. She has been kinder than his family, she has tried to humour him and quite genuinely understands his predicament and doesn't want to unkindly force the issue or precipitate a crisis.
But none of this hides the fact of Krishna's inadequacy from him and because he sees it in himself and in going through an identity crisis, we are seeing this flustered, fussy, foolish, flibberti Krishna!
The knowledge that this a very definite attempt to DE-SEXIFY Krishna does not make it easier to watch but certainly eases the tension about his future. Because the CVs who have the guts to dowdy down their golden goose, will surely have planned a Lallantop coming-of-age transformation for him! I as usual live in faith,
As I remain,
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