Originally posted by: napstermonster
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Serial Junkie:</font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">Before you ask for a woman's touch, I must remind you of our traumatic history, our scarred past--no, we didn't lose parents to the Thakur's small member and large massacre of 1985. But I remind you of Gul Khan, and how a strong female actress playing a beloved female protagonist in a female produced show does not a female friendly product make. Your points will resonate with every other poster here. But I want to play devil's advocate and ask you--why? Why do we need a female voice in a show that has started on the premise of a man binding a woman to his vehicle and carting her off as a prize of war? There is no bigger indication to any thinking woman that this woman will not be --emancipated, She is never more objectified than on the back of that jeep.
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<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">I would argue that very objectification makes her mysterious, desirable, and the blank canvas for Rudra to project every desire, every (childish) dream of a perfect woman. She is instant wish fulfillment--get a virginal bride, take her to your stronghold, and she will be yours forever. Romance bestsellers have been written on less-so why not this show?
The premise is deliberate. And it was written by very clever men, with a surprising grasp of child psychology, a definiteOedipuscomplex and an unhealthy attachment to that beefy Mahadev fellow on Life-Ok. The premise has also been quite consistent--I dont believe the show is going down a rabbit hole, I see markers all along this path. And the role she has---The Bride--prevents Paro from existing as a flesh and blood woman. If she is in a dark ally, she must know in her heart that Rudra will teleport in to save her. if she is being accused of being a wh**e, her purity will prevent her from understanding the meaning of the word. She is so untouched, she is a vestal virgin at her God's feet. And her "flesh and blood man" treats her like one, when he is not also treating her in a manner that makes her feel "uii maa" without knowing what that suspicious twinge exactly is.
The mythology I've been forced to wikipedia for the past 3 weeks makes me also say-- given the fantasy elements they are weaving--she CANNOT be a real woman and get this specific man at the end of 2 years and a 20 year leap. She must be this Paro, the aggressively pure, virginal goddess of womanhood--who cannot be touched by another man, much less desire one--and who must shout this from the rooftops. And from what I understand, a virginal goddess is so self sacrificing, she is basically incapable of even protesting her abuse, much less fighting against it.
Practically, Paro has to be shown like this to counter the women our hero has encountered along the way.The women in Rudra's life have been ferociously damaging--we have the scorpion aunt who poisons a suffering child and taking away the last of his childhood. We have a selfish, amoral mother with breath-taking delusions. Who first adores the son and then drifts out the door one fine day. The actress playing her is pretty good so I buy her lack of even the slightest concern for her son's possible reaction--I find that deliberate. Ad then we have Laila, the coarse desert creature who embodies all the lusts of the flesh that (presumably) beautiful women feel. Who has given this man NSA sex and 8 years of crazy in one immoral role.
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<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">RangRaisya is based in a man's world, about aggressively manly things, but it it still a story about one man's ultimate prize, and salvation--through his prize. You did not see a female BSD officer, even in the heyday of the first week when they spent 5 crores to give it a serious sendoff. But the woman who inhabits the role of the hero's prize--she must be everywoman, to make up for the lack --the mother, the sister, the daughter, the wife, the lust object and wh**e, the venerated goddess and even symbol of the motherland. </font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3">They need to up Sanaya's rate to reflect her seventeen different roles here. Unfortunately, real flesh and blood woman, with a woman's issues, desires, feelings, fears and triumphs--not one of them.</font>
hey NM
interesting read
lets start from the beginning and only lets look at rudra's prospective
here as you say i can buy it , it is a man's story
he is damaged , he has his rights and wrongs he is extremely skeptical about women cos of the completely unectpected betrayal he had faced as a child ...agreed
now because it is rudra's story, what kind of a woman can move such a man is just as important in the story as much as the man is otherwise the essence is lost
i see issue here , laila couldnt move him , she was his companion for 8 years , she loved him deeply , that was a statement it is not love that can move him, because she couldnt reach his insecurity or install faith in him
so basically the woman who can move him should do all of that , right?
a form opf woman who is diagonally opposite to his conviction of a woman can only change his views
now paro , i get what you say is that , she is surreal , too native and too untouched
but that is not how they portrayed her
she is not trying to understand him , she is idolizing , i see a gap here
she is not thinking , she is obeying , so they are getting the basics motive wrong , that i agree with SJ and many other here is cos they are not trying to understand what kind of a woman can move him
who is she is not addressed
my answer to who is she is
she is his protector , his shield from insecurity , loneliness , pain , not otherwise
and definitely not his punch bag to take his insecurity , pain and loneliness , that is daily soap heroine , doesnt fit here
I liked the dialogue that takurain says tied varun , It is immposibleto make the sharmile paro talk
They should have shown the transition from that paro to this confident strlong woman to protect her family
Symbolic to jagatamba the universal protector
From that they need time and not hurry
Edited by tttttt1 - 11 years ago
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