Originally posted by: AreYaar
Re: Gul Khan "alpha males"...lol same here...I honestly can't distinguish b/w them one bit...while ST for his part has given hard hitting characters with all three of his shows...I've watched DDEJ too and even Raghu was well sketched to begin with...but yes ofcourse RK is epic😆...you don't get darker and twisted than that on Indian TV😆...ST heroes are genuinely dark without PLAYING at it, you know what I mean? Like all these Gul Khan heroes seem like they just fell off the same assembly line just with different faces...while ST fleshes out his male leads with layers, the demons that drive them and if they're dark, they are UNAPOLOGETIC about it...I think that's my fav. thing about his male leads...they are straightforward and unapologetic about WHO THEY ARE...I really appreciate that quality...
same here. I appreciate ST for giving some genuine heroes and male centric shows here. RK was epic, initially it was hard to digest that he is actually being portrayed as so cruel and completely black, but then that was the vision. similarly, Rudra, as u said he is unapologetic, straightforward and moreover does not think himself as the best thing that could ever happen to Paro. I think i love this fact about him. While Gul khan males claim that they are the only ones who can love the girl beyond boundaries, i never saw Rudra or RK claiming such typical stuffss, that makes them more human and that also does not take away the fact that they do love their ladies with equal intensity and passion. Furthermore, with Rudra as we could see he had this laila fling, he calls his dad by his name, he does not hesitate to misbehave with kakiksa. Now if Rudra would be a Gul khan hero, he would hesitate or don't bother mess up with kakiksa only because she is elder to him, no matter how evil she is. Our Rudra just does what he thinks is the right thing to do. Rudra is different because eventhough he loves paro he will never promise her the moons and the stars but he will still try and seek them for her, if they are in his range.
When it comes to Rudra, he's actually possibly the MOST tender of ST heroes yet😆...or maybe it's cuz we have Ashish playing him with those amazingly soft eyes of his😆...I'm in awe of how those eyes can harden with anger and soften with tenderness with equal ease. He CONVINCES us of every emotion that Rudra feels...be it his anger, his bitterness, his hatred, his rawness, his earthiness, his protectiveness, his concern and ultimately his roundabout way of showing love and tenderness :-)
hehehe, Ashish and his eyes, does a lot of damage to my delicate mind though. i agree, eventhough he is shown as arrogant, i always find the tenderness and the delicateness, whenever he handles paro atleast, and yes i don't mean that in him bein tender physically..LOL
for instance, remember, how he had warned her not to interfere in maithili's life because this family will never care for Paro's genuine worries. Once maithili had been curt and asked Paro to stay out of her personal matter, that very moment Rudra comes and holds her hand, and yes the tenderness in his eyes to soother her, his words were harsh but his actions still meant that didn't i say you ? why don't you understand. one of my fav PaRud moments.
and what more can i throw here as an example, people who have watched yesterday's episode must have already known that how Rudra's eyes speak louder than his words. I am still in awee of tha look and his " paroo' chant in the hospital.