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Originally posted by: mango_pudding1
@summerrain7 -- think the problem is writers want anti-hero characters but are not willing to write out in masala anti-hero fashion and instead using stares, silences and half baked sentences which can be interpreted differently depending on the viewer. actually anti-heroes are super fun and very relatable. they come across as very human and so even when you know, they are messed up, you totally feel for them. a great example would be the old amitabh bachan movie "deewaar" . even though his character is doing all sorts of wong, you feel for the tragedy of it all. of course, in the end, he dies...here, that dynamic is missing from nandini and kunal. can understand why some viewers feel exasperated because the writing waffles between nandini/kunal are good vs both are just flawed. if they write them as good anti-heroes, a bittersweet ending for kunal and nandini would still be possible where they are together and somewhat happy but still facing some sort of consequences (kind of like kabhi alvida na kehna)...simple story -- why make it so confusing? yup, we need better dialogues, less stares and please no head banging for kunal. there's only so much his bones can take no? 😉
You know your anti-hero post really made me think on these characters. Mauli and Rajdeep are easy characters and they really do not need any work. Their path on any action is simple. But Nandini and Kunal are the grey characters. They are not negative and hence their reaction to a particular situation differs from what we think should be the norm based on the positive characters.
Like, for example, Nandini . We expect her to be white but as she is gray, when the question came to choose between her happiness and her best friend's happiness, she chooses her. Even now, she knows her actions are hurting Mauli but she is not being sacrificing and going away. She is waiting. So if Kunal comes to her, she is not going to ask him to go and be self sacrificing which is the selfish part of her character. But if Kunal wishes to go, she is going to not stop him, because that the sacrificing part of her character and hence the gray. I guess this means they are Ok to do the good deed but are not going to it at the cost of their own happiness.
But Kunal is different gray, For him his own happiness is important but not at he cost of his family. Hence, we see him remorseful as he knows he is hurt the three ladies in his life and that the good part of his nature. But then there is a other part which only cares for Nandini and when it comes to choose between the two, he would lean toward her. But I think he will choose based on his savior instinct. So if he thinks, his sacrifice will save his family's happiness, I think he will choose that option even if he has to walk out of Nandini's life. But will he able to let her go fully is something that we will just have wait and watch and that where his grayness comes into picture.
The problem is because they were portrayed as leads we want to see their whitewash actions but if we see them as gray characters, not negative, in a weird way their actions do make sense. Hence we see the pendulum between a good deed and a bad deed in every episode.
