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"Strong women can only have "weak" men as partners to have successful relationship"😡😡
For many viewers and IF members, Rishi is a weak man, not a man's man, but a weak, effeminate loser. Appearances aside, his stunned silence, mute defence, meekly accepting beating or berating heaped at him when pushed into a corner cement this impression. His slave like devotion for Indira does not help matters either. Indira on the other hand has lot of anger, does not hesitate to decimate other people's egos, prefers blunt and sometimes brute force rather than subtleties. Thus a strong woman can only be coupled with "weak man".
Sameer and Munna are portrayed as macho, man's man type of characters. Upon slightest slight to their ego, they do not think for a second before launching a devastating counter-attack. No one should ever get the better of them, no matter how wrong they are. Can you imagine Munna or Sameer accepting the beating that Rishi took?
By overtly emphasizing these differences in the male characters, the powers-to-be at HD are perpetuating the insidious stereotype, especially for casual viewers. Tragedy is, in our real life to men like Sameer are thought to be strong men. In US 2000, 2004 and even 2008 elections, the dem candidates were successfully portrayed as sissies and GW Bush as a manly man.
Yet if one looks below the surface, we find that the so called macho men are the weak ones. Sameer has not displayed one single characteristic that can be labelled as strong. Even his ruthless tactics of beating people up into selling him their land is an act of a weak man - a weak man who failed to use power of persuasion to put a winning deal in front of the property owners. Ruthlessness, in itself, is not a bad thing. It becomes bad when it is in pursuit of selfish goals which hurt other people.
I wish CVs had chosen to handle the outing of Rishi's two secrets with much more finesse. Being mute and slack-jawed, accepting his beating did not gain him many admirers. The fact that he showed so much inner strength to pick himself up immediately, forget his own hurt, and go back in service of Vidith and Indira, is lost on viewers who do not hold him in high esteem. Sometimes viewers need to be hit with a 2x4 on the head. Thus Ricki is in desperate need of some in-your-face heroism as well as worldly success. Otherwise he will firmly secure his place in the sissy heroes hall of fame!
I am rambling here. Hence will stop
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