[QUOTE=Sujatha.rao]
Can you recall the moment when you fell in love with Ashutosh as a character?
While I enjoy the show, for me it is about Ashutosh at the end of the day. i am unashamedly biased. When I think back to the moments when I recognized that the character had me under its spell, I recall the time when he asked her to look at herself through his eyes, the time he rushed around to find ginger tea to share with her virtually, the time he begged her to hold on and stall the engagement, and the time he told her that he had travelled a long way back to see her.
But the defining moment was when he stepped back with grace when she asked him to let her go. When he let her go without malice and resentment and still continued to care for her emotional wellbeing. There have been many times when I have felt anger against him since then, and anger against the writer for making him do things I couldn't digest, And yet, I kept trying to understand him, trying to give him the benefit of doubt for acts that most others found indefensible. Never before have I bothered to defend a fictional character or made an effort to understand and explain his actions, Yet, Ashutosh compelled me to do it. The love affair continues to this day despite everything. He is no paragon of virtue, no perfect husband nor a perfect anything. Yet, his imperfections are reason why I love him.
Jane Austen's Mr Darcy remained unchallenged as my most favorite fictional hero ever for all these years. There was no man in the fictional world who could ever compete with him. Now, Ashutosh is as much if not more loved than Mr Darcy!
Would love to know if it was love at first sight or if Ashutosh grew on you so insidiously that you did not even realize when it happened!
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I fully agree with you on the count that DARCY is unchallenged. Ashutosh has grown on me. To be frank ashu attracted me as I was a fan of DK Ahmer being one of the characters I grew up on and for me monish behel was the embodiment of him.
Hmmm when did ashu start to attract me ... His first reaction to the first rose that nids gave. Who can forget the rain sequence where we got to see the man behind hardstone. And haan the violin scene when he plays for her, orrr that voice when he comes back, calls her and goes hey doc...
I agree with you the beauty of ashu is that he is flawed behind the image of the perfect doc we find a flawed man with his fears and insecurities yet who despite all loves his nidhi to bits.
Shari
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