Originally posted by: amritat
Disclaimer:
1. This is purely my POV.
2. I understand the meaning of "dark love story" 3. I do not expect any mushy nonsense in this show.
4. I do not expect Vansh to behave like Naitik from Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain.
5. I understand that love makes one submissive at times.
She is not pointing out these cardinal points:
- 1. Vansh always had a doubt on her being a spy...for which he treated her with so much suspicion from the beginning.
- 2. The manner of Vansh's proposal and their marriage. It was not love marriage.
- 3. Vansh was NOT exactly kind to her either in the initial days of their marriage.
- 4. Vansh too has a past...his first love/crush/infatuation Ragini. He even made a tattoo in his hand!
- 5. He never trusted Riddhima but expected blind trust in return.
- 6. He was never very transparent and honest with her just like she wasnt with him.
- 7. He took care of his ex for 3 years, lied about her to his wife...even secretly went to meet her (for whatever reason) but Riddhima never made a fuss about it or threw tantrums about him being unfaithful.
- 8. He kept mouthing big words of promises to protect her but almost always condoned her tormentors again and again.
- 9. She might have betrayed him about Ragini...but her intention was never to harm him.
But the problem I see with Vansh's behaviour right now has less to do with half-knowledge and more to do with hypocrisy.
Right now, Vansh is behaving like he was an innocent, gullible man who was seduced by a femme fatale named Riddhima only to find out she is a liar.
Come on, Vansh! When you married her...you knew EXACTLY what you were getting into! At least Riddhima has the excuse of being a homeless, orphan who was emotionally blackmailed by her lover into this marriage, but you?
You, my dear Vansh are a rich businessman with all the right resources to wrench out information if you wanted to. Then why play victim now?
But it is not Vansh but Riddhima who pisses me off more in this context.
She too is condoning and overlooking all of Vansh's fallacies and putting the whole blame on herself.
I understand she in in love...we all have been in love at some point of our lives and know what it does to us.
But this recurring theme of levying all accusation on the female lead where she silently accepts it all, without the hero having to give any justification/redemption for his own actions is kind of...glaring.
Ekta's shows were horrible, but at least her heroines like Tulsi, Parvati, etc stood up for their self-respect...even against the men they loved more than their life.
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