Hey Krishy 🤗
I've read so many posts. So many rants, so many predictions on what the aftermath to all of this happening on the show would be. But I've not even gone there right now.
Like I discussed with you earlier. I am not even thinking that far about anything. For me as a viewer, as someone who stands for equality in story, between characters, between man and woman has been disappointed. I disagree with the glorification of just one character and repeated butchering of one to take the story ahead. So for me. I am unable to get over my grouse against the makers for writing women as people who bear everything, who are perfect, strong, have the most will power. As a woman myself I feel pressured that we're not treated as humans.
I love IshRa.. both equally, but I could relate more to Raman for most of the run of this show because he was flawed and realistically so. Basically he had human traits.
Now they are going to as usual make Raman's character a scape goat to justify the separation, to make it happen. Because they cannot make a separation happen due to the combined mistakes or issues of both the leads.
From the start, they have kept Ishita as the bottled one and Raman's feelings exposed to the viewers but then when the time comes, his feelings, his tracks never get their dues. And sadly from a long time even Ishita's aren't treated well. So when the fault lies on the writing table, where the makers only want to cater to woman and feed them with the wrong sense of empowerment. I can't begin to hate on characters I've come to attach myself to for a long time because of that.
Because I know, that if I hate any of them now. Makers will show them bounce back (sufficiently well or not) and then when the time for another twist comes, the ML will be sacrificed once again to justify it. So when they're going to butcher Raman every time.. I rather detach myself from the show.. give a closure to YHM in my head till where I could still relate to it than watch a show where the makers are not justifying all the characters they wrote with the treatment they deserve.
I don't know if I've put my point across well. I am an IshRa fan. Not favouring one over the other.
BUT my point is. The feminist in me feels pressured that writers give so much credit to women for being righteous, strong, always correct, never wrong... eventually making us less humans. So much is being expected out of us, by presenting us in this way. Women need empowerment and equality. Not to be made super beings who can never flaw.
My issue is that every show, every writer (well almost) make it about Man versus woman.. but for me even as a hard core feminist.. equality and balance is the need of the hour. This world, families, relations cannot merely work with one. Man and Woman both make the world and that needs to be expressed through stories...
Who doesn't agree that women are stronger emotionally, the ones to bind a family,to save relations. But just because these shows cater to woman .. does it mean you present men in your shows like this? Do they want woman to hate men in general 😆
They make a joke out of the premises of the show, of the characters they wrote, of sensitive issues like rape, infertility, pregnancy, infidelity. They represent the world in a very one sided way according to me. Fiction gives you the liberty to alter the mundane thought process, make it progressive and liberal. But they start out intending to create a difference and eventually come back to the same age old stories and ideas.
So before I choose to hate characters, even if they aren't real people. I'll choose to grumble, vent and rant about the thought process, mindset and doltishness of the makers who pen down all of this. Who can chose to entertain us with thought provoking content, by enlightening and enriching us with positivity but choose to do what they did to IshRa, to Raman and to YHM.
P.S - And even if the excuse for all of this is to represent woman empowerment. They haven't done that well either. While destroying Raman, they've destroyed Ishita as well. They haven't done one thing the right way. And even if they did. It took ONE week to destroy TWO years of a trendsetting show to convert itself into poop. 🤢
Edited by -Anku- - 9 years ago
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