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I hope the story will not go a path in which they will justify what shivaay did on the misunderstandings he had about anika. Shivaay thinking this wrong things is not so bad. There can be characters with very negative traits even as leads. The story justifying shivaay is very bad. They need to make it clear to me, the viewer, that the message is forcing a girl to marry you is awful EVEN IF the girl is cheap/sleeping around for money/whatevs. At this point I wish Anika did sleep around.
Helloooooooooo @andli! :)
I completely agree with you that *even if* Anika did have sex, as long as it was consensual, she’s justified to do it for whatever reason she chooses; money, love, because she was feeling like having sex, whatever. What Shivaay did to her is unjustifiable, despite her sexual life.
Let’s grasp at straws and say Shivaay prizes fidelity highly, and is thus upset she slept with Daksh. Even so he’s wrong because:
It’s hypocritical as fuck for him to judge her on her sexual activity, when he himself has a relationship with Tia where they’ve clearly been intimate; so what right does he even have to feel “betrayed”?
Ok, let’s say he hasn’t had sex with Tia after Anika came into his life. Even so, he has never told Anika that he loves her. In fact he’s gone out of his way to demonstrate the very opposite to her at every given opportunity. They’re not in any kind of relationship where he *can* expect fidelity from her. (Unless he thinks she’s a Legilimens or something… which again, his fault for assuming.)
They’re already showing us that Shivaay justifies what he did because of family izzat and “betrayal” feelings. The family has reacted with appropriate horror and told him that what he did actually brought shame to them, but he still brought it up today to justify himself to Anika, and didn’t like being reminded that what he did was wrong. So that’s one ongoing thing. What’s left is dealing with his feelings of betrayal, which will kick in when Daksh comes back.
I hate this emphasis on Anika’s sexual life nonsense as much as you do, but alas, this is desi tv. They’re cleaaaaaaaarly trying to sell the show to the sanskaari aunties, which is why the show is suddenly so heavy on mangalsutra-phere-suhaag-sanskaar nonsense these days. Anika not having slept with Daksh *will* be majorly played up, and the most pivotal point that leads to Shivaay’s guilt trip and his “redemption” track. (Unless they do a ripoff of IPK and put Shivaay/Anika in a life-threatening situation, where he decides his love for her is more important than her alleged infidelity…)
All of this sucks majorly, but… it is what it is. There’s no point wishing otherwise, because Indian TV is made by regressive fucks, for an audience of largely regressive fucks. Some things, we just have to rant and rave at for a few weeks, and then sigh deeply and move on after using some brain bleach. It’s the only way to watch anything churned out by this shitshow of an industry.
