Manmarziyaan Mini Post #1 : Robbie, the third wheel?
So Manmarziyaan, as we all know is a retelling of the classic Bollywood love triangle, a woman's dilemma between excitement & stability. Anurag Kashyap doesn't go far enough for us to call this a subversion of the tropes. Yes, Rumi & Vicky are already in the middle of a steamy relationship. Although how the people around them react to it is pointedly different from what we expect from characters of that setting. They are against the relationship and do want to get Rumi married when they find out about the relationship but there is no drama about it. In fact, they treat it more as a mere nuisance. In comes Robbie who makes up his mind the moment he sees a picture of Rumi. He discovers the existence of Vicky early on with a little social media investigation but it only seems to make him more interested in Rumi. Here's where things COULD get a lot more interesting. A lot of critics have been saying that Robbie's character is a natural descendant of Balraj from H...
