#mohan vishwakumar

[dragonsareawesome123]

1.02 // 4.10

Never Have I Ever (2020-2023)

#never have i ever #nhie #devi vishwakumar #ben gross #benvi #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #nalini x mohan #nhie spoilers #nhieedit #netflixedit #dailynetflix #asiancentral #romancegifs #userleila #tusersofia #userem #userbbelcher #userstream #cinemapix

[bittergirlsworld]

my favorite thing about never have I ever is that it's not about a love triangle at all.

the whole show is about grief, loss and loneliness. the emptiness left by the death of a loved one. the trauma that watch someone who's your whole world die before your eyes. the fact that your pain is not only yours, it's shared with your mother and your cousin and his mother and everyone is drinking from the same fountain of endless despair, everyone copes in their own ways but the pain is so paradoxically individual and collective that your coping affects other's lives too.

she never really loved paxton, but dreamed of him to distract herself from the pain she felt when mohan passed and because the show starts with him already gone, we never know who devi was before that happened, we just know that she was not that "unhinged". she loves her friends but they suddenly does not understand her even though eleanor never sees her mother who actively chose leave her behind. she loves ben but howard is never there and his mother is always away and he's so lonely that she doesn't see him as a dreamy fit because it's her mirror, he lonely as she is and she can't deal with that.

she choose to make all the sort of bad decisions and deal with it consequences later just to during one moment in a party a coyote appears and she thinks it's her father a boy plays with her dad tennis racket her new boyfriend watch her play in the orchestra and she sees her father in the audience but he's not there and her mother is grieving too without never know how to deal with her and now she's so in pain and everyone says she's too much for them her pain is too much a inconvenience her sorrow is too messy and they leave they leave they leave she's alone she's too much she's replaceable shes embarrassing she's jealous she craves love that she once had and now it's not there and she's empty looking for anything to fill the void that he left

but you laugh at her bad decisions and root for her all along the way we want her to feel something other than the pain she deals with

and then, someday, she's not so mad anymore. she's okay with her mother finding love. she's breaking up bad relationships and supporting her friends even tho it hurts her. she's not harming herself just to feel something, she's not rejecting her mirror in form a lover, she's not so confused or empty. she survived. honestly, how beautiful is that?

#devi vishwakumar #never have i ever #ben gross #paxton hall yoshida #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #nirmala vishwakumar #eleanor wong #fabiola torres #ethan morales #nhie

[saskieenkeli]

#never have i ever #nhie ben #ben gross #jaren lewison #ben x devi #nhie devi #devi vishwakumar #devi x ben #maitreyi ramakrishnan #nalini vishwakumar #poorna jagannathan #nhie nalini #mohan vishwakumar #sendhil ramamurthy #nalini x mohan

[lovelymoira]

Never have I ever makes you think it's this hilarious show where a brown girl just progressively becomes more and more unhinged and then BAM it suddenly just hits you with those moments, you know, the ones where Devi is just dealing with her shitload of trauma and has those outbreaks. And then you're sitting there wondering how she went from crying about being a virgin to suddenly crying about her dead dad and oh wait, now you, the watcher is crying too.

Fucking great.

#i love this show #never have i ever #its so emotional swearr #seeing a brown girl as a fellow brown girl is the best thing ever #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #mindy kaling #never have i ever netflix #netflix never have i ever #devi #devi x ben #devi x paxton #devi x des

[aye-masakalii]

Devi Vishwakumar x Hugs | Never Have I Ever Season 3

#never have i ever #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar #kamala nandiwadal #fabiola torres #eleanor wong #aneesa qureshi #ben gross #paxton hall yoshida #nhie s3 #nhie spoilers #mygifs

[eyedancer7a]

Here we are 1 day till we see the final season of Never Have I Ever. I'm excited but also so sad that it's ending. I know it's going to be a rough weekend!

It's an amazing show that has brought to the forefront diversity in our society. Numerous cultures and ethnicities are represented in various settings. At the same time making us laugh and think about so much.

NHIE came out when our world was thrown in such uncertainty with COVID. It gave us time to focus on something other than the virus. It made me laugh and smile.

Family and friends are important and crucial especially during those hard times. We learn and rely on each other just like the characters on the show.

I can also say I have made many friends here on Tumblr. We love and support each other and our stan DAXTON. We are open to each other's questions, observations, rants, raves and overall love for this show.

They are even supportive when it comes to writing my first fanfiction. And I have a feeling that we are going to need more DAXTON fics to get it through it all. Yes I promise to finish it for my besties!

Thank you to @infinite-wanders @blunderbussmatterhorn @laurenkoenig07 @astraybrat @justmissg @deviipaaxton143 @a-lockman5 @seeyoumondaydevi @scorpio-smiles @tashas-life and @cupcakesandtv (the Queen of DAXTON FANFICS) for all your love and support through the past 3 years! Wish I had found you guys sooner when Season 1 came out. 😜🤪😉

No matter what happens on June 8, 2023, #DAXTON MOMENTS will be #OURS FOREVER❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰

WE LOVE YOU MAITREYI, DARREN, LEE, RAMONA, BEN, JAREN, MEGAN, POORNA, RICHA, RANJITA, NIECY, ADAM, SENDHIL AND JOHN

#CONGRATULATIONS ON AN AMAZING 4 SEASONS🎊👍🎉🙏👏🎊❤️🔥😭😉😜🥰💗😍

And a big thank you to all those who shared these wonderful and beautiful gifs to the Fandom! ❤️🙏❤️

#never have i ever netflix #devi vishwakumar #paxton hall yoshida #fabiola torres #eleanor wong #nalini vishwakumar #kamala nandiwadal #trent harrison #ben gross #nirmala vishwakumar #manish kulkarni #rebecca hall yoshida #lyle shapiro #aneesa qureshi #john mcenroe #mohan vishwakumar #daxton

[fishyyyyy99]

She carried Mohan's spirit with her.

#devi vishwakumar #never have i ever #maitreyi ramakrishnan #nhie #nhie netflix #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #sendhil ramamurthy #poorna jagannathan

[winnie-the-monster]

#nhie #nhie netflix #never have i ever #s1 #1x01 #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #🥺🥺😢😢

[furoruisa]

I would love to see the love story between Nalini and Mohan. Like the fragments we see on the show are so beautiful and I love it 😭

#nhie #mohan x nalini #mohan vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar #oh and little devi #i also ejem just want to see little ben and devi dynamic #i just know mohan laughed at their fights and nalini didn't until she realized devi took school more serious because of their rivalry #like what was mohan opinion on devi asking nalini for Adderall to be better than ben gross

[catty-words]

i’ve made no secret of the fact that nhie season two nearly single-handedly demolished my deep, abiding love for - or, less dramatically, my minute-by-minute gleeful enjoyment of - the show, but i’m in an ongoing struggle to articulate to myself why exactly that’s the case.

i mean, there is, of course, the way the season handles devi’s agency, with her largely being a victim of circumstance rather than a character making terrible-if-sympathetic choices. the ‘devi abandons her friends when they need her most the second she’s acknowledged by paxton’ vs. ‘devi running her mouth and revealing a secret about aneesa that she didn’t even know was true in the first place’ dichotomy. even the act of dating ben and paxton at the same time is written with such incidental, ‘oh no, this is all so fast’ energy where devi’s concerned, that the storyline is nearly robbed of all characterization intrigue it held because the writing manages to make it feel more like an accident than a choice.

given how important devi’s agency is to the themes of the show, the fact that season two mishandles it so monumentally is honestly a satisfactory enough explanation for why season two irks me the way it does, yet my brain continues to puzzle. and, so long as you’re already indulging me this rant, i think i unlocked something tonight that’s essential to both my discontent with season two and my developing thesis that season three is the rightful continuation of season one: season two messes with paxton and ben’s roles in the triangle in a way that confuses the emotional gravity of devi’s grief.

at this point, it’s well-covered ground here on catty-words dot tumblr dot com, but for the sake of thoroughness, let’s establish what those roles are. paxton is devi’s escapism, ben is devi’s accountability. paxton’s attention offers devi the chance to be the normal girl who’s so hot and cool, it doesn’t even matter that she ever found herself wheelchair-bound in devastation. ben’s attention forces devi to reckon with hard, unflattering truths about herself that she cannot simply rebrand away, to the point where he plays a major role in devi overcoming her denial of her dad’s death.

and this should not be read as a value-judgement on who’s the better romantic interest for her. once again, if you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know i have my preference, but also that i find both relationships narratively rich, swoon-worthy, and important to devi’s development. she needs both the escapism and the accountability to process her grief; there’s a time and place for each.

season three honors these roles by interrogating how it makes devi feel to date a paragon of her own creation (spoiler alert: it makes her feel the need to escape into a different relationship even further removed from the grieving freak she feels herself to be) and by restoring ben as a constant source of tender advice dressed up in snide remarks.

season two, on the other hand, tries casting ben as the unattainable dream, with all his ‘one that got away’ energy and his placement off in the background giggling with aneesa, and paxton as the snide remarker, with all his anger over devi messing up his swimming career (another incidental circumstance, not one that devi manufactured in any meaningful way).

which is not to say the boys absolutely have to be married to their roles - they can and should grow and change as the story requires - but abandoning them entirely when season one had such a strong sense of their purpose does necessarily give season two tonal dissonance.

and, more importantly, the triangle becomes a less useful, far murkier mirror in which devi’s grief can be reflected back to her. mohan’s voicemail becomes the centerfold of devi’s identity (i.e. casting devi as mohan’s ‘perfect girl’ and forcing her to reckon with all the ways she’s failing to live up to that) as well as the escape from her messy life when she gets too stressed. and frankly, having the one manifestation of devi’s grief for the season filling ben and paxton’s season one roles while season two ben and paxton create bland, teen-romance-driven problems in devi’s life is the shittiest possible iteration of both the otherwise complex, well-balanced love triangle and the story of devi’s grief.

the season takes the beating heart of the whole freaking show - devi having to process the death of her father - and makes it feel very one-note. it also robs the love triangle of its profundity; the boys aren’t there to represent the paths devi can take to heal and grow, the three of them are just being kinda shitty to each other for the sake of drama.

#never have i ever #nhie meta #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #devi x paxton #devi x ben #season two my belothed

[theheart-isanarrow]

"so it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love."

-e.a. bucchianeri

#nhieedit #neverhaveieveredit #userleila #userbhargavi #userkaterina #nessa007 #userbbelcher #chewieblog #tuserstream #userseeleybooth #nhie #neverhaveiever #never have i ever #rosesgifs #dailynetflix #netflixdaily #cinemapix #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar

[catastrxblues]

never have i ever season 4 ♡ ˎˊ˗

just some random snaps <3 (yes i'm very aware that i’m about 2 weeks late to the party)

#for me!! #storageisfull #never have i ever #nhie #never have i ever s4 #nhie s4 #devi vishwakumar #fabiola torres #eleanor wong #aneesa qureshi #ben gross #nalini vishwakumar #kamala nandiwadal #mohan vishwakumar #paxton hall yoshida #benvi #<3 #nadirants

[awsmnivi]

so i just watched nhie season 3 and everyone is engaged in ship wars which is understable but i wanted to theorize about this show's overall theme and end.

nhie is about devi's coming of age through her struggling between her dreams and reality .This theme is most importantly emphasized by her struggling about loss of her more loving father (dreams) and learning to live and love her more strict mother (reality). Because mohan is dead, she has made up a fantasy version of him her mind and not able to let go of that version of love and doesn't understand that her mother also loves her in her own way. she might be stricter but only because nalini also thinks devi doesn't like her as much as mohan ( really tragic scenario).

But this theme of dreams vs reality is also played through devi's love interests paxton ( dreams) and ben (reality). Throughout, the 3 seasons, it is shown that devi has made up a fantasy version of paxton who will solve all her problems magically ( like her father). Devi sees ben as someone who is always pushing her, hates her but he is the one who helps her because he is there.

So, there is so many parallels between nalini and ben, it's not at all accidental like:

[ i. both are hyper competitive go getters who needs to relax a little bit.

ii. both of them have abandonment issues which comes from their kinda narcissistic mothers.

iii. both of them think that devi hates them and but they always there when she needs them in reality.]

These parallels between ben and nalini's characters are projected in all seasons in different ways which will tell us more about future of season 4:

First season finale devi and nalini finally made up and admitted that they loved each other just like devi and ben realized they loved each other.

in second season devi is shown to be struggling with both ben's relationship with aneesa and nalini's relationship with Chris. In the end both ben and nalini help her to apologize to aneesa and thus strengthening their emotional bond.

In third season finale, Both ben and nalini helps her to get out of des situation and were emotionally there for her. So devi realises she needs more time with people who care and love her unconditionally (nalini and ben).

So what I think will happen in season 4? Season 4 will end up with devi leaving for college and leaving her hometown but devi and nalini's emotional bond will be stronger and secure because they will be family in all sense of words. This stronger bond between nalini and devi will parallel ben and devi's relationship. ben and devi will always be in each other's lives like a family, they will be friends for life. It might not be a benvi endgame but nhie's theme is recognizing family's love come in more ways than one and loving familial bonds are unbroken.

But you'll ask what will happen with paxton in season 4 because he is confirmed to be in season 4. I think devi will stop seeing him as an idealized fantasy, learn more about his insecurities, might see him struggling him in college and help him through it. I think this will mirror her experience with her father's memory, maybe she'll learn more about mohan's quirks, insecurities or faults which will help her to be more flexible in her life and not trying to be a perfectionist.

Again it can mean a daxton endgame but it might not be but paxton and devi will end series on a good note.

#ben is devi's family #Season 4 theory #nhie season 3 #benvi #daxton #devi vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #never have i ever

[rainparadefromhell]

Found this in my notes app. I think I responded to someone on Reddit with this a long time ago but it made me kinda emo all over again so here ya go.

It became really clear to me early on in s1 that the show was intentionally using the same language for Mohan and Ben (both calling Devi a firecracker) as well as telling her she deserves better (Mohan in her dreams and Ben in the bathroom).

But nhie also tells us that Ben and Nalini are similar. In 2x02, Nalini visits her parents as they were supposed to go look for apartments (bc they were supposed to move to India) and her mom totally blows her off for some wedding. Nalini doesn't even seem surprised and we are led to believe that her parents kind of neglected her as well. It's the reason why Nalini was touched by Ben crying in her office in s1 - she understood.

It's genius writing really! It tells us really subtly that these three people that are so good for Devi, that impact her life more than the other characters share many qualities - they are compassionate, understanding and push her to do better and love herself more. The whole journey of the show is Devi remembering her father's words and this time (season 3) truly seeing and believing them. It's why she improves so much. The core message is to surround yourself with people that make you feel like being you is enough. And that is why I will personally sob uncontrollably when it ends. It's a simple premise but so needed for every young person to be reminded of.

#never have i ever #never have i ever netflix #nhie #nhie season 4 #devi vishwakumar #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #ben gross #and y'all bitches want me to be team d*xton #never in a million years #!!

[aye-masakalii]

Favorite moments from Never Have I Ever S3, in no particular order: 3/?

You'll always be my valentine, kanna.

#never have i ever #devi vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #nhie s3 #mygifs #favorite scenes #nhie spoilers

[thefabulousfab-3]

Nalini is the one who was giving Mohan cpr before the ambulance came. I’m going to be sick.

#how did i not see this before #never have i ever #nalini vishwakumar #mohan vishwakumar #this makes me feel things #very very sad things