The biggest mysteries in this series are the so-called love stories to me, as some people have pointed out..
Kavya is shown to be in love with her 'V' throughout. How? Why? How? I keep asking these three, what I think are excellent questions, which keeps cropping up in other cases too.
Pakhi and Adhik - Pakhi is portrayed as the most self-centered person with no integrity. But even at the worst kind of situation, Adhik keeps reiterating that he loves her very much....how? And somehow they're standing together now like nothing happened - within such a short amount of time, despite zero whole-hearted efforts from Pakhi's part to make any kind of positive change to herself. All she did was get clingy. How?
And the platinum standard of love stories as considered by everyone in the show - the pure, the unconditional, full of the deepest understanding - Anuj and Anupama. It wouldn't have been so bad if it was hyped up too much. Again, even at the worst kind of circumstances, Anuj cannot move to the heart of the matter of cruel neglect of his daughter due to the misplaced priorities of Anupama without proclaiming his infinite love to her ?
When the character of Anuj was introduced, I was under the mistaken impression that the makers can portray some form of true love - where what he was in love with had nothing much to do with her appearance, but who she was as a person. He also kept emphasizing that his Anu could take care of herself.
I think maybe the unhealthy attachment these characters seem to have right now can be traced back to the unhealthy attachment of the makers...
Their unhealthy attachment to the narrative of Anuj's 26 years of deep, one-sided love with no expectations and no hopes...but it looks like he was just in love with his idea of Anupama...is she really who he thinks she is?
Their unhealthy attachment to the narrative of Anupama being dutiful and at the beck and call of her in-laws, and being a devoted mother to her children, or whatever their definition of 'dutiful' and 'devoted' is....but now they're her ex-in laws and her children are not children anymore! When she is still doing all this after her marriage to Anuj, especially when she is only getting abuse and lack of gratitude in return, it feel so out-of-place and just wrong !
I think the way they handle the Anuj - Shahs confrontation coming soon will reveal a lot about their thoughts. Or yes, alllll this is just drama for TRP.
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