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Name of the show is Balika Vadhu and not Anandi.
Had the show been titled as Anandi it would have been fine to show Anandi's journey as a widow and as a single mother.
Now Anandi is no more a Balika Vadhu. They needed another Balika Vadhu to stay true to their theme.
If Anandi rehabilitating some random girl who is a Balika Vadhu it would not be so interesting to watch simply because she has done all that so many times before.
So they decided to club Anandi the mother and Anandi the social activists who works against child marriages and rehabilitates child brides and made Anandi's child a Balika Vadhu.
Anandi's child cannot become a Balika Vadhu under normal circumstances no matter how difficult things are. It can happen only through a really bizzare twist of events so it happened.
Somebody took pity on a kidnapped baby and made her into a Balika Vadhu and filled her mind with all kinds of regressive beliefs and ideas which are difficult to get rid of because those thoughts and ideology has come from a woman who loved the child and whom the child trusts a lot.
So Anandi's vocation and parenting was combined.
Through Sasural Nandini ka they showed a lot of new issues which they haven't taken up till now.Discrimination against girl child gender inequality domestic violence sexual abuse caste conflicts honour killings and what not.
The main connect between the two stories is Anandi and her daughter. They knew that if they showed some random girl child going through all this it won't connect with the viewers so they made Anandi's child a victim and showed that part of the story through her eyes.
The story became way too big to be told so in order to focus on those topics they have restricted Anandi's story till the time she found her daughter.
If people like to believe that Anandi didn't care enough for her daughter and that's why she didn't find her daughter inspite of watching the character Anandi then nothing can be said.
A woman who didn't her ex husband's education to suffer even after the way he treated her and ensured that he got financial assistance would she not care for her daughter?
Shivam keeps saying how much he wants to be like his father all the time. Form whom and where did he learn about his father? Obviously from his mother he can see his father only through the eyes of his mother. That boy rushes to his mother and totally dependent on her inspite being surrounded by Singhs whom he loves very much.It is quite clear that for him his mother is both mother as well as father.
If people think that an educated woman runs an organisation doesn't know how to manage her finances nothing can be said either.
A woman who runs an organisation with no help from anyone raises her son who looks upto her for every need of his and is actually doing well at school and assured of a bright future and still consider this woman a failure there is no point in engaging in any discussion.
