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Reading the title I temporarily went to the gutterland . Haiiyeee the implications of this title ☺️ 😆
Fari firstly, kudos to you for coming up with such a concept. For me in my head, Arnav would always make a good father, ensuring every happiness for his kids that he didnt get himself.
I never thought that he will need that kick to get into the feeling of fatherhood. But reading BAF made me realise how right you are.
Arnav has always been a brother first; to a sister who is not packed to her sasural but who is nursing her broken heart after she was ditched second time in the context of marriage.
He needs to learn to stop being a brother and start becoming a father and that is a lovely concept to write and one which you wrote well 👏
Their post marriage life is exactly how I wanted... an amalgamation of Arnav and ASR and Khushi and KKGSR... where love battles with anger, issues, and doubts everyday. You cant put water and oil together on stove and not have sparks. This brings me to the ever present need you show between them. You know how much I root for it 😉
I liked the step by step program Khushi had chalked out for him... But the bit where she tells him he has had a wonderful father figure in the form of Mamaji was the best and he could follow his footsteps and not think of his own father (Btw, you gave more importance to Mamaji then he ever got in the show 😃)
But how could this process be easy when you have to sometimes fight with the father of your child to make him see sense? And then also fight his beloved Di and back-from-the-past Dadi?
I can understand where Anjali is coming from. He wants an anchor in her life for her own sanity and who better than her Chotay's chotay? But to insist after being denied, to emotionally blackmail and even bad mouth your brother is taking this too far. Good Khushi and Arnav brought a stop to it in their own way and glad Anjali found her happiness by adopting a daughter. A mother is a mother, biological or adoptive doesnt matter.
Dadi 🤢 lets skip her completely and am glad Arnav showed Dadi her place tho I begrudgingly agree with Khushi too that is no way to teach the child important ethics and morals.
Khushi helps in that NGO, handles her home and is a good wife planning to be a better mother. She deserves all the love and care Arnav showered her with during the pregnancy and after.
Arnav denied something to his sister is a BIG thing... he did it for Khushi but later the slow progress you showed of him connecting to his 'kiddo' was so heart warming 😳
Also, Fari this is for the extensive research you undertook for this story 👏
PS: I would have killed you if ArHi's first born hadnt been a daughter. Bas!
PPS: Relax, I still love SAY more than BAF. Double bas!
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