Commenting here after a longgg time. Only because I saw a post about Annika.
Tbh, now that I'm not watching the show, I don't feel any attachment to any characters. Also, I can see that I was so stupid to get attached to them in the first place.
I've watched Gul shows in past. IB was my last though, done with her nonsense. All Gul MLs and FLs eventually turn out to be the same and have similar issues re marriage and blah blah.
(I guess Asad was the only one who had a normal marriage with Zoya, baaki🥱)
Coming back, when I watched the show in 2016 I really liked Annika. But now that the show is over (for me), I can do a better comparison with say, Khushi and Zoya, and even Sanam, to see that basically Annika isn't very different from them, Gul is serving the same biryani in different vessels.
Now lets take Khushi for example. Arnav forced Khushi to marry him, but the difference was that since the beginning itself he accepted in front of his family that Khushi was his wife (the peculiarites of their marriage was confined to their bedroom), but outwardly no one could doubt that they were married. When Arnav's dadi found out the truth, he agreed to marry Khushi with full rasm and riwaaj FOR HER HAPPINESS, becaus Arnav believed in live-in relationship and was disillusioned with the idea of marriage. Khushi also asserted that she was "Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada" even during their tough phase.
A marriage can either be accepted or denied. Either a woman can assert her rights, or accept that the marriage doesn't exist. You can't stay in a flux for months waiting for him to accept you, also being humiliated by him as he calls someone else as his wife.
The problem with Annika started, for me, when she was stuck in a limbo for more than 3 months. Shivaay was the one who forced Annika to get married to him, she wasn't running after him to marry her. After that he refused to acknowledge her existence because of his Daksh issues.
What my problem was that Annika kept waiting for over 3 months for Shivaay to accept her. In the meantime, she was happily involved in all plans to expose Tia and doing detective giri and what not. Annika's sense of self-preservation was very low. You can call it extreme selflessness, but I didn't like it.
Like not until Daksh returned with Kamini, did Annika question Shivaay for the first time after three months as to why she was in the mansion?
Okay I get she loves the Oberois and stayed to help their family, good. But at least ask Shivaay, question him, that whether he even intends to accept her or not. Here she is risking her life for him pretending to lose her memory, and on the other side Shivaay is telling Om that he doesn't see Annika as the mother of his children. Toh bhai phir usko kyun rok ke rakha hai ghar pe???
I hate it when men neither give an answer nor let the woman go. And I equally dislike it when woman don't even question the status quo. Arey at least ask the man, otherwise he would happily go on without realizing that their relationship has no name.
That is what annoyed me, and no other female lead of Gul was shown to be this...lachaar waiting for the man to take his sweet time deciding whether he wants to accept her or not.
And Shivaay was not a man with commitment issues like Arnav. He was dilly-dallying because of his elitist NKK issues. So Annika has to wait for Shivaay to give up his casteist ways to actually accept her. Thats extremely obnoxious behavior.
Please note that I'm not faulting OU Annika in any way. She was abused throughout her childhood, and she probably wanted to retain the family she had got by being married to Shivaay.
ETA: I have always liked Annika, even after forced wedding, my dislike has always been towards Shivaay, and how Annika took his nonsense. 🥱
My only issue was that she was in a flux and she didn't do anything about it.
I don't know anything about AU Annika but at least she is sure of what she wants, and makes it clear to Shivaay. I guess, I don't know anything really.
Edited by SRKisLove - 6 years ago
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