Okay, So here it goes.
Yes, I completely agree with you. Anjali was the most butchered character in the show. Though every character was butchered at some point or another, it was a close call between Payal and Anjali but in the end, I have to concede that Anjali really has to be the most shoddily written character in all the TV shows I have watched!
You are right...in the beginning, she did show a little depth, but I completely lost it for her after the kidnapping track. To be honest, I thought her completely stupid when she failed to connect the dots when Arnav displayed extreme reactions when it came to Khushi...I mean, in that scene after she tells Arnav her doubts regarding Khushi' engagement and he retaliates by saying why did she agree to the engagement then? It is not like someone forced her to or something. I mean, it was obvious that he was pareshaan...that he didn't like the fact that Khushi got engaged. And all Anjali had to say to that was Why are you speaking like this chote?! Really??!! I mean, I am bringing up the most inane of scenes but that is because you have covered most of the others in your rants 😊
Okay, leave that, She really thinks Lavanya is ASR's love? Doesn't she remember his explanation of how even if he found a girl who was capable of stopping his saans, he would stay away from her?! Then why the hell was she so upset when Arnav and La call off the engagement? I mean, shouldn't she have been the one advising her chote not to get into a life-long commitment if he doesn't feel as deeply for the girl as she obviously felt for him? Did she really think he would be happy that way?
Okay, granted that her love for her brother made her impervious to his lack of interest in Lavanya, but I can never forgive her reactions post the kidnapping track. I don't blame Daljeet for wanting to leave the show multiple times when it was airing. I mean, which sane woman would want to be portrayed like this? Come on! They didn't even bother to give her a swelling belly to imply that she was indeed pregnant!
Don't even get me started on the kidnapping track. That, to me, was the beginning of the derailment of the show. Really, all naivety aside, how the bloody hell can anyone approach a man who has been harassing you to go to your husband and tell that idiot that nothing was your fault but you had been played by the snakewa and that the snakewa had actually been the one who has been harassing you?!!! Boggles the mind that the makers actually thought of this! It is wrong on so, so many counts!!! I understand that Barun had requested for a month off but comeon!! They couldn't come up with a better track?! And the scene where one of the goons and Arnav hit Khushi on the head with that huge, motti, piece of wood?!! Who is to say some idiot teenager would not try to do the same in the hopes it would just render the girl(or guy) unconscious?
Kids(idiot ones) do imitate what they see on TV and movies. Happened once in TN where a boy killed another and then tried to hide his tracks by spreading chili powder since he saw that in a movie. Was somewhat a sensational news back home!
I don't know why a production house would butcher their own show like this, but, I think this PH is famous for it. I have tried watching a couple of other shows from this PH and have given up soon after starting because of the way they decimate the story-line and make a mockery of the characters. In spite of that, I keep coming back to this one alone mainly because of the leads and the sheer brilliance of their acting!
Phew!! Anyways, watching the show again brought back all the feelings of dissatisfaction and disappointment and I needed to rant a little too.
Like you, I missed the show when it first aired and watched it first only around three years back and didn't have a chance to rant then. The re-airing of the show on Star Utsav prompted me to watch the show again and thanks to you, I could rant out a little 😛
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