AYโฆ while this is most likely to happen, I have one question to you and Nina who write about Imlie disappointmentโฆ why was that track loaded there? As a way for the track to open up to newer avenues as the main couple had already accepted their love and a dead end was reached? ML left? New lead steeped in? Here that doesnโt seem to the issue so what could be the reason to tinker so distastefully?
Or is Leena testing her regional sensibilities in Hindi land?
It was brought in for a mix of factors I think.....but main reason was makers ka refusal to move on from propping up Malini (the PL).....the director gave an IV around that time claiming that they had nothing else left to show in the story after the ML-FL had united....and we all were surprised reading him say that cuz so much was left in the story if they were looking to follow the OG Bengali story from Leena where apparently she gave a lot of story to the leads even after PL divorced and left the ML and married some other guy.....but in the Hindi version, the makers claimed there was no story to show after leads united so they forcibly kept inserting Malini into everything.....initially it was through making both leads coddle her constantly out of their guilt about being the cause of her hurt.....and later on by showing Malini suddenly deciding she wants Adi back as some kind of "haq" that is owed to her.....after that it was a continuous downward slide until they eventually brought this drugging/raping track.
And yes, by then I think the ML was also dissatisfied with the plot and wanted an out so they set up the pregnancy track in such a way to poison the well enough for the leads to become impossible in the eyes of the audience......I still feel main reason ML was dissatisfied was cuz of the way makers went overboard propping up Malini at the cost of leads ka relationship growth....both leads were dumbed down to serve Malini and eventually the show got eaten alive by Malini only.
In Imlie, even during this pregnancy track, Adi never wavered from only considering Imlie his wife....he refused to let go of Imlie and Malini kept faking that she wants Adilie to be together and feels regret that this pregnancy is becoming a cause of problems between them....but eventually she was able to use her pregnancy persona to paint herself innocent and frame Imlie as supposedly trying to kill Malini and her baby in jealousy....lol that's where Adilie broke up.
But Adi never stopped pining for Imlie even after they broke up and she want to the new guy.....after a point, makers just made his character an easy target for everyone to mock in the story for him still being in love with Imlie even after he was tricked into remarrying Malini....eventually it was a relief when they finally phased out his character warna they were just using him to prop up the new lame guy who got his kicks out of mocking Adi constantly.
But yeah, they never showed the incident as graphically as they are showing it in Jhanak.....Leena is romanticizing this incident here....but in Imlie, it was clearly shown as something wrong and horrifying with ominous music.
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