Originally posted by: sharadrocks
Mam...your points are indeed well-made and most valid...
The issue here is not Baba developing an emotional bond with someone at this age, The issue is the suddenness with which this track has been thrust into this story. After establishing Baba as a man who was cruel enough to disown his own daughter because she fell in love, to suddenly have him confess to lifelong pangs for a college sweetheart makes absolutely no sense.
With regard to Nidhi, I would have applauded her actions if they had stemmed out of a recognition of his loneliness or need. In fact, her own father lost his wife when he was very young. Till date, we have not seen Nidhi recognize even the vacuum that her exit from his life must have caused. She is purely reacting to what she recognizes as Baba's last wish. I don't think she is even thinking along the lines that you have so beautifully explained.
But yes, showing Ashutosh as a man who is not sensitive to his Baba's emotional needs is ridiculous and stupid. Even doctors tell the family to keep a patient happy and satisfy his desires so far as possible. So showing him as so rigid on this matter is ridiculous to say the least. Ashutosh is not a man who has cared for social propriety. Without a care, he stood up and supported Mandira and her husband when not even Nidhi had the guts to speak up. Similarly, his firm stand in favour of love during the Kerala track and his subsequent withdrawal out of sheer respect for Nidhi's wishes is example of his respect for love as an emotion. The creatives are clearly bent on butchering him. But what is new? He has always been their favorite target! Soap writers have a very simple formula for TRPs - glorify women and butcher men. Hope it works for this show.
So yes, finding emotional bonding in the twilight hours of your life is indeed a beautiful thing. Sadly, it simply does not fit into this story. Strictly my point of view!
Edit- Mam...please do not underestimate the younger generation so much..we may not have your kind of life experience...but we are quite capable of understanding and appreciating mature ideas and concepts as much as we appreciate candyfloss romance...!