Hi Mina,
I normally don't post anything on the forum outside of fanfiction threads, let's just say that I learned a big lesson from my older show days where there were fans fighting and protecting their fav, but here I decided to take the plunge because the topic is very tempting.
I have to disagree with you that Abhi needs to be congratulated for what he did, because I still don't think he did anything to be congratulated. If he had told Daadi the full truth, then he would have deserved it but he just told her the half-truth, that too the "safe truth". He did give big speeches but all I heard was "I told Pragya to lie because I couldn't see Daadi hurt." Which means "I forced Pragya to lie because I couldn't see Daadi hurt as I love her a lot and I am the ever dutiful grandson." When in truth, the whole lie started simply to save his ass.
I have only followed Abhi-Pragya story from the beginning and skipped everything else, so these are my thoughts. To tell the truth, Abhi has always come across like a dick (please excuse my language). Granted that he married Pragya because of a misunderstanding created by Aliyah but I still hold him responsible for everything that happened to Pragya after she got married to him. Starting with finding him in his bathrobe at Tanu's on their wedding night. The way Pragya had cried in the middle of nowhere at night, has been etched into my brains. Then the constant insults on her, the comparison to his supermodel girlfriend, the pin incident, every time he dropped her (once two times in a row and in real life, that could have caused her major harm and he didn't stop that because he felt guilty, it was because Daadi had taught/told Pragya to not let go of his hand while they danced, and she didn't leading to him falling down and learning the lesson and being scared of future such humiliation), don't forget his dirty dancing with Tanu for the reception, beating up Puneet, trying to get her drunk in the party to humiliate her (and he deserves no brownie points for looking after her, he did that because Daadi was mad at him and he didn't want to cause more troubles and he had no choice other than to stop her from creating more problems.), then the time, he instead of stopping Aliyah and Tanu, he joined them in the trying to project Pragya as a thief etc. Lots more but can't remember everything at once.
In spite of everything, I still LOVE and ADORE Abhi, not because he is a good at heart, loving person. NO, I care for Abhi so much because he is being played by Shabbir Ahluwalia. If Abhi was played by any actor other than one of my fav, I would have definitely hated him and wanted Pragya to find someone more deserving of her.
Granted, that Abhi has done a lot for her in many big ways, but the truth is that he was a douchebag to her. He is taking baby steps but he has a lot of growing up to do. He is still Daadi's little grandson and not a husband or for that matter, a boyfriend.
I know, many feel that Abhi shouldn't be punished for Tanu's pregnancy when he was not responsible but I beg to differ. Abhi is the only person to be blamed for this mess. Because he had given Tanu so much power that she can now claim to be pregnant by him. He didn't keep her at arm's distance. And they have showed us that Abhi and Tanu trying to spend the night together before Daadi crash landed on them all the time. If they had really decided on all keeping the limit blah blah blah, then he shouldn't have done anything that could lead to sex. When he screams at Tanu about the celibacy thing, it comes out like a last minute save from the CV, it did look kinda disgusting to me, as when I recall what they had shown, it was like "let's make out and do all the naughty deeds just not "sex"" what kind of keeping their limits is that?
He had thrown Tanu in Pragya's face a lot of times. He had more than once asked Pragya to get out of the room as he wanted to romance Tanu. He had let his girlfriend and sister, insult Pragya and torture her. During the karvachaut, Pragya genuinely kept vrath for him and Tanu kept fake one, still he appreciated Tanu's and called Pragya's fake. Till today, he doesn't know the truth but now he knows Pragya and I don't see him recalling all the times he had hurt her and humiliated her, and realized that he had wronged her, and it is not in her character to manipulate or do such things he had accused her of. He did apologize to her when he was shot but that doesn't count, simply because in deathbed, people do apologize to everything that they did. He had to be in deathbed for him to grace Pragya with an apology. Pragya deserved more than that.
I don't blame Pragya in believing that Tanu is pregnant by Abhi and Abhi & Tanu wants to be together, because as far as Abhi had showed her, that is the truth. Pragya's reading on Abhi's hesitance, regret and inaction in this whole pregnancy situation is that Abhi is worried about Daadi being hurt, and not because he has started to love her. In her eyes, she is the hurdle that Abhi and Tanu have to cross for their happily ever after. The only thing stopping Abhi to "do the right thing" is that she is his wife and his Daadi adores her. So she goes about doing what she things is the right thing however illogical or stupid that is.
Even after Abhi found out about Tanu's pregnancy, the first few episodes, he was more interested in making Pragya confessing her love than he taking care of the matters. And I guess the audience reacted badly to that so CVs then changed that track and he became a mute spectator and he speaks up only when every member of the family had insulted and accused Pragya, then he would as usual swoop in to save the day.
I still don't think that Abhi has redeemed himself or done things to deserve the love and adoration Pragya is giving him. He needs to go a long way before he is worthy of her.
I do agree that Abhi needs to man up. He needs to man-up and tell Tanu, "Talk to me. Scream at me. Don't scream and pressurize Pragya for anything because it is not her mess to clear. It is OURS. Most importantly yours as you were in your senses while I was drunk when it happened and you could have stopped it or taken precaution as you know my situation." Here he is avoiding Tanu like anything while he says that he wants his baby and family's vansh is growing in Tanu. Abhi has become a mere spectator while he should be proactive, instead of redeeming Abhi in this track, the CVs are ruining his character. Abhi told Pragya, that he will take care of the whole pregnancy issue, if that is the case then he should do something about it when he knows that Tanu is forcing Pragya to do many of the stupid things that she is doing. He has seen how Tanu is manipulating Pragya into doing all this. But he is just standing back and watching the drama. Truthfully, Abhi is acting like Pragya got Tanu pregnant, and while she sorted out the mess, he is standing back and wondering how the hell that happened.
And after watching K-soaps for over a decade, I think it is safe to assume that when Abhi gathers the courage to tell Daadi the truth, that time Daadi would find out the truth through other sources. Again, the chances of his redemption goes down the drain. Though I do have some hope with KKB, as this is one of the few K-soap, that has managed to bring out most of the truth and proving the innocence of the character but it still manages to keep the negative character safe from exposure.
Sorry for the rant, but had to say it. Don't even know if I made any sense as my thoughts were all over the place. Let me, say this once more that I LOVE Abhi, and want Pragya and Abhi to get together, (only because it is Shabbo❤️).
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