I for once want to see..

Neil's husbandly instincts kicking in.

I completely agree with everything you said. This is the first thing I said to another post when I came to know about the plan thing. I m not okay with the fact that Neil has let her go alone to a rapist. It's dangerous.

Totally agree. We know Avni is stubborn and will do what she wants but i hope we get to see Neil trying to persuade Avni not to go after Vidyut considering how bad he is.

No husband would want his wife near a rapist, not even for your ex love!

As you mentioned if neil had to exercise husbandry rights over avni..he would not let go of her at the 1st place to find about the most dangerous trafficker...risking her life...though its all planned.

Not only once I always want to see Neil's husbandly insticts for Avni. While avni was adamant to enter RM, I liked how he used the divorce papers to blackmail her. Then I liked when he used his police force to stop her going outside the house so that she doesn't land herself in trouble. I know Neil cares a lot for Avni but I like it more when he shows his care for Avni through his actions. I don't mind him behaving tough with Avni if it is for her safety and betterment.

To be fair Neil has tried to stop her many times. During Ali missing fiasco he handcuffed her. Before that, during Daya's first showdown, again he got her promise not to leave the house. (This is when their relationship was nowhere as established as it is now).Then recently he posted guards at the house then got her arrested and thrown in the slammer, then he even threatened her with divorce papers. Now, what more can this guy do to stop her, other than physically restrain her by tying her to a chair?

Originally posted by: MrDarcyfan

To be fair Neil has tried to stop her many times. During Ali missing fiasco he handcuffed her. Before that, during Daya's first showdown, again he got her promise not to leave the house. (This is when their relationship was nowhere as established as it is now).Then recently he posted guards at the house then got her arrested and thrown in the slammer, then he even threatened her with divorce papers. Now, what more can this guy do to stop her, other than physically restrain her by tying her to a chair?

He may be operating under the phrase "If you can't beat em, join em" and letting Avni loose, and keeping tabs on her at the same time. He may have let her go, coz if he protests, she will go anyway, without telling him and end up in more trouble. Like her bright idea of getting Bhallu to kidnap her! She realized though that first time when Pandit and Bhallu played their game and got Neil suspended that it's not as easy as she thinks to defeat "Pohonchehuwe criminals" like RP and her gang.

In the case of Vidyut and Avni pursuing him, I am going to actually wait to see what the "Plan" is before making a call on it. Maybe they think as a woman, she is more able to get into this man's orbit than a man would. (Which is probably true). He is less likely to suspect her as well. So let's wait and see. While I agree on principle, that I too want to see Neil exercise his rights on Avni more, I also accept that he has done so many times in the past but even with all his efforts she has managed to do her Manmani! I actually feel for the guy! Being Avni's husband is as frustrating as it is exhilarating. But Neil's loves the job! Only Neil can keep even THIS much control over Avni. Any other guy wouldn't have been able to do even this much!

Well said!
Especially the last part was bang on!

While I understand people being pissed off because of the OLVs (which till date don't know how they will exactly play out), I feel that it's highly unfair to say Neil doesn't have husband instincts! How can people have memory loss and forget everything!!This man has gone out of his way to protect her and save her even when they were mere strangers, he went through hell and experienced the fear of his life during Juhi track itself to protect her. It's saddening to see even the fans who once used to cite all the reasons they loved Neil Khanna for forget all this, now they are pointing fingers at that same quality which defines Neil Khanna!

From the word go itself, he showed his care and concern for her and even possessiveness though they were strangers. I still remember how he tried to prevent her from taking lift from that stranger in the first day they met itself. When she did her manmani as usual, he went behind her and was relieved to see she is safe, he was impressed that she could defend herself (pehlvan ki poti as that stranger called her), she used the same technique of self defense Neil himself taught her and Neil punched that guy and asked him to go now ask for a lift from an ambulance!

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He stood by her side always and fought her case as if it was his, trying to reason with her all the time because he knew she has the habit of taking risks, remember how he handcuffed her the first time when Bebe and Shweta came and found her in the room and Bebe opened her handcuffs. He came later and he took a promise from her that she wouldn't step out of the house no matter what happens and to trust him but she broke the promise, then we could understand the shock she went through on seeing Ashish Mehta's accidental death video but she always does this to him no matter how many times he warns her and does everything to prevent her she still does her manmani and finds a way, the problem she always lands herself in trouble when she doesn't listen to him. If he never asked her for help when he was fighting her own case then he showed categorical refusal when the case was his.

I still remember how once again she broke his trust when he took her with him, and she hid in the car that was going inside Rang Mahal. He was frustrated, angry and scared and was going to go inside Rang Mahal alone then and there without any force to save her. When she made finally her appearance he ran to her and yelled at her 'Kaha thi tum", if you remember, he even left a mark on her arm because his grip was so strong clearly denoting the intensity of his reaction, now if he reacted more than this people would have called him manhandler!!
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3- His expression when she said that she heard some goons' voices and went behind them! he was like "unbelievable"


And I still remember how he was emotionally shaken after knowing that she was going to go inside that Rang Mahal after discovering it was a brothel, he tried to explain giving her the real example of Juhi herself who was stuck there for 5years and could never get out of that place. He showed his fear, tried the logical approach explaining the risks and the kind of people these criminals are!

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5- Tume andaza bhi hai...


When they went to their bedroom he ordered her to stay away from this case, he took her promise which she instantly broke calling the guy from her gang. Neil followed her once again and expressed the fact that he doesn't want to lose her, and what people called Juhi jaap in that episode was him also giving her an example of a person he couldn't save before and who faced that fate, because then Avni was telling him nothing will happen to me and you are there with me, so he used a real life example to show her how things happen. Remember also how he scolded DD telling him that life has no rewind buttton it can be lost in seconds and how he handcuffed Avni at Ali's cafe and despite her harsh words, he didn't budge!
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Anyways back to Juhi track since it's the main problem of all fans. I repeat it he always showed categorical refusal to her help and especially to her taking risks in this track.

He knew that his lady don won't keep her promise, he knows she can do anything for him. So he decided to use some men of his police force to guard her

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But despite everything Avni still decided to go (in disguise), any other husband would have been pissed off and wouldn't have taken it easily and even Neil couldn't accept that, so he locked her up. And then she came with her going to Lanka plan, again he refused and he threatned to sign the divorce papers!

This much this guy tried, yet you read he has no husband instincts !

The anger, frustration and fear he went through when she went gayab and then when he learnt she was kidnapped!
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His anger was such that he was even ready to sign those divorce papers because she never listens to him and puts herself in danger, he felt that she was not even taking his feelings and fears into consideration!
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27- Agar usne tume kuch kiya to.. Please don't do it! Please!


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When in the Rang Mahal he was facing the corrupt DGP, He assertively stated that his wife was there and he will take her back with him! but he got suspended, and the police officer who is all about rules, law and order forgot all this and stopped waiting and started using even non kanooni ways to save his wife

Though his role was down played to show drama and mainly how Avni will defeat DVM and Amol will become Aman, his wife was always the centre of his worries, he followed her and prevented her once again from committing a murder, he succeeded in persuading her brother.

Even in the OLVs when she said she will go behind RP's son or something on these lines, I remember Neil saying : No Avni, Please, tum nahi, something like that and in the social workers mission he was there with her, now the plane mission I can't say since I haven't watched episodes yet and the only point I tried to explain is that patience can prove to be a good virtue but I guess I'll rest my case here now, many people might think I'm biased to Neil Khanna, truth is I love AvNeil equally, and I trust them and their love, yes silly right they are just fictional characters (thank GOD) but the way they were sketched and the way their relationship was shaped is admirable.

I know I missed a lot, lots of things about Neil Khanna since the post is about him, obviously I myself can't remember every single thing he did for his lady but at least I can see clearly, one OLV won't make me forget everything he did. It's an insult to any man to say he doesn't have husband instincts, it's like what Avni used to call her dad boozdil and beghairat and to say that to a man/husband like Neil Khanna is not only an insult but also unfair!!

I know many now talk about all what she did for him, no one denies what she did for him even he knows she is an exceptional woman but he never compelled her to help, actually he has always been against her taking risks when case was hers and even more now when the case is his, but everyone is ready to forget all this and what he did for her that's something I guess which people don't think about now.

Human psychology is very complicated, and never underestimate the power of guilt, the AvNeil shipper in us should not blur the logical side in us.

And yes I'm a woman and I feel everything a normal woman feels and would be shocked and hurt at all the things a normal woman would be shocked or hurt because of. If something is wrong then it's wrong I won't try to justify it but first I would try to understand if things are really what they seem to be and secondly it won't make me have memory loss about the past.

I hope I didn't hurt anyone here with my words, I would never want to hurt real people for reel people but you know this made me reflect ki what if these characters were real life people!!! then I would definitely feel for them and I would find it highly insensitive and inhuman when a rape victim who has been tortured and held captive in a brothel for five years, blackmailed through her daughter who uperse is the result of that rape experience, is taunted this way, I mean that's very traumatic, anyone can go insane in such a case especially if they don't get the professional, psychiatric help!! is it all because she is the ex of the hero and her acting isn't liked!! or when you read comments shipping Avni with a rapist and looking for names to the jodi just to spite the husband, if you read comments you will feel like if Neil holds no flame in front of the new found villain or when you read about helping people being mahanta... Glad indeed that they are just fictional characters!

I know my last paragraph might not be liked, but I'm not taking a dig at anyone, this is never my intention, there is a difference between the person and the comment, it's just that these comments are food for thought, to reflect ki how when we are overwhelmed by our feelings we don't know that even when we don't intend to, we end up hurting people, believe me it happens in real life too, I know people might not be serious about their comments here as this is just a show and these are just fictional characters, but if you can judge them by real life rules then wouldn't it be fair to understand them by real life rules as well!

PEACE and LOVE

Naj thanks for this post and reply. This had lot of beautiful examples. Yes his ways of showing his protective nature is different and unique. But we can never say he has no husband instincts. He never wanted her to be involved but she wanted to be involved. Even for child rescue mission she wanted to help. Yes he has his flaws but we can't completely discard him and prefer rapist over him.