I am not a fan of this show. Because i think they stretch the plot so thin and the characters are living is self induced bubbles.
However, I occasionally change the channel because i want to understand why Varun Badola would do such a show and I love watching Karam smile 😳
I have read the many view points on the forum regarding recent changes in the behavior from Kaushalya and Nimmi.
I fail to understand why everyone is against Nimmi. If I found my mother being made to bow down in front of someone younger and newer in the family, i would raise a bigger hell than what Nimmi did. Because just like children are their parent's pride, Children also place a lot of pride in their parents' honor.
Nimmi didn't see the whole drama... Nimmi didn't see things from the beginning. Even if she did, she would not let her mother be humiliated by someone who just showed up yesterday.
Kausalya is not your everyday woman of today. She comes from a background where women were less educated and all they knew was how to manage households. Thats what they were taught from childhood and that is what she is asked to teach her daughters. She has not known or seen a world where women have more freedom...why would she not expect Riya to know how to handle household chores. Ofcourse she is surprised...her comment about not having a mother...wasn't an accusation...it was her surprise to know that women can come of age without having a femail relative teach them about cooking and household chores. That is not her world.
Kausalya's world is about to turn upside down and she has only seen a glimpse of it so far and it was too much for her to bear, so her emotional balance is tipping. The difference in treatment that Riya gets both from Shanti and from Shivam as her husband, shows Kausalya the mirror of truth because she has been living under a pretense that what she does to "keep the peace" is infact what actually keeps the peace and that is what daughter-in-laws are expected to do. She is for the first time seeing the injustice done to her in the form of what is not tolerated by Riya and so she doesn't know what to think anymore...how to accept the fact that she has been at a disadvantage her whole life.
There are bound to be more 'mistakes' from Kausalya that will happen, until she finds her own identity that is separate from the woman who seeks to be validated by her in-laws. Riya in this situation is an agitator who created an imbalance in Khushiya's life because Khushiya no longer finds a way to keep her bubble intact. She is clearly seeing that her MIL hates her but is not quiet ready accept that yet.