Both witches are horrendous mothers as kajal put it so eloquently. However, if I have to gag and force myself to choose which one is the "worst" one, I have to say Kushia hands down. Shanti is an obvious extrovert of the worst kind, she craves attention EVEN at the cost of her own children's happiness. She plays around with Sarla never giving her a clear cut answer whether she will give her SS and when she needs her she says its in the bag and will be hers. Then she changes her tune and tells Raghav- not in so many words- that if he basically marries Shivam off then she'll pass SS onto HIS kids. She does not love her kids, she needs them to fulfill her needs and and she couldnt give a crap whether they are suffering or not. She pretends to give a sh*t about Raghav when he isnt well or tired blah blah blah, but what shes really doing is "demonstrating" to him what an awesome mum she is by over dramatising her concern. She dramatises everything, not just how much she "cares" for Raghav- and lets face it, hes the only one she starts getting upset over because hes the only one who can support her financially. Even with Sarla shes a bit wishy washy- only really showing concern when shes losing her "loyalty". If she seems to be protecting them- its to protect her own a*se.
However, this woman has been doing this for donkeys years. Its WHO SHE IS as a person- since she was a very young girl. She screwed Riya's grand-aunt over if we all remember those episodes of her flashbacks to her childhood. So Shanti Devi has been a vicious psychotic b*tch from the get go. She has at LEAST that as an excuse. Leopards cant change their spots and all that jazz.
Enter Khushia. Now this moron obviously did not grow up to be a vicious mean harpy. She was once upon a time a kindly, sweet, compassionate woman. We ALL saw this in the beginning- naive and innocent yes, but she had a heart and she genuinely cared about others. Shes always truly loved her children right up until she completely lost the bloody plot and started worshipping Shanti no matter what she did or said to her kids. EVEN if her own kids were trying to protect her from Shanti. Ive said again and again- innocence and naivety if taken too far stop being something to be pitied and instead something to be revolted by. Khushia can not keep using this excuse of being so innocent and naive that she would place her kids at the bottom rung of the ladder of priorities. She is a MOTHER first before she is a daughter in law or wife- and yet what does she do? Given that we know this woman is not evil incarnate like shanti from her childhood- what excuse does she have to cast the needs of her kids aside? She is a selfish and needy woman who only cares for how her MIL and husband perceive her. She is the sh**tiest mother one can imagine but the PERFECT bahu and wife and now she is hurling her poisonous beliefs of what a bahu should be onto her own DIL. Screw her kids, screw the fact that instead of spewing vitriol at Riya she should be focussing on healing the rift between herself and her children. She is more interested in doing service to Shanti by hating on Riya- wasting her damned energy on something utterly pointless because the damage has been done- than she is interested in fixing things between her and her daughters especially. She is more interested in ruining her only son's marriage to please Shanti and get Riya out than she is in damn well letting it go and healing the fractures of her family. She hasnt got the time of day for Nimmi- so much so that the girl had to come to her to see her mother's face and all she does is scowl at Preeti. Yes we ALL cant stand Preeti, but guess who is the ONE person who should be trying to break her walls down? Her mother. The person whose supposed to love you unconditionally- but this cow Khushia was more interested in hitching her off and making her daughter utterly miserable and depressed and hopeless in life than she was interested in helping her find an actual, real solution. She might be uneducated, she might be a bit silly, but this woman knows right from wrong. I keep giving this example because it REALLY peed me off- when shanti was going to marry her daughters off to elderly divorced men she did NOTHING about it. She just hugged her daughters, cried and gave empty promises that she would not let shanti do such a thing- but what did this imbecile do really? Nothing- they would have indeed been married off to such men if things hadnt happened with sharmilli etc.
Shanti has the excuse that she is who she is, always has been. You cant ever change her.
But Khushia- she wasnt always this revolting. She allowed others to become more of a priority to her than her own children. Weak, easily manipulated, wilfully keeping her eyes shut and her gob wide open, ready to verbally attack anyone who says anything against her MIL. her excuses have run out a long time ago and man do I wish this woman suffers for it. If she can shout and taunt and point fingers at Riya, then no one can say she hasnt got guts. She has- she just uses them to support her MIL. Whatever crap she spews about Preeti being her "life"- is simply a lie, if her daughter was her life she wouldnt have allowed a bunch of complete strangers to slap her child (Preetis in laws) and she certainly wouldnt have forced the girl to marry anyone, let alone Nandu. This woman is more interested in how she is perceived by Shanti and by society, screw her kids. She wins hands down imo.
Sorry đ had to get that rant out. I hate her character out of all in the entire show, a very close second in her darling Shivam beta.
Anupamaa
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