Nisha's character

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skar1984

@skar1984

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Posted: 8 years ago

Hi Guys,

Just started watching this show regularly I'm a little confused - hope you all can help

I'm trying to understand Nisha's character - she hates Adi's family, she's power hungry, selfish etc - but somewhere I do feel she does have genuine feelings for Adi - what is her back story?

Seems like Kakusa had selected Nisha for Adi and they did get along, had 2 kids - where did she become so dark and hateful? Did something happen? Was she always like that? What's Adi's take on this whole thing?

If its a matter of different ideologies - would she get that hateful? Seems like she just wants to live life freely and not live in a joint family structure - I don't see anything wrong with that. If someone is not raised in a joint family environment its unfair to throw them into a joint family and expect them to get along without any issues. But It seems there is more to this than just wanting a separate unit.

Where does Adi feature into all this? Have they ever gone into his inner monologue and past? He lost his mother and was essentially raised by Kakusa and Kakisa so he feels indebted to them.

The Jhanvi angle is also interesting - granted Adi needs a support system - but in order to show Jhanvi as good they are showing Nisha as bad - why must it be linear like that? There are many marriages where people are not compatible but that doesn't mean they are bad people - just means they aren't good for one another. If Jhanvi and Adi get into some kind of relationship - isn't that technically adultery? He's not officially divorced from Nisha - so how can they show this "good" man stepping outside the boundaries of his marriage (granted Nisha is being shown as insufferable)?

Do share your thoughts guys!

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KhatamKahani

@KhatamKahani

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Posted: 8 years ago

Your question about Nisha can be summed up in one exchange from last week. Adi told Nisha that he, she and the kids can leave and live on their own but the house and family wealth rightly belongs to the elders.

But that's not what Nisha wants.

As for making Nisha the convenient villain, I do agree, but it says more about the constraints of the medium rather than anything else.

Adultery, frankly I don't care and it doesn't bother me. Morally, it became invalid long ago and was tossed out when Nisha plotted to bring Jhanvi into the house and set them up to make it look like they were having an affair.

And there is a hypocrisy in Indian television and audience in accepting various sautans/mistresses/affairs as OTP as long as heroine is stripped of agency forced into the situation.

But it wouldn't be wise for them to get officially involved as Nisha can use it against Aditya in divorce hearings and settlement. Hell, she probably will either way. Plus. I doubt the various investigations and police cases against her will come to anything, because if they do then Nisha's grounds to fight in court using infidelity will hardly matter. Unless she twists the timeline and tries to use sympathy card of scorned wife, which may or may not have success.

Edited by KhatamKahani - 8 years ago

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KhatamKahani

@KhatamKahani

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Posted: 8 years ago

That being said, I am don't the attempts to vilify Nisha through showing her drinking, partying etc. Yes, her party at midnight in the house was disrespectful, and disturbing sleep of others including children. but that is simply a false nuance when both creatives and audience know the woman's drinking and partying is what's being chastised.

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Benzaiten

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Posted: 8 years ago

See I just started watching recently myself and I have to agree with KhatamKahani. It seems that Nisha wanted money and power, not just to live separately. Up until I point I understand Nisha and support her. If she can't live in a joint family, fine. If she wants Aditya only for herself, that makes sense as well. Her want for money makes sense to some extent as well. She enjoys parties and drinking. Good. She lives her life like she wants. Perfect.

But then in Indian culture such women are frowned upon. Females need to be docile, goody-two shoes, Sati Savitri types. Hence Nisha is a villain. And to exemplify that further they've added in this greed, power-hungry, bitch type actions. She pays goons to kidnap and rape women. She puts together acts to make her appear the goody-good girl while her husband is "evil" and two-timing her. She disturbs the shanti of the house. She uses her kids.

On the other hand we have the perfect Jhanvi. The perfect Indian female. She prays. She solves problems. She treats everyone with respect even if they don't treat her with respect. Family comes before career for her. She doesn't drink. She doesn't party. Even for a 20-something year-old she is so homely.

I don't have anything against either of them. But no one is one colour. No one is perfect. Yet in Indian TV shows, one must be perfect. There's no grey shade. There's no imperfect character. No. There's either hero or villain. And to illustrate that Nisha is Satan and Jhanvi is God.

Now you mentioned that Aditya can't have a relationship with Jhanvi without divorce. But you see in our Indian culture only physical relations are really counted as extra-marital. Not only that, but the male species can never be wrong. If they go outside their marriage to someone else it's the wife's fault. So in this case even if Aditya and Jhanvi do get into a relationship, it's Nisha's fault. On the other hand, as long as they don't consummate their relationship neither is wrong.

Sorry but I have severe problems with certain aspects of our culture, especially the degrading of women. And this show is a perfect epitome of everything that women can't do else it makes them look cheap, vulgar, and villainous.

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