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Even I am finding this silence rather unnerving. I am no longer going to speculate. I don't know what the actual twist is, and it's difficult to tell what sort of twist they are planning. If Juhi is not negative, then it makes things even more complicated.
This is an MB show, so I will reserve judgment as they are known for their bold themes. But I heard the show is based on the movie Zakam (which I did not see but know the story a bit). It was about how two people in a mixed marriage had to hide their relationship and how society didnt let them get together as they wished. In many ways Ashish and Ayesha's story was the same. Prejudice stopped them from getting together and then Ashish's weak stance against his Mother and her manipulations.
Then the story becomes about their child and her fight to get justice to be recognized as Ashish and Ayesha's daughter and not have to apologize for her parents. This show was not supposed to be about how ALL illegitimate children fight for rights. At least I didn't think it was. So just making the male lead have an illegitimate child I don't feel is really necessary to the story. But we don't know what the makers are thinking.
One side note though, I feel the Khanna's have been hypocritical in this matter. They made a song and dance when they found out that Avni was Ashish's daughter from his relationship where he did not officially marry. His situation was totally different from Neil's. Neil was just a student and as per the current track, he was about to leave the country for further studies, but was irresponsible enough to get his GF pregnant before leaving. Now 5 years later this truth has come out, but his family gives NO reaction to it at all. They have not even once expressed ANY disappointment towards him. They act like its all OK for their then 22-year-old son to have got a girl pregnant. How come for Neil they turn a blind eye to this bitter reality, and when they found out about Avni's parentage they made her leave the house? Double standards much? Even Prakash has not once asked his son "what were you thinking? I did not expect this from you!". I find this blase attitude quite unacceptable.
