The original plan is to get Nimki and Babbo married. This was revealed by the lady who plays DIL at the time of launch party itself in the day they aired the first episode. She said Nimki is the choti bahu of Haweli.
While a track between Abhimanyu and Nimki was also a part of the story don't think the makers intended a romance between Abhimanyu and Nimki.
Don't want to get into TRPs issue but this Babbo Nimki shaadi track did bring in a lot of TRPs.
Nimki's mother back story they have been hinting at a dark past/hidden secret right from the beginning but the way it was brought out in the open seem to be so abrupt. Nimki and Mahua always seemed to get into a fight when ever their mother was mentioned and Nimki had enough opportunities to blurt out the secret about their mother's death in the past too. Because they went over board with Nimki's crazy behaviour they brought this up abruptly and also because they want people's sympathy because she's going as Anaro's bahu.
Looks like Rambachan cooked up a story about his wife's sudden death and made everyone believe that she died of natural causes.That's what he told Abhimanyu in yesterday's episode.Mahua has not seen her mother hanging from the ceiling because Rambachan had taken care that she didn't get to see that.
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Overall they seem to be sticking to the story they wanted to tell while taking detours every now and then.While taking detours is one way to drag the show they don't seem to know how to bring it back to it's tracks smoothly.
Abhimanyu's character was very interesting till he fell in love with Nimki so abruptly.Even without any romance between them their interactions were quite interesting.They could have just shared a mentor/mentee relationship and friendship which would have been so much more interesting.Don't understand the makers need to turn this into a onesided romantic relationship just because they belonged to opposite genders.
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Rambachan may be a timid man who avoids confrontations at the cost of self respect but his daughters definitely know how to stand up for themselves.That's one good thing his love and care seem to have done to his daughters. Had he told what all had happened to their mother earlier as soon as Mahua is old enough to understand things would have been better.Mahua would have understood what her sister went through and would have been a great support to Nimki.
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If through this Saas bahu drama they bring out these two issues women empowerment and caste based discrimination I would be satisfied. I've long ago accepted that Indian writers can only do family dramas well.When they try and move out to other areas like drama in work place be it a hospital hotel corporate house they fall flat because they don't do background research.
On the subject of women empowerment I think Nimki Anaro Sweety all of them need lessons on empowerment.