Originally posted by: ingenuity
Before we begin, thank you so much for this post! I love long posts and have been wanting to discuss a lot of these things since I started my binge-watch.
It is saddening to see that the Maheshwaris have been so gullible about everything. They have been manipulated by Meenakshi every step of the way. She has very brutally abused their privacy and respect. To think she has played dirty so many times in front of them and so many behind their backs and they stand with almost no idea.
And now that one of the daughters of their house would be wedded into the Rajvansh family, they would feel all the more helpless and hardbound dealing with Meenakshi.
I wish Bade Papa puts his foot down as and when required and doesn't let Meenakshi do as she pleases.
That's such a great point tho, apparently the fact that Kunal had been engaged before was not considered as a truth important enough to be told to Maheshwaris by Meenakshi (when this is actually something that any person about to marry should be knowing about their partner to be) and yet she created a scene out of whether or not Kuhu is a legitimate child of her parents.
Once it is learnt that Kunal was not her son, she would prove herself to be so hypocritical to raise questions about others' parentage.
I love the Kuhu-Mishti dynamic a lot. It has been a treat to watch. Despite everything, what they share is beautiful. Little scenes where they hold their hands out for the other, where they feel guilty for doing something to other, it really has made me love them so much. Their entire, "I pretend to not care for you and then we pretend to pretend to care in front of the family" is such a heartwarming factor. Especially those moments when they actually do something sweet for the other. More so when it comes from Kuhu's end.
Their bonding indeed has been sweet to watch ❤️For two sisters who more often than not have only been fighting with each other, it sounds far from believable when they say they hate each other.
Everytime they get together as a team (even if it's only for a fleeting moment) it fills me with hope about their relationship.
The one time Abir figured out Meenakshi's plans for exactly what they were, she let him and everybody feel that she was being wrongfully accused. He genuinely apologized, felt terrible and she let him. This is where it all goes wrong for me. She would rather he feel guilty for figuring her out that accept, for even one second that she actually did what he accused her of. She did not, not even once, acknowledge that she was actually wrong in the scenario. Similarly when Ved's truth came out. She constantly kept putting the blame on Mishti, even in her conversations with her own self.
I honestly didn't get the head or tail of why Mishti was being blamed by Meenakshi for what Ved did 😕 Even when Mishti saved Abir's life Meenakshi didn't show any great deal of thankfulness. Just coz Meenakshi is a negative character shouldn't mean that her actions can have no rhyme or reason. If they give a solid reason for why Meenakshi does the things she does, probably the audience would be able to understand where she is coming from. Simply saying Mishti and Kuhu would tear the family apart sounds like a very very lame and rediculous reason.
I know right! Abir has turned out to be so different than everybody else in the family. They all blindly follow Meenakshi, trusting her with their lives and he constantly battles for all of them, all by himself.
So true. Abir actually takes a stand for any person who he feels is being wronged. It could be his brother, his sister or Mishti or Kuhu.
I somehow wish he had been able to make out that it must have been Meenakshi who would have pushed Mishti to create a scene on the haldi day. He is after all one of the persons who is aware that his mother is capable of doing such things.
Meenakshi has let Kunal turn into a manipulator, playing with Kuhu's feelings so that she can "protect her family from breaking apart". Everything aside, she does not trust Abir, even one bit, that he will never let anything happen to the family either. She has taken the, "I'll protect my family because only I can" very seriously. She keeps justifying every wrong action with, "Mera parivaar bikhhar jayega."
There had been small instances where I felt that she wouldn't be so bad (despite seeing the recent episodes before I went to the beginning). When she genuinely felt sorry about the sitar falling on Mishti or those sift moments with her family. But then again, one of the many reasons her family is in the dark is because of Parul's blind devotion and her readiness to take up the consequences of everything wrong with Meenakshi.
Parul has thankfully begun to break free from the shackles that stopped her from saying or doing anything against Meenakshi.
I have also been surprised to see that she has constantly supported Kuhu. She always calls Kuhu "ek acchi ladki" even though the two of them have never had an interaction. She has been firmly in support of Kunal and Kuhu's marriage too. Wonder if that is simply because in comparison to Shweta or Mishti, she feels Kuhu is more suited to be Kunal's life partner.
Am really looking forward to see how Parul and Kuhu's 'relationship' shapes up (If it shapes up at all that is 😕) I wouldn't wanna see Kuhu disrespecting Parul like the way Kunal does That would be too heartbreaking. I wish she gives Parul reasons to smile instead.
Mishti has done everything with the idea that Kunal loves Kuhu and when she does get to know he doesn't, we are in for a very late realization. It is adorable that she would go to such lengths to unite Kuhu and Kunal but in the end, things are going to go south very quick.
True. How would she feel on knowing that she put herself and her family to great test, all for a relationship which wasn't worth it after all. I feel Mishti somewhere got carried away by looking at Kuhu's craziness for Kunal. She didn't really get the time or opportunity to guage whether Kunal is truly in love with her sister or not.
I wish as a brother Abir had been able to read his brother better. Then again the poor chap ain't no mind reader. How could he have known Kunal is also keeping a chehre par chehra...🥱
Kuhu knows Mishti very well and even when she keeps childishly blaming her, she constantly proves that she cares and actually values Mishti for who she is, as a person and as a sister.
I had also begun the show because of Mishti and Abir but Kuhu and Mishti have been a very pleasant surprise. They are truly one dynamic that I want to see develop till it's full potential. There is trust and there is care but there is also a lot of bitterness that grew. Like @fangirl1012 said, if they had let any elder know about these misundeestandings as kids, life would have been a lot more blissful.
Kunal's character, like his 'mom' has turned to something I didn't expect. Using and toying with Kuhu's feelings like this, just so he could keep his Bhai from Mishti's manipulation. Really, Kunal? His treatment of Parul is horrible and even more hurtful when you realise she is actually his mother. I really think he has no respect of Parul and even if he does, the minimal is because Meenakshi has clearly been very, for the lack of a better term, affectionate towards Parul.
There were some moments with him as well, where I felt he could have been better, had he not been trained entirely under Meenu. Like after the Gordhana when he was in the car by himself, for a split second he felt guilty about talking to Mishti like that but then his ego took over and he began blaming Mishti for seeing logic and not tying him into a noose of a relationship.
Actually when Kunal arrives at Maheshwari house in a drunk state with the intention of telling Kuhu the truth, I actually thought he was being genuine. It was honestly quite adorable the way Kuhu was trying to handle him patiently and he was trying to tell the truth but was not able to do so. Those are probably the only scenes of KuKu which I liked so much.
Too bad the next day itself Kunal went back to acting like a jerk. He showed zero remorse for how a public spectacle was made out of the question of who Kuhu's actual Mom is. Sole repreive was that he showed some sort of concern for Abir.
The marriage is happening and I feel terrible because a part of me cannot see Kuhu go through the realisation that Kunal has been basically making a mockery of her feelings, using it to get back to her sister. And this gets me to my fear of what will happen. Kuhu will begin to resent Mishti because Mishti is, after all, the reason Kunal ever played with her emotions. At that point, she will be very vulnerable to every trick up Meenakshi's sleeves. What I would love is Kuhu beginning to stand upto Kunal. Meenakshi feared her family breaking apart? Let her slowly begin to break away from the family. As they will realise she used a girl, that she let everyone rejoice the butchering of a girl for her baseless fears, this track will make sense, to me, only if the family does break apart. And then there is the entire bit where Kunal will realise he is not Meenakshi's son.
Ikr, I have had that fear too. That Kuhu will start resenting Mishti all the more on learning the truth. I wish for once her perspective changes. Mishti was only doing everything for her happiness after all.
As for Kunal, one of my friends who also watches the show had once told me that she wishes Kuhu makes Kunal go through hell. He deserves a taste of his medicine.
Agreed, Kuhu would then become, from Kunal's perspective, the only one who has been truthful to him since the very beginning. He anyway blames Abir, somewhere, for letting Mishti come in between them. Parul and Meenakshi and Nanu are all in on the secret and he doesn't blindly trust Kaushal and Nidhi. This would be what I would enjoy. Kuhu has been very truthful and Kunal has exploited her. So when the dam does open, I would really want them to bloom with it.
This marriage could actually be so much and I don't want Mishti to play saviour. Let them get through this by themselves.
On the other hand, even Mishti and Abir have a lot in front of them. When Abir comes to know his brother's hand in all this drama, he will feel like he was the one who wronged Kuhu? He supported her feelings for Kunal, he shipped them, he saw in her the person who could bring him his younger brother to life and ended up letting her be bound into the farce marriage. Even Mishti, for not speaking up against Meenakshi when she knew all the tricks she was playing.
Mishti and Abir, for me, have already reached the highest order of trust, or at least they will once Abir comes to know that Mishti did it as Meenakshi's bidding. The only thing left will be Mishti trusting him the next time with whatever it is, troubling her (because of course there will be more). Other than that, Mishti and Abir are such a relief to watch, so poigant. I can hardly think of anything I specifically want to see them develop into, I know it will be blissful. I still have a lot of hopes with Kuhu and Kunal's relationship, mostly because of their relations with Mishti and Abir respectively
They are beautiful, endearing and they simply make my heart flutter. They are gorgeously and effortlessly sensous too in their own way ;)
I actually thought that by the end of the current wedding drama Mishti and Abir would get married too but since that has not happened it would be interesting to see how and when they get married.
Abir getting along with Badi Maa and Bade Papa and going on to become like a son to them would mean so much to Mishti ❤️ That would be absolutely #familygoals ❤️
P.S. I hope it makes sense and is not just a random ramble :P
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