Rupal Patel AT Benba #1 // Mein Meenakshi Rajvansh/ #HBDMeenu - Page 5

Originally posted by: MishBirStruck

Nautaki 🤣🤣

haha don't you think so?

cannot underestimate Mrs. Meenakshi Rajvansh😆😎

After all she is A.I.B.E.R gadhedo's mother😛

rag rag mein hogi nautanki with Naanu being the cool youngster too😉

Father (naanu) -- Daughter --- grandson sab ke sab badmaash nautanki🤣😛

Originally posted by: Just_Smile

Meenu also has AT😲 didn't know...she is equally famous like MishBir😆

#mymeenumypride is the ht mostly used on twitter for her consistent character ,who never fails to stop her planning and plotting😳

yes the time has finally come! She deserves an separate AT for herself.👏

haha that's awesome #

Meenu truly is one-of-a-kind

Originally posted by: angelfire78

I can never forget their first holi wale dialogues. What tashan!

oh ofcourse! Definitely one of those unforgettable scenes and moments of the intitial period of our show!

Those snarky sarcastic taunts and swag comebacks - maa beta dono in full action.

Originally posted by: Kendrix

pic.credit:..Nandu❤️

@nandu is this pic an edit dr..i mean it doesn't seem so..but meenu in tears & Abir all smiling....i dont remember seeing him smile in that episode too😳 ..sorry i know it s a silly doubt😆 par phir bhi i could not control my curiosity yaara😆

Pic credit: twitter

hahah tricked you eh? 🤣 It really is an offscreen pic

I remember when it was shared last year during kuku shaadi, everyone was teasing how Rupal ma'm is still in character as Meenu was shocked by Abir's challenge and dhamki to bring back Kunal😎😆👏

Awesome post yaar🤗 THIS! These are the kinds of deep thinking posts, I look forward to seeing more in this thread👍🏼🥳👏

No doubt Meenakshi is not your typical negative villain. She has her own background, story, journey and perspectives - very layered indeed.👏

Originally posted by: journalgirl321

If I may, I'd like to offer a slightly differing perspective on this character. I think this AT is the perfect opportunity to discuss the characters in a meaningful, in-depth way.

Since day 1 of the show, Meenakshi has been extremely devoted to keeping her family intact. I believe that a lot of what she does is out of fear that Abir will follow in her footsteps and make the same mistakes that she did. When she married a man that her family did not trust nor approve of, she suffered dire consequences. And I am in no way blaming her. We have already seen that Mehul is a man who is very, very skilled at deception. But because of this mistake of hers, she had to choose to live a life in her maternal home as a single mother, raising her biological son and her adoptive son, a son whom she loves dearly, but is in her life as a product of her misstep. This takes a lot of strength and willpower. She could have chosen to project her bitterness that she had from Mehul's betrayal onto her sautan and her son, but she took them in so as to atone for the guilt she felt for allowing herself to be reduced to a mere fool by a man that everyone told her not to trust.

I think she sees her relationship with Abir as a mirror of her relationship with her dad, but without the missteps. She has been very adamant from the beginning that her sons marry girls of her choice, but I don't think it's because she's conservative. In fact, had she been "conservative", she would've never taken in Parul and Kunal, she would've never chosen to live as a single mother in her maternal home, and she wouldn't have taken the family business into her own hands. I think that she is controlling because she is very afraid that Abir will end up repeating the mistakes she made by blindly falling in love and getting married to the wrong person. I mean, just look at what that did to her life. The only reason she never had that fear with Kunal was because she knew that she brought up Kunal to be a person who is equally devoted to his family, and will do anything to keep it together.

She has constantly fought with Abir over his choices, and while Abir isn't necessarily wrong all the time, he's so busy seeing his mother as the villain that he is unable to understand her motivations behind her twisted doings. He has constantly fought with her over her not telling him where his father was, completely unwilling to hear the part where she says "your father has hurt me and the rest of the family a lot. He has put us all through hell." He never understood that Meenakshi doesn't owe him an explanation. That explanation should've been good enough for him. And as far as Meenakshi's parenting goes, she probably worked super hard to make sure that Abir and Kunal never felt their father's absence. But since Abir overlooked this, he was unable to see eye-to-eye with her about his father until he found out the hard way for himself, and in the process, this caused a lot of heartbreak for the rest of the family.

Where her character falls short isn't intentions. It's her inability to see beyond just the family "unit", and look closer at each individual person's happiness. She is a firm believer in, "well if everyone looks happy collectively, then that is all that matters." It is also her inability to see the widespread consequences that her zeal to keep her family together at all costs has on the people around her. She can be so short-sighted (some may even say selfish) sometimes, that she is fine with reducing people who are not important to this familial equation to mere collateral damage. Hence the scheming, the plotting, and the manipulating.

@bold: yes I totally agree with you, she is not 'conservative' in the typical manner at all. I'll have to edit my initial character description on 1st page, I wrote late at night😆 sorry for the delusional analysis

She is very educated and progressive in various aspects.

@Bold2: I can see and understand where you're coming from and why you're saying this, according to all the other awesome explanations you've provided. But I agree to disagree with you on this claim.

I second @angelfire in her counter response. As a young child who suddenly lost his father figure's presence, guidance, love and affection, it is not easy to just forget and leave just because your mum gives you some explanation (especially when her theory contradicted everything he understood and believed of Baba). So I can understand why Meenu chose to hide and divert Abir as he was child. But once Abir became a self-sufficient adult, he had every single right to know or at least have the freedom/opportunity (and support) to find answers to his child-hood life questions. Meenu's biggest mistake is hiding the truth from Abir simply with a weak justification that Abir would not be able to handle it or not believe her (Meenu honestly didn't regard him as an adult and her grown up son to just take time to sit and slowly tell him the truth). Meenu often says that Abir is hoshiyar and is proud of his samajdaari intelligence, then how is she not able to see or understand that IF she genuinely explained the truth about Baba, how could he not understand her. She just assumed that Abir wouldn't understand and continued to taunt him of his banjaara behaviour rather than trying to understand his child-feelings as a son who lost a father figure (even if he was a bad role model). Abir deserved to be told or shown the truth.

I'll explain more in a separate post I've written👍🏼

Thankyou and do join in for more Meenu discussions😃

Originally posted by: yrhpk_aus

haha don't you think so?

cannot underestimate Mrs. Meenakshi Rajvansh😆😎

After all she is A.I.B.E.R gadhedo's mother😛

rag rag mein hogi nautanki with Naanu being the cool youngster too😉

Father (naanu) -- Daughter --- grandson sab ke sab badmaash nautanki🤣😛

Sooo true 🤣🤣🤣

Khaandaan mein hi Nauntanki bhari padi hai

Nanu

• Meenu

• Abir
• Koslu

• Ketki

• Atul

🤣🤣

Originally posted by: yrhpk_aus

I really discovered a lot about her, when setting up the AT👏🤗

She really has achieved lots, and I love how it's not all about the acting awards...but more focused on the real world humanitarian aspects❤️

She's a real sweetheart👍🏼

That's true 🤗

She has achieved some great things 🤗

Originally posted by: yrhpk_aus

Awesome post yaar🤗 THIS! These are the kinds of deep thinking posts, I look forward to seeing more in this thread👍🏼🥳👏

No doubt Meenakshi is not your typical negative villain. She has her own background, story, journey and perspectives - very layered indeed.👏

@bold: yes I totally agree with you, she is not 'conservative' in the typical manner at all. I'll have to edit my initial character description on 1st page, I wrote late at night😆 sorry for the delusional analysis

She is very educated and progressive in various aspects.

@Bold2: I can see and understand where you're coming from and why you're saying this, according to all the other awesome explanations you've provided. But I agree to disagree with you on this claim.

I second @angelfire in her counter response. As a young child who suddenly lost his father figure's presence, guidance, love and affection, it is not easy to just forget and leave just because your mum gives you some explanation (especially when her theory contradicted everything he understood and believed of Baba). So I can understand why Meenu chose to hide and divert Abir as he was child. But once Abir became a self-sufficient adult, he had every single right to know or at least have the freedom/opportunity (and support) to find answers to his child-hood life questions. Meenu's biggest mistake is hiding the truth from Abir simply with a weak justification that Abir would not be able to handle it or not believe her (Meenu honestly didn't regard him as an adult and her grown up son to just take time to sit and slowly tell him the truth). Meenu often says that Abir is hoshiyar and is proud of his samajdaari intelligence, then how is she not able to see or understand that IF she genuinely explained the truth about Baba, how could he not understand her. She just assumed that Abir wouldn't understand and continued to taunt him of his banjaara behaviour rather than trying to understand his child-feelings as a son who lost a father figure (even if he was a bad role model). Abir deserved to be told or shown the truth.

I'll explain more in a separate post I've written👍🏼

Thankyou and do join in for more Meenu discussions😃

i think there is more truth to meenu's and mehul's marriage and abir's being illigimate child not kunal... as diyu said meenu knows mehul already married to someone but meenu wants to marry mehul and mehu himself said to how he manipulated her under his father's nose and married her...

even there is one more truth of mehul that every single occasion of RJV mehul is in rajkot right from kunal GD to kuku shaadi i think... as mishti finds out when meenu and mehul had a confrontation in her office...

Originally posted by: yrhpk_aus

hhehe yes Rashi! all courtesy to twitter👍🏼 Credit to our show's twitter #tag

The maa-beta tashan has evolved over the show's journey...I do miss those initial teekhi-mirchi and sarcastic taunts as well, but we need to also see and understand how dynamics between the two characters have changed immensely. Abir and Meenu have gone through many many twists and turns over the course of the story in just one-year.

It is not suitable for us to expect the same type of equation between them from the start, to now. There has been a huge amount of emotional change in Abir as a result of Baba's entry and exit. It has inevitably influenced his relationship with Meenu forever, and left an irreversible mark on their relationship. Until Meenu truly realises what she is losing, genuinely try to redeem her behaviours and Abir sees past Meenu's manipulative behaviour...only then will we see the middle ground

Until then...

Let's just ride the roller-coaster and enjoy the ride🥳

I'm also waiting to see changed dynamics of all these relationships like Abir - meenu, meenu - mishti.. It's high tym, post lockdown they have to show us that the relationships between these ppl are developing, only then the story will be able to move forward otherwise it'll go in circles

Originally posted by: ruhi19

nandu..

i think there is more truth to meenu's and mehul's marriage and abir's being illigimate child not kunal... as diyu said meenu knows mehul already married to someone but meenu wants to marry mehul and mehu himself said to how he manipulated her under his father's nose and married her...

even there is one more truth of mehul that every single occasion of RJV mehul is in rajkot right from kunal GD to kuku shaadi i think... as mishti finds out when meenu and mehul had a confrontation in her office...

Yes I remember we all discussed about this during Baba track, there seems to be undiscovered aspects to the MeMe relationship🥱

My post was just focusing on the sole maa-beta relationship (not to complicate it with the dynamics between Meenu-Parul-Mehul).

But the pessimistic side of me (unfortunately), says - many fans like us enjoy dissecting and exploring various bonds in the shows, but often the writers of the show don't bother thinking so much and disregard/ignore the great potential they have with such a complex and layered story and characters they have🤔😒

I don't know whether they will ever sort this twisted complicated equation ever🤓 got no hopes from the writers/makers

I will be gladly and pleasantly surprised if they switch their brains on after the lockdown to give us some integral tracks with proper substance