Posted it in LU thread , posting it here because I was requested to do so , may be this topic requires interesting discussions 😆
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I had written this months ago, that was my all time theory for meenu and I will write it here again , my theory on meenu always gives me better understanding of what she is
She was definitely back stabbed by baba and it has left a scar in her life, in her thought process and mind , I always knew she accepted parul and kunal not just out of humanity but out of ulterior motives too , meenu is not that saint that she will be happy keeping her sautan and kid in the house and give that sautan ka kid all the rights in the business n family
She had 2 reasons to accept parul
1. A sweet revenge
Because of parul, meenu wasn't able to enjoy the fruits of married life and sole rights on her husband , being mehul's wife , she couldn't get the love she desired for , she fought with her father for this but in the end she was cheated , just like how parul's presence didn't let her enjoy her married life, meenu made sure her presence couldn't let enjoy parul her motherhood , by constantly keeping kunal away from her and taking the authority to be called a motber
2. Zamane ka darr
Meenu was always shown to be someone who cares about what ppl or the society thinks about her , she never wanted to hear that she was cheated , just look at her face when media ppl question her on mehul and parul relationship, that was the reason she kept the raaz a raaz for years and only let the world know that baba ran away thats all
I don't know if you remember this scene, parul was sleeping and she had nightmares on how her life was when she was pregnant with kunal, she was attacked by goons in her village, who sent those goons? They can't be village ppl , when mishti went to rajgadh, we saw how lalitha massi, that Pandit ji and village ppl seemed to be fond of parul , no one blamed her , they all blamed mehul , then why was parul attacked , o have high doubts its meenu who did it , we know how meenu's brain works daya , nafrat kisi aur se , badla uske relative se , she had problem with mishti's attitude and the way she dumped kunal , she took revenge from kuhu by asking kunal to make her fall in love trap and leave her at the mandap ? Kuhu is mishti's sister and by giving pain to kuhu , she wanted to give pain to mishti, similar thing works here , nafrat mehul se thi , badla parul se liya gaya
You yourself imagine , an uneducated woman having no idea about how bad the society can be, pregnant with a kid, gets attacked by goons comes to rajkot only to get the news that her husband was involved with another woman , and then she gets this offer to leave everything and stay in rajkot for her safety ...do you call it an event of mutual agreement or a string case of coercion...If it's a mutual agreement, why parul never informed her sister about her whereabouts, why was she separated from her closed ones ?
Also why is parul kept as a servant in RV house, why not as a distant relative...why was she never encouraged to get educated and work for herself...who is going to question meenu if parul was here as a relative , why give her this position in the house, was that a genuine help ? Are you sure? Abir wasn't wrong when he asked why parul is kept as a servant
the threat letter she wrote to mishti, meenu wrote "mera ek lauta beta abir mujhse dur chala gaya " ...mera ek lauta beta abir, that says it all even if she has affection for kunal, she can keep that aside and throw him under the bus anyday anytime
Now here is the twist, meenu had complete control over parul , and meenu always wanted abir to get complete control over kunal in the same way...
she always wanted abir to join the business and be the boss to kunal like she is to parul...but abir grew up to be a very different person than what she expected him to be , since things weren't falling in place, she wanted to control abir and kunal through their life partners , that's the reason she wanted gaay bahus and not smarties like mishti or kuhu the reason she exchanged the rishta was not to accept mishti but probably she thought which parivaar will be ready to give one daughter's hand instead of another , bhai mahs ek kadam aage nikal gaye.
She would never want to make kunal or his son a heir to her Bapuji's business....**Raja ka beta hi raja banega** makes it clear for us , she considered only abir to be a raja and abir's son to be a prince
That's also the reason she was quick enough to declare that she will transfer all her shares to abir's child , obviously she is the major shareholder in the company and that decision was taken not just out of love but rather a calculative move to secure the future.
Meenu doesn't love kunal , she accepts him his son out of circumstances that's all
She definitely loves abir out of affection and goes to any extent to give him what she feels is best for him even though abir's happiness doesn't have a connection with what she does
She only accepted mishti cuz of abir's sake not because she melted seeing mishti or her character.. she was fond of mishti because she was the source that will give meenu her heir and a new way to regain control over what was lost
Also the koslu angle, why I feel meenu deliberately kept koslu involved in the business to the extent of operating laptops only, she dismissed ketki's desire to be part of rajvansh business, always wanted to find a rishta and get her off the family, was never concerned about atul joining the business , isn't he also a beta of the house, why always she forced abir to join the business
Is meenu really what she seems to be ?