Originally posted by: NiharikaMishra
The slap was needed to emphasize more on the fact that protecting Garv has taken more priority in his life than anything else.
We have seen him misbehave with Pratigya in season 1 but he regretted it immediately after and often apologized too. But we don't see him even think about the slap, let alone ponder whether he was wrong to do that or not.
I see two aspects to his behaviour here. First is that Pratigya has always been the more responsible parent and Krishna sees this as a chance to do the best he can. Also, with Pratigya often risking her life for her cases, he subconsciously no longer trusts her with this information as he thinks she will sacrifice Garv for her ethics. This is a wrong prejudice on his part, but a conflict is needed after all for the show to have a plot.
Also there may or may not be a possibility of preference to protect the male child as we didn't see him getting as paranoid for Kriti when she was involved in the quarrel.
It might as well be just more protectiveness for the younger child as Garv does look a tad more vulnerable, I am just assuming a worst case scenario.
Nice post.
The slap could have been avoided i feel, its out of his character.
Krishna is more concerned for Garv as he is vulnerable. Krishna was there with Garv from the time Garv told him about the incident and he witnessed Garv's fear and trauma, also he has spoken to Balwant Tyagi, Balwant is a vindictive man who will not understand the truth. Krishna too comes from a family like that of Blawant, where justice is an eye for an eye. I believe Krishna fears that if Balwant finds out, he will kill Garv. This makes matters worse.
Krishna is shown to be quite protective of his kids, he throws the rule book out when it comes to their safety. In epi 1, when Kriti is taken by goon. Krishns beats the goon and almost would have shot the guy, if pratigya did not stop him.
Yes, i do too think he subconciously thinks that Pratigya will sacrifice Garv for her ethics, this is where he is wrong. Whenver, Pratigya mentions that person responsible should be punished, her context is murder. Krishna should tell her the truth. Well but if he does, then i guess there is no drama.