Just revisited Sreemoyee for old plot points and realized there is such a diametric difference between how Pakhi and her Bengali version Dithi had been written.
Though major twist seems similar that both will marry a guy their father hates and move away, Dithi was such a strong and independent character. She worked hard to become a doctor and married a poor guy who was an ex-con villager but good at heart and moved to his village to help the villagers while everyone except Sreemoyee and Rohit were against it. Later she has a tiff with her husband because he supports Sreemoyee but she doesn't.
Pakhi looks like such a poor copy of her. She is fickle, stupid and irritating and consider dropping out of college and becoming an elite housewife as life-goals. Though I can predict the same twist will happen that Pakhi-Adhik will marry with only MaAn's help and with Adhik possibly turning positive, there might be a situation where he supports Anupamaa but Pakhi doesn't, but it's looks so shallow.
When Anupamaa initially started, I found it to be interesting and Sreemoyee to be boring mainly because the only 2 purely evil characters of Patralekha and June were unnecessarily outrageous and repetitive and at that time Kavya seemed more practical and Leela was shown to sympathize with Anupamaa.
But I guess Anupamaa was new and Sreemoyee was in it's slump phase.
Comparing it now, Sreemoyee seems far more broadminded.
There the father-in-law moved out immediately when he saw his wife and son spew crap against Sreemoyee and Rohit all the time unlike Hasmukh here,
Anita was a much stronger character than Kinjal,
Sreemoyee achieved financial independence and an identity first and then focused on her love life.
And look at this show...
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