Jhanak Written Update And Episode Discussion thread No "126" - Page 62

Originally posted by: MMR2810

Honestly Balaraju character looked much better than Aviraj...He always gave villain vibes… looked just as powerful as the main villain. Aviraj, on the other hand, comes across as total meme material.

Yeah that’s true. Balaraju actor did have the powerful screen presence to stand out even while being sidekick of main villain. But Krushal looks comical being chamcha to Daya Uncle in this role 🤷‍♀️

Probably Krushal thinks adding his comedy touch is making this role “charming” but he’s looking wannabe and a joker only

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Haha yes I figured you didn’t know Ishani ki backstory from Jhanak or you would be eye rolling as much as the rest of us here about the Ganda joke that Ishani is 😂😂

Leena has no respect for men or women. Her writing is all just about gaslighting - showing women as dumb hypocrites playing the woman card in cheap/twisted ways and men alternating between CA-ing women or groveling before them 🤷‍♀️

Itne gande dimaag ko koi writer kaise bol sakta hai? She is just shit for brains who considers herself oversmart and always counts on trapping gullible people to watch her shows without realizing that it’s just a time waste

Wahi na...The Problem Isn’t Just Bad Writing — It’s Regressive Writing Disguised as “Women-Centric” Drama.....And the way Leena speaks in interviews about how the purpose of her stories are "woman empowerment"....ahhh infuriating...

Leena’s writing isn’t just bad — it’s actively offensive to both genders.She doesn’t write women, she writes caricatures:Women who are either eternal victims or manipulative hypocrites.Women who scream “respect me” while doing the most morally bankrupt things.Women who are empowered only when it’s convenient for drama, not when it truly matters.

And men also Equally butchered.Either walking red flags, spewing toxic masculinity in the name of “intensity,”Or spineless doormats, forced into redemption arcs they never earned, just so the plot can yell “Look! He apologized! Clap now!”

It’s gaslighting packaged as storytelling. She constantly blurs right and wrong, then forces the audience into applauding whoever the script decides to glorify that week. No ethical framework, no consistent character logic — just endless shock value.What frustrates me most is how confidently she masks regressive writing as bold storytelling.

No, showing women behaving badly isn’t “grey character writing” if you refuse to address the consequences.No, glorifying cheaters, manipulators, and abusers isn’t “progressive.”

No, forcing forgiveness arcs without accountability isn’t “deep.”It’s lazy. It’s exploitative. And it’s an insult to viewers who expect emotional intelligence from storytelling.

At this point, Leena’s real superpower isn’t writing — it’s trapping new viewers who haven’t yet realized they’re about to waste six months of their life.🤣

Originally posted by: asmitamohanty

No no .....his previous Bengali character korno sen was a good character with lots of scope for performance, Arjun in Riston ka manjha was also a good character......

Pata nahi kya bhoot sawar hua uss pe iss baar...he just allowed all the praises of the blind stans to go to his head and probably lost perspective and when viewers gave him reality check by not giving this show trp and his character hype,he is still not being able to see the reason....and making all kinds of wrong assumption...and disowning his most popular pairing 🤣🤣

Shayad Anirudh play karne ke baad iska dimaag kharaab ho Gaya with so many people pumping him up to play negative role😂😂.

He’s lost perspective about why his acting was appreciated as Anirudh and now kuch aur hi trip pe nikal chuka hai. Lol

Originally posted by: Dibya_C

Purple...r a na Asmita..this is THE MOST popular opinion 🤣 isi liye to humare ladke ko itti chidd machi hai 🫢🫢🫢

Red...kya bol rahi ho aap! He is ecstatic about Aviraj! He is high in delulu that he is playing some hatke character jo pehle kisi actor ne nahi kiya! 😁😁

And honestly… the level of delusion here is something else 😅

Krushal seems so ecstatic about Aviraj, as if he’s breaking new ground in acting. He’s literally acting thrilled that he’s “playing something hatke, jo pehle kisi ne nahi kiya.” 😁Meanwhile, the character itself is painfully shallow, cliched, and badly written — a mix of cheap villainy, over-the-top theatrics, and cringe dialogue baazi. Nothing hatke about it except maybe how unconvincing it looks on screen.

It’s almost sad🤣🤣, because the excitement he’s projecting could have been reserved for a truly challenging, layered role — the kind that Anirudh Bose teased us with. Instead, we get cartoonish gunda mode masquerading as “dark, complex, and edgy.”Watching him revel in this while the audience rolls their eyes is… well, entertaining in a trainwreck kind of way.

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Yeah that’s true. Balaraju actor did have the powerful screen presence to stand out even while being sidekick of main villain. But Krushal looks comical being chamcha to Daya Uncle in this role 🤷‍♀️

Probably Krushal thinks adding his comedy touch is making this role “charming” but he’s looking wannabe and a joker only

Exactly yaar ...I did nt see anything charming...

Originally posted by: AreYaar

@bold: THIS exactly. The audience is rejecting mediocrity. But Krushal who loves to preen about how he can’t sugarcoat blah blah is unable to handle blunt truths thrown at him ….he is unable to accept that the criticism is about the quality of the content he has chosen, not about audience not being to accept so called dark role or supposedly hung up on his previous ship

Amazing these expectations actors have from the audience that we should swallow and appreciate kuch bhi bakwaas mediocrity thrown at us 🙄🤡😂

Exactly! THIS is the core issue 😆

The audience isn’t rejecting him personally, and it isn’t because they can’t handle a dark or complex role. They’re rejecting mediocrity. Yet Krushal, who loves to flaunt how he “doesn’t sugarcoat” and calls himself brutally honest, suddenly can’t handle the blunt truths being thrown back at him.

Criticism isn’t about him or his past ships — it’s about the professional choices he’s made: the script, the shallow character, the over-the-top portrayal. That’s what people are reacting to.

And the expectations some actors have from their audience… wow. 🙄 They act as if we’re supposed to swallow any mediocrity thrown at us with applause just because it’s “their vision” or “hatke.” No, sorry — talent demands accountability. If you want applause, earn it through substance, not just screen presence or self-proclaimed boldness.

At this point, the disconnect between what he thinks he’s delivering and what the audience is actually seeing is almost comical 🤡😂

Originally posted by: asmitamohanty

You know there is One unfair gift Leena Gangopadhyay is blessed with— the woman knows how to pull viewers in. She’s a genius when it comes to crafting the kind of love stories where two flawed, broken souls orbit around each other like fate itself is dragging them closer.

I recently skimmed through Ishani, like last week just out of curiosity,as I had not seen anything from that show before....And oh. my. god.

Within minutes, I recognised the classic Leena pattern — one she had repeated across Jhanak and earlier with RuNak And you know what? It still works.Yes the difference is today we are no longer naive to invest in it emotionally and we are not going to be trapped in it... and we can see through her deception and cheating....

Leena understands something basic yet profound — love doesn’t always need hugs, kisses, or clichéd trip-and-fall moments. She builds romance with Longing stares filled with ache,Silent pauses that scream louder than dialogues,Incoherent conversations that carry the weight of lifetimes.Two incomplete people unconsciously healing together amidst chaos — like lotus blooming in swamp.She portrays absence as intimacy, distance as connection. No over-the-top gestures — just raw, restrained yearning.

This is exactly what she did with RuNak. And she did it again with Ishani and Anurag. She makes viewers root for them. She convinces viewers that they’re two pieces of a puzzle — pointless apart, poetic together.

And Then... She Pulls the Ultimate Betrayal.

Just when we think:“Ah, finally. Nothing can stop them now.”

Leena does what Leena always does.

She flips the entire tone of the show. Like someone switching from soulful Sufi music to loud DJ remix mid-song.

Exactly like in Jhanak — after that beautiful, intimate Kashmir night, just when viewers were floating in emotional bliss, bam — chaos, character derailment, emotional disconnection.

And now? She’s done it again in Ishani.

Viewers must have waited — patiently — for Saswat & Co. to face karma for torturing Ishani and Anurag so much.They must have imagined poetic justice. Dramatic confrontations. A cathartic downfall.

But nope.

Instead… instant “Hriday Parivartan.”The villains suddenly found God in their hearts. Like One group hug and all sins washed away. 🤡

And Ishani?

After being humiliated and emotionally destroyed by them — she goes back to that same house to serve them. With pride, no less.

Meanwhile, Anurag — the same man who stood by her through fire few days back when she was sooo desperate— gets attitude from her.

Why? Because apparently in Leena Universe, the female lead turning cold and irrational after becoming stable = character development.

Reminded me so much of Jhanak’s behaviour towards Anirudh.

In case of Ishaani here once she was no longer helpless, she turned needlessly cruel to the one man who never wronged her.

Leena just doesn't get that Being a Writer Comes with Responsibility.

Creating emotional build-up is not enough.

You don’t just get to Make the audience emotionally invest in a couple,Make them ache for justice and closure,Then pull a “Plot Twist Because I Can” — and expect viewers to swallow it.

A storyteller’s job isn’t just to trigger emotions — it’s to honor them.

Leena Gangopadhyay is undeniably skilled at one thing: making people fall deeply, irrevocably in love with a fictional couple.But she often refuses to respect the emotional journey she herself creates. Instead of resolution, she chooses redirection. Instead of justice, she offers redemption. Instead of growth, she delivers inconsistency.

And that — more than anything — is why her stories are intresting and addictive in the beginning and infuriating by the end....

Uffff .....the level of frustration I have with this woman never seems to die down ......I just despise her🤣

Beautifully summarized!

Missed your comments and also Sanfan and others. I got hooked on this IF because of the daily reviews of the show and still here. (stopped watching Jhanak many moons ago. Never watched Ishani, knowing the emotional bandwidth needed to deal with Leena's writing)

Dibya take me to any group you will be initiating ...

Soon Aviraj bhaiyya and his beautiful family of three will get this type of montage.

Originally posted by: MMR2810

Soon Aviraj bhaiyya and his beautiful family of three will get this type of montage.

Originally posted by: sanfan

Asmi… I have a slightly perspective on this.

In a bit of hurry so will keep it short…

While Leena may know the way to build up but she has an absolutely amateurish way of guiding the story…By simply using some basic character traits of a character, she uses the most stupid way to chart out a path for the deception in the story.

Wil give you a simple example…. Ani being a jealous man was a thread she explored in the story but as time went by, Ani’s character is shown to be understanding person even if his basic trait surfaces on a few occasions. She shows Ani to be understanding towards Jhanak in respect of Aditya and that other guy from US ( I have forgotten the name) yet she uses an absolutely lame way for Ani to disown Jhanak’s kid in the end when all seeming hurdles have been crossed in the story. Leena only has one art - increasing episode count with mundanities with a semblance of reality thrown in that people can tune into without having sense of where the story is headed.

I know what you mean about the pulling in but if you watch for 2 days continuously you will see the pattern I mentioned above

I wish to write further on this. But I have time for only this that Leena is intellectually dishonest maker!!

Ohhh Rekha dii.. I agree...you hit the nail on the head! 😅

Leena may have an uncanny ability to hook viewers initially—. But her execution is where it falls apart totally. her execution is completely amateurish. She takes a handful of traits and quirks of a character and then forces them into the most absurd and illogical paths just to stretch episodes, shock the audience, or artificially create drama. Ani’s arc in Jhanak is a perfect example. A character who had subtle depth, jealousy, and charm suddenly ends up disowning his own child in the end, after all the build-up, emotional hurdles, and conflicts have been resolved. And why? Not because it made narrative sense, but because Leena needed a twist—something sensational to “keep things moving.” That’s lazy plotting masquerading as drama, plain and simple.

You can literally feel the disconnect when watching. The initial engagement works, yes—the tension, the longing stares, the slow unraveling of emotions—but the story becomes rudderless once she starts relying on illogical “twists” or forced conflicts. Characters who were once nuanced become caricatures of themselves, making decisions that contradict everything we’ve seen before. The audience sees it, but because of the initial hook, some keep watching, hoping things will make sense. Usually, they don’t.

This pattern is clear across her shows: she builds emotional investment meticulously, but she rarely honors it. Instead of satisfying conclusions or authentic growth, she opts for chaos, sudden reversals, or unnecessary “redemption arcs” that feel contrived. The viewer ends up frustrated because the emotional journey she made us embark on is constantly undercut by her episodic, shock-driven storytelling.

So yes — while her “pulling in” technique is undeniably effective for short-term engagement, the long-term payoff is shallow, inconsistent, and extremely frustrating. The charm is fleeting, and the emotional satisfaction? Almost non-existent.

Honestly, it’s infuriating because she clearly understands the power of emotional nuance—the slow, restrained build-up of connection, longing, and tension—but then she undermines all of it with her mechanical, almost lazy way of extending episodes without real story logic. And the worst part? This pattern repeats across her shows, so experienced viewers can spot it immediately.and one show "Jhanak" has given us lifetime of experiences...🤣

In short: she’s a total cheater as a writer. The audience can enjoy the initial thrill, but once the illusion cracks, it’s frustration, confusion, and eye-rolling all the way through.