Gloves Off! Smriti vs Rajan Shahi, Anupamaa crew war intensifies. - Page 19

Rajan's crassness is affecting his show.

Yeh rishta totally sucks. The day Anupaama loses to kyunki. He's gonna blast.

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

I lost it at Shabby Scarecrow! That’s truly inspired!

@bold - I think this is where the difference truly is. She keeps on hammering about years of abuse ending a marriage after 26 years. To make herself feel better and look tall, she points out how she divorced her husband once he crossed the line and cheated on her. But did a formal divorce on paper really change anything? From what I understand, she never practically left her in-laws and their house to fend for themselves. I understand being unable to cut off her children but why would you still care for the rest? You can be cordial and respectful but if you choose to move on and then even married someone else, why the fixation with your ex in-laws and their home?

Tulsi and Parvati are in comparison shown as women who are now married for nearly 4 decades with their husbands and despite their share of challenges and hurdles, those couples have stuck together with each other regardless. Neither of them ever looked down upon their role as homemakers and when they faced a difficult time in their marriage and ended up being even humiliated by their husbands or hurt by their words they didn’t start blaming their lack of financial independence and a career, didn’t think it would automatically solve their problems.

She can’t manage her own children but Tulsi and Parvati are seen as parenting even their nieces and nephews as a mother would and neither resorts to the kind of behaviour that Anupama shows when it comes to being a mother. One with passive aggressiveness, taunts, public humiliation, repeated beating and berating of their children or making them feel unloved as well as unwanted as is the case with her adopted daughter from what I understand.


It’s utterly baffling and bizarre how this woman is being paraded as a model of women empowerment when onscreen her only wins are shown via ludicrous competitions that she inevitably has to compete in and win regardless of age, format or skill set, but her personal as well as professional lives are in shambles. Honestly, at this point it wouldn’t surprise me if she competes in a sasta version of Khatron Ke Khiladi as a part of some Nayi Udaan she’s undertaking to prove women can participate in competitions that can break your bones at best and nearly kill you at worst at 60 plus years of age and still win.

While in 8 years of Kyunki, Kahani and Kasauti, I don’t remember Tulsi, Parvati and Prerna so much as competing in their neighbourhood’s rangoli making competition and winning 101 rupees as a prize!

I genuinely have to wonder which bizarre dictionary did makers of Anupama stumble upon to understand the term “women empowerment”.

I watched yesterday's epi and Parvati gracefully taunted Pari with elegance rather than barking and shouting.I watched her for first time and I was impressed

Ekta gave her leading ladies some substance and power.Prena had a different aura and Parvati’s Janki devi Era was gold as I have heard

People where trolling somewhere how tulsi looks old and fat and I liked the fact that in this season they showed tulsi getting insecure of herself and her body image.That gives her realness and shows some flaws in her character.

Honestly anupamaa is such a shallow character right now

Originally posted by: A_Star39

i agree with every word.

I watched yesterday's epi and Parvati gracefully taunted Pari with elegance rather than barking and shouting.I watched her for first time and I was impressed

Ekta gave her leading ladies some substance and power.Prena had a different aura and Parvati’s Janki devi Era was gold as I have heard

People where trolling somewhere how tulsi looks old and fat and I liked the fact that in this season they showed tulsi getting insecure of herself and her body image.That gives her realness and shows some flaws in her character.

Honestly anupamaa is such a shallow character right now

This is so insulting.

Maybe, they should focus on quality of yeh rishta and Anupaamaa over being obsessed with Smriti.

Originally posted by: A_Star39

i agree with every word.

I watched yesterday's epi and Parvati gracefully taunted Pari with elegance rather than barking and shouting.I watched her for first time and I was impressed

Ekta gave her leading ladies some substance and power.Prena had a different aura and Parvati’s Janki devi Era was gold as I have heard

People where trolling somewhere how tulsi looks old and fat and I liked the fact that in this season they showed tulsi getting insecure of herself and her body image.That gives her realness and shows some flaws in her character.

Honestly anupamaa is such a shallow character right now

Yeah, Tulsi and Parvati were always very graceful and never raised their voices. Prerna was perhaps the one with the most temper from the trio but even she didn’t just start screeching at the drop of a hat unnecessarily unless extremely provoked. But honestly you wouldn’t even mistakenly believe even her to be a fisherwoman at a local market trying to sell her wares by the pitch of her voice like one might with Anupama when she’s angry.


The trio had difficult children too but they didn’t scream and shout always nor make these faces. Parvati and Tulsi behaved much like you saw them do yesterday though this time around Tulsi is much more grounded and lenient with Pari than she was with any of her other kids and that perhaps has more to do with the way Mihir coddles her more than anything else.

The difference between Ekta’s iconic leads and Anupama is that they could take a stand for themselves, stay put on their grounds and make their own cases without coming across as hysterical women about to burst their vocal chords as they inflict irreparable and irreversible damage to everyone else’s eardrums.

Prerna was the sole working woman of this iconic trio but her profession as a media personality was not made the fulcrum of her identity or her character. She simply happened to have a career as well as problems in her personal life. Being a financially independent woman didn’t make her problems magically disappear nor protect her from the stresses of marriage, motherhood and other familial crises. She also never kept more than an obligatory and cordial relationship with Anurag and his family once she truly moved on with Rishabh Bajaj and accepted him as her husband wholeheartedly. Rather, she ended up going against Anurag, berating him, screaming at him and slapping him, even shooting him for Bajaj once she had decided her heart and loyalty was meant for the man who was as committed to her as she was to him.


She was close to Anurag’s father as he was her father’s childhood best friend and she had practically grown up viewing him as a part of the family. He in turn had always seen her as a daughter and even when her relationship with Anurag ended for good she continued to be affectionate with his father but never stopped her from standing up for herself or her family when it came to Anurag’s mother and sister. Prerna honestly had more spine and integrity than Anupama in this regard.

She wouldn’t deny the Basus any help if they needed her and she could help especially if it was someone she had a good bond with, but she refused to help them at the cost of her marriage with Bajaj or their family and kids and never allow them to trample upon her self respect

She drew a line and then maintained her dignity and distance with it. She didn’t intentionally go out of her way to avoid the Basus or keep them at an arm’s length but also didn’t keep on dropping by incessantly to make herself available as their doormat, punching bag, cook, maid etc. just because she thought they couldn’t function without her. All this while a part of her always held a soft spot for Anurag and the lingering feelings and memories of what they had and what could’ve been if only things had turned out otherwise.

Did the show turn shitty invariably? Of course because they dragged it on too much but within the story, once lines were drawn between the characters in their relationships they were maintained. Even Prerna’s daughter faces a horrible heartbreak when she finds out her husband had raped one of her closest friends after drugging her during a party and once the truth is out and he confesses, she never thinks of him again nor does she keep on moping over him or accuse herself for being never enough or anything for his crimes. She moves on with a much nicer and better guy later and that’s it.

Also, regarding Tulsi’s weight and looks, she’s honestly looking no different than a woman in her 60s who has had kids is expected to look. Normal Indian mums don’t look like they had botox and are gobbling down ozempic even now. They gain weight, might have a double chin or baggy eyes; look like their age even if they dye their hair and dress as well as they can because in our society looking like you have aged has never been a mark of criticism. Vanity was never promoted in our culture and we always have seen elders as respectful figures to learn from and take blessings from rather than mock their appearances and make them wish they killed themselves to look younger and desirable.

Originally posted by: BangBang_Shilpa

Maybe, they should focus on quality of yeh rishta and Anupaamaa over being obsessed with Smriti.

You should see these if you think this is bad.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQBXBOGDC_p/

Scroll through, she’s not the only one dressed up like Devi Maa.

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

I lost it at Shabby Scarecrow! That’s truly inspired!

@bold - I think this is where the difference truly is. She keeps on hammering about years of abuse ending a marriage after 26 years. To make herself feel better and look tall, she points out how she divorced her husband once he crossed the line and cheated on her. But did a formal divorce on paper really change anything? From what I understand, she never practically left her in-laws and their house to fend for themselves. I understand being unable to cut off her children but why would you still care for the rest? You can be cordial and respectful but if you choose to move on and then even married someone else, why the fixation with your ex in-laws and their home?

Tulsi and Parvati are in comparison shown as women who are now married for nearly 4 decades with their husbands and despite their share of challenges and hurdles, those couples have stuck together with each other regardless. Neither of them ever looked down upon their role as homemakers and when they faced a difficult time in their marriage and ended up being even humiliated by their husbands or hurt by their words they didn’t start blaming their lack of financial independence and a career, didn’t think it would automatically solve their problems.

She can’t manage her own children but Tulsi and Parvati are seen as parenting even their nieces and nephews as a mother would and neither resorts to the kind of behaviour that Anupama shows when it comes to being a mother. One with passive aggressiveness, taunts, public humiliation, repeated beating and berating of their children or making them feel unloved as well as unwanted as is the case with her adopted daughter from what I understand.


It’s utterly baffling and bizarre how this woman is being paraded as a model of women empowerment when onscreen her only wins are shown via ludicrous competitions that she inevitably has to compete in and win regardless of age, format or skill set, but her personal as well as professional lives are in shambles. Honestly, at this point it wouldn’t surprise me if she competes in a sasta version of Khatron Ke Khiladi as a part of some Nayi Udaan she’s undertaking to prove women can participate in competitions that can break your bones at best and nearly kill you at worst at 60 plus years of age and still win.

While in 8 years of Kyunki, Kahani and Kasauti, I don’t remember Tulsi, Parvati and Prerna so much as competing in their neighbourhood’s rangoli making competition and winning 101 rupees as a prize!

I genuinely have to wonder which bizarre dictionary did makers of Anupama stumble upon to understand the term “women empowerment”.

@b: You know, I wouldn’t even mind her worshipping her in-laws if they were remotely the kind of decent people she paints them as.

I’m not sure if you’ve seen a show called Punar Vivaah (Gurmeet C / Kratika), where Aarti is deeply devoted to and loves her in-laws like her own parents. But comparing them with the Shahs is a straight up insult, even blasphemy. Aarti’s in-laws went above and beyond for her — when her husband left her for another woman, her mother-in-law declared him dead and refused to let him step inside again. She only allowed him back when he was dying of cancer. Even when the father-in-law turned antagonistic, went off the rails out of grief after his son’s death, her mother-in-law remained steadfast in her support. That kind of devotion? I understand completely.

Baa should honestly be booked for mental harassment, and Bapuji—well, he’s basically furniture with a pulse. Why would anyone choose to stay in such a toxic environment after being handed a jail-free card? Baa has never treated Anupamaa like a human being, let alone appreciated her existence.

Her reasons for staying aren’t just bizarre — they come from someone incapable of stepping away from toxicity even when given the chance. I honestly have no clue why that woman cannot, for the life of her, detach from chaos, ever-present melodrama that is Shah house.

The amount of grief she’s caused Anuj by constantly running back there is beyond explanation. Frankly, he wasn’t much better than Anupamaa — knowing full well she’d never escape that toxic loop, he neither divorced her nor set any real boundaries. He just went along for the ride until it broke him. You know how on e-commerce sites you think you’re signing up for a great deal, and then the product turns out to be a dud — nothing like you thought it would be? Yeah, that was Anuj. Thought he was signing up for a long-awaited love story, but ended up with an unwanted subscription to secondhand trauma. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The fall from grace in his character honestly stings, especially because I used to be a fan.

Ugh, sorry for the rant 😅 — it just drives me up the wall every time they call this woman a paragon of women empowerment. Women empowerment, my foot. If she’s the representative of empowered women, then Trump might as well be next in line for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sarabhai was a hit on star one.since star one was not accessible to all the states in India it didnt get high trp and was never there in the number list.That's why trp wise its not considered as a hit.If it was aired on sp it would have got high trp.

Originally posted by: A_Star39

Sarabhai is not a soap opera,its iconic and Ratna Pathak shah carried the show with her elegance and JD and Aatish outdid themselves with the writing

Sarabhai was a flop but still it became iconic like kyunki.Crediting the whole success of Sarabhai to RG is hilarious.

Originally posted by: A_Star39

Sarabhai is not a soap opera,its iconic and Ratna Pathak shah carried the show with her elegance and JD and Aatish outdid themselves with the writing

Sarabhai was a flop but still it became iconic like kyunki.Crediting the whole success of Sarabhai to RG is hilarious.

It wasn’t a flop per se; rather, the target audience was completely different. Plus, these days, there’s no way to watch the show if you miss it on TV, except through reruns. There was no option of catching up on OTT platforms. Star One wasn’t available everywhere, unlike Star Plus, which is widely accessible today. Simply put, the number of people signing up to watch a family drama was much higher compared to those wanting to watch a sitcom. That’s why it didn’t get the TRP that Kyunki did.

No need to apologise, rant away. All my knowledge of this show is courtesy of the rants of one of my closest online friends from IF

I didn’t tune into Punar Vivaah much but I do know a bit of the story. The show is about a divorced mom and a widowed man getting married for the sake of having a parental figure of the opposite gender for their kids to provide them a complete family from what I recall. I know that the in-laws get their DIL married but not much else.

But on a similar premise I understand Anandi’s devotion towards her in-laws. Girl practically grows up with them and once Jagdish cheats on her and divorces her because he looks down upon her as an uneducated village bumpkin while he’s become a successful doctor; even her Dadisaa cuts off ties with her grandson completely and becomes Anandi’s biggest cheerleader, support system and hype woman. The turn around of the woman who once locked up Anandi because she was mad at her was phenomenal but also so organic. She didn’t care for the bonds of blood when she saw her own blood had brought disgrace and shame on her family and the girl who had followed every single thing that was expected from her as a bahu was now not just suffering from heartbreak and humiliation but was also made to feel worthless for no fault of her own. It was Dadisaa who held back Anandi from completing her studies and it was Dadisaa who again made sure that Anandi would not only complete her education but also end up becoming a respectable figure in their village rather than a pitied one. She even went absolutely gung-ho about making sure that she married Shiv, someone who not only respected Anandi as an colleague of sorts but also happened to never look down upon her as a woman once he learnt her marriage was over.

Dadisaa could have held onto her beliefs but she didn’t and made sure when Anandi was out in the village no one saw her as a woman to be pitied but as one to be respected and considered as an inspiration.

So yeah, if you have that kind of thing going on for you, I absolutely understand why you’d have a soft corner for your ex husband’s parents even when your marriage ended.

This… this is bizarre behaviour that comes across as a concoction of Stockholm Syndrome mixed in with the Joker ideology of “some people just want to watch the world burn” thrown in there as she thrives in the chaos and doesn’t know how to exist or breathe now unless she’s being humiliated and burdened with responsibilities that she doesn’t need to endure in the first place.

Honestly, woman is a study subject for those wishing to understand toxic behaviour and the fetish of being degraded. Because nothing else explains her behaviour and choices.