Jhanak Written Update And Episode Discussion thread No "126" - Page 141

Originally posted by: Dibya_C

Leena has a few common themes in stock...she uses those in different proportions and in different settings across all of her shows 😂😂

Originally posted by: Dibya_C

The most hilarious part for me is they made Ishani wear a saffron saree to imply her fake interest in monk-like life! 🤣🤣🤣

Originally posted by: Dibya_C

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQVlQuhE9Cz/

Guys, I came across this circus in IG 🤣🤣🤣

Apparently Leena killed Ishani's husband, against our predictions 😁😁

But the joke is just see how Leena's flip flopping with her characters never ceases to amaze! Ishani decides to lead a life like a monk in Vrindavan in the service of God after giving away her husband's property to his family members. Her love interest asks her to allow him to accompany her. She first refuses but then agrees to take him with her! Bhai ...aadhe ghante me kaise life k important decisions se mukar jana hota hai ye koi Leena chudail se seekhe! 🤣🤣🤣

You know....In Leena's world, the idea of a woman existing peacefully without being martyred or punished seems almost offensive.

You can map this across all her shows — the patterns are identical.

The woman may start off ambitious, talented, and full of promise, but by mid-series, she’s reduced to being either:the sacrificial goddess who gives up her dreams,or the tortured wife whose entire identity revolves around a man’s acceptance, or the saintly sufferer who ends up seeking spiritual renunciation as if the only redemption possible for a woman is to vanish into selflessness.

Leena’s narrative philosophy seems to be: “Why show a woman succeeding in her own right when you can glorify her destruction in slow motion?”🤣

Even when she pretends to give her women a “path of self-realization,” it is written like a punishment, not a triumph. The journeys never end with the female lead walking into a successful, self-made future — they end with her walking away from the world, disillusioned and drained.

The saddest and frustrating part is She cloaks it all under the guise of “progressive realism.”

But where is the realism in a world where every strong woman is inevitably broken down until she either dies, leaves, or becomes divine?

It’s as if Leena can’t imagine a woman’s completeness without suffering — as if pain is the only language she trusts women to speak.

A dignified, normal life — with a flourishing career, mutual love, and peace of mind — seems to be the one storyline she finds “too unrealistic” for her heroines.And that’s what makes her writing not tragic, but tragicomic. Because the truth is, in trying to elevate her women into martyrs, she strips them of the right to be human.

Originally posted by: asmitamohanty

You know....In Leena's world, the idea of a woman existing peacefully without being martyred or punished seems almost offensive.

You can map this across all her shows — the patterns are identical.

The woman may start off ambitious, talented, and full of promise, but by mid-series, she’s reduced to being either:the sacrificial goddess who gives up her dreams,or the tortured wife whose entire identity revolves around a man’s acceptance, or the saintly sufferer who ends up seeking spiritual renunciation as if the only redemption possible for a woman is to vanish into selflessness.

Leena’s narrative philosophy seems to be: “Why show a woman succeeding in her own right when you can glorify her destruction in slow motion?”🤣

Even when she pretends to give her women a “path of self-realization,” it is written like a punishment, not a triumph. The journeys never end with the female lead walking into a successful, self-made future — they end with her walking away from the world, disillusioned and drained.

The saddest and frustrating part is She cloaks it all under the guise of “progressive realism.”

But where is the realism in a world where every strong woman is inevitably broken down until she either dies, leaves, or becomes divine?

It’s as if Leena can’t imagine a woman’s completeness without suffering — as if pain is the only language she trusts women to speak.

A dignified, normal life — with a flourishing career, mutual love, and peace of mind — seems to be the one storyline she finds “too unrealistic” for her heroines.And that’s what makes her writing not tragic, but tragicomic. Because the truth is, in trying to elevate her women into martyrs, she strips them of the right to be human.

Bang on Asmi

I was just logging in to write about Leena’s vile machinations but I don’t think I need to write anything

You have hit the nail on the head!

It’s like she wants to revel in the martyrdom. I would still appreciate if she was using this to poke fun at the societal norms but it’s clear she has no such intention. By simply saying women choose martyrdom is making no additional point as a writer… we know that women may be conditioned to do this but a writer is supposed to critique the status quo not peddle it!!

Originally posted by: asmitamohanty

You know....In Leena's world, the idea of a woman existing peacefully without being martyred or punished seems almost offensive.

You can map this across all her shows — the patterns are identical.

The woman may start off ambitious, talented, and full of promise, but by mid-series, she’s reduced to being either:the sacrificial goddess who gives up her dreams,or the tortured wife whose entire identity revolves around a man’s acceptance, or the saintly sufferer who ends up seeking spiritual renunciation as if the only redemption possible for a woman is to vanish into selflessness.

Leena’s narrative philosophy seems to be: “Why show a woman succeeding in her own right when you can glorify her destruction in slow motion?”🤣

Even when she pretends to give her women a “path of self-realization,” it is written like a punishment, not a triumph. The journeys never end with the female lead walking into a successful, self-made future — they end with her walking away from the world, disillusioned and drained.

The saddest and frustrating part is She cloaks it all under the guise of “progressive realism.”

But where is the realism in a world where every strong woman is inevitably broken down until she either dies, leaves, or becomes divine?

It’s as if Leena can’t imagine a woman’s completeness without suffering — as if pain is the only language she trusts women to speak.

A dignified, normal life — with a flourishing career, mutual love, and peace of mind — seems to be the one storyline she finds “too unrealistic” for her heroines.And that’s what makes her writing not tragic, but tragicomic. Because the truth is, in trying to elevate her women into martyrs, she strips them of the right to be human.

If I can characterise Leena's fls in one word, it would be 'OXYMORON' 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️

Originally posted by: asmitamohanty

You know....In Leena's world, the idea of a woman existing peacefully without being martyred or punished seems almost offensive.

You can map this across all her shows — the patterns are identical.

The woman may start off ambitious, talented, and full of promise, but by mid-series, she’s reduced to being either:the sacrificial goddess who gives up her dreams,or the tortured wife whose entire identity revolves around a man’s acceptance, or the saintly sufferer who ends up seeking spiritual renunciation as if the only redemption possible for a woman is to vanish into selflessness.

Leena’s narrative philosophy seems to be: “Why show a woman succeeding in her own right when you can glorify her destruction in slow motion?”🤣

Even when she pretends to give her women a “path of self-realization,” it is written like a punishment, not a triumph. The journeys never end with the female lead walking into a successful, self-made future — they end with her walking away from the world, disillusioned and drained.

The saddest and frustrating part is She cloaks it all under the guise of “progressive realism.”

But where is the realism in a world where every strong woman is inevitably broken down until she either dies, leaves, or becomes divine?

It’s as if Leena can’t imagine a woman’s completeness without suffering — as if pain is the only language she trusts women to speak.

A dignified, normal life — with a flourishing career, mutual love, and peace of mind — seems to be the one storyline she finds “too unrealistic” for her heroines.And that’s what makes her writing not tragic, but tragicomic. Because the truth is, in trying to elevate her women into martyrs, she strips them of the right to be human.

Only in KusumDola fl got a very successful career, daughter and loving family.

So leena want to destroy the chances for jhanak to be successful. But this time not by murderer uncle. But by the father himself.

Originally posted by: sanfan

Bang on Asmi

I was just logging in to write about Leena’s vile machinations but I don’t think I need to write anything

You have hit the nail on the head!

It’s like she wants to revel in the martyrdom. I would still appreciate if she was using this to poke fun at the societal norms but it’s clear she has no such intention. By simply saying women choose martyrdom is making no additional point as a writer… we know that women may be conditioned to do this but a writer is supposed to critique the status quo not peddle it!!

Wahi toh....It’s as if Leena takes a strange delight in the spectacle of women’s suffering. Her stories don’t just depict martyrdom — they revel in it.

By simply showing that “women choose martyrdom,” she isn’t making any additional point as a writer. We already know this. We live in societies where a large part of it celebrate women who suffer quietly and shame those who demand better. A writer’s role is to question that conditioning — not to reproduce it uncritically for the sake of drama.

Leena’s women never evolve beyond their pain.Instead, Leena’s women are trapped in an endless loop of suffering and sacrifice, as if the only way for them to be “great” is to be perpetually broken. She’ll glorify their endurance, romanticize their misery, and call it empowerment — when in reality, it’s nothing but emotional punishment dressed as depth.

There’s always some divine intervention, family crisis, or misplaced guilt waiting to drag them down the moment they start to rise. And like in "Ishani" just when the audience hopes she’ll finally let her heroine breathe, Leena pulled out her favourite trick — spiritual escapism.

“Don’t give her a career, Give her moksha.🤣” Leena's writing operates on one bizarre rule — baas, any excuse to not give her female leads a dignified, normal life

They do not learn to differentiate between compassion and self-destruction. And when they finally walk away, it isn’t toward liberation — it’s toward divinity or death, because even their self-discovery has to look tragic.

It’s not empowerment; it’s some weird suffering fetish.

And the saddest part is She seems to believe she’s writing progressive stories.

Originally posted by: MMR2810

Only in KusumDola fl got a very successful career, daughter and loving family.

Haan...but Kusum Dola, even though it gave Emon a more “complete” ending, was still steeped in toxic tropes all through its runtime ..it may have looked like empowerment on paper, but it was still wrapped in the same old endurance-glorifying, emotionally manipulative storytelling that’s Leena’s signature. The only difference was — this time, Emon (FL)at least got out alive...

Emon got a semblance of closure and success, unlike Leena’s later heroines who are left in emotional limbo, stripped of even that dignity.

It’s almost as if Kusum Dola was the prototype — the one time Leena gave her heroine a balance between suffering and triumph — and after that, she just kept amplifying the suffering part while erasing the triumph.

Originally posted by: Dibya_C

If I can characterise Leena's fls in one word, it would be 'OXYMORON' 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️

Leena has completely abandoned the idea that women can have a dignified life after pain. Every subsequent female lead became a case study in eternal penance — trapped in a cycle of heartbreak, humiliation, and sacrifice. Instead of showing resilience as recovery, she turned it into resignation.From Mohor to Jhanak to Ishani — only reinforced that Leena seems more fascinated by a woman’s pain than her power.