Originally posted by: adeela
people generally compare karan and Tulsi's bond with karan bhoomi bond because both pairs shared a step-father step-daughter and step-son step-mother relationship was stronger than their relationship with their biological children. They didn't compare them on based of parenting because karan was raised by mandira's values not tulsi's . Tulsi's role was mainly accepting him and giving him mihir virani name.
Karan himself admitted that he felt completely alone after losing nandini and tulsi , and had lost interest in everything in front of tulsi . His only fault was that he couldn't give enough time to bhoomi and manthan. Consequently they were raised by tanya entirely, who turned them into spoilt brats because she lacked good values herself . On the other hand nandini had great values, which why both bhoomi and manthan became positive once they came under her influence and spent time in her company.
Furthermore , the relationship between manthan and nandini could never match that of karan tulsi .karan never disrespected tulsi, mandira had only poisoned karan's mind against mihir, not against tulsi. In contrast tanya filled manthan's mind with bitterness regarding nandini and her relationship with karan, and that was the reason why manthan used to called nandini doosri aurat and even tried to kill her. Manthan only realized the truth when damini told him that nandini didn't ask tanya for any sacrifice to get him out of jail, and someone explained him the true history between karan-nandini.
Tulsi didn't raise Karan but once he got into the family, she gave the motherly affection, advising him, sharing life lessons with him, but Karan actually did none of those with Bhoomi, as you said, he was emotionally absent. He just pampered her and granted her wish.. that's being a bad father
I know that losing your love and your mother is a great loss, but that's the time to really judge a person. He completely forgot his duties as a father. Having in a bad emotional state isn't an excuse to not perform the duties of a parent. It's not that he had lost his mind and couldn't do anything, he still was doing the business (and excelling in it), so not fulfilling the most important duty at that time can't be excused at all
I know that Tanya was the main caregiver and she didn't raise children well, you could also say that the children could have been slightly better if they had no Tanya in their lives even if Karan was absent, that however doesn't change the fact that he was a failure as a father. He didn't keep a check on how the children were being raised, he never tried to nurture the children, was never present for them and just thought giving money was enough.
In a way he did the same for his children that Mihir did for him in his childhood (something that he himself hated).
Later when Nandani was found, he only tried to search for Parth when Nandani insisted, he was only looking for Parth as Nandani wanted it
See Karan was a great son, Good brother, best lover , but as a father he really was a failure.
About Mandira, I don't think she badmouthed anyone to Karan, she just played a victim herself and made Karan feel that she has been wronged. Obviously Karan didn't know Mandira was evil, so from his perspective, he only saw that she was a mentally unstable person who thought Mihir Virani was her Amar and Mihir made use of that to spend time with her, have a child and then completely ignore them. (To be honest even Mihir himself thought that he had done this till he found out that Mandira wasn't mentally unstable)
That's why he hated Mihir, but he knew that other family members especially Tulsi had nothing to do with it, so he wasn't against him.
Mandira raised the child quite well. Karan was empathetic, he had zeal.
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