Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2: EDT #8 - Page 22

This reminded me of the pre leap one when Gayatri ordered Mihir to marry Noina 😂

They are shooting today https://www.instagram.com/p/DTFZrKqDTr9/

This forum traffic has gone down from last 2-3 days compared to previous week. Is it due to new year festivities?

Originally posted by: AninditaB

This reminded me of the pre leap one when Gayatri ordered Mihir to marry Noina 😂

Originally posted by: Zoya56

This forum traffic has gone down from last 2-3 days compared to previous week. Is it due to new year festivities?

Originally posted by: The_Best

Not sure. Few I know haven’t been online for the past few days anywhere on IF. One deactivated her account in order to stop discussing rishta show with a new year resolution 😭 I will be less active too soon. But as long as the show is going good that’s what matters ❤️

So someone read Rishta is going for another leap and decided nope, I can’t take it anymore and decided to take a break?!

I understand.

Ironically this show seems like Grey’s Anatomy, and Ellen has decided that she’s not quitting until the show ends! That show has been on air for more than 20 seasons now and at this point it frankly feels like it might take an asteroid/UFO filled with literal aliens colliding with Meredith to finally kill her and save humanity because lord knows so many worldly disasters, diseases and dangers have tried killing that woman but failed! It might truly take something out of this world to finally get the job done so that show can end!

Originally posted by: Zoya56

This forum traffic has gone down from last 2-3 days compared to previous week. Is it due to new year festivities?

New Year’s is one possible explanation besides the show having no big moments and scenes worth discussing because while there’s progress, it doesn’t evoke any strong emotions to merit more discussions.

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

TBH, I am even more against this pair after tonight’s episode but feel they’re inevitable given that we already got a song sequence on them in their first meeting post leap.

Hrithik was perfectly allowed to reject Munni, particularly because she had hidden that she was his online friend, the girl he was falling for all those years ago. She knew what he felt and how much he wanted to meet this girl and how disappointed as well as hurt he was every time she wouldn’t turn up. His anger, rejection and shock were valid. I can even forgive his tone because he was hurt and felt like he was being played for a fool.

But the truth of the matter is that in that instant when he rejected her he exposed his class bias and that exists even to date.

Look at his scenes today - as he’s about to exit her office and post their meeting today with others. In her office he couldn’t hold back his shock and was trying to make sense of this girl formerly working as a maid at his house as a collector today. Then we see how Mittali believes that Munni would be in the same kind of situation even now, as a maid working somewhere, she was back then. Hrithik only taunted her because he knew the truth else he might have presumed the same as her perhaps even if he hadn’t taken her suggestion of calling Munni for the job seriously.

If you notice their scene today, he’s impressed she’s talking in English and her Hindi has no trace of her accent; besides her stature. This makes me think had he met Munni elsewhere before, perhaps as she’s out getting her own groceries from some roadside vendor and he happened to be there for some reason, he might have assumed she’s still a maid somewhere else. If he’d heard her converse with say said vendor or someone else in her mother tongue - Bhojpuri or Maithali or whichever dialect of Bihar she speaks (the actress really does hail from Bihar); he wouldn’t have even presumed she had completed her education let alone that she could be so highly qualified as to earn such a prestigious IAS position.

Hrithik still is judging her based on the parameters of her education and status. Where once her status as a maid would have made him a subject of ridicule and mockery (for which we can’t fault him); he rejected her. But now the same girl being a collector changes everything. Now if she’s with him he won’t be embarrassed but rather flaunt his connections and speak highly of her himself.

To me this is Hrithik still not caring about Munni the girl, the person underneath; but judging her transformation from Munni the maid to Manjuri the collector. His feelings will not change because he has discovered she’s an amazing girl he would be lucky to have in his life but because now he no longer will feel ashamed of being with her since she’s not a maid anymore but a well educated collector who has lost all traces of her native accent and can speak fluent Hindi and English in a way that doesn’t display her rural roots.

I agree with a lot of what you’ve said, especially that Hrithik was within his rights to reject Munni. Class or social status being a personal preference isn’t wrong according to me. Everyone has their own likes and boundaries. His anger and sense of betrayal were understandable given that she hid the truth about being his online friend, someone he had been emotionally invested with. If he had rejected her by saying he didn’t see her romantically or that he felt his trust was broken, I would have completely agreed with him and stood by his decision.

Where I draw the line is how he chose to reject her. He didn’t stop at incompatibility or hurt; he went a step further and told her how she could even imagine him settling with a maid. That crossed from rejection into disrespect. Anger can explain his tone, but it doesn’t justify shaming someone for their profession.

Every job has its own dignity. Had Munni not been a maid say she was someone he met elsewhere, even if she came from a middle or lower-middle-class background, I genuinely believe he would have dated her. His issue wasn’t class in general; it was the stigma attached to her being a maid.

That’s why, regardless of how circumstances have changed now, I don’t feel Munni owes him another chance. The problem was never his right to say no it was the way he stripped her of dignity while doing so.

That said, knowing the makers, I fully expect them to push this pairing anyway. Mithali has been written as neither a supportive wife nor a good mother, so they can’t realistically keep Hrithik stuck in a toxic marriage for long. The easiest narrative route is to show a divorce and then move him forward through remarriage. Given how these stories usually unfold, it’s quite likely they’ll eventually steer the plot toward Munni and Hrithik getting married and living a “happily ever after,” even if it doesn’t feel emotionally earned and might stretch it too by making Mithali the villain who wants to separate Hrithik-Munni.

Originally posted by: BangBang_Shilpa

"Khud se milne ke liye sabse dur jaana zaroori tha warna main khatam ho jayi"

Tulsi.

I agree with this not just in the context of the serial, but even in real life. Sometimes, creating distance isn’t about running away or giving up on relationships; it’s about survival. When you remain in situations that constantly hurt you, demand endless adjustment, or make you question your own worth, you slowly begin to lose yourself.

That kind of loss doesn’t happen overnight. You don’t collapse dramatically, you fade. Your boundaries blur, your voice grows quieter, and your identity starts revolving around keeping peace rather than being true to yourself. In such moments, stepping away becomes necessary, not to punish anyone, but to protect what remains of you.

Distance gives perspective. It allows you to breathe, heal, and hear your own voice again without noise, guilt, or pressure. Only then can you truly reconnect with yourself stronger, clearer, and more grounded than before.

Sometimes, walking away isn’t a failure of love or duty. It’s an act of self respect. And choosing yourself before you disappear is not selfish it’s necessary.

Originally posted by: The_Best

Sadly, in Rithik munni’s scene I also didn’t find Rithik was happy for the girl he knew. He was more of impressed by her achievements which is fine, but he wasn’t shown that he was happy for the girl Munni. Also, I don’t think he even considered her a friend because no friend goes on to live 6 years without ever missing that supposed friend. I was surprised when Munni left SN, but Rithik wasn’t shown missing Munni even once. That Maharaj someone and Tulsi were showing missing Munni from what I remember but not Rithik. In anger people say things, but they still do miss the person later. But Rithik was never shown. Based on that he seemed to consider Munni as a maid and helped her out of humanity only. Not as a friend

I can understand why he didn’t think of her. They didn’t part on best terms and he was angry, felt humiliated, betrayed and hurt by her. It explains why he never looked her up.

I mean that day when he found out Moon Moon is someone called Manjuri Sinha it didn’t take him 2 seconds to figure out it was Munni. Here he had to have known that the collector is also called Manjuri Sinha. He went to her office twice, her name is displayed on the board outside her office as well and he knew he had to meet a Ms Sinha at the time of calling for her appointment but it didn’t register with him this could be Munni.

We lose touch with friends, it’s not uncommon, especially as life happens and we get older. Very rare and true friendships survive the test of time. So I understand even that aspect of their fallout.

He spoke about treating her well wasn’t about his interest in her but basic human decency and his upbringing. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Again, he’s allowed to reject her in the past because she lied, kept him in the dark and watched him get anxious about being rejected but kept quiet. IRL no one would think of dating their maid/driver, let alone marry them even from well settled middle class families, and so I don’t expect Hrithik, literally shown as an upper class guy living in a mansion like home to do this either. I won’t pretend to gloss over the reality to suit a romantic fantasy.

My issue is that yesterday when he was shocked, not for a second did he display any sign of a connection that could be defined as something akin to a platonic friendship, basic human bond he shared with this girl he treated as a friend, confided in as one too.

After the initial shock faded/settled in, if he had shown a single hint of something akin to warmth, unthinkingly uttered a compliment or even appeared to have shown a hint of a smile at someone he once treated as a friend, that might have changed things.

Here Munni is not still seen as a person in her own right but the maid who became a collector, the village bumpkin who educated herself and rose to power.

I bet when he sees her with Timsy, which I believe can happen in the future given his conversation with Mittali yesterday and the obvious elephant in the room, he won’t think much about appreciating Munni’s warmth as a person for this child. He will taunt Mittali, and gradually turn to Munni thinking she’s the perfect mom for his daughter. In all of this, he seems to want her based on his convenience and her status, but fails to account for her agency and feelings.

I hope he hasn’t returned to her life for good but rather for closure. She deserves better than someone who could only realise her worth after being treated like trash himself. If they get together now, she will be saddling herself with not just responsibilities of a child born to another woman, but also the weight of the traumas and conflicts that have scarred Hrithik mentally over the years.

Now I know no one is without baggage, but we shouldn’t get attached to someone’s baggage just because they are willing to accept us now. There should be room for both self respect and mutual respect in a relationship for both parties involved.

Hrithik has lost his self respect, he lost his respect for Munni when her truth came out and trust as a pillar has been shattered in their relationship long ago thanks to her actions and his reactions. They’re better off as friends again after everything. Munni can move on with someone else after closure, preferably Parth or Ajay. Hrithik can move on as well with someone else with whom he has been cleaner slate for both their sakes.