Originally posted by: asmitamohanty
Hey Zainab dii... Happy new year....ahh your post reminded me of older times of Jhanak forum...our collective celebration and mourning..so I would definitely reply to you...
See ..first a big 🤗 as I get the emotion behind this completely, but honestly, I feel we’re still giving far too much credit to Leena by assuming there was some deliberate masterplan, betrayal arc, or personal vendetta at play.
The truth , as uncomfortable as it is , is much simpler. "Leena has always told the same story.From day one, across multiple shows, her core theme has never changed: infidelity, emotional cheating, and moral decay dressed up as destiny. Jhanak was never meant to be a story of growth or redemption .We assumed it would be, because the actors’ chemistry elevated the material far beyond what was written.
Anirudh Bose wasn’t downgraded later.He was always designed to collapse.
We just didn’t see it initially because The Kashmir arc was atmospheric and emotionally rich, RuNak chemistry created an illusion of depth And Krushal’s performance added layers to Aniruddh the script never intended...lol
But The way this post frames it, it almost sounds like Anirudh alone carried the burden of moral decay, when in reality the writing hollowed out both characters. Yes, the show ran on Anirudh’s name and his choices drove many tracks but Jhanak was not morally untouched by the narrative either.the moral decay wasn’t limited to Anirudh alone. Jhanak too was gradually stripped of the very ethical core she was introduced with.
Early Jhanak was written as a moral compass.. honest, dignified, resilient, and deeply rooted in self-respect despite her hardships. Her pain felt earned. Her silence had strength. The way she controlled herself,controlled her emotions shows her moral strength and Her dreams were simple yet noble.
But as the story progressed, that moral clarity was deliberately eroded.She was made to justify emotional dependency instead of questioning it.
Her suffering was repeatedly used as a license for ethical compromise...Her pain was no longer something to rise above but a weapon to justify every moral compromise... justify everytime she spat pure venom verbally....her entitlement over a married man but always running away from claiming him in dignified manner...
Her agency shrank not because she was weak, but because the narrative needed her to comply.Slowly, the woman who once stood for dignity became a participant in the same moral mess she was initially meant to rise above.
And no...This wasn’t character complexity or realism , it was normalization of erosion.
There was no reflective arc, no reckoning, no conscious choice where Jhanak confronts her own boundaries and redraws them with awareness. Instead, her moral shifts were treated as inevitable, almost invisible as if trauma automatically absolves accountability...
As you mentioned...That Google synopsis literally warned us:
“…crossing paths with a man who further complicates her life.”
Not saves her.Not grows with her.But "Complicates"
So this wasn’t a story of one man’s fall.
It was a systemic moral decay, where both leads were reshaped to serve the same old template of emotional cheating and normalized compromise.
Focusing only on Anirudh lets the writing off the hook because the real issue wasn’t one flawed character, but a narrative that refused to let anyone evolve with integrity.
From the very beginning, her narratives have revolved around normalizing emotional infidelity, moral compromise, and blurred accountability, all framed as destiny, trauma, “inevitable circumstances.” or "The Divine intervention" Jhanak followed the same blueprint....
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