Karan definitely didn’t like the idea that this lingering reminder of Ansh would be forever a part of their lives if Nandini keeps the child and he didn’t like the idea of telling her to abort it too because exactly how are you supposed to have that conversation?
Not like he has to tell her that though she may like some dress it isn’t as flattering on her as she thinks or that her perfume is too strong for him, so could she perhaps wear something else? Even something as small as those things are enough to start arguments… this is in a completely different area and complex territory.
How do you tell her go get rid of the thing within you that I’m pretty sure you don’t want either though it’s now a part of you.. I certainly wouldn’t want to have to do anything with it…
They broke stereotypes with the idea that a stepmother can be a good mother/parent too while biological parents need not be the best parents out there. Mihir did his duty by being financially responsible for Karan and his needs but emotionally was unavailable as a father to him. The less said about Mandira the better.
They showed with Tulsi doubting Karan and rejecting him that it’s not easy to rise above biases and that even good people are not above being selfish and petty. Tulsi believed Karan was a scum in a heartbeat when she presumed he was having an EMA with Nandini but wouldn’t believe Nandini’s version of the story even when she knew what Ansh had done with her in the past too blinded by her own prejudices and bias towards her own son.
Tulsi may have accepted Karan before she even met Ansh as her son, but she truly became his mother and accepted him as a child of her heart; erasing the biological realities in Switzerland on that bench as the duo cried together and consoled each other. She truly saw him - clearly and without any other lens distorting her feelings and opinions after that. Watching him silently cry and hold Nandini later in the hotel makes her realise instantly that he’s in love with Nandini without him even saying anything.
It was pretty bold of them to show Tulsi’s son being so despicably monstrous. But that’s why he’s such a memorable character even today. He is the exception to the rule that nature always wins in Indian TV shows.
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