Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
yes completely agreed. and I really admire Smriti for accepting the part where she was being shown as supporting the wrong despite being the main lead.
she was actually being criticised by audience when Tulsi asked Karan to leave the house. I mean for quite some time in that Karan had become the atyachar sehti mahaanta ki moorat bahu and Tulsi the evil mother in law equivalent. but here they showed a very real thing, even if someone think s/he is not discriminatory against their step/adopted children they often have a bias against them deep routed. They believe on their own child much easier than the bete jaisa.
In fact it was both sides, for Tulsi Karan was an illegitimate child of her husband to whom she was giving a status and (supposedly) loving like a real child, for Karan Tulsi was the woman who accepted him despite him being the living reminder of the woman who wronged her so much.
Maybe they had thought on surface that they have only mother son feeling for each other but deep down it was more of a gratitude and moral superiority in them(none of these exist in real mother son.)८
IMO Tulsi's realisation towards Karan's feeling and genuine unadulterated love happened when after r**ing Nandani, Ansh was about to slap Tulsi and Karan holds his hands to stop him... Tulsi seeing how Karan stood for her despite the wrongs she did to him was the moment she realised who her real son is.. Tulsi's expressions were so bang on here.... have tried to. capture the best I could
it's like suprise, remorse, pride and love all mixed
Yes, they decided to make their leading lady a real flawed human being there, something that deserves praise. It showed that underneath that acceptance there was still that deep lingering sense of resentment, anger, hatred and disgust regarding Karan’s sheer existence despite the circumstances surrounding his acceptance and knowing that he truly is as much of a victim as Tulsi is in his own way of Mandira’s machinations and Mihir’s lack of accountability.
Karan’s innocence didn’t matter when it came to Tulsi hating on him because Karan’s innocence regarding the circumstances of his birth also didn’t matter. Tulsi immediately presumed that he had lured Nandini, as if she were a child, into committing infidelity and cheat on her husband based on the blood that ran through his veins belonging to his mother.
She gave her son the high moral ground despite knowing exactly how he had stalked Nandini in the past, harassed her, tried to intimidate her and even pay her to get in bed with him simply because he was hers. She admits to her bias later on during their conversation in that bench scene too.
The scene in the hotel lobby truly opened her eyes; she saw how to Ansh she was never his mother but just a tool he had used to help him get what he wanted by hook or crook.
She might not have been as shocked by Ansh actually hitting her as she was by Karan stepping in to protect her from him and the sheer rage that he had on her behalf, at Ansh’s audacity to even attempt to strike her.
It’s when it hits her - Karan wasn’t being the ungrateful child that she thought him to be. Rather she was being the wicked stepmother that even fairytales warn little kids about.
It occurs to her that she wasn’t the person she thought she was as well on some level even if she never verbalised it herself - someone who had accepted an illegitimate child, someone morally superior, a good person, an exceptional human being worthy of praise rather she was also a mere mortal.
She too fell into the trap of her vanity and biases made up of the respect, admiration, praises and acknowledgment that she received for accepting and acknowledging Karan. She couldn’t believe Nandini’s words once she was her bahu while she had no problem in believing that same girl saying the same thing before her marriage to her son. She couldn’t believe she was capable of birthing such a child, she believed she was the mother capable of redeeming a man like Ansh by sheer grace and motherly love.
Her shock in that moment is truly well depicted because here was the boy she had discarded as trash standing up for her, protecting her while her own son stood before her exposed as a monster in the flesh of a man, someone who would hit her publicly without any hesitation or concern.
It’s later on that bench that I feel she processes how biology has nothing to do with what makes someone a good or bad human being by any measure. Mihir had fathered 3 sons - 2 with her and 1 with another woman. Gautam married Ganga and had an affair with Teesha without any qualms all because he assumed that if he denied marrying Ganga he won’t get his fair share of inheritance. Had he not been exposed, he would have continued the charade for as long as it took perhaps. He had later trapped Damini into marrying him despite knowing she was in love with Karan. Then there was this other son of hers who also happened to want the same girl as Karan did, and he played such a long game that she fell for it and now a girl had suffered something monstrous owing to her biases.
Two of her sons had destroyed Karan’s chance at happiness but here he was still protecting her, never once blaming her. She had accused him when he never tried to break off Gautam Damini once Damini decided to give her marriage a chance and yet she had somehow believed that he would try to ruin Ansh’s marriage. She was the one with the blinders all along, Karan wasn’t the one out there trying to destroy her son, his marriage and happiness… she had involuntarily destroyed Karan’s as well as Nandini’s for good … for a son who wouldn’t think twice about raising his hand on her.
Edited by EkPaheli - 16 hours ago
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