Originally posted by: The_Best
But why did the makers want Anushmaan to die suddenly?? So that other actor was there only for few weeks? I am glad Iqbal at least didn’t didn’t quit KYPH. It would’ve been terrible to see someone else with Neha/Kripa. Someone once made a post about Tumhari Pakhi’s PH on Reddit. Apparently they also have a history of replacing mls. So may be it wasn’t Iqbal or may be the issue was from both sides 🤷♀️
Iqbal quit and so his character was killed. They got Varun Badola as a distant relative/family friend on the show later and I think he does end up developing feelings for Paakhi and perhaps they get married for some legal reason or something as a sham. I don’t remember clearly but in the end Paakhi spends the rest of her life as Anshuman’s widow and raises his son he had with his wife who had passed away. Anshuman and Paakhi had a child marriage when he was 6 or 7 and she was obviously younger. His family moved away from Rajasthan and they became very successful. I think it’s mentioned that the elders of the family had an argument over the modern lifestyle that Anshuman’s family was adopting to succeed or some such thing. There is a fallout and so Anshuman’s family practically never returns to the native village after the altercation.
Paakhi grows up knowing she’s married to a man named Anshuman Rathore and waits for him to come and take her home with him. He was never told as an adult by his parents that he had been married as a child and since he was too young to understand that he was getting married at that age he went onto forget about it entirely.
He grew up, got married to a woman he met and fell in love with, they had a son and it was implied he was very happy with her until she suddenly passed away in an accident.
He later gets engaged to another girl, the daughter of a rich investor he wants to partner up with and around the time he’s awarded some prestigious award as a young entrepreneur whose company has become the latest to enter the Fortune 500 club or something in India. That leads to some journalist digging up his life so as to create a story about him, as a special feature for his channel or as a cover story in some magazine’s upcoming edition. The journalist travels to Anshuman’s native village to interview the people who had known his dad, the founder of the company and to show how a man of such humble origins rose to such great heights and left his children such an amazing legacy. What the journalist finds is far more explosive than he anticipated in his wildest dreams and Anshuman learns via a news report that he’s got a bride waiting for him in his native village of Rajasthan for 2 decades now. He’s miffed and angry and wants to save his reputation. He explains he was too young to remember his marriage and so he didn’t intentionally cheat on his wife when he married his now dead wife or even got engaged later on to another woman.
Anshuman is obsessed with his reputation and so he’s asked - will he do right by the woman waiting for him for 2 decades now that he knows the truth and he is put on the spot on live tv and ends up saying he will.
He gets her home with the intent of driving her away and making it seem like she’s the rotten apple he got unfortunately stuck with. He presumed a lot of things about her and all of them were wrong. He ends up falling in love with her just as she finds out he never wanted to be with her after all and so she leaves him. The show was supposed to end with their reunion but the channel got greedy and wanted to extend the show though it was meant to be a limited series. That’s when Iqbal quit. He had signed on for the show to the point I narrated it but the moment they decided to extend it and go for a double role or a second role where he plays an imposter posing as Anshuman, Iqbal quit. He’s kinda rigid in that way and apparently hates when shows deviate and well, unfortunately, most of them do always.
Crazily, the channel ended up announcing that they’d be shutting down most shows of that era and go for a revamp with new shows lines up but they closed down entirely.
Saraswati Chandra starring Jenny and Gautam was supposed to be the main attraction of that new line up but then it went to SP overnight and we found out that the channel itself was wrapping up.
No clue about that PH and the alleged issues with their MLs but this thing with Iqbal is a persistent issue regardless of channel, show and PH so I can’t be certain if those people are to blame for in his case entirely.
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