It’s occurred to me, that this is more or less the exact beat to beat recreation of Karan’s own track albeit with key differences.
Karan is an illegitimate son of Mihir who felt that he and his mom were wronged by Mihir; even Tulsi was and so he set out for revenge against his dad and to be recognised as a Virani as was his birthright. Mihir looked after them financially but his emotions were never involved with them as a family.
Rio is an illegitimate son of Ansh’s who was dismissed in a way by Ansh. He and his mom have been taken care of by Karan as an obligation out of humanity and because Karan perhaps felt Rio was a mirror of his own childhood. Karan has taken care of them much like Mihir did, but he too has his heart set elsewhere though he might have a genuine soft spot for Rio despite him growing up to look like he does since Karan has raised this boy since he was 9/10.
Mandira turned out to be playing Mihir for a fool for 2 decades as she pretended to have lost her mental health; Niyati ends up doing the exact same thing. Her memory apparently is so bad that she can’t see how her son looks like an exact copy of his dad, who apparently Niyati was crazily in love with to the point of having his child without even getting married to him.
Mandira was using Karan to trap Mihir. Niyati has perhaps been fooling Karan all along and maybe Rio is in on the truth because what son hero worships his dad like this guy does in apparently every second or third line he speaks.
Karan came to SN to get justice for his mom; Rio will come to SN to get justice for his mom and his biological dad.
Karan was a good person underneath despite appearing as a black sheep to the family.
Rio might start out as a white sheep but will turn black eventually and go flying in the air because that’s what the precedent is
Let’s see if Tulsi scores her hattrick or not.
Edited by EkPaheli - 6 hours ago
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