Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 - EDT #17 - Page 112

Originally posted by: SuhaanalovesGHT

I hate ansh and nandini scenes..in all the three scenes he touched her...disgusting...High time makers should show stronger side of nandini and she should fight for herself against tulsi and karan should support her...Niyati and Rio should turn negative and KN should make them taste their own medicine

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Originally posted by: A_Star39

I really want saloni to abort and dump dev

Originally posted by: A_Star39

Are they systematically phasing out ritik and munni to the spin off

Vridang are already gone,pari is married

So I guess writers are now focusing on real kids.

Originally posted by: A_Star39

Are they systematically phasing out ritik and munni to the spin off

Vridang are already gone,pari is married

So I guess writers are now focusing on real kids.

That’s what it feels like probably because they already have them in established characters and contracts. Wouldn’t surprise me if eventually Pari and her rotlu husband also land up there since essentially these 3 are siblings. This phases out the Kapadias as they’re not exactly a match for the OG cast and let’s face it - no one cares for any of them as an individual character or their pairs.

This allows them to retain the core OG cast here and then they can focus on the kids who are actually more relevant to the story like Parth, Dev and any other Virani.

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

This track is where they can show therapy, the deep wounds that survivors carry, but I absolutely donot trust Ekta's writers. They have good ideas, but fail more than half the time when it comes to execution.

Also who's Niyati ?

Niyati is Ansh’s ex-girlfriend from his college days. They met and he apparently promised to marry her, knocked her up and left US. He kept sending her money as maintenance once he found out she was carrying his child. She stupidly waited 10 years for him to come back and marry her only for her to find out that he has been killed. That causes her to go into depression wherein she nearly gets killed in a car accident by Karan.

Karan finds out from a common friend of Ansh and Niyati that they were a couple and have a son called Reyansh aka Rio. Niyati had already been severely affected by the news of Ansh getting killed but the accident further has damaged her brain by some injury for which she still needs treatment. She saw Karan in the hospital for the first time after she woke up from the surgery and for some reason she believed he’s her husband and Rio’s dad. Karan has been taking care of them since and playing house. Rio recently found out the partial truth but the truth is not yet known to Niyati or if she’s been faking it all along like Mandira, it’s not yet shown.

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

That’s what it feels like probably because they already have them in established characters and contracts. Wouldn’t surprise me if eventually Pari and her rotlu husband also land up there since essentially these 3 are siblings. This phases out the Kapadias as they’re not exactly a match for the OG cast and let’s face it - no one cares for any of them as an individual character or their pairs.

This allows them to retain the core OG cast here and then they can focus on the kids who are actually more relevant to the story like Parth, Dev and any other Virani.

I bet even shobhas arc will start now

We still dont know if shobhas first husband was murdered by ansh

They are def going towards more OG story

Originally posted by: Phir_Mohabbat

Waise folks were discussing here makers trying to exploit nandinis trauma

It does feel exploitation cause we are seeing this for second time now. Eklavya was same and nandini accused him of being like ansh. Here too rio would turn bad and would hate her, harm her etc. It's a meaty storyline which was high point of gen2. Also the og actors are here giving best performance so I don't mind. There will be no assualt scene hopefully and I do want rio trying to kill nandini and her killing him back. Gauri would nail those anger disgust scenes

Also i disagree that just because she's happily married she won't be effected by ansh/rio. This woman went through long term trauma physical mental emotional, societal even from her family side. The scars are still there. Just because her husband is supportive doesn't mean the memories are forgotten. It is realistic. A bit sensitive topic but a lot of girls are wrongly sexually assaulted, were touched by creeps in buses trains etc. Sone girls become bold and slap these creeps next time. Some become very quiet. Sone become promiscuous to handle that trauma. Nandini is no different.

I know it’s a repeat of the Eklavya track in a way but I think it’s different this time definitely. Yes, they’re milking the same cow again but then again that was to be expected the moment they got Aakashdeep onboard back again because what else could be the point of making him play a 20 something?

But I think there’s a core difference. By the time Eklavya was introduced in S1 the cast in Kyunki was too big, like they could literally fill the living room of SN with the Viranis alone. You didn’t even need side characters, extras or villains and vamps, cameos to do the job, and I’m talking about present day SN’s set not the original one which was much smaller in comparison even post the 2nd Gen leap.

Nandini dealt with the trauma of Eklavya as a sorta need to get this over with fashion. Her trauma was also in part connected with that of KT going through the same thing all over again. KT herself ends up getting engaged to Lakshya and it’s on their engagement day that Bhoomi exposes how her brothers Manthan and Eklavya, accused of the crime are both in fact innocent even though they don’t exactly like KT but they’re not rapists. It’s Damini and Gautam’s son, Mayank, who was the culprit, whom Damini was shielding all along as she knew the truth. He’s shown as a mentally challenged man who has taken a shine to KT and his crime is explained as him being possessive of her for being nice to him and how mentally he maybe childlike but physically he’s an adult and that’s how he was capable of committing the crime and felt that establishing a physical relationship with KT would mean she wouldn’t leave him much less marry anyone else. I am NOT kidding

Here, so far, Nandini has shown more emotion and more genuine trauma in what little she’s interacted with Rio and the panic attacks she’s getting are more than anything we saw her endure in S1.In that sense this is different because probably 2 decades ago when this track aired the focus was so much on breaking new boundaries with the exploration of a taboo topic like marital rape that the mental repercussions of such an event taking toll on Nandini were hardly given any gravitas and explored. In 2026 now, the audience is more receptive and is actually discussing topics like mental health, trauma, PTSD, panic attacks and is more aware of the same. So I guess if handled well this is where they’ll take it. That’s probably also why they’re weeding out the Kapadia siblings one by one. Angad Vrinda will be the central pair in the spinoff, we saw Hrithik Munni talking about moving to Jamshedpur as well and Pari is now off to her honeymoon with Ajay, wouldn’t surprise me if she too is gradually phased out of Kyunki and ends up in the spinoff either directly post her stint in KKK or after she makes a perfunctory appearance in Kyunki again for a while and then is shown moving to Jamshedpur or any adjacent town with her inlaws or Ajay and their kids too.

Nandini’s trauma may then take centre stage as she wasn’t just shown to be assaulted by Ansh but also she was relentlessly stalked and harassed by him, kidnapped and nearly killed. For all we know this may lead to exposing Niyati but also this could be the first time that the topic is explored at least more than it was in S1.

So is it shamelessly repeating what happened already in the previous season? Yes. But could it be still different? Possibly also yes, given that this time around the show doesn’t have as many characters to deal with as it did back then. Because in S1 post the 2nd Gen leap, there was so much going on in terms of subplots with so many villains and even the Viranis themselves that such a topic barely got the attention it deserved and needed in the first place. Because remember back then they tried to reconnect TuHir wherein Ronit had a terrible mop on his head. I mean we had Mandira, Trupti, Meera to a certain point as the primary antagonists, then we had Juhi and Jai as cameos to do the same; factor in that there were oscillating characters like Tanya, Damini, Bhoomi, Eklavya and Manthan as well; that was too much negativity and way too many subplots from all the characters that had been too important prior to this leap itself and the leap brought in new kids who got their own subplots be it Manthan, Lakshya, Joydeep, Bhoomi etc. Back then we had at least 3 reunions themselves to look forward to TuHir, Karan Nandini and Saahil Ganga.

Now with fewer characters and subplots in comparison to back then, maybe they thought exploring this trauma based track was worth it because they could focus on it a lot more than they did in S1 for sure.

So in a way it makes sense more now than it did back then.

Originally posted by: A_Star39

also tulsi said Shobha to stay more

I bet even shobhas arc will start now

We still dont know if shobhas first husband was murdered by ansh

They are def going towards more OG story

Shobha might get the GREATEST UNO reverse blame card in history if they go there!

Abhishek can go - You didn’t come back home for nearly a decade, of course I got tired and ended up having affair/s.

To which Shobha can reply - You killed my first husband!

Fine. I forgive you, let’s forget everything and call it even now, shall we, Shobha?

they can show shobha abhishek shifted to nearby virani house and abhishek taking care of packing etc short and sweet lol

oh yeah the crowded gen 3 drama with the new kids and old vamps. i remember bhoomi exposing mayank, and the flashback where manthan was like ladkiya mujhe pe marti hai ye KT isse better option hai mere paas first and last time bhoomi used her own brains. and that was small hint that bhoomi does care about eklavya as bhai before things went to hell. thank god these 2 didnt pair and started ansh ka temple cause bhoomi had the same plan

yeah definitely the focus was on marital rape, and later killing ansh. nandini went through so much, her safety of a house was gone- ansh would come and go from her mayka, her sasural was ansh's house, when she shifted to tanya's house ansh would come and casually threaten her. now once again her safe house was gone. if ansh came in her dreams rio can easily enter her bedroom or hurt karan or samaira. and ansh would threaten her loved ones, her families didnt trust her fully. even tulsi took her time, its not a blame on anyone bt it did impact nandini. seeing the repeat of same things through rio where he acting overly sweet with everyone, same style mannerism of ansh, rio staying close to karan would make N feel flashback of same stuff. would be intesrsting what she does to protect her peace. would she force karan to move out of virani house? that would be logical. or this time shes like i will be shield of viranis, stay in same house and keep an eye on rio.

the acting of gauri alone makes it worth it. i liked the camera like horror story, it moved and ansh was there like a fcking conjuring jumpscare. audience felt same fear as nandini seeing him suddenly.

would be interesting if nandini starts to be hostile to rio, then warm upto him, bt not completely. that drama would always be there that she cant accept him 100%. so either she sees rio as the nice man he is or if he turns villain she expose him in front of evryone and others support her whenever she faces him

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