Two things occurred to me that I canât help but share.
1) This season of Kyunki sorely lacks a comic relief character. Previously we had Daksha, followed by Indu and later Mohini. All these women were wonderfully funny and effortlessly evoked laughter while they had distinct personalities and their humour was also very different from each other. Daksha is the OG but Indu and Mohini didnât follow in her footsteps and become cheap copies or substitutes of her as they tried to imitate or replicate Dakshaâs tone, mannerisms or even personality. They were themselves entirely and managed to find their place in this very crowded ensemble with their humour.
This season though Daksha has returned a few times, sheâs not been utilised as she was before and thereâs no other character who has been created to tickle our funny bone.
Itâs either good or evil characters but nothing in between. No grey and certainly no funny characters so far in a cast thatâs so huge which is kinda pathetic if you ask me.
2) The other thing that I couldnât help but ponder over was the fact that this whole arc of Rio v/s Parth which is being setup in a way couldâve genuinely been interesting to watch had it been a younger actor who played Rio. Nature versus nurture has been a point in pretty much all shows of Balaji but Kyunki certainly is the flagship show for that and Karan is the character who ushered in this wave across the board once he was accepted by the audiences and the template was pretty much blindly aped and replicated across all Balaji shows, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didnât. YHM was entirely based on this premise in a way if you think about it with Ishita and Shagun being the two women who mothered Ruhi and Aditya.
Karan proved that someone can be a child of yours without sharing your blood, the one who effortlessly takes after you and lives up to your ideals, expectations and hopes when it comes to your children while Ansh proved that sharing blood isnât enough to make someone your child in all the ways that matter and count.
Karan is biologically now Parthâs father, and he has raised Rio. Nandiniâs the mother who has raised Parth though he is Tanyaâs by blood. Niyati so far has been seen as a doting mother and her reaction to SN and finding out that she has a humongous family of in-laws has also been pretty positive and decent. She genuinely tries to fit in though she seems a bit off and overexcited but that maybe because she knows sheâs missed out on so much for so long and she wants to feel included in what already feels like a close knit huge joint family. She didnât once ask Karan anything about hiding such a huge family from her and Rio, neither was she snobbish or off-put by the numbers. She even was shown working with the other women in the family and dancing in celebration. Even though sheâs failed to recognise Tulsi, when Tulsi turned up at her place before Rio was shown, we saw how she saw a stranger feeling distressed and was kind enough to offer her water rather than shutting the door in her face. Even when she offered water she didnât make Tulsi wait at the doorstep vary of a stranger, but she warmly invited her in for the same.
Her choice in men aside, she does seem like a decent woman so far but that can change in a heartbeat as we know. But so far it does seem with the kind of way she behaves that she has raised her son well and Karan has stepped in as a father to do his part when it comes to teaching Rio things that only a father can teach a son. The fact that Rio despite knowing the truth cannot bring himself to hate Karan or even shun him tells us that Karan was a good role model and Rio really does love and respect him because he has been treated well by Karan.
They couldâve made this track genuinely been fun had two sons raised by Karan with two seemingly different women who are good mothers going toe to toe to prove themselves as the better son and Karanâs true successor with both sharing the blood of someone who makes them also stand on an even footing of sorts when it comes to the possibility of falling down a slippery slope. Rio already knows the truth about his biological father but Parth is yet to know the same about his biological mother from the looks of it. For the two of them to find out that Ansh and Tanya once worked together to split Karan Nandini apart might have been such a shocker. The conflict to prove themselves better while struggling with their respective identities being dismantled by the truth of their biological parentage as both men have Karanâs upbringing as a father wouldâve made the competition compelling too.
Heck a love triangle with the two cousins vying for the same girl as they both have Karanâs values but are now twisted in their heads by the revelation of the past of their parents wouldâve also made things spicy. Neither boy necessarily wouldâve had to be like Ansh who forces himself upon Vaishnavi but rather both are so different yet good in their respective ways that she canât really understand which way her heart is tilting wouldâve also made for a perfect love triangle. But alas, none of the new actors can act let alone have chemistry and every time Aakashdeep appears onscreen he seems such a mismatch with his characterâs onscreen age and the characterâs personality also pretty much makes him seem like a mini Ansh in the making already given his views on what happened to Nandini and the blind defence of his father while not once thinking that this man essentially used and dumped his mother, married another woman and fathered a child on her too besides Nandini. If a man is capable of doing this to two other women including his mother, then is he to be defended in any way? Does he deserve any love or loyalty from Rio at all just because they share blood? Is blood all that makes a man your father or his upbringing, love and presence as well as support do? Parth could have the same dilemma only, he would have them regarding his mothers not his father.
Such potential but âŚ. 
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