and you anu did a great job of it...
no certainly he is not a ideal example to show what or how a father should be...
when the show started this was not the character of bauji that was put forth to us..
he was one who was shown to bring smile on his daughters faces to lighten up their fears
...fears of facing a world outside their known space....
he cannot be the same bauji who does not believe in his daughter's judgment and neither his own
upbringing....he is shown biased ....heavily biased...he does not trusts nupur's intelligence, her faith and her love for mayank ...nor gives mayank a moment to explain his point and declares him misfit for his daughter over a situation that he knows not completely of....
ok he does not agree of mayank but that does not mean that the very next moment he agrees to marry off his daughter to anyone of his choice and not just he demands nupur to forget mayank but does even bother to ask her opinion on the major most decision of her life and passes on his judgment...
even when mayank tries to explain to him that they din't plan to marry and nupur had decided that she wont hurt him ..rather do as he wished..instead of thinking about the pain he is putting his daughter into and being proud of having her ...he goes on to tell mayank that if she had not chosen me over you she could have lost me forever..god what kind of father blackmails his child to act to his whims..
when eventually he asks mayank to marry nupur that to is for his own selfish reasons not for her happiness alone.....
and instead of understanding ..cherishing and being proud of having got a son-in-law like mayank..who like a true man stood by his daughter...showed his respect to him and takes responsibility of his love and his actions and marries nupur then and there...he goes on to insult him rather than give him/them his blessings....
even with gunjan in hospital there is shown no change in him ..he still is same towards mayank....not even after seeing his daughter happily settled and seeing her man do all that in his hands and beyond to keep her pleased moves him a bit...
he accepts nupur that too is coz of gunjan not for nupur alone.....
i can go on and on about him ...but remembering all the past episodes makes me so angry that i better stop before my comments get termed as character bashing...hope it has not already turned into one