Who should have called Ovi or Armaan?W Pg.15

The debate over whether Ovi should have called her parents in 20 years to clear up things or if Arman should have called her has been going on for some days.

I think the topic needs a thread of its own. So, here it is.

the debate sometimes turns into a debate about an ideal daughter. But in my view the real issue is the throwing out of the window of the most widely held sacred axiom all around the world that parents' love is unconditional.

From where does anyone expect unconditional love in the whole wide world? From parents - they are the ones who offer a child the ultimate source of solace under any circumstance. No matter how big a mistake a person/child makes, normally, he/she has faith that their parents will give them emotional support (not that they will approve of the mistake). Even if the whole world goes against one, normally a person gets strength from the faith that their parents will stand by them whatever they have to go through, even if it is just punishment for their mistake. That is one of the unshakable foundations of life.

Of course, children also do care for and respect their parents. But in fiction or in real life unconditional love is simply not associated with them as it is with parents.

The latest PR track has overturned that one true Pavitra Rishta understanding in the world! Even if Archana and Manav thought that Arjun had been disloyal to Purvi because of Ovi, it was their duty to find out the truth about it without waiting for Ovi to call. When two children have fights, parents try to reconcile them after hearing both sides and not just listen to one and make their decision leaving the other one feeling completely betrayed in the foundational relationship of their life.

In earlier PR tracks, the parents were shown to be normal - Sulo was mad at Varsha when she was going out with her boss, but she went after her to Pune to check what she was doing. Manju and Vinod were mad at Punni about the Mittal incident and even beat her up; but they did not abandon her. What the latest PR track has shown however, puts a question mark on parents' love being unconditional. Armaan did know (or at least had information) that Ovi was with Arjun and had a child. Could they not have tried to learn her side of the story? Yes, Ovi had left them even before her child was born and was not keeping in touch. But it was too soon after her finding about her baby and at least Arman had tried contacting her. This time, none of that in 20 years. Could they not have contacted Arjun or their business associates to find out even about the grand child?

Is it a big crime for a child (which happens to be Ovi in this case), if she expected unconditional support or even just a caring inquiry from the one place in the world from where every normal person expects it?

Soham behaving as a bad parent is understandable from the point of view of the plot in that he is shown as a model of how not to be. But the leads of the show who give it its title and have generally been shown as loving parents? I do not like this turning up-side-down of the sanctity of unconditional parental love even a bit.

Disclaimer: I am really not debating here about any character. So, I will not respond in defense or in criticism of a character. This is only my POV about this particular aspect of the story, not even the whole story. The CVs are actually doing great with the Ankita-Naren track in my POV.

Excellent thread muse! It was def needed! I feel as if both parties should have contacted e/o. It was Armans duty to find out the truth and understand the entire picture before any decision was made. I also think it was Ovi's duty to contact her parents and explain what was goin on. A lot of people will say, well arman have been bad parents to her so she doesn't owe them anything but then what does Arman owe Ovi? She has ignored them and left them out of her life also after the pari issue came out.

Regardless of what Ovi has done or Arman has done, they both owe each other a phone call. They're family. Family always had an obligation to one another in my opinion. In terms of Ovi, i think even if she ddint want to speak to Arman, at least contact Savita or her twin Teju.

Arman have made grave mistakes in Ovi and Soham's case. I put a lot of blame on them but in the end they can't do much when an adult child chooses to live life according to their term like Soham did with the Gauri issue/drinking.

In the end, this track doesn't make sense to me. Children don't pine for their parents and never contact them and parents don't dismiss their children so easily. Nor does a couple divorce over such an issue without any explantion.

In a way, we dont know entirely if Armaan had made any efforts to contact Ovi or vice versa. I think they were both responsible to contact each other. But since Armaan are the parents they are more responsible to contact Ovi. U r right when saying tht parents give unconditional love to their children. They might punish them for a mistake but will never abandon u. So even if Ovi does abandon her parents, they should never abandon her.

Muse nice topic and write up. Happy New Year...I am glad you decided to stay-come back. 😊

My answer is based on reality and facts. Though we know this is PR the fictional show where everything wrong is shown as right..

So with that here is my personal view.

ArMan are lousy parents to their own kids.

They have only supported Purvi and her side or delusional facts..Never bothered to listen to Arjun or call Ovi to clarify the matters..I am going by what they have shown.

As a parent ArMan had an obligation to listen to both their daughters and Damaad to get the facts. But in this silly show PR Archana rules so she only listens to Purvi her fav child and Manav listens to Archana his beautiful wife..Nothing else matters. Bhaad me jaaye rest of the kids or truth. 😳

In gujarati we have a saying "Chhoru kachhoru thay pan maavtar kamaavtar na thay" Parents are to love their children unconditionally and should never abandone them. No matter how bad kids get or wrong they are..As parents are older, wiser and have seen life. Maturity wise they should handle situation better fairly.

Than again in real life I have seen opposite.

Maavtar kamaavtar thaay pan Chhoru kachhoru na thaay.

Parents have disown-abandon a child listening to one of their fav child who is controlling them with money. Butting one child up against the other. Not a good act-decision IMHO.

I do not want any debates, arguments either.

My POV ofcourse..

Armaan .

Great points.

thanks muse for wonderful post and all of u r totally right...all points have strength