First of all, hello! My name is Meera, and I have not been active on this forum until recently, but I think you can count on me being a little bit more active as things are ramping up to the MishBir wedding in the show. I've been following this forum closely, and I absolutely love how everyone is analyzing the characters and plotlines, and bringing a depth to the show that I never thought was possible. So thank you!
Moving on, this might make some people mad, but I just thought I should voice my thoughts on this and see what you think:
In my opinion, Kuhu is probably the most accurate representation of a human being on the show. This is not me condoning all of the things she has done so far, or praising her for all of the bad decisions she's made, but me noticing that out of everyone, her character has had the most realistic reactions to the things that have happened to her. Now hear me out:
- When Mishti moves in as a child, Kuhu immediately goes from being everyone's little princess to having to share the spotlight with a girl that she doesn't even know. It appears that, instead of addressing this right away, Kuhu's family just kind of brushed it off, and assumed that Kuhu would be so accepting of this huge change in her life. This is precisely why Kuhu and Mishti faked being sisters all of those years. Because no one ever bothered to ask Kuhu how she felt about this from the beginning itself (which will come to be a recurring theme throughout the rest of their lives). This is completely natural. If someone completely unknown to you barges into your life one day, and no one explains to you properly as to why, wouldn't you hold a grudge against that person, wondering why you had to share attention from the rest of the family with a stranger?
- Kuhu has a ton of insecurities that have gone completely unaddressed. For one, she found out at a young age that she was an illegitimate child, and she has been subconsciously carrying around the emotional trauma she sustained from that experience ever since. To add to that, her self esteem is again badly hurt when she is rejected by Meenakshi for Kunal, and Mishti is chosen over her. No one bothered to ask Kuhu how she felt about that. Instead, everyone's attention was immediately shifted to Mishti and Kunal . And finally, when the relationship with Kunal bounces back to her, Mishti says that "maine tujhe Kunal bheek mein diya". Although Mishti didn't mean it, and she was saying it under coercion (thanks BB), you don't just forget something like that. It sticks with you, at least subconsciously. This will obviously further fuel Kuhu's dislike for Mishti.
- When Kuhu's fairytale comes crashing down around her after Kunal screams at her on their wedding night that he doesn't love her, and never will, she is immediately forced to put up a front for everyone, pretending that everything is just dandy. The one man that promised her a way out of an environment in which she was always second to someone, the one man that she loved and cared for deeply, is the same man to yank away all of her dreams from under her feet. This takes a serious emotional toll on her, and instead of dealing with it in a healthy way by talking to someone about it, she takes it out on Mishti, the object of her rage. In Kuhu's eyes, Mishti is responsible for her broken marriage, and while this isn't necessarily true, it boils down to perspective. From Kuhu's POV, Meenakshi and Kunal cheated her only because they wanted to separate Mishti and Abir, reducing Kuhu to just... collateral damage. So naturally, her jealousy and anger bottled up from years past will bubble up and overflow at this point. Again, Kuhu is reduced to a barely-there human being whose emotions are simply not worth caring about. And to put icing on the cake, Kuhu's marriage is set to expire the day Mishti gets her happily ever after.
So in conclusion, yes, Kuhu is jealous of Mishti. One hundred percent. I'm not even denying it. But just ask yourself, wouldn't you be jealous too? Isn't it basic human nature to crave attention? To crave love? And when the one person you've known for the longest time and is close to you has all of those things and more without having to even try, wouldn't you feel envious of that?
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