I feel that the hate towards sirat is very unfair and unjustified. It's also very unfair to kartik to say he forgot naira or that he replaced her with sirat. Many times during the sirat track we were shown kartik always remembering naira and even after his marriage to sirat, he and also the rest of the family would fondly mention naira and remember what she has meant to them, how she brought the family together and how she perfectly balanced house, career, and kids. Even now in this new gen akshu has mentioned naira number of times.. Whenever she says mumma, she means naira not sirat. The other day kairav also remembered his mother only when he said, first i was without my dad, then when I got him I lost my mother, then atleast there was sirat but I lost her too. So the kids and family are pretty clear on their priorities and emotions, its only the viewers who are so disconnected. Most of those who are hating sirat have probably not watched the episodes where her story was developed because she was naira's lookalike but not naira and that for some reason seems unforgivable to them. To be fair to the makers, while kartik - naira's love story was hyped into some eternal bond, when they were showing kartik marrying sirat it wasn't shown as a love that was greater than the other. Kartik was just a man who had lost his beloved wife and who happened to meet someone who he befriends because of kairav. Its kairav who bonds strongly with sirat who is a mother figure to him and then kartik is forced into a closer relationship with her because of that. Gradually he knows more of her circumstances and how deprived and difficult her life has been so develops a deep sympathy for this girl who has the passion to pursue her ambition despite the odds. That is how the story goes. Then sirat marries her old bf who dies and she faces murder charges brought against her by her fil who had not wanted his son to marry her so was now revenging. Kartik being the only friend she has and by that time he had also formed a close friendship with sirat's husband who was now dead, helps her through all this crisis. And they just get closer. He also helps sirat to realize her dream of becoming a national boxing champion alongside. He does all this because he was always a very empathetic and compassionate person from the time we saw him first in the show. He has no other feelings but he is only very grateful to sirat because she had saved kairav's life twice, one of the times by risking her own. So he is grateful and he genuinely respects her too. In his own words...insaniyat aur dosti ka rishta tha.. Why is that bad? And in the course of their relationship he finds that he is a little less lonely and his kids are so much happier with sirat in their lives than without. Over time, more than a year according to the show timeline, not just 3 months as someone said, he finds he is even able to love her, not in the place of naira, never that... but as someone who has made another place for herself in his heart... Sirat had already realized much earlier that she loved kartik but had kept her feelings to herself. So now when kartik also comes to the same page they get married and sirat accepts kairav and akshu like her own. In fact she even says to kartik one time that he could not be more important for her than kairav because she just had something very special with him and it was because of him that she had got all this happiness...she was always very respectful to Naira's memory too and ever aware of wht she had been go kartik as well as the family. Sirat actually loved akshu more it seemed to me than even aarohi and her telling akshu to take care of her was just as any parent says to the older child to take care of the younger siblings, like kairav cared for both his younger sisters. It was not by way of discrimination. She always used to support akshu against aarohi because akshu was a very soft and docile girl while aarohi was bold and outspoken.. She never expected that akshu should just bend over for aarohi.
Now the producers deal with more things than just the story in the show.. They have to consider the trps and the demands and regulations of the channel as well. So now they are remaking the bengali serial iche nodee as the third generation story of yrkkh.. And sadly, it has no flow with the earlier concept of the show. So since they are following that story now, to go back and hate sirat is not only silly but unfair also. I'm sorry if I am hurting sensibilities but I always felt that sirat was unfairly bashed...people say she has no connection to original akshara.. Yes that maybe but she does have a connection to akshara's story because she is the second mother to her grandchildren. It was a natural progression in the story after they suddenly killed naira. Now as to why they did that is a topic for another debate. having to do with trps and other technicalities, not with the aesthetics of the show...
As a discerning audience I feel we should keep these things in mind as well so that we can understand the characters and the stories better and not get too caught up in the drama that we fail to form balanced viewpoints.
Sorry for the rant.. Just wanted to put my perspective across because I don't have any takers for itšš
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