Someone made a thread about which non-romantic relationship was the best and that gave me this idea. Which character on YRKKH had the most growth on the show?
For me, it would be Rajshri and Vishambhar. When they started out in YRRKH, they were absolutely against love marriage as a concept. Rajshri was also strict with Akshara about meeting boys. Slowly they grew with the times. Vishambhar was the one to advocate for Anshu and Jasmeet's inter-community marriage. They then participated in Rose and Yash's interracial marriage. And then on YRHPK, they were such fierce, feminist parents for Mishti. Rajshri urged Mishti to stop her wedding with Nannu and recognized that the Maheshwaris were inadvertently pressurizing her to get married, something she would never have done on YRKKH with Akshara or even Ananya. Vishambhar took Mishti home from the Rajvansh house after she was humiliated by her mother-in-law over her inability to conceive. He put his daughter's self-respect first instead of her "sasural." Even when Akshara went blind due to her accident and Naitik was in over his head in taking care of her, Vishambhar put Akshara's well-being first and took her home rather than try to appease her husband and in-laws.
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