I used to watch this show when it first started. I gave up after the leap when the story went ahead with Naksh and Naira and so on. I kind of kept myself updated a little bit when Naksh and Keerti's story played out because it touched on the issue of domestic abuse. The show did not interest me post then even after Harshad Chopda entered. I'd watched his earlier shows and liked his presence. However that wasn't enough to lure me back.
Anyway the reason why I'm making this post is the disgusting, archaic and regressive lines given to the characters in today's episode. I have been following this last development of Akshara's pregnancy simply because, for a change, it is about a woman moving on. It is about the consequences that a man, who is deeply in love with his ex, would have to face in that situation. I found it just a tad intriguing and so I have been keeping track.
I am not sitting in moral judgment on these characters, like most real humans they're all deeply flawed too. So I am not bothered about who ends up with whom.
However this whole nonsense of a parent's love being more genuine and deep only if the child is biologically his or hers makes me sick to the core.
We live in 2023 for God's sake!
This is the era of surrogacy, sperm and egg donation and what not. People are willing to spend lakhs if not more for a child that is even partly theirs in some way. Husbands who are infertile don't have a problem about using sperm donors. Wives who cannot procreate are willing to go with egg donors and surrogacy.
Then there is the much larger issue, that if adoption. I personally know two families that chose to adopt their second child. Both families have not differentiated in any way between their biological child and the adopted one. Seeing them all together is heart warming as also life-affirming.
Against this real world, you have a mother go and propose to her ex and now would-be daughter-in-law that she should abort her foetus and that she won't be doing justice to her ex and now would-be husband and her first born or else. And you have another mother, a cruel one albeit and one that pushed her biological child away to prove herself devoted to her husband's children from his first marriage, agreeing with this. And they try to make these arguments so convincing and insist that they have the couple-to-be's interests at heart. When in truth, they are small-minded people with a warped sense of right and wrong. I almost puked listening to the mother go on about how one can never love a child with whom one has no biological connection as much you would love your own blood. Ladies, there are enough people out there who love their pets, who are a different species altogether, as much if not more than their biological children.
Manjari is a character filled with bitterness from what I understand. She has had to deal with her husband's infidelity for a lifetime. She has tried to be a better person by bringing the product of that infidelity into her home. However the cruel streak in her ensured she kept the truth from the biological father who treated the child as worse than dirt. Even while trying to boost her own sense of self by being there for the child and loving him, she has done injustice to him by making him feel beholden to her for something that is in truth his legal right.
She is now viewing this whole situation between the leads through this lens. While our life experiences do shape our thinking, it would be grossly unfair for us to try and equate those to unequal situations and try to apply our own learnings to the same.
Akshara has not indulged in a pre-marital Or an extra-marital affair. Ergo, she is not Harsh Birla. And Abhimanyu is not Manjari. He is not this person who has to deal with the consequences of an unfaithful partner's actions. He is choosing to become a father to Akshara's unborn child. It is a choice he is making, not something that is being forced on him.
I am not going to get into the nonsense of trying to hide the pregnancy truth from Akshara and Abhimanyu. I am only focusing on the now and here. However, I must say that grand old lady has a far better opinion of Manjari's son than she herself does. She is convinced that Abhimanyu will accept Akshara's unborn child wholeheartedly. While his own mother is convinced that he won't be able to love the child as much as he loves his biological sense.
Sorry to say, either Manjari is projecting her own insecurities on Abhimanyu or she doesn't have much of an opinion of what her son is capable of.
Anyway since all these characters are fictional, the real questions should be asked of the makers.
What kind of regressive crap are you peddling in the name of drama?
The world has moved well past this nonsensical debate on blood vs upbringing. Please spring-clean your minds and get rid of the dusty cobwebs within.
In the name of drama, please don't influence minds and undo the progress that has been made.
If a woman can accept a man with past baggage, so can a man. I am not referring to a child as baggage here, but only traumas, fears and insecurities.
Please do not make women feel guilty about moving on. They have as much of a right to it as men do. The world of relationships is not black and white. Embrace it is all its vibrancy rather than trying to paint it in black and white.
Lastly, let us as an audience engage with the makers and channels by questioning these kinds of regressive plots. Fictional pairings won't damage the thinking of the world we live in as much as such regressive plots and portrayals would!
I don't care who gets together with whom, but please spare us from the toxicity of such dangerously regressive thoughts.
P. S - a humble request.. Let us keep this post only about what has been expressed in it, not about this couple vs that couple. That is of no consequence in the larger scheme of things. I won't be responding to any such comments since I dont follow the show particularly. My limited point is restricted to what was shown and said in today's episode. I found it vile and disturbing and had to express my thoughts. That's all!
when dkp himself promoting concept of khoon wali beti will be future gen lead and turn every sane character insane next gen it's waste to expect anything. To be honest roohi deserves to be lead of next gen.how many people will support this here? 
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