Originally posted by: Deluna
There can't be any hisaab barabar lol. What Abhinav did was in the capacity of a stranger who solely wanted to keep a lady safe so that she can give her baby a life. He didn't have any idea or even interest of making a family with her in the 9 month period. But with Abhi, it's mostly his want to get Akshara and Abhir back in his life. The baby is just an extra for him. Honestly, I don't want the baby with Birla or Goenka. She should be a Sharma. Birla people are bunch of criminals at this point. And Goenka people never knew what parenting means. Hope she lives in Kasuali as a Sharma.
Abhimanyu has to marry and take care of this baby. Actually the whole story post WD is his redemption and unless he undo the wrong doing on WD, his redemption will not be complete. Else, he will not die a hero/protagonist.
If you see the character of Dr Birla, he was a grey character since episode 1 (he had anger issues, disrespected his father, tried to control everything as per his wish, his behaviour during Arohi wedding 1.0 with him, and his justification of all wrong doings of Manjari finally leading to WD, divorcing and throwing out wife while she was at the lowest and un knowingly she kicked out a pregnant woman, which would have been fatal to her and baby. Don't compare that with Akshara's intention of taking Neil out. In this situation, he was angry and there was no emergency. And he remained angry with her for many years)
In any story, a writer writes his/her characters with a few personal traits, and they take a few arc for character progression and keep the audience hooked. So our protagonist started off as grey, they gave him a "fallen hero arc" with the events leading to WD and sending Akshara out. Later they have to redeem him to keep him as protagonist till the end of the story. Abhinav was introduced as an extremely different character of Abhi as a part of this redemption only. Remember, he was a cameo, not a parallel lead. Akshara getting married and falling in love with Abhinav is also a part of redemption of Abhi.
First step of redemption of any character arc is "realisation" of wrong doing. Abhi realised his mistake after she saw a happy Akshara in a small family unit of Kasauli. Second is "repent" wrong doing. He was shown repenting after he learned about Abhir truth and the sufferings Akshara had to go through in keepings Abhir safe. He is still shown as repenting. Thirdly, he has to undo the wrong doings by his actions. His wrong action must had put Abhir and Akshara's life at stake. Now he has to undo that by saving this baby and Akshara. Then only his redemption will be complete. And to complete that, this marriage has to happen and Abhi has to break away from Manjari for that.
Many people consider sufferings of the protagonist after his/her wrong doing as redemption. That is actually only Karma (realisation and repent stage alone) and most of the Indian dramas stop at that level. Most of them simply white wash the characters by suddenly making them a good soul, even without a proper apology (as happened in Arohi case, suddenly she realised she can't love anyone other than Neil).
I have not seen a complete redemption arc in any Indian drama (Sorry. I don't have much experience with Indian dramas). Imlie they have tried for partial redemption of Aditya Kumar Tripathi while he saved Imlie and Aryan and they made the character exit afterwards. Katha Ankahee is a better one where they have done a better job of realisation and repent by Viaan and I hope they will redeem him fully by the end of the show.
PS: Every character arc depends on how the writer perceive of the characters and story. And in this case, writer is not considering Akshara as majorly wrong (in WD or Abhir truth), writer is perceiving her actions as a reactions to Abhimanyu's actions. That's why they have shown only a bit of character growth in her, keeping her original traits of sacrifices and gratitude in tact.
OFC, Akshara also suffered and she got her Karma of her share of mistakes while she lost her one unborn baby, being kicked out, sufferings on toofani raat, Abhir's health and finally custody case. Now also she lost her husband while she is pregnant with his baby. Karma does not spare anyone. But the character Akshara was not given "fallen hero arc" but she was shown doing her share of mistakes and so she will have only Karma in her fate, not redemption.
These are my perceptions of story from my own understanding. I am not fan of any character. And to me, Akshara and Abhimanyu are protagonists and if they want to end Abhi as a positive character, he has to undergo complete redemption. Any one feel free to disagree, in any of my thoughts please
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