Originally posted by: lagjagale
Manjari's trajectory has been interesting. She was always very adamant about her son's happiness and about him getting married and yeah I feel like she used her health and stress levels to influence Abhi in a LOT of cases. The whole debacle with Ak started with Manjari insisting that Abhi get married, then she messed up and thought he wanted to marry the topper Arohi instead of the singer Akshara. Its the reason people call her kaandmata cause she is the one who ends up causing a lot of issues for Abhi always.
But....her love for him was always superior to everything. She forgave Ak and Arohi for almost killing her and infact persuaded Abhi several times to make up with Ak when the fault was clearly Ak's. She was like a mother to Ak as well and really cared for her. Ak was another kaand person though and created a lot of issues in Birla house and esp in Manjari's life post marriage. This forced Abhi to choose between the two of the them again and again, even though both Manjari and Ak asked him to choose the other. Arohi was the reason that Neil's truth came out, but Manjari blamed Ak for it. Then later when Abhira relationship soured because of it, she herself made Abhi understand and to go make up with Ak. Finally there was the Manjari-Harsh divorce sequence as well.
After the first leap is when Manjari's behavior towards AK changed drastically. She saw Abhi in pain for a whole year and it was clear to her that Ak did it for her brother. She then went into a coma during which the whole sacrifice and then divorce narrative came out. When she got out of the coma she didn't care about the year separation or the reasons Ak had, she just wanted them to be together again and happy. It was only after their divorce news came out that Manjari hardened towards Ak. She didn't care much about the year long sacrifice I think which was a major surprise to us. And then for the reunion she was kind of annoyed with Ak for taking so long to say yes to Abhi. When they finally got back together she explained to Abhi that her fear was that Abhi loved Ak far more than she loved him and this was similar to her relationship with Harsh where she loved him, but he didn't love her.
So after the first leap, Manjari had already started equating Ak to Harsh in the fact that they both didn't care enough and only cared about themselves. While she and Abhi were the lovers who spent their whole lives trying to be enough for them. Then Manjari blamed Ak for Neil's death, which is a lot of the reason Abhi kicked her out cause he didn't want Manjari to get worse. Now with Ak having moved on from Abhi and having a kid from another man, the similarities between her and Harsh are increasing, plus they are entering a marriage of convenience from her end while Abhi hopelessly loves her. So its all ringing a LOT of alarms for Manjari from her own life.
That is why she is behaving like this.
Brilliant analysis 👏. Honestly can't blame Manjari, her actions may be questionable but her intention is to protect her child from pain. For a mother, that's her duty & Manjari is an amazing mom. The only one who unconditionally loves Abhi. Not like matlabi,shallow Ak. But Abhi fails to understand that it's futile to love Ak,she'll give him nothing but pain. She isn't even empathetic to her own child Abhir. That itself says a lot about her.
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