Originally posted by: bajarbattu
A luxurious and comfortable upbringing is not a recipe for happiness. Goenkas compensated Ruhi with obsessive love and fulfilment of all her wishes even the most ridiculous ones (throwing Akshara out of their home) for her most grave loss. Grave as per their thinking.
This encouraged the child to develop abnormal thoughts about love, ownership in relations, family and subservience.
It may be Abhira's story in Gen 4, but when the big revelation happens about Abhira being a Goenka, there is going to be more trouble for Ruhi than for Abhira. Abhira may be immatured, but her mother has passed on to her a sense of compassion and understanding of people's needs. Abhira will be able to get herself together faster than Ruhi, who will most probably crack under the pressure of asking for the unthinkable as a child. (she confessed on holy day, that she missed her Akshara maasi the most, and they showed the scenes where Ruhi was having mutually affectionate moments with her maasi) And Abhira being her mum's daughter and with her Maheshwari-Singhania ancestry would move heaven and earth to let Ruhi have that attention from both the families. She will have by then understood that Ruhi behaves like a clinging vine because of her own insecurities. In that way Abhira even though she is younger than Ruhi, is the stronger personality.
I agree on her love for Armaan being superficial... But the problem is that this can be said about Armaan too. Both fell for each other because they liked each other for their looks. It was literally love at first look. This maybe love, but not the everlasting kind of love, not the 7 janam wala love. That kind of love grows and deepens over time. It deepens because of time spent together, experiencing each other over serious obstacles in the mutual relationship.
It is the reason for Armaan's weaning interest in Ruhi and rising affection for Abhira. Even when he is shown being lost in eye contact with Ruhi, it is because of her looks. Not because of her as a person. While in Abhira's case, his growing affection is because of her as a person. Even her irritating ways have become a habit for him, he misses her when he is alone. I actually love their slow burn romance. This one is going to burn in the fires that are created by Dadisa and Fufasa and just become more golden.
I love the layered story of these four - Armaan - Abhira - Rohit - Ruhi ................. Its going to make for many many tracks and hopefully we get to see a longer Gen 4 story. So many possibilities.
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much love, light and laughter,
Battu.
Very well write up. I believe abhira will be the one to get her out of her trauma and help her out.
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