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I am tired of seeing this poor child Kulfi being used to further other people's happiness all the time. Since she came to Sikander's house, she has been relentlessly exploited, first for her voice to ghost-sing for Amayra and launch her music career, and now again so that Amayra's spoilt little heart does not break with her father and mother's divorce. In between this time period, Kulfi was maltreated by Lovely, who abused her emotionally. Only during the Tevar period did little Kulfi know some happiness, and could come to her own as a confident young girl.
Tevar is out of the picture now, and everything is back to square one. Kulfi yearns to be part of the family and be acknowledged by Sikander as his child but has to hang back repeatedly, hiding her tears and pretending to be happy for this so-called happy family with Amyra at the center. Really speaking Amyra, much like her mother, holds Sikander hostage for her needs in the name of love. She is in denial of the fact that her parents do not really get along as they have a marriage of convenience. She is unaware of the irony that the father she does not wish to share is not her father at all. Amyra does not see that her mother's constant manipulations and lies have contributed to the breakdown of her parents' marriage. Finally in asking for an impossible sacrifice, Amyra is totally centered on herself, oblivious of Kulfi's desires and needs.
As though there were not enough negativity already in the plot, Gunjan is on a warpath to break up Lovely and Sikander. While I am not unsympathetic to her cause I do not condone the means she is using to gain her ends, competing with young children, and teaming up with bad villains such as Tony Chaddha. To break up Sikander's marriage is not hard for Gunjan. She can simply tell Sikka that Kulfi is his child and that Lovely has been hiding this all along from him in addition to all the other things she has lied to him about. Instead, Gunjan is going on a strange and circular route, for which there is no rhyme or reason. The whole thing is as ludicrous as Gunjan sneaking into the school and dressing up as Santa Claus to spy on Kulfi and Amyra. Weird.
Finally Bebe and Mohinder need to go on a pilgrimage to cleanse their souls and to free themselves of the burden of hiding a truth that they could have revealed a long time ago. Besides, they are just acting like props, and, much like the furniture, are unable to say anything at all.
What a strange turn of events all this is --a far cry from Kulfi's search for her father and her love of music. Neither is at the center now, replaced as the plot is with useless shenanigans, contrived love-stories, and villains. Om shanti.
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