Originally posted by: arivarshi
 
I love Anuj but I am starting to feel that the show is shifting focus from Anupamaa a bit. The focus is now on the love angle and I make this point to highlight the fact that the same thing happened to this show TSBTSP, with Anurag's entry the focus shifted from Kajol and was put on the Love angle. All fangirls came out and started screaming Anjol and Anjol is not bad but why is it that a show is supposed to have a love story as it's focal point. I have seen old shows like Adhikaar, Swabhimaan or Shanti which were about a woman's dignity and struggle. And even if they introduced a love interest it never shifted from the story. I miss such gems.
In Naamkaran the story completely changed, it was supposed to be about Barkha's character and her sacrifices for her love as it was based on a movie with a similar plot. And Avni's struggle to get her mother's sacrifice recognised should have followed but what followed was a love story of Avni and Neil. And Neil treated Avni badly because of the MUs, Raghbir too at times treated Pragati badly and my favourite Zain also divorced Aaliya on the basis of a misunderstanding. But they are not held responsible they are forgiven or given a redemption track or their acts are explained away as derived from the pain of betrayal or hurt but no one makes a point about the fact that the ML never gave the FL the chance to explain or tried to understand her action/actions. Here there is just a role reversal, Kajol is misunderstanding Anurag so I guess it is fine. She has the right to be a toxic female but her history with Arjun's betrayal gives her every right to reject Anurag because she had given Arjun the benefit of doubt multiple times.
Anurag also acted like a jerk so many times before shouting, mistreating and misunderstanding Kajol multiple times. He is just getting his due. 
But the problem is that the writers are not writing this with this idea in mind. They are just creating twists for the sake of twists. And we are getting a good just desserts scenario by accident.