Originally posted by: Paulaonohi
I wonât say Iâm in the minorityâŚbecause Iâve talked to others who have similar viewsâŚI just think those that have different views from this chat (or x) in particular are silentâŚbecause there is no point to get into a space that looks difficult to enter. But I couldnât help but want to share my thoughts today. So, Here are my thought.
1. I like Jhanak and Vihaan actually. If we are being honest, their format is actually the basic template for couple characters in any show. I believe that audience wonât find it hard to migrateâŚespecially when people start comparing Bose house to this oneâŚand there is the baby too..plus I donât believe Vihaan is bad at all. I think that he has experienced loss is a great complement to Jhanak who has similar experiences.
2. There is the issue of sidelining AniâŚ.which isnât necessarily true. I feel like makers are setting it up to be two-couple. And I feel like this doesnât erase that the title of this show is Jhanak. It enhances itâŚ.its not Ani and JhanakâŚitâs Jhanak meeting people along the way in her life, important or not. Aniruddh would always be important to her as he was her first love - his character is allowed to be someone she can recall fondly as she grows. And Jhanak is just 21, meaning there are years ahead of her.
3. Arshi. Arshi has been the primary obstacle between Ani and JhanakâŚ.the character has been complex because she is right in some places and wrong in others - just like the two leads are. None has not done something that is not morally ambiguous and someone looking in could question - but the main gripe people have with arshi is her actions to Ani that led to her pregnancy and to me, her inability to follow through with good decisions. In my opinion, Arshi is someone who seeks validation from others and so she is easily prodded by her mom and she also doesnât seem to have an inherent self of stability or order except from Ani. There was no way she was going to be the mature person who was going to let go of Ani easilyâŚand when it seemed like she had no choice but to leave, her pregnancy brought her back. Despite saying she wanted revenge, she switched immediately after the marriage. That will be discussed below.
4. It is the honest truth that whether you agree with anyoneâs character or not, to say Arshi doesnât love Ani isnât true. You can say she is not the one he wants to love him. You can say she isnât loving right. You canât say there is no love from her side and neither can you say there WAS no love from aniâs side as the show established. What this means is that rekindling from both isnât impossible because there was a time of earth it was both ways for eight years - which is A LONG time. When I watched Arshiâs scene at the party last night, I couldnât stomach it. It felt too strange and greasy and in my head, I said she is doing something useless again. But when I saw her scene with shristi and Tanuja, I felt much better. As a viewer, I felt arshi had lost potential by not leaving ani and listening to her mother. So whatever the future is, it felt better to see her make a good decision and not some useless drama.
5. It seems they want to switch Arshi and her reason is sound. She is having a kid and she might be thinking a lot, even if not to really be good, but just at least to be good in her childâs eyes. If Arshi can take it a step further and tell Ani what she did and talk with him, in my opinion, it doesnât matter if he goes to Jhanak and she leaves or whatever, for some reason, Arshi is not going to end up badly even if she is alone.
6. The real villain to me is Shristi (she was a bad mom to both and is not good) as well as concepts of class and âwhat it means to be goodâ. If ITV were realistic, this show would have us end with some philosophical understanding that people make mistakes, people change, people meet and separate. I would wish that arshi could be placed as a tool to spear Shristiâs side because when she finally turns against her (like Ani had wished), Shristi would finally lose everything. It would be cool to see Arshi work with Jhanak to expose her - because not even arshi is safe from her and if makers keep arshi with this sort of awareness, the idealized âversion of loveâ between ani and Jhanak is going to keep losing staying power.
6. It might hit hard but in my opinion, Aniruddh is very predictable. He so obviously has a type he caters too. He was with arshi for 8 years and knowing her, he loved her regardless and must have put up with her biases because of his emotions. Note that his reservations about her didnât stop him from dating her, buying a ring and kneeling to propose (I assume heâs the one that did lol). Then he met Jhanak and it was like everything changed. But everything didnâtâŚ.he just met someone who had values he had that arshi didnât have, but that didnât mean he had to love her. The key was that Arshi seemed to amplify her biases with Jhanak around and even though in my opinion, Aniruddhâs deceit came through here, itâs fact that we can assume that if arshi had acted the opposite of what she did from the start, Ani wouldnât have liked Jhanak. Thatâs what the show has established. Itâs not that Ani didnât love Arshi, itâs that her actions pushed him away. If this same Arshi starts doing the right things with a baby on the way, Iâm sorry to say but Aniruddh doesnât cut me as the guy that wouldnât grow into happiness over time. Thatâs why I have been starting to think of the title âJhanakâ more often these days and how makers meant it when they said it was about her and her journey to dance rulershipâŚAni, arshi, Appu, shristi, viaan, bose houseâŚin the end, they are all people she met on the way and that made her become a better person than she was, whether through the joy or trials they gave her
7. Then again, I could be doing too much. This is ITV and itâs common for makers (and audience) to rush and throw deep themes for something surface level. If everyone was calm and makers were credible, it would be simple. For example, I would like arshi to be punished after birth. I would like shristi to frame her for something (in order not to be in jail) or at least promise to help her out if she takes blame only to blame her in publicâŚIâm here for punishment scenes, Iâm here for discussions between ani and arshi and Jhanak and vihaanâŚ.i donât even dig trp well but Iâm telling you trp would be crazyâŚcan you imagine what amazing writing that would look likeâŚgosh im wishing too much nowâŚbut oh well I just wanted to write.
Iâm a writer and there was a time I used to love Runak, I even wrote fanfiction of them but for some reason, as time went the story kept making the leads look so bad. At one point, I wondered if we would just discover that Jhanak was intentionally acting this way and I was frustrated with Arshiâs stupid actions as well as Aniruddhâs inability to reflect on his own person. The only person I even liked was shristi because she was bad and she was solidly bad. Because I write, I canât handle badly written characters. There was only so much the good looks of Aniruddh and jhanak could do for me (And as hard it might be to some of you to hear, the truth is that Arshi is also attractive and at least, if she doesnât say something stupid, she doesnât look bad beside Ani. Therefore, despite anyoneâs feelings, that pair doesnât feel hard on the eyes either in the looks department. And I donât even think vihaan is unattractive, so to me, all the four I have my eyes on look good in my eyes).
Now, I finally saw the promos and returned, Iâm keeping my fingers crossed for whether this would be the usual or not.
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