Hi! I was always curious why garima/madhumati treated khushi more harshly than payal in some situations. Because i thought that at least garima might be a little wary of payal too, cause payal isn't her child either (right??? I thought that payal was from shashi's previous marriage) i guess what im asking is whats your take on the differences in which khushi vs payal were treated by their family??? I've been wanting to ask for a while!
Hey @ayyashi :)
Payal was introduced as Shashi and Garima’s daughter, and it was only during the Dadi track that it was changed so she was his daughter from an earlier marriage. I think the inconsistency is mostly due to changes made so that Payal’s legitimacy as Shashi’s daughter wasn’t in question (that is, so that the revelation that Garima was Arnav’s father’s mistress didn’t mean that she could have been Arnav and Anjali’s half sister).
However, if we pretend that Payal was always Shashi’s daughter from a previous marriage then Garima and Madhumati’s treatment of Khushi takes on another dimension.
Madhumati, as Shashi’s sister, would probably always see his daughter as a part of her family. They still share blood. In contrast, Madhumati doesn’t seem to see Khushi as part of her family, with Khushi being Shashi’s wife’s (Garima’s) sister’s daughter.
Garima would’ve known about Payal before she was married to Shashi, and probably thought of Payal as her own. Or at the very least, she knew that Payal came part-and-parcel with Shashi. With the scandal surrounding her and Arnav’s father, Garima may have needed to get married pretty quickly. She went into that situation with her eyes wide open, whereas she sort of had raising her sister’s daughter thrust upon when she may have not been ready for it. She may have started resenting Khushi a little bit.
Ultimately, I feel Madhumati didn’t see Khushi as her family in the beginning, and I think Garima sort of expected Khushi to be more like Payal (sedate, obedient, sacrificial) because she hadn’t been ready to raise two daughters instead of one and may have resented her a tiny little bit.
