Anupama 20th December 2023 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
5 years later
A boy is walking holding thu thu thu stores bag, and knocks at the door calling Joshi behen. She opens the door and takes the vegetable bag from his hand and then gives him another bag and money. She gives him sweets. The boy tells her that Kanti Bhai’s birthday is there in old age home so give some extra sweets. She shows thumbs up and closes the door. The boy thinks he didn’t see her face from 5 years and tells that she is Annapurna avatar.
Vanraj is walking talking on phone wearing suit in a renovated Shah house and says I have meeting at 3 pm and I am busy with my family tomorrow. Baa sings song with Samar’s son and looks at Dimpy making tea using binoculars, and scolds Dimpy. Dimpy brings tea, but Baa ignores her like she used to do with Anupama in the start. Babu ji comes there and stops her swing, and asks her not to do this again. Dimpy gives her tea and asks her son Ansh to come to school. Ansh refuses to go to school. Kavya comes there and sit. Dimpy says your teacher called and said that you didn’t do homework since a week. The boy says you will not decide but Dadu will decide and asks Baa to say. Baa says who gives much home work to small boy and asks Vanraj to go, and scold teacher.
Babu ji says Dimpy will go, being his mother. Vanraj says I will go like I am going since 3 years, and says today he will take off. He silently threatens dimpy that Ansh is his responsibility. Babu ji thinks faces changes, but destiny doesn’t change and says after Anupama, it is Dimpy who is tortured. Vanraj tells that there is puja tomorrow after the renovation work of the house. He says nothing shall be left. Babu ji says shall we call Anupama? Baa asks why shall we call her, she didn’t care for us since 5 years, then why we shall call her. Vanraj says even her photo album has dust on it, we don’t have any relation with her.
Anupama looks at her mother’s photo with garland and cleans the frame. She then looks at her children’s family photo. She keeps her phone and records video to make a dish. She asks the viewers to like and subscribe if they want. Later she is stitching on the sewing machine. Devika comes there. Anupama gets scared, thinking who has come. Devika says she has come and asks her to open the door. Anupama opens the door. Devika gets inside and hugs her. She takes the tab and says you have 1 million followers, and tells that your Joshi ben rasoi is world famous, and says big chefs had tried authentic kathiawadi recipe. She says you are batman who is hiding from everyone, and asks why you are hiding from everyone. Anupama says she has no means to live. Devika says there is no mirror in your house. She asks her not to live like jogan. She says you don’t call or don’t pick the call. Anupama asks her to drink tea. Devika asks why did you lock yourself and says your divorce happened with Anuj, you didn’t die.
Anupama says I couldn’t give my life. Devika says you are not fine, and asks her to take the wings. She gives her America’s work permit and tickets. She tells that she has forwarded her recipe to a restaurant and they liked it and hired her as chef. She says she has done all the formalities. Anupama asks I can’t go as I send food to old age home daily and….Devika asks her not to lose her life. Anupama asks how can I go alone? Devika says when you can stay alone here since 5 years, then you can fly too. Vanraj gives jewellery boxes to Baa and says people shall see his luxury life. Baa asks why did you spend so much. He says when he can spend lakhs of Rs on renovation then can’t I spend some on gifts. Ansh asks about playstore. Vanraj gives him. Kavya tells Dimpy that Ansh will get spoilt this way. Dimpy reminds her what happened last time, and tells that they love him a lot. She asks her to call her son from hostel.
Kavya says she is doing this for his betterment. She says she returned for her son, and then asks her to think about her life. Dimpy says I can’t upset Papa. Kavya asks did you forget Tapish. Devika meets Babu ji and tells that she had met Anu, and says I made her understand, and left decision on her. She says I want her to get out of the captivity, and says she has become like alive dead body and if this continues, then she will die. She says she has stopped living and says she has to flow and fly again. Babu ji says she will fly. America is calling her since a long time. Anupama opens the window and looks outside.
Precap: Anupama tells that she has to stay away from relations, she knows. She gets in the flight. A guy shows her joshi ben recipe on his tab. Anupama tells herself that she has reached America.
Update Credit to: MA
57 Comments
Pathetic
People call anupamaa a doormat..
Thn what is dimpy nd kavya? Despite being educated nd modern y are they so dependent on shah house nd scared of vanraj?
We thought vanraj nd baa will be shown totally ruined after leap.. But seems he is living his best life 😒 karma never comes to him
dimpy is scared because vanraj using his money powers will get the son’s custody if she oposses him
kavya is not scared she just need fam support she does not want orphan life
@yrkkh_era if dimpy lacks common sense? No law on earth will separate a just born from his mother.. But she chose to live with shahs..
Nd lol kavya does not want orphan life lol what a justification.. Is she another shefali birla?
Areh yaar in ITv women are doormats only be it the wife or the vamp trying to steal her husband. They run behind 1 man and his family like they are Bhagwan for them. No woman on itv loves herself
Okay…so dimpy loved a guy wholeheartedly and married him by eloping but as he left her ,she fell in love with Samar within one month then loved him deeply but he died and then within one month she fell for another guy.what a joke that dimpy is.She is just like akshu who can’t live without a man.
Can’t believe Anu and Anuj got divorced so sad..then her mother died too much for 1 person atleast she has Devika as friend there is always light at the end of the tunnel all the best Anupama…cannot bring my self to hate Anuj as well but all i want for them is to at least become friends even after divorce and share business skills 🤭😋
Me to #Sail I must say I can’t believe
either I wonder did they meet each other during the divorce case or was the paper send to each other without meeting each other, I can’t believe Dimpy compromise her self-respect and fall from grace, where is her arrogance and fighting spirit, and what happened to Kayva I don’t see her wedding necklace on her neck or did it change with the one she have on today, where is her self-respect either atleast Anupama stayed away hearing Vanraj and Baa words,
It seems like Vanraj/Baa never learn from h
their mistakes through spoiling Pakhi and Toshsu same thing will happen to Samar son, what make Dimpy so helpless and I wonder if Anu saw Samar baby but according to the photos she looked at I only saw the photos from the past.
But I’m glad Anu didn’t totally loose herself I like the block she created for herself even if she don’t show herself.
I can’t believe the writers showing us Vanraj progress make me wonder what the writers created for Anuj life after Anupama departure from both Shas and Kapadias life.
I hope they don’t put Anuj as a obstacle in Anu way if she arrived in America if his also there to take revenge for the divorce if he wasn’t happy, but I hope it was a muatal decision for both of them with no heart feelings
@Erica B felt so relieved when baa said Anu never bothered about them the past 5yrs meaning she never met samar baby as that son only belongs to vanraj am so happy that Anu managed to cut ties and relations with everyone even on this journey to america she said relations don’t matter this shows she listened to anuj and that’s great improvement on her side i think about the divorce papers Devika helped i think as Anu never wanted to burden Anuj she made it possible for anuj to move on without her buggage as for Anuj he is okay with CA but his life will start happening the day he will find out Anupama is in america ..very soon dimpy will explored
So makers are planing for increasing TRP by showing this story line! Hahaha!! We wanted to watch Anupama’s progress & they created Vanjraj’s progress. Again poor story line. Waiting for another downfall. They should get 0.9 trp for this disgust story again.
TRP will sky rocket just wait and watch …what u expect and some of us is exactly what the writers are working on very soon vanraj success will make sense why it is like that as time passes on.. don’t underestimate this writers its survival of the fittest in this industry they know their viewers
and you shall enjoy that disgust story
Anu’s journey matters the most…i can’t lie like some here
Yes #Sail I don’t understand the writers
Is this a story about Anu suffering or progress,
Evil wins over good
or what’s going on and to top it all they remove Vanraj maustas, clean face and a house makeover and decided to put Anu in a dark place and in a terrifible stated.
What message want the writers send out to the woman all over the country please unlighted us.
It’s more about trp, the trp was falling that is why they brought this story of anupama going to usa. But there’s a concept amongst the daily soap writers that if they show more drama and negativity for the protagonist (i.e anupama) they will get more viewership. There are still not understanding that the preferences of viewers have changed and people have so much negativity in their own life that they don’t prefer negativity in fiction, they see negative reality to learn not fiction. This is why they are showing anupama suffering and vanraj enjoying. Only to increase trp, no other message. So that people who want to see anupama rising from ashes will start to see the show again.
I don’t really have the ideal answer @Erica to the woman out there but just imagine getting divorced to anuj of all the people all of a sudden you loose your mother and trying by all means to break all relations missing out during samar’s child then boom after 5 years everything is fine..of all the things divorce is not easy it’s a matter of life and death for a weaker person,,vanraj we all know him no need to explain but all this success is trying to cover up what he did not do for samar thru his grandchild at the same time please his parents and prove Anu wrong as for the woman just use what u have identify your talent and start from there if u a good person surely life will pay like in this case Anu was giving out to the old age home in silence…the day dimpy will decide to take his son the moustache will grow he is playing figure father to his grandchild attending school meetings and stuff everything is not rosy here to be honest the only person who will live a real life is Anu ..
My belief from marriage is over, Maan actually got Divorced? Just for this lame reason of not paying attention to each other. When Anuj could express his inhibitions to Anupama, why didn’t she gave it back to Anuj when ever he was wrong. Anupama is used to take the responsibility for all the wrong things happening due to other people and take it on herself. I can’t believe Kavya is still in that mental house, I so miss that independent’s Kavya who was so good in initial phase, strong, independent, focused and now this. My God if people becomes like this arrogant after getting Therapy? Baa will never change, but will pursue Anupama if she becomes successful. Feel sad for Dimpy yaar. She will become another doormat? Had actually stopped watching this when Anupama returned back from the flight for CA, but now when she is finally reaching US, hope she pursues her dream of an independent life minus all the characters including Anuj. Anuj is right or wrong, there is no debate on that, but this relationship was too easy to turn into divorce.
My aunt once told me marriage is sacrifice sometimes you must put your head down even if you are right to keep the peace and she married her childhood sweetheart. I decided then and there f**k marriage f**k kids and f**k societal expectations, I will live for me and do what I want on my own with no one in my way
True 💯, good choice, living life according to own choice is everyone’s right. Society has to start understanding that we have to respect each other’s choices. Women are now holding important positions with responsibilities more important than reproduction. And sometimes they don’t find men who have the courage to balance for them, adjust,and allow them to carry their more important responsibilities in the outside world. No matter what people will say but independent women will always support you.
So so true it’s all about one’s choices
Anupama’s conditions and Shahs change and attitude shows that how life can be unfair. It’s not that just being a good hearted person is enough for Happiness but we need to love our own self first for happiness.
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Anuj asked Anupama that her 26 years relation to shahs overpowered their 3 years marriage but didn’t the same was done by him, his love for CA whom he meet not much long overpowerd his so called love for Anupama. Why is everyone forgetting that they are her children and grand daughter too. Does divorcing Vanraj makes her no longer a mother of her children. Means in actual a woman doesn’t have her own relation or place of belonging. It’s like even if Anupama does something she is wrong and if doesn’t than also she is wrong.
Why doesn’t ever Anupama states Anuj’s mistake and keeps on taking blame? Her this attitude of always taking unnecessary responsibilities and blames are what ruined her. She so easily forgave Anuj in Maya’s matter was what made him not value her forgiveness. Why is Anuj forgetting that for him his fatherly loves comes first than why can’t for Anupama her motherly love for all her children come first.
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Anupama forgives too easily and doesn’t takes proper actions against wrong doers is the reason no one values her forgiveness or her feelings. Everyone including Anuj thinks that it’s matter of few sorry and emotional blackmail which can again turn Anupama into a doormat.
Also actually Anupama didn’t let Shah’s and her kids solve their own mess. She made them dependent on her and I won’t just blame her for that because we all know how Baa cursed Anupama when for once she took a step back. But what happened in the end no one even cares for her, in this 5 years no children of her even tried to know her wellbeing. Even in the day of accident no one including Anuj for once asked was she hurt.
Now after this track I really question what love is? What MaAn felt for each other was really love?
What i feel is Anupama feels more indebted to Anuj for his love that’s why she always shoulders blames on herself whenever Anuj have a breakdown. It’s more indebtedness and gratitude(of loving a 3 children’s divorcee mother) than love for Anuj from Anupama’s side.
From Anuj’s side it’s more like he is in love with his thoughts of loving 1 person from 26years and than finally getting married go her. He instead of loving Anupama, I feel he loves his wait for her more. He just in love with the thoughts of Anupama than actually who Anupama is.
Him showing off that he gave all his properties and business to her and saying he feels that since he loves her for 26 years she took him for granted. Also he 2 like Vanraj mentioned CA many times as his child only.
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And I don’t understand why should a mother should choose or give anyone of her child priority over other. Before Anuj, Anupama showed more progress.
@Ara no one loves anyone in this show, there is so much guilt tripping then self blame…, the only love is the love Vanraj has for his ego right now and Anupama has for her becharapan, Bapuji is useless as usual, he should divorce Baa and cut her down to size but I think he castrated himself and gave his testicles to his wife. So many years of marriage and he couldn’t stop any of the abuse in his house, most useless character. He should hang himself and blame Baa in his suicide note, if anything that old woman needs to be mentally and emotionally eviscerated.
@Jade
Hi Jade how are you?
Do you still watch YRKKH?
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Exactly there is no love in this show. Be it love or arrange not a single marriage shows that yes we can overcome every obstacles together.
About Bapuji, I agree he is useless. At the most needed time he stays dumb and when not needed he raises his voice. They including Anuj and CA, use Anupama and the fault lies more on Anu because she allows them to do so.
All this progress will again go down in the drain when Anuj and CA makes a reentry in her life.
@Ara I’m good dear, how are you
I tend to stay away from YRKKH now , they ruined our sweet Ruhi to make Abhira look good. They turned out Ruhi into the one thing Aru never was, someone who runs behind her BiL, when Manyu betrayed Aru she never looked back at him, yes she did kaands for power and name but she didn’t try to seduce her BiL, our Roo would never agree to marry into a family with 1600s ideology
@Jade
If this is what they did to Ruhi than it’s good I stopped watching after the mess of Abhira marriage started.
Reading your review, I’m not going to watch this session 2.
It seems like all Arohi’s hard work to give Ruhi good upbringing including bringing change in herself turns out to be useless.
Anyone realise that to Anuj Anupama kind of was just an obsession a want like when you want to buy or play a game or whatever really bad and you do you give into that desire and once you are done you want sum new to lf to you are bored of the currentthing
Imo Same with Anuj he got Anu then he was just done like “alr now what” it hadn’t been even a year and he already started wanting sum more sum else sum DIFFERENT like he started trying to make a proper family get a child and all WHEN he did not inform anu about this desire before AT ALL but suddenly he’s taking her to an ashram without TELLING her just so he could blackmail her emotionally
How come he didn’t even want to spend at least one year with his so loml and get to know her better? Instead it was such a fast paced game for him one after another and trying to change Anupama and all that I rlly don’t think you can call this LOVE and the been in love for 26 years is such a overrated bs if someone was this obsessed with me I would be creeped out like this is some yandere shit 💀 also the fact he keeps this over anus head and brags about it CONSTANTLY like it’s some sort of achievement bruhh
Conclusion Anuj bhi koi dudh pita baccha ya dudh ka dhua aalta NEHI hae some of you guys don’t seem to see that at all idk if it’s just Anuj simps or whatever 😂
Also they change all the characters personality belief system like it’s a CLOTHE just to get trp
I agree with you.
I 2 feel the same about Anuj’s love and even I feel Anupama 2 more than love for Anuj feels gratitude and indebtedness towards Anuj.
Anupama is all about bearing unnecessary Responsibilities and Blames. Plus useless Lectures.
Yes, what you are saying is true about Anuj trying to change anupama, and in the 1st place him showing his magnanimous behaviour by offering to marry a divorced lady with kids was not because he truly loved, he had never met anupama, talked to her earlier, otherwise he would have known that she would obviously carry her baggage, it’s her nature. According to how they have shown he’s having a narcissism pattern in his personality ( he thinks he’s always right and disregards other person’s feelings and pain). Anupama is a dependent personality (she is not confident of herself enough to live independently) so he got attracted to her and obsessed about her. He shows magnanimity only because he feels good when people say he’s great. It’s a toxic personality trait. He cannot actually afford to be great. This was 1st noticed when he brought expensive gifts after fighting with anupama long time back. He carries that subtle mental abuse pattern which people couldn’t identify earlier because he tries his best to hide it.
Ikr He belongs in r/niceguys tbh 😂
True😂👍indian women need to learn about how to identify toxic personality traits but unfortunately in reality also people get deceived by narcissists and mental abusers when they behave “nicely”
Wtf is the point of bapujis character atp?! Like he’s just there to pity his bahus and do nothing about it
Or was he put there just to tell viewers how we should feel about the situation?
Dimpy is new Anupuma situations really do change don’t they. V believes in children being spolit just like Anuj, Ansh is only about 5 years old and his like this goodness that boy will be another Toshu not Samar. I hope Kinjal is in UK raising her daughter away from materialistic V. Dimple once said she will never be the Kinjal or Anupuma of the Shah house and now look at her……. So now Anupuma has gone to America to cook????okay interesting let’s see how all this plays out, it’s almost like fathers are materialistic and mother about discipline but of discipline looses over materialistic things.
Right said #Muge another Toshsu and I don’t
why Dimple didn’t go back to her home town when she were pregnant and got married to Tintu even if it was only to safe herself from Vanraj rage before the baby got born and Im curious to know how Kavya child turn out and how he look.
Hope Anupama journey is pleasant and succeed in her chef career that she will open many restaurants will her amazing food.
✔️ to your last paragraph @Erica …be proud with the work of your hands everything starts from somewhere her cooking will get her connected to a lot of people..people just love eating outside all the best Anu
Well I have read that Kavya daughter lives in a hostel, I don’t what kind of life that is because she is only 5 years old as well. Don’t know how true that is but we shall see. I’m interested in how things play out I just hope the Shah house downfall isn’t far behind where Kavya and Dimple leave that Shah house with there children otherwise they shall all become materialistic. It wouldn’t make sense if Dimple got married for a third time you know the audience would fit. I just hope there won’t be any new love angles just everyone living there life now. What’s funny is how Baa is asking how Anupuma doesn’t see them or come to them yet didn’t say anything good we she was being insulted and ousted by that evil son of her.
So true #Muge Baa silence supported his son know she act like she have amnesia forgot what happens five years ago when his son ousted Anu out of the house she and his son are two faces human been you never know where you stand with them
I still have no idea why Kavya sent her daughter to a boarding school @Erica it so illogical if you ask me did she do it just to stay at Shah house or why??? Kavya was a modern and very independent woman but look at her now she must tolerate V and his arrogance why didn’t she go back to modelling??? Also Dimple wasn’t she a dancer…..both those woman used to insult Anupuma and now it’s upon them V is inflicting his tortuous way on them. I don’t know why I suspect foul play with Anupuma and Anuj divorce probably at the hands of barkha and MD and they caused something. They literally forgot their one and only wedding vow MaAn which means respect I’m not like it so far but l hope it gets better. Leela has some serious double standards.
Anupama wont be able to stay in the US. Dimpy is now Anupama cuz everything was taken away from her, where is her support? The only support she had were pregnant Kavya, Kinjal and Anupama. Take them away, all her independence went down the drain. Vanraj got what he wanted, good for him. Last year, this time, we were all treated by Anuj putting everyone to their places and his repeated warnings to Anu to choose his family or the Shahs.
So everyone, this is a lesson, you suffer for your choices.
Kinjal did the best, went away cuz she knew that V is very toxic. At least she made the decision and stuck with it. Toshu, joru ka ghulam.
Bapuji is the worst, why doesnt he die and become compost?
@NRI, I just want Baa’s swing to break while she’s on it, then she can see who will look after her
Yes #Jade so hard that she must never walk or speak atleast for a year so that I can see how she can rule the house.
@jade At this point Baa needs to die. It’s all cuz of these older, asinine women that no one else can move on in life. bapuji is such a spineless man.
So after everything Anupama went through, she just ended up loosing everything!!! What a way to empower women!!! Meaning that you can be as evil as they come but youll just excel (just like Vanraj & Baa) & no matter how good you are, you will just end up loosing everything (just like Anupama). Vanraj & Baa never paid for their evil, infact they have been blessed with another Anupama in the name of Dimpy!!!
@zena In the end, she will be whole again, it’s the Indian way!!! Anupama will get her fammibbbiiillyy back and say a lot of sssoorrriieee.
The once beacon of women empowerment is now a nameless piece of shit that everyone walked over. Doormat, pushover.
@Zena they all said they would not become an Anupuma but look at Kavya and Dimple both are suffering so bad, it’s worse than what Anupuma is living at the moment. I want V arrogance to shatter please writers you have to shatter his arrogance and burn everything. He can’t have a good life while everyone else must suffer.
I don’t know with other women and the law of divorce but Anupama chooses to walk away with nothing just like the days of maya she left everything behind to start afresh nothing gives more pride than that after Anuj’s statement wy would anu want anything
Leap is too short only 5 years? Other serials leap is at least 20 years, children are all grown up and take over the show as new characters. This one we are stuck with same characters.
I so so wished that after the leap Anupama would be as successful and renowned as MD was when Anu first met her, and living with Bapuji.
Vanraj living in a shabby jhopdi with his paralised Baa,and nakchadi daughter.
Dimpy and Kavya together raising their kids, away from Shahs nonsense.
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CA a spoilt arrogant brat(under the influence of MD)who is now treating Anuj the same way she was treating Anupama, Anuj shattered and hapless.
Then could have thought that Karman hit these people hard..but this soap, just many other Indian soap, focus only on drama meaning negative always wins over good.
Seeing Vanraj progress, Baa attitude and Dimpy Kavya helplessness was like a stab on the heart, even though its a fictional, still it hurts seeing evil winning. #Shame on Rajan Sahi
This is what being good gets you. You have to be shrewd, like how Anuj was. He got soft cuz of Anu. And when he reverted back to the shrewed self, everyone is against him. The longing for Anu will always be there, but you have to be better.
Anu deserves this shit. Especially the dialog where she says that she couldnt die, of course the writers wont kill her off.
“The longing for Anu will always be there,but you have to be better.” This one touched me @NRI it’s just fictional story but the impact is just unbearable….in a way personally i think the 5 year leap for now makes sense then moving Pari and company takes over
You know #Sail no matter how much Anu suffer the thing she do for the old ages home she will still find something to help them from a far (America) and no matter what she is just one of a kind no matter how many slaps life gave her she still trying to help others no matter if it’s strangers or in secret and doesn’t show off like Vanraj.
The old saying say to much confidence and feel you are untouchable like Vanraj will soon fall flat on his face the way he and his mother treats Dimple like a servant and seperate a son from a mother he will be dearly punish for his deeds
I just hope that this time they really show anupama learning to let go of her past and start a new life. I just hope they don’t show that she is meeting her past i.e Anuj again in usa. To continue the story they should bring new characters or end the show by showing anupama happy and satisfied with her life.But they should not continue her past meeting her and dragging her down again🙏 it’s really a request to show makers, please give the show a good ending and not spoil the entire journey just for trp. Anuj is a narcissist and vanraj and his mother are abusers. Please don’t show reconciliation with anyone of these.🙏🙏
I agree with you.
This is the perfect time to end the show, just Anupama going there, making her life happy! I still hope Vanraj and Baa are shown crashing rock bottom to understand that their humanity has gone for a toss.
I hope the writers have a better storyline for Dimpy and Kavya!
Oh I think you are in for a disappointment, the whole America track is just for maans so called reunion (ALL OVER AGAIN) the whole “hate to love” “bichar K phir ak hona” trope is what’s gonna happen that’s what we r in for , Anuj will meet anu while she is working in a cafe or sum then anu will be back to her old pattern well tbh she IS still in her old pattern like you saw she thinks she’s the problem and she has Anuj on such a high Pedestal which bothers me sm
Why did the writers send Anuj to america knowing Anu will go there too??
Ofc to reunite him with her why else? That was their whole plan
Just like their other shows keep repeating the same shit by calling it next generation lmao they r doing the same thing with this show but without the extra steps, so they will break up their so called loved main leads Nd then reunite them again and again again and againn cuz they CLEARLY don’t have any original ideas this trope is not for Anupamas freedom or sum that’s just the side quests the main quest is trp hunting, cuz now viewers r anticipated and want to see their main lead reunite Nd shit like that
Btw Is this your first time in clown plus my friend 😂
Are the writers losing their minds.
Why a divorce between Anuj and Anupamaa . Thats why people talk shit about Indian series.
What happened to their love?
That small kid has always been a problem between the MaAn . I didn’t like that spoilt kid.
Why so much success for vanraj
Like seriously look at Dimpy and Kavya what a story.
What are they trying to communicate or whats the moral.
What happened in the Kapadia house.
That Pakhi i wish she suffers. I hate her
The only good thing is that Anupamaa did not keep in touch with anyone of them.
What a mess in this serial