Rishi's Mom is Jealous and Insecure

Rishi and Tanu are young, carefree kids playing together while their moms are involved in adult activities.  Their dads are good friends and their moms hang out together.  The difference is Tanu's mom is happy with her family life while Rishi's mom is smitten with jealousy and is highly insecure.

Rishi's mother's (I do not recollect her name) relationship with Tanu and her family is problematic.  Fortune tellers and life experiences have shown that Tanu invariably ends up saving Rishi's life whenever he is in danger.  This makes people in the community say that although she (Rishi's mom) may have given birth to Rishi - it is Tanu who is his life-giver and destiny. In fact,  his parents had been warned that if Rishi does not marry Tanu by the age of 23 he may even die.  These situations have led Rishi's mom to be jealous and hateful towards Tanu and her family.  

This attitude of Rishi's mom is different from the stereotypical mother and daughter-in-law problems which is based on the negative perception that  many mothers adopt a biased assessment of her daughter-in-law and vice versa.

Here the core of the problem lies in Rishi's mom's insecurity to win back her status as Rishi's life-giver.  This has lead to intense feeling of competition in her to make Rishi dislike and reject Tanu and all women.   She made sure that young Rishi grows up having little or no respect for women; that he sees them as objects of pleasure and sex; and that he becomes a playboy.

Further, she made her husband choose between living in India alone or relocating to the U.S. with her and the kids. Rishi's mom never understood that as a mother her job is to foster and educate her sons, to give them wisdom and prepare them to be responsible and good community members and leaders of their future family.  Instead, she has deliberately decided to be a "beeach" (bitxx) and instill negative values in her kids - just to ensure that she triumphs over Tanu!

It remains to be seen if this serial uses Rishi's mom as an example of 'repentance' and disperses educative values of the importance of understanding relationships between mother and daughter-in-laws.

Hi Nirmala 😆 good to hear from you and see your wonderful emoticons.

This is my first EK show - but what you say is what I have heard - "no rules nor logic".  Being the eternal optimist - I am going to hope for the best, enjoy the show, and see how things unfold while giving it a bit of logic where I can 😉

Thank you @aimf 😊

Yes, the story has begun well.  They have made it clear that it is a different form of saas-bahu relation.  Let's enjoy it.