Originally posted by: prodigy007
It was a strong attraction at first especially from Sara's end & the flames are still there, though both will never admit to it. Instead of standing firm they're just pussyfooting around now by labelling it a bro/sis equation etc etc trying to downplay it as best they can
When initially Ashmit flirted, Sara was confused and went along without understanding whether it is flirting / friendship or something else. Since Sara is not very intelligent, it is understandable. Sara would also have been very flattered by Ashmit's attentions.
The very second day she understood, made her decision, and put Ashmit in his place. Sara was the first to tell him that you are my brother, you are of the age of my dad etc. After that Ashmit had to go along, try to flirt a bit more. Since Sara continued the bro-pops etc. and even nick-named him Pops, remember Ashmit wanted to stop all that. Then Sara said that you will go if you don't do "you know what" with me.
So for Sara, the relationship was a way to get TRPs without scandal. Unfortunately, most people didn't find it palatable that bro-sis behave like this and it became a scandal anyway. But I have seen bro-sis, father-daughter (where daughter is around 20 years of age too) and "just friends" behaving like this.