interesting that you bring up the babuji murder attempt angle. For me, that too was very much in Shyam's character. Keeps him grey still. I will explain why. Shyam has been shown right from the beginning as a clever opportunist who has the extraordinary ability to think really quickly on his feet and who has a way with people and words.. .him being a lawyer was also bang-on. And of course, I never quite agreed with the Anjali murder attempt track.. i thought it was foolish and against Shyam's basic character. He would never kill the golden goose.
Shyam did not plan to fall in love/lust with Khushi just as he did not plan to kill Babuji..yes he was getting intimidated with Babuji and his mind must have been working to stop his investigations somehow but the day babuji got the heart attack, for Shyam, it was a golden opportunity falling into his lap and he grabbed it. That has been his modus operandi for everything and what I would have really liked to see is this Shyam for whom everything was unplanned... had planned ONLY ONE thing --- revenge on the Maliks/Raizadas. And Revenge not for money or property for himself, but to deprive them of money and property... for emotional reasons. The story that Khushi told Buaji... the AR36K...the sheesh mahal and glass house that Priya so brilliantly had discussed in a crooner... everything was turned to dust.
That would have been the right background for all the things that he did. What they finally did show...that he did everything only for money and property and not for emotional reasons fell totally flat.
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