With the weekend approaching, I've finally managed to catch up to the episodes I missed and I wanted to give my POV. I'll try to make it brief but it might be somewhat long :PI was browsing through the forum today and I was pretty surprised to read how everyone was calling Happy a "dumbo"But then again, I believe when you watch a couple episodes at a time as compared to one per day, there is more continuity and you tend to notice things. I disagree with most of the comments talking about happy and her lack of intelligence. Hear me out here: In these three years, happy had managed to wrap a band aid around her wound. The wound she received the day she gave her testimony against rocky. That wound never healed. Happy merely left it. Covered it up under the band aid and there it festered until the day she came face to face with shaan. She was then forced to rip out the band aid and oh the pain. The agony. In these three years, happy has not been living. She merely functions. She does what is expected of her. Her fire is gone. She has become this demure, reserved, business woman. Her emotions are controlled. She has pushed everything into a tiny recess in the back of her mind which has steadily grown until it is no longer a small recess rather a room. A room with a door she has kept locked. Anything that she cannot understand, anything that requires her to re visit the past, anything that requires her to analyze emotions, goes behind that door. Until rocky came back. The door is now open and try as she might, she cannot to shove everything back in.She is in incredible emotional turmoil because now she has to face everything she has been averting her eyes from.
1) Rocky and his innocence. Happy is not dumb for not believing in him. Put yourself in her shoes. The man kidnapped her, tortured her. There was an episode where Ranveer first tried to harass smiley. Rocky intervened and told happy off for talking to guys like ranveer. He said that she should let him handle it to which she responds in anger with this 'kyuunkai woh tumharee tarham sochta hai'. Happy later apologizes to rocky and says that sometimes she can't helped but remember the way he tortured her and then she lashes out. This is a sensible woman. She knows she can't forget and she doesn't try to hide the fact from rocky. But other than that this was also a premonition. Because happy could not forget. And her inability to truly forget reared its head during holi and later in court. Any woman in happy's place would jump to the conclusion she did. At least happy tried to give rocky the benefit of doubt. But this was her sister. Her sister who was screaming one name at her again and again. And a dark, wretched part of happy whispered to her 'what if this friendship was a lie, a ruse'?
2) Not seeing RV's love for her. I rewatched the scene after reading the comments here and I am absolutely sure about my analysis on this. Happy had not time for emotional conflict. She was living on autopilot and then shaan comes. Suddenly she had to face everything she had buried deep within her. The woman is a emotional wreck after having kept so much bottled up. There was going to be a point where her fragile castle of glass would shatter around her. When rocky re-entered her life, three years worth of angst, anger, tears came pouring out. Does crying make her weak? It does not. She has a lot to deal with. Not only the loss of a friend, but also because there's a part within her, in her heart that knows she sent an innocent man to jail. In all this do you think she has time to analyze RV's emotions? That why is he helping her? Is it necessary for someone helping you to have some ulterior motive? Why would happy, who is living life on auto pilot consider what rv is feeling? We know what he's feeling because unlike happy, we are privy to his inner monologue, his inner conflict. Happy is not. She has a lot on her mind with no place for RV and his emotions especially since she believes herself to be safe. With rocky she was scared of falling for him. With rv she believes him to be taken so it's safe for her to be friends with him. Especially since she saw how in love he and anaya were in the party she organized. She doesn't know he rarely talks to anaya. She sees childhood friends turned lovers and she thinks nothing could come between them, its safe to be friends with this guy, not confused emotions. Then the almost kiss. Happy probably believed that their emotions were heightened. And given the huge shock she received, did she really have time to go over what that little moment was about? No. She did not have that kind of luxury because shaan was taking away her hotel. Her dream project. And so that moment too was pushed behind the barely there door. To be dealt with later. Only there's no later as she's dealt with one blow after the other. She barely standing as it is, trying to shield herself from what's eating her from inside and the accusatory eyes that devour her everyday she sees shaan/rocky. In such a mess, how and when could she have sat down and thought about RV and what he is feeling. Especially since she has emotionally closed herself off after what happened three years ago. Her sister hates her. The man she began to open her heart to was convicted with her help. And now he's back, blatantly parading before her under another name. Her hotel has been taken from her Everything she had been building, gone. No. Rv is in the safe box of 'taken' men. RV is her security blanket. No need to fear messy emotions. But the moment where he almost kissed her did leave an impact which I will come to later. We come to the moment after rv and rocky fought. Happy's expression was deliberately blank because she felt nothing. Because she was pre occupied with rocky. Because she was angry. There's a reason why immediately after tending to rv (briefly might I add), the next scene finds her outside rocky's room, demanding to be let in. This contrast is deliberately done by the makers. And then comes anaya. She has returned. Happy feels a brief moment of unease because of the moment she and rv almost shared. His words and that moment are still there in back of her mind. But then she's relieved. Anaya is back and everything will be fine because rv will be with her and happy won't have to deal with extra emotions coming her way. Hence her almost panicked urging during the proposal scene. The way she immediately says that why should anaya wait. Because she could feel a doubt creeping up on her. She shakes her head almost pleadingly when rv looks her way. Telling him not to do this to their friendship. To go to anaya. She suspects something hence the subtle shake of the head. When rv confesses his love for happy, happy's shock is because she never thought he would do this to anaya, to her, to their friendship. She's shocked because she was sure that with anaya coming back, any attraction RV might have felt would have come to an end. She believed it was mere passing fancy and hence she was relieved with anaya's return, hence she kept urging RV to say yes. Because in her mind RV saying yes to anaya would save her friendship and she would have one less worry in her life but no.
3) Happy is not dumb for not realizing that shaan is clearly rocky. She knows he is rocky. She wants him to say it. To come clean. Because she feels hurt by the fact that he won't tell her. She wants him to be the one to tell her who he is. That is why she keeps pushing him to say it. Not because there's any doubt in her mind but because she wants him to trust her with this. To trust her as he did once before. There is a stark contrast between the happy that is with rocky and the happy that is with rv. With rocky we see glimpses of the old happy. The happy that was self dependant and the happy that took things head on. With rv we see a dependent happy. This was apparent where rv asks her why she is dealing with things when he's there. But she refuses, saying she will make her stand. That is the happy that was with rocky. Don't get me wrong, with rv happy is a successful business woman. But she's not 'Happy' in anyway. With rocky she is a storm. And in a good way. With rv, she is a clear sky, a calm ocean. Nothing that pushes her past her comfort zone. Which isn't a bad thing but this is happy. And this version of her with Rv is not the true her.
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