Excellent analysis Diya. I especially liked the part where you made the case that Arnav's decision to marry Khushi was about both his deep love and hate for Khushi or rather hate for what he thinks she did. Yes, his 'dimaag' wasn't working like it did not in all his past knee jerk reactions taken in anger.
Posting below what I posted in your blog. My heart went out to the poor girl. Isn't it ironic that she was emotionally blackmailed into a hurried and unwilling engagement which she ultimately broke on realising her fiance was a married man and now she got emotionally blackmailed again into a hurried and unwilling wedding because she is believed to be trying to break up the very marriage she had earlier saved? What's worse is that the indecent proposal of a short term marriage comes from the man she loves and that too at a time when she was expecting a love confession from him. Her trust in the man which was just beginning to be restored by his thoughtful and sensitive acts during the run up to the wedding just got rudely crushed. It would be a Herculian task for the man to get her to trust him again once he realises the biggest blunder he has made in his life.
If only he had used his famed 'dimag' if not his newly found 'dil', he would have realised that Khushi is the last person who would tango with a married man. Had he not seen the woman shed tears seeing him in the arms of another woman? Had he not seen the stark pain in her eyes when he announced his engagement to that woman? Did she not rush into his arms to seek comfort when her dad was seriously ill? Did he not hear her berate him for belittling the institution of marriage? How could he even think that this woman is in love with another man and that too a married one at that? Yes, he heard her ask him to break ties with her, but what makes him think that she said that so as to get married to him? Oh sorry, he wasn't thinking. After all his brain shuts down when his fury flares up.
Added in this post:I felt deep down he cannot believe in Khushi's duplicity because if she was capable of leading him on when she had her eyes and heart fixed on his bro-in-law, would she also not have been capable of double crossing him and back out of the forced marriage after ensuring Payal and Akaash were married? He seemed to believe that once she has given her word, she will not retract. One can argue that he was sure she would not take the chance of backtracking because of the threat that he could mess up Payal's married life if she did so. But then could he not have done that if she had succeeded in breaking Anjali's marriage and hooked up with Shyam post the break up? Would that not have deterred her from going down that path, considering how much she loves her sister? If she cared two hoots about the repercussions of a possible marriage to Shyam in future on her sister's marriage, why would she not want to risk her sister's happiness when he laid out his conditional marriage proposal?
He also seemed to believe that she will honour the sanctity of their short-term marriage once she is tied to him and would stay away from Shyam during that period so that Anjali's pregnancy could be stress free. Isn't it strange that such a girl would have no qualms tangoing with a much married man then?
So it is clear that he was not thinking rationally but he knew in the depths of his heart that Khushi has some principles which he can rely on to get her to agree to this preposterous proposal of his. Once his anger dies down I want him to introspect on both their actions. I want him to scratch beneath the surface and dig out the truth, for something clearly does not add up here and if he is half as intelligent as he claims himself to be, he needs to connect the dots. I don't want everything to be spelt out for him.
And yes, his remorse, once he realises the huge blunder he committed, is going to be enormous to say the least and I want him to make up to her big time. I know he is a man of actions and not so much of words and I would love to see the lengths he would go to make things right for her. Would love to see him propose to her under a starry night when he first looks up at the stars she pointed out as her amma and bhabuji and promises them that he will always strive to make their Khushi, always khushi in her life, stand by her in all her trials and tribulations and respect and honour her for the rest of his life. I don't think Khushi can resist that. I also want Khushi to know about Arnav past to understand where he is coming from. I'm sure Arnav is not going to tell her about it but she could find out from Anjali, now that she is her sister-in-law.
Edited by Opti - 13 years ago
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