Originally posted by: ipkknd37
But I still have a niggling doubt/concern. I hope you'll clarify with u r amazing analytic skills. Despite what you said, what I cannot come to terms is, ASR being rational & ruthless why would he succumb to Shyam's taunts & emotional black mail. Yes everything you said about ASR getting to know about Shyam would have been a shocker. But the way ASR has been portrayed would he recover much quicker? Was there no way that he could have confronted Shyam directly being devious/ruthless (after all he is a self made business man) rather than resorting to pick on someone weaker than himself?
I think that what one needs to keep in mind is that Arnav, deep down, is an emotional person, just as much as he's a rational person. When it comes to his sister, emotions often overwhelm him. He loses control. He allows himself to lose control, because he knows that with her, he can show his weaknesses.
When he faced Shyam, Arnav had already been stripped down to his emotions. If you recall the scene before he confronted Shyam in which he paced in his room, stressed and frustrated and in pain, unable to calm down and think. He was vulnerable, open - too open - when he faced Shyam. He wasn't in control of himself. That is the first thing.
The second thing is that his relationship with Shyam was based on admiration - the kind of admiration that a son has for his father. He sees Anjali as a mother and he saw Shyam as a father. He has often allowed Shyam's words to have more power in his life than his own ideas. For instance, in relation to Lavanya (when Shyam had come to speak to him in his room - he listened and took it in).
Arnav saw Shyam as the ideal husband, the ideal man. The kind of man that, well, maybe he wished to become one day. That image, it was shattered in one moment. In just one moment, his whole perception of Shyam, of what a man is (a father, a brother, a husband, a son-in-law) it was all shattered.
That hurts. Probably more than the infamous hug between Shyam and Khushi. He could deal with the hug. But when Shyam pulled off his mask, shattering the image that Arnav had believed in, humiliating him and his sister beyond words, and not showing even an ounce of remorse - it left Arnav utterly speechless.
In this most vulnerable moment, when Arnav realized that he might not be able to protect his sister, Shyam pushed all the right buttons - questioning whether Anjali would be able to deal with the truth. Arnav, knowing how frail his sister is, couldn't allow it to happen. Because he knows that Shyam is right. Shyam lies with the truth. That's why his words fester in people's mind.
However, Arnav managed to put away the emotional blackmail for a moment as he went to speak to Anjali - tell her the truth. We all saw how hard it was for him to get the words out. When he finally got them out, she fainted. Another shock to Arnav's system who thought she'd fainted because of the truth.
In the end, he decided not to tell her. 1) because he was scared for her, 2) because she was pregnant, and 3) because he's human, and just like any other human, a part of him sought an excuse to procrastinate the inevitable, just for a while.
Shyam's words did fester in his mind, but ultimately - they're not what controlled his actions. They, however, add fuel to his fire. The thing is just that Arnav couldn't counter Shyam because 1) he realized that he has no idea who Shyam is, and 2) he has always seen and experienced Shyam as a father figure. The man left stunned.
I hope this explain it 😳
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