An adage Arnav Singh Raizada defines his life by.
He promised his mum never to forgive anything that hurt her.
He promised Di that he shall always protect her and her happiness and he did.
He told Khushi, main aur tum humeshaa and he stood by it despite Dadi's tricks, still does and always will.
With Aarav, he playfully reciprocated a hand gesture only to realize he made a promise of always togerther - in happiness and sadness, one he has since been trying to keep.
When they moved from the US to a new way of life, he happened to cross paths with ASR, a man uncannily similar to him. Fate made him stay with the man and he hears various family members remark on the similarities they share. After the baskeball match Nani spoke of him reminding her of Arnav's childhood and Aarav paused to look again at a man he had grown to admire. He found ASR cool. He felt Mr. ASR or Mr. Arnav could be respected, he did not treat him like a kid, called him big guy and Aarav liked being around him. Subconsciously Aarav began to see Arnav in the role of his father. The first male figure in all these years to have made a mark on the child.
Tday yet again as he waits for his dad, it is Arnav who comes for him, Arnav who seems to understand how this child's mind would work.
Reminds me a lot of the movie Kuch Na Kaho. A single mum and her son who loves her to bits. But he misses a father. He misses having a Dad to showoff proudly at school when he gets picked on. His mum has told him nice things about his father yet he has no pictures only a vague mental map. Into this scenario walks a guy who gets along with this child famously. He even steps up to be his pretend papa at school. And the child uncaring of societal pressures and norms of right and wrong addresses this man as his Dad. A dil ka rishta.
I was also reminded of Shammi Kapoor's movie Bramhachari. Orphans who grow so fond of the man who has nurtured them that even when a child is placed in a foster home, he is unable to forget his "real" father. (Main Gaaon tum so jaao, sukh sapnon main kho jaao).
Being a single mum is tough business. Bills to be paid, work to be managed, a child to be raised, homework to be attended to, household chores and so on. No time to sit back and let go. Always need to be strong for a child. Suddenly when you have a family's support, you realize what it is that you have been missing. Makes you yearn for the life Khushi has surrounded by loved ones.
Sheetal is lying to her child. She knows his father but cannot disclose details. Lives will be impacted she says, whose? Arnav's? Khushi's? or Aarav's himself?
Is Aarav better off not knowing rather than knowing and not being able to approach his dad?
At times it feels Sheetal has a sinister motive.
Mostly it simply feels like she came to Delhi to seek Arnav's help in becoming the so called father of Aarav to give the child closure even moulding him to be an Jr. ASR. But the plan was messed up as he was now married but the initial damage has been done.
If Sheetal is unmarried or if Aarav is not her kid, KC makes no sense but she does it anyways for Aarav's sake. So he feels his father is out there and alive and is still married to his mother.
DNA test - do they establish relationship or paternity or it depends on the type of test? Is that why Sheetal was releived Khushi tore teh test because it would have only complicated matters?
Is the diary Sheetal's or Aarav's real mothers? In 2006 Sheetal and Arnav were in the US but the diary speaks of a person in London. Or did Sheetal go on an exchange program to London and meet someone?
Is Sheetals' censure of herself as a mum more so that Aarav can be adopted by the Raizadas, his family and not about him being Arnav's kid?
Into this potent mix has been thrown Khushi who knows Sheetal still likes Arnav, Arnav and Aarav have a liking for each other and Aarav is desperate for a father in his life. When she could shoulder burdens for Anjali without being related, what will she attempt to do for Aarav?
SN: Mami saying attempted kidnap of Aarav assuming he belongs to rich Raizada family - Interesting
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