Originally posted by: nelufar
Earlier even I too thought that Shruti could have clearly told Dev about the ploy .. but after having watched the epi .. I realise that Dev and Aakash fall for Shruti at the same time. But since Dev never lets people know abt his feeling no one realised that it was Shruti. I feel this because when they go for youth festival Devsays he is in love but never revealed that it wasShruti. He couls have told at that time itself. Further, Bhatti is more close to Aakash than Dev, so he understands Aakash very well and knows that he likes Shruti but is just not accepting his feelings for her.
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True. For Dev it is love at first sight as he notices Shruti first but Aakash takes note of her when she sings for him. Bhatti was the one encouraging Aakash to take a chance on Shruti as he knew that his friend was affected by her but he was being stubborn in not showing it. However, regardless of who liked Shruti first, the point was that S only liked A back. D's love was unrequited.
Yet the blame initially is on Shruti because even if Dev was not forthcoming about his feelings until it was too late, she could not be that naive that she wasn't aware that she encouraging him by being flirtatious.
Still Dev backs off when he knows that A-S love each other but its another story that he cannot stick to that 'sacrifice' for long.