this a very good post and ofcourse you are having your own reasons for what you have written but I disagree particularly what you have written about self respect, shivaay telling anika about not having class on her face should have been enough for anika to understand his character the soft side she has seen is just limited to his family members all those people who live across the great wall of sso mean nothing to him being an oberoi means to shivaay that he is above everyone and even anika and he has arguments over this issue alot of time specially in their initial encounters.Even after all this she was looking at him all teary eyed,telling him that her life revolves around him,and affected all of a sudden when she first hear the news of his marriage is not at all the part of her character her getting emotional about the rest of the family members is quite natural in a short span of time she earned respect from them and they too began to consider her a part of family so that was all natural but these new born and sudden shocking feelings are not making any sense to me.
maybe she's infatuated with him unlike shivaay who actually loves her and has been developing feelings for her from the very start but if for e.g I will start liking somebody and I will get a notion from him that class matters to him above everything I will just give a damn to it,I will be like ok mein bhi faltu ki nahi hoon remember how she once told shivaay muje sirf apnay anika honay par fakhar hai what happened to that anika she got more teary eyed when he mentioned class for a girl like anika she must think that if shivaay cannot understand her and accept her as she is it is his loss not hers.
that's what I think.
Mallu