Originally posted by: wingnutx
I think the whole love drama is just a reality check to most of people nowadays #teenagers who has such high standards of love, who can't differentiate between love, like, crush and lust. They're all very interconnected and are like sides of a single coin and Sid's dialogue and everything is clearly stating that he treats Ishani just as a friend. The hug scene and his defense mode on whenever someone ships them shows his stand so the point is how will he let her down and brust her bubble.
Ishani on the other hand is a touch starved, love starved kid who has never experienced any kind of true love whether it's friendship wala love, family wala love or relationship wala love. So to her the definition of love could be bookish and all kind of love that happens on the TVs and movies where people generally glorify love so much and make it sound so much high standard when it isn't. Showdown one kind of love to glorify other and heartbreaks just doesn't seem real. In college life their are crushes who we think love and then the bubble bursts after sometimes, relations doesnt works and the toxic scars and brokenness surrounds the heart.
So, in my POV they're showing that phase as how Ishani will realize true love and for now she may even hate Sid for breaking her heart and what she think is love and friend zoning her as this ain't love, this is to be put simply attraction, crush, admiration, infatuation and everything of that kind.
Crushes happens and breaks and leave us with realizations. All relationships are not meant to be sometimes devil's hides behind the facades of prince charmings and witches plays under the facade of queens.