Haha thank you, Jean :)
@bold: Exactly....you know, it's kinda funny....sometimes we say things in hurt where we are subconsciously testing a hypothesis....our worst fears.....that is what HS did in that moment when he told her she hasn't accepted him as her father....he WANTED her to deny it...he wanted her to forcefully correct him and with HAQ question him ki how could he ever even think that she didn't accept him as her father? Did he not understand what she feels for him?
The very fact that she didn't say anything....not the "No" he wanted to hear nor anything otherwise to correct that statement or assure him....it really cut him deep. He isn't admitting just how deep.
That scene actually hits home just how fragile this bond actually was....there is immense love but also immense vulnerability between them.....that moment tested that vulnerability and exposed the fragility of their bond.....it's a very delicate thread that needs more nurturing to strengthen.
I feel so bad for both of them....I can understand why he wanted that assurance from Mini in that moment...but at the same time, she's just a kid and she was reeling from a big shock herself in that moment....so to hold that against her is not fair.....they both actually want to give each other that assurance....but now they just don't know how. Sigh.
Yes, the vulnerability was there. He was reminding her how she'd hugged him and given him confidence, told him he was the best, etc. and she tried to assure everyone that he was saying all that in anger.
It really did cut him deep, it broke something in him. I saw that look in his eyes when he talked to Lala, as if he was resigned to be unwanted in her life. So sad.
He wanted her to deny it indeed. The way he kept, bol de chhori, bol de. He didn't even look at her again during the entire wedding, it was all there to see. She on the other hand felt adrift, not knowing what to do, kept brushing it aside as though it were just his outburst in anger. True, no one could expect her to say anything in that frame of mind, especially since she also felt guilty for in some way ruining her mother's wedding. What HS also wanted to see was, would she stand up for him too the way she always stood up for Babita, acknowledge how hurt he would by seeing that CD?
And being called sautela baap did not help at all. It just made everything he did seem worthless and put all those doubts in his head that he was lost. Just like during the amrit manthan dialogue with Lala, where he said a part of him had died, I believe a part of him also died during the CD fiasco and its aftermath. When Babita was about to leave the haveli, the way HS felt about losing Minnie was just so obvious, yet he never felt he could apply that haq on her to stop her or ask her for something. He thought the wedding would finally give him that but the CD incident made him feel that even an official wedding was nothing. He knows quite well that you can't force relationships on people. I just wish he wouldn't take that as a defeat and try to put the pieces together again, bring Minnie back into the fold once again.
All in all, I think too many issues happened at the same time not just during the wedding period but also the accumulated stress of all that these three have dealt with in just a few months, it was too much for them to bear. I hope they can help each other heal, they both deserve a second chance.
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