Originally posted by: LoveInAutumn26
To be fair to Mini, I don’t think Mini ever wanted HS to be her father. Not before marriage and certainly not after CD incident.
These feelings were in HS’s heart but not in Mini’s. After hospital incident Mini goes and apologizes because she knew that she was wrong. She saw how HS cared for her in the hospital, she was guilty of how she behaved with him. So, she apologized.
Every time HS called her his daughter, she didn’t show that she objected that but she also didn’t call him her father directly. It wasn’t “mere father”, it was always “Beti mante ho na, father ho na”. Mini only loves and cares about her Babes has been established time and again.
She however managed to fool (not necessarily intentionally) both Babita and HS into believing that she wanted a father in HS. She never came clean about her feelings and let them just think that, especially Babita.
There's nothing wrong with her not wanting him to be her father. I just think it was a blow for HS to realize that it had been a one-sided wish. His whole world turned upside down then, as though all he had previously experienced was revealed to be a mirage.
The fact that she kept referring to herself as his daughter would make anyone think she wanted the same thing too, as well as moments such as the whole omelette scene. Again, all this goes back to expectations that people have of one another without talking things through.
I do think though that she knew he considered her as his daughter and did want to be her father, but she never realized that it would blow up in their faces. That explains why she had no answer for him in the confrontation about the CD.
Parents find it extremely difficult when their children hate them or don't care about them, but for those in the situation that HS has found himself in, they can't do anything about the fact that the child loves them but perhaps not as a parent. He has learned to accept it but that doesn't mean he will ever be 100% ok with it. That's the thing about parental love - you can't switch it on and off. You can fall out of love with/stop loving a spouse but never your child, which makes his situation all the more tragic.
The irony is that if you put aside the obsession with labels, he's the closest thing to a father that she will ever get. Baap se badh kar, par baap jaisa nahin. She still has some sort of mental block about the role of a father and I think that if ever HS and she were to become father-daughter, it would only be possible once she gets some closure regarding Ashok. Otherwise, she will always have this tees in her heart that she doesn't want to acknowledge.
Edited by inlieu - 5 years ago