Originally posted by: Jiarao
 Though she wanted a happy family her sole focus during that time was to get her mother what she wanted. A father or happy family was like bonus. I am not saying she was planning or plotting to hurt HS. It's just that she becomes blind to everyone and everything when it comes to her mother. 
 HS had started to believe he has an equally important and independent place in her life since the Imarti track . He had started to think she wants him for herself and not just for her mother. He was drawing confidence from this thought. The CD broke his illusion and showed his place . 
 He was now sure Mini never wanted him as father and completely turned himself to Babitha . This is what I observed during phere sequence. 
  Whatever happened during CD fiasco was completely HS's fault. But I feel Mini should not have judged him by that one incident . At least she could have told him how she had felt when he was apologizing. 
@bold yes, exactly yet the truth is that on some level Minnie craves paternal affection but has never paid attention to her own emotional needs. His zombie state can only be explained by what you mentioned. He didn't once look at her or for her. 
What he has realized over time is that even if Minnie doesn't accept him or want him as a father, he cannot stop loving her as one. His outburst during the CD fiasco was terrible but if he had come to mend fences with her without seeing both CDs, it would have had the right impact on Minnie. That bit was too out of character for HS even with all the shoddy writing. I can understand him getting angry, insecure, hurt seeing all that but she had given him no reason not to trust her or to suspect her of sabotage. He knew her well enough to know that she wasn't that type of person. 
Minnie just couldn't get over that incident. It wasn't so much how things played out as the fact that it was the straw that broke the camel's back. HS maintaining his distance after that didn't help at all. In the apology scene, it was only him talking rather than the back-and-forth we'd usually see in their interactions. 
It's just too sad when you think about it.