Originally posted by: AreYaar
I agree that him stepping back from the promise to Malini won't be the selfish part.....selfish would be if he wants to forge ahead without accounting for his decisions.
The tricky part with Adi is that he can be very black and white/righteous about the TRUTH sometimes.....so if he decides something is the ABSOLUTE truth, then he doesn't back down from it....that is how he rationalizes it to himself also then....ki yeh sach hai aur ab hum iske liye hi ladenge.
That said, I don't think he's yet reached that point of "absolution" regarding this particular truth of him and Imlie. My sense still is that yes he's growing closer to her, closer to his realization of what she means to him.....but some bigger guilt will crop up to put everything in a grey zone again.....Adi will yearn for a black and white choice....but milegi nahin.
Regarding his attraction for Imlie that was in his subconscience all this while and is now just reaching the conscious space.....the issue is actually more complex than that.....it's not just that he was attracted to her all this while and suppressed it by pushing her away brutally....it's also that he did indeed accept her as his wife subconsciously from back then too and was too terrified to face it so blundered into another marriage to deny that he felt that attachment to Imlie as her husband. And that second part of this problem is the bigger deal.....if it was an attraction, love jo bhi....he could still say, oh but I'm still married to Malini only so that is the only commitment I can keep......the problem is that his heart tells him not just that he now loves Imlie, but also that he wants Imlie as his wife......and this monumental realization is slowly building up that he also made a commitment to Imlie (a commitment he made BEFORE Malini) when he married her with rituals and that is what his soul is now pushing him towards consciously admitting.
How do you even begin facing a commitment whose validity you yourself denied so adamantly for so long? That's the conundrum.....lol