Aaj Aru baby ki halki-si bashing karike padi.
Gadheda.
The ways he's so crisply written and enacted as well as the way Imlie is so gratingly written makes us completely sympathise with him.
BUT
But... He hasn't ever processed his trauma properly. His crying/emotion-is-for-weaklings spiel is neither healthy not sustainable. That's his one and only character flaw.
He's channeled all his emotions into his idea of badla. Because, honestly, the dude is petty not vindictive. Honestly, Aditya Kumar Tripathi needs no one else to destroy himself, and Aryan knows that.
Imlie separating from him is his trigger and do din se Banda trigger hoke apne repressed emotions har jagah vomit kar raha hai.
He preoccupies all of Imlie's mind. Her jiju is so far away from her that it's not even funny. She needed to know that she was more important to him than his stupid badla/AKT. That all she felt between fhem was real. That he wasn't vindictive.
It's a moot koshchin; she asked again only because there was new information + she needed to know what she means to him. She even told him that she needs only one reassurance from him. No more questions asked.
Gadheda hurt puppy ki tarah chup baith gaya Bina matlab ka do din ka angst Dene.
Picchlaggu.
Wednesday se phir chalu Inka jaaniya.