In their situation - friendship, the most solid and true foundation of eternal love. Life brought them a lot of suffering, they knew passions, false, not connected with anything natural, even sexual attraction was based on a picture, for Ram for sure, but for Priya as part of the constant portrayal of being handsome, in general, nothing sincere.
Now both are based on friendship, follow it, develop trust, intimacy, passion, attraction, love appear on their own, because both found in the other person the support that was so lacking.
So right now, all these friendship covers may seem a little childish, but these two people have the right to their fears, let them be and be experienced, including through friendly gestures and mutual sacrifices.
They say that relationships based on friendship are the strongest, I agree with this.
When we are friends, we communicate, we share, we get to know a person, that is, if this is followed by love, then it happens to a person, and not to a picture, an illusion. Which is very important for any person, but especially for Ram and Priya, because their luggage is heavy, a friend they will love will help carry this luggage and throw everything out of it.