Originally posted by: Paulaonohi
I’m talking about how you wrote about how Jhanak views Ani like a god and way above her. Honestly, I feel like more and more recently, the distance in her eyes is not so far - and I hate that makers killed this thread too. Maybe, when the actual times comes, I will feel it more - but right now I feel like the only thing that actually separates both of them is Jhanak’s guilt over Arshi. Elements that would have amped it up such as him being the boss and she a maid and unworthy seem less and less now. There was that worship vibe in Kashmir and when she was first in Kolkata, as well as during the post Ani accident scene when Jhanak was thinking it, but that has reduced over time. I feel like it’s even to the point that when Jhanak calls herself a maid in front of Ani, it’s whenever she is referencing how his family views her, underlying how she knows that this view is unfair and when she says that she also needs to be treated well even as a maid. Jhanak doesn’t seem to think Ani thinks of her as a maid, as well as have any reservations or distance away from him enough to idolize and secretly wonder about him. The possibility of that was largely taken away when makers put them in situations where Ani was regularly communicating and personally holding Jhanak’s hand, so rather than being very far apart in order to solidify that forbidden love dynamic between maid and master, they are strangely close so that it is presenting as a husband and wife that is instead being forced apart by family, if you get? If makers had kept Ani more proactive than reactive and being thorough in supporting her and setting boundaries with his family and being honestly brutal and clear with them about her and what he wants for her, Jhanak would have fallen for him, but also have fear that she is not worthy of him. Like ‘he saved me sort of thing’. Rather now, Jhanak has seen Ani fumble and flop so much with her that she calls him out directly on it, so she is actually very familiar and doesn’t put him on a pedestal. She doesn’t even put his family on a pedestal, as she calls them out too. If anything, what will keep her from Ani is that his family hates her and will make her life hell, the fact that Ani may fumble or not be able to fully carry through (opposite of idolizing him blindly), and most important, guilt of Arshi. For me, Jhanak just sees Ani as someone who was born into a rich, toxic family and that cannot be with her for reasons that I listed above. There is so much familiarity that there is no reverence type of hidden devotion - like I said, Jhanak worshiping Ani would be her taking shaky steps to him but the actual show is just outsiders futilely trying to break them apart. Ani and Jhanak’s relationship in Kashmir was a good image of the former because she knew little of him and he was so upright and forthright. If makers had not messed up stuff and kept him that way and straightforward up till now, this story would have been exploring a forbidden love between two people of different social status. Now, they are not really forbidden, just unwanted - because there is only so much that guilt can work on Jhanak. If she herself has no feelings of unworthiness for Ani, that’s 70% solved.
Sorry, my brain is not working rn lol.
So are we on the same page ??
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