Originally posted by: Paulaonohi
Longest time everyone! Been bored of the show of late but got renewed interest with the past two eps. My two cents:
I can’t tell how I feel about this. Ani was finally frank and I appreciated it so much. But now, he is not frank in the direction of breaking up with Arshi, but in the direction of marrying Arshi and having Jhanak as a mistress. It’s gutsy and the entire wrongness and immorality of it is actually gripping. I find myself shocked and wondering what his plans are. I thought he meant to put her in a seperate apartment but he’s taking her home. It reminds me of a Korean manhwa I read where the female lead’s father didn’t love her because she was the daughter of his wife. He was actually trying to kick her out of the company because he wanted his child from his ‘true love affair’ with his mistress to inherit the company. I’m getting that vibe over again. Is Ani going to be like that female lead’s father? Arshi is the wife and Jhanak is the ‘true love mistress’? I find myself interested in whether makers have decided to turn him into a man bedazzled into darkness by passion. It’s not too strange given that Ani is a man who is overly hypocritical to the point he could say he had no desires while finding ways to keep her with him. Now the mask has been torn off and Ani is just showing his real self. It’s dirty, it’s filthy, and it’s refreshing how he is no more trying to act like he is honest when he is the total opposite. However, we never know how many scruples the real Ani has…. In addition, I wonder if Jhanak would finally succumb to his intensity only to keep second guessing her whole life? Would she at one point back out and demand she deserves better? What’s going to be the arrangement with Arshi that ani is going to make? Look the other way to the affair and our kid would be my heir? Or outright blackmail her to ignore his actions? Or is it the other way and the affair would be hidden from everyone…the forbidden fruit is sweeter sort of thing? Or would makers decide that such moral upturn is too heavy for ITV and decide that Ani would break things with Arshi and announce Jhanak? But Ani doesn’t seem like he has that intent. It’s rather like he wants to be the sort of guy that goes to parties with Arshi but spends all birthdays with Jhanak. I’m excited about the characters’ future actions now but that would have paid off more if makers were good writers. But they aren’t and so this buildup would probably be wasted soon enough. We’ll see.
My interpretation of Ani’s dream:
I didn’t think what we saw in that dream was a manifestation of the standard married life for them. Far from it. Perhaps, it was because of the sequence of how things were shown…from him asking she stay by his side forever to having that dream. I interpreted that scene differently. I thought in that scene, he was imagining he and Jhanak when she accepts to be his lover/mistress….the scenes were hyper focused on Ani wooing/saying sweet things to Jhanak, so it seemed like a confirmation of his plans for her. Because there is no other way to interpret it. Ani isn’t saying no to marrying Arshi or denying that his request to Jhanak is too much, but he doesn’t care for decorum anymore. When she asked what society would say, he didn’t care and insisted, because he knows what he is proposing is scandalous. He even went ahead to say they could be in the same city even if she doesn’t come to the house. That’s the same as saying he can furnish an apartment for her as a rendezvous. Unless future episodes say otherwise, Ani doesn’t mind marrying Arshi as long as he can have Jhanak in some capacity. And it feels like he is not beyond using the marriage as leverage to force Arshi not to mind his affair. The genre is getting darker.
I try not to get excited because makers are bad writers….but what if Jhanak’s biggest obstacle (I’m getting deja vu of my earlier expectations) is not Arshi or Boses, but Ani? How much of an obstacle would it be to a successful career than being a mistress, even if it’s a beloved one? How much darker would the genre get, How much more wretched would Ani get when the woman he has successfully wooed internally and coerced other externally to keep by his side is getting more popular? Would Ani really be able to say he sincerely wants to push her out there? Won’t he rather try to sabotage her? Would Arshi, who is wife but in all real ways, isn’t for Ani, not try to manipulate Ani into being overly jealous and sabotage Jhanak’s career by himself? Because as far as I can tell, Ani is shallow and self absorbed to the point that he is the type of person that would marry Arshi and keep Jhanak if Arshi schemes into saying she has no feelings for him anymore and makes up some lie about ‘wanting to protect Jhanak’? Or have a fake wedding with Arshi (with her knowledge) and trick society that it’s real? I can see Arshi saying it’s for her and family honor and to protect Jhanak from
Scorn and she will pretend to divorce him in a while, so he can marry Jhanak because now people will say Jhanak stole her cousin’s fiancée..I can see Ani falling for that trap and thinking he can still have Jhanak, and when he ‘divorces’ Arshi, he can marry her after some time to make it look like he just fell in love again post divorce, and he agreeing with Arshi not to tell Jhanak that she is not really a mistress, but that Arshi isn’t his wife at all, so she doesn’t give it away and for her own good (deja vu of her moms letter)…..wow, I’m way too creative for my hood when it comes to ITV because 99% of my amazing plots never happen 😭
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