I did not watch the epi yet, but this is my take on Ani's psyche -
It could well be , I will remain true and honest to this one relationship and I have chosen this one, out of the two for the following reasons -
1. Arshi has gone through a lot, faced an unimaginable level of mis-fortune and I will not do anything, that disturbs her emotionally one bit!
Yes, I have emotionally cheated her all along but that was coz 'dil hai ke maanta nehi' - not anymore, dil has no say whatsoever, dimaag reigns supreme from now on!
The deepest truth though remains - that I love J!
2. My family adores Arshi and she is the best bahu and the best gift I can give to my family ! So there you go, lemme gift-wrap her and present her to my family!
3.J has faced the worst kind of treatment from my family, for days and days and most times, I have not been able to be of much help to her, in this regard! She wanted to go away from my house and finally she mustered the courage to move out ! So no matter how much I love her, I will NOT be the shackles for her feet aymore! This has always been an ek-tarfa pyar from my end and I will not let my love cause her even a tad-bit of pain , anymore!
4.As long as I am assured she is breathing, safe and happy, that is all I want for her ! Ani is a protector and an enabler.....lover comes much later !
5.If I let my family know, I consider Arshi to be my wife, at least the shaadi nonsense would stop ! Let me tell them that ! What happens to me from now on, is irrelevant for me ! Mr.Quickfixer maybe thinks, I might feel suffocated, cornered, stifled in this relationship might fall sick coz of it, but that would be for me to deal with, as and when it comes!
Truth be told, he cannot gauge how he is really going to feel, around Arshi ! Worst still, if he has programmed his brain, he might force himself to believe that he is happy with her and continue the act, life long, as in his mind ,it would be his way of repenting and being fair to Arshi, after the fate she has faced due to Ani bringing J to their lives and causing the upheaval that it has, which he is constantly reminded about by his family!
In short, he has closed the J chapter and hidden it in some deep crevices of his heart, he is not going to let that get exposed, for J's well-being and he will from now on follow the path of zimmedari!
"Mujhe pata hai mera dil kiske liye dhadakta hai aur mera responsibility kaun hai"
Probably BH will learn it the hard way, for letting Arshi and Shirshti enter BH and for treating Ani as their prodigal child!
Underlined - interesting point
as a viewer there are different sensibilities at play here and so the next question to ask would be what has changed for us individuallyโฆ from then to today coz it seems the writer was steady and we werenโt ๐๐
For meโฆ.. itโs the complete resignation to the relationship at Aniโs end. In my books, Ani was feeling stifled in that relationship with Arshi after Jhanak came into his life and his inability to break through thatโฆthe reasons slightly complex, flawed et al
When Ani was getting married in the mandapโฆ while I didnโt know what would avert the marriage I knew it would be averted and while there was a role for fate there tooโฆI felt Ani was submitting to it with a sense of anger and a bravado of โYou told me to go through this and here I amโฆ. In name only Arshiโs husbandโ
If it had materialised thenโฆ I donโt know what would have been my thoughts but for me this whole time I have constantly felt Ani was at least mentally trying to break the bond with Arshi not fortifying it. Shaadi hona nahin hona but even without itโฆ there was emotional infidelity and the urge to deal with it
Ani being reconciled to Jhanak going away has happened in the past too but it always felt that Ani was sad about it. Itโs the finality in what you describe just doesnโt cut it for me
I wasnโt squeamish about the underlying emotional infidelity at play here through this entire time coz I always thought of it as a moral conflict story but I expected lovers or at least one lover be committed to the love. For me itโs not marriage thatโs the deal breaker but the acceptance ( finality) of a relationship in any form.
happy to read views and counter views ๐
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