Yes...after this track - its Ani who will get all the sympathy and she can do it in one stroke redemption.
Shristi asked to speak to him during the hospital. All of below can be because of her, and Leena can fully excuse Ani depending on how harmful the info she is blackmailing him with is.
His lack of support for J during the fire incident; his bringing Arshi to their house to recover; his letting J go; his asking J to lose(could well be Shristi) ; his dialog with J where he said - he always had J's best interests at heart, she never trusted him and asked why she was being rude to him; his comment that he thought she loved him; his not stepping in when Arshi and Shristi are insulting Jhanak; his repeated asking of Arshi why she keeps calling her mother; his becoming best buds with saasuma suddenly. If they tie all this to Ani sacrificing for J because of something to do with her past secret; that Shristi is blackmailing him with; he will become the saint of the century. Shristi keeps saying Urvasi did something to her like what J did to Arshi, we dont know what it is and even if its true. She could have used this to blackmail Urvasi with this or something like this that could harm Jhanak...who knows
Leena can go either way. I'm thinking after she has milked all the negativity for Ani; she may bring some story like this regarding Ani; and lo and behold Ani is white washed and J the berehem lass. It is as easy as that, and it will be convincing too. Ani could have told the secret about J's dad to Guruji - because he may have realized because of Shristi blackmailing him; he cannot out J's dad's secret. Any line of thought can be changed as easily as this.
The problem is this kind of writing is playing with viewers emotions by withholding information. From the beginning this is what Leena does..thats why no one is able to guess what is coming next and we are all left stunned with the drama. I am convinced they will eventually make Ani a saint in some way or the other. Wait and see.
Bold - for this to hold true even while withholding information from the viewers, the narrative has to stay true to character traits even while enigmatic.
This hasnโt been supported by the events unfolding..
You mentioned that Aniโs actions atm are seeming to come from duressโฆ.ok fair enough - accepted( I havenโt seen it so I will accept your perspective and I know Krushal has the capacity to deliver this thin line very well) but unfortunately, there is vagueness in the Ani-Arshi dynamic post fire incident.
There has been nothing particularly in Arshiโs demeanour to suggest that she is volatile.. except for a small scene when she stopped the SR.. After that she was Chandni not Arshi. Additionally, Shristi who keeps feeding into Arshi plays no role in that phase to advise Arshi to become physically close to AniโฆMy point being how dumb is the villain otherwise but somehow Leena is expecting me to believe yet they have the power to hold Ani to ransom somehow. Give me the straw to clutch at that Arshi is capable of destroying Jhanak coz if itโs anyone else it doesnโt matter to Ani. And ofc it needs to be a credible one.
The problem is Leena is juggling too many hats so tripping big time. Leena knows that no motivation is strong enough to keep Ani from acknowledging his progeny so they have created a scenario where Ani doesnโt remember the incident but no one can buy that because they didnโt build those scenes to age well.
So what remains for me to conclude that
1) Ani is now deeply committed to Arshi so he wanted her to recover and so he asked Jhanak to lose for no other reason other than Arshiโs sole well-being ( chalo yeh bhi maan liya post fire incident) having reconciled to Jhanak going away
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2) Ani is deeply committed to Arshi but has a meltdown when he sees Jhanak with Adi.
I can go onโฆ. But you see where this is going..
So Priya if I might explain how I understand based on what has been shown so far :
Ani is under duress about something ( chalo maan lete hain) and reconciled to a loveless life with Arshi to help her recover her mojo and when he meets Jhanak, he is taken aback but recovers enough to request her to lose to his wife ( but one whom he isnโt married to)
Then , faced with Jhanak and Adi, he loses it but after the tongue lashing he is fully reconciled to going back and leading a life with Arshi ( loveless or not I donโt know) Then Jhanak drops the baby bomb and he is livid as he doesnโt remember anything. Now he wants to save his relationship with Arshi whose status is unknown ( married, unmarried, under duress,loveless or lustful kuch pata nahin)
But ek cheez pata hainโฆ
Ani babu can think up the most bizarre motives wrt Jhanak
Could she have tried to kill Arshi coz whatever
Could she have had decided to have a baby with Adi and then pass it off as mine to take revenge on me for asking her to lose to Arshi?
Only Ani/Leena can think thus ๐๐๐
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