Originally posted by: Chemcart_MJ
exactly. zohaib hasn't properly talked to ever since the incidents & she's lost faith in trust let alone trusting anyone -- she doubted her own friend for calling salar from canada despite the friend's refusal. salar's own actions caused a confused image of him in front of her esp after etisham's wedding. i don't think she's fully processed his current behavior yet.
Not to mention, Salar is incredibly unpredictable, sounds unserious, is brash and can become very aggressive. If you look from her perspective, she becomes fast friends with her cousin's cash-strapped photographer friend at her other cousin's wedding. She is kind to him, he indulges her fantasies, they have banter and trust. Yet when she protects him, he not only refuses to back her up and plead their innocence but also actively deflects it back on her, leaving her with a tarnished reputation, and then disappears. The next she sees him, he is a whole other person - rich, privileged and aggressive - and absolutely humiliates her and destroyed all shreds of her honour and dignity and by extension her family very publicly. The two events, back to back, are traumatic in their own right. Next, this guy turns up at her college with an arrogant non-apology and claims of truth. This is followed by his relentless mocking of her upcoming marriage with Qasim, something that is at this point her lifeboat. He then arranges for Qasim to lured away, making even a bigger public spectacle of her baraat being sent back, then again calls and mocks her with claims of sympathy followed by him destroying any illusion of hope by first exposing Qasim to her, and then telling Salman about Qasim's reality. Then, he harasses her with relentless phone calls and follows her around, asking her to decline her absolute last option, that is, marriage with the Qatari dude. Then he gatecrashes and destroys her second wedding, humiliates her entire family again and claims to love her. This is followed by his own claims of sympathy and not love and then sends in lavish gifts which further creates division in her family. Once they fight and despite his own claims that he is no longer going to do anything for her, Salar does back up what was a lie to her Taya. THIS momentarily calms her down and gives her the space that she needed to think. They meet for the last time and then part on cordial terms (again her perspective, Salar ka toh kuch aur hi chal raha tha). She is going to study further and work and he is off to Canada. End of the story.
Except it is not. He keeps calling her for no reason despite her avoidance and rudeness. His BIL is up to date with very personal info, at Salar's request, something that is borderline stalkerish, an info that seems to matches upto what her cousin told her about the BIL's character. Then, her brother and family mentally, emotionally and verbally abuse and bully her into a marriage with a supposedly newly reformed cousin, something that she is actively trying to break. This guy, Salar, out of nowhere, turns up at her university, knows about her engagement, jumps into her family's affairs and arrogantly demands that she breaks it off with Salman. He then keeps calling her obsessively and sends her semi-threatening messages. Following day, he turns up at her home, aggressively talks to her beloved (although currently justifiably angry) uncle and makes a whole show about "haath pakadna" in front of them. This is followed by him turning up at her shopping, speaking to her softly, claiming that he genuinely cares about her.
I dunno about others, but I can definitely understand a lot of Sitara's POV if you watch her family scenes. She was trying to fight, but was betrayed by her own brother. Still she tried to push Salman into breaking it even though she does not trust any one anymore. Salar is just a randomly arrived and came out of nowhere humongous added headache in her life right now. Yes, she might have a soft corner for him or subconsciously trust him. But right now, she is broken and she has absolutely no reason to believe that he might not abandon her midway through. At least, within her family, she might get occasional momentary respites. But with Salar, she does not know. He is too aggressive, too arrogant, too brash, too privileged and unfortunately right now, too stalkerish for her to accept him or trust him to be her lifeline. Yes, she thinks about him. Her heart wants to trust him. Her brain is subconsciously telling her to take refuge with him. But she is burnt and broken by own beloved family, people whom she trusted repeatedly with her life. Salar's aggression is only unsettling her further and in her pain and panic, she is unfortunately taking refuge in what Junaid described as the quicksand of comfort zone.
Edited by roopshas1 - 1 years ago
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