Hi Sowmya,
Welcome !! Nice to read your take.
The beauty of this serial ( so far despite some harakiri here and there) is it does not force feed its perspective ( the writer’s I mean) down our throat. It is slowly letting the characters develop and letting the viewers a feel of it as the story goes along. It allows you to consider why a character may do this or did that.
bold - Yes, one of most beautiful character sketch written for an ITV ML - rare I say even if I don’t watch a lot of itv… most ML sketches fall in the range of either toxic or too good to be true yet totally useless where it should matter 😂😂😂 Ani is humane, his flaws are also written with such depth… I maintain Ani is Leena’s favourite character. And she got Krushal who has managed to get under the skin of Ani..so wonderfully.
Sowmya, about the incidents post aag.. while that’s one way to look at it, and it is an interesting one, I would have been more convinced of it if the writer hadn’t thrown a curveball with the complete alienation of Jhanak and his self doubt and agar agar dialogues 😂😂😂 but the only way that phase makes sense is he was consumed with guilt over his actions that he somehow felt contributed ( not directly) to the state of Arshi. It can happen to a person leading a dual life. That moment of reckoning where he has an epiphany or a realisation that his actions may have hurt someone he claimed to love. The writer, perhaps did not want to give it too much clarity as in some ways it could mar the flow of the love story that she is aiming to project and so decided to keep it vague. His monologue of Did Jhanak try to harm Arshi? was a source of confusion for me for the longest time but I later sorta made peace with it with this understanding that Ani genuinely made a u- turn at that stage.
Which if we come to think of it absolutely natural for someone with Ani’s traits. He fell in love with Jhanak with a force of feeling beyond his control but he did not intend to deceive Arshi… so much so that even after acknowledging Jhanak’s power over his thoughts, he did not think of breaking it off with Arshi coz in in his mind, until much much later he never linked the two. In Kashmir too while standing in that mandir, he was placating Arshi when the wedding was cancelled.
on that night of intimacy, in that delirium induced state, was the first time, he acknowledged the possibility that he wanted Jhanak in his life in a more permanent way and was willing to barter anything to have that. He extracted a promise that he remembered even post delirium ( don’t ask me how that is possible -ask Leena) 😂 He started to muster the courage to tell Jhanak he was feeling suffocated in the promise he had given her in lieu of her promise but couldn’t go too far with Jhanak who had worries of her own. That led to Ani behaving like a petulant brat when J refuses him, and led to the great PDA… then aag happens.
While dealing with his guilt over his actions… he perhaps felt that his PDA had perhaps driven Jhanak to harm Arshi ( its a fleeting thought that sometimes takes over your more guarded responses or thought) His preoccupation with Arshi’s wellbeing and staying distant from Jhanak ( it was useful as a plot device too) was a result of his trying to make amends. Today his assertion that he tried to adjust with Arshi makes complete sense. He did his penance but where the heart is, one can’t stay from it for too long.Now coming to what his actions are and will be.. Leena will be coming to that facet of his character too at long last… I would like to devote a post to that 😂😂 Ani’s character sketch is the hugest draw as is his foil Jhanak.. they aren’t peas in a pod but somehow they stick 😂😂😂
I couldn't counter your post as my word's will be felt shorter so saying "इदं मम् "...
like a patient elder explaining ani's stance in his dynamics with arshi & jhanak to jhanak as her own daughter.. though jhanak being jhanak rani
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