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 writerโs 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 donโt watch a lot of itvโฆ most ML sketches fall in the range of either toxic or too good to be true yet totally useless where it should matter ๐๐๐ Ani is humane, his flaws are also written with such depthโฆ I maintain Ani is Leenaโs 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 thatโs one way to look at it, and it is an interesting one, I would have been more convinced of it if the writer hadnโt thrown a curveball with the complete alienation of Jhanak and his self doubt and agar agar dialogues ๐๐๐ 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 Aniโs traits. He fell in love with Jhanak with a force of feeling beyond his control but he did not intend to deceive Arshiโฆ so much so that even after acknowledging Jhanakโs 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 ( donโt ask me how that is possible -ask Leena) ๐ 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 couldnโt 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 PDAโฆ then aag happens.
While dealing with his guilt over his actionsโฆ 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 Arshiโs 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 canโt 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 lastโฆ I would like to devote a post to that ๐๐ Aniโs character sketch is the hugest draw as is his foil Jhanak.. they arenโt peas in a pod but somehow they stick ๐๐๐
Thanks for the tag Rekha,
We did discuss a lot on these topics at that point. So now I am not replying ... You know naa my thoughts on Anirudh and his agar statement, why he didnt break off with Arshi.... ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
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