Originally posted by: sanfan
Priya,
Goodto read your post.. I had told Dibya in an earlier post that I will write on Ani but it will be a long post but now adding my points here since you have expressed your perspective. I am not going to counter yours but will just give my impressions.. feel free to disagree π
Well for starters I would like to know how is Chottonβs characterisation inconsistent? If we were expecting him to offer counsel to Ani during some of Aniβs difficult timesβ¦.i would say that Ani almost shut the door on that by making a distinctive choice in several phases of the relationshipβ¦ for different motivations. Or letβs just say he was going in that direction eyes wide open.it was despair from Aniβs side when they both dropped her to station and anger at the PDA stage and complete alienation post aag. How is Chotton supposed to read this except as free will of an adult? Apart from Chotton actually sitting him down and telling him that you will rue your life choices I donβt think he could have done anything elseβ¦a scene may have helped ππ yesterday AY made an insightful observation about his judgement for his family when he was doing a similar thing . I did agree that the righteous do have a tendency to take the high moral groundβ¦ Jhanak also does this for that matterβ¦ Also no point to shift the onus even while accepting that while your loved ones should have your back at all times, there may also be extenuating reasons for them not to be there at times.
On a philosophical note Jo kuch nahin karte woh kamaal karte hain πππ the burden of judgement will always fall on action more than inactionβ¦ thatβs just life!!
On Aniβs part, he is responding exactly as expected. If you observe, Aniβs reactions are exactly in line with his core characteristics. Since I donβt know the Ani much before he met Jhanak β¦ I am viewing his characteristics from that point of meeting Jhanak and being involved in her life..
Ani manipulated situations for a purposeβ¦but from what I observe, That purpose is Jhanak and Jhanak alone coz I havenβt seen him manipulating for any other reason. Soβ¦ I wonβt call it a standard trait but one that he took on after meeting Jhanakβ¦so Why did he do that? In his view, that was the correct thing to do coz any other way wonβt yield best result. While Ani is most even tempered, it is only in the case of Jhanak that he loses control of his curated emotions. I donβt have to enumerate the instancesβ¦ Jab Jhanak ki baat ho toh woh kissiki bhi nahin sunta. Mere liye Jhanak sab kuch hainβ¦ over every other relation. Was self preservation of his soul the reason for him taking on a trait that made him go deeper and deeper into this association even as it threatened his relationship with Arshi is an educated guess one can make.
ANYWAYS
Whether he will have to pay a price for emotional infidelity or there will be solace for his integrity of intent only time will tell. But one thing this narrative clearly indicates is that the transition from responsibility to love happened for Ani in way that he couldnβt even recognise much less articulate which is why post marriage revelation when Jhanak goes crazy in her sense of guilt and loads it all on Ani casting aspersions on his character, he isnβt feeling guilty but chagrined ( Krushal aced the scene).
Here genuinely he has no guilt and so he is able to move on past her anger and still think about her welfare as his concern is how will he keep her here as the cover has been blown. He is also not able to think of it as a disloyalty to Arshi as his mind hasnβt grappled with the boundary transgression. It has occurred to Jhanak and so she incessantly pounds Ani on thatβ¦ but Ani is oblivious even if he is crossing the boundary. That night when Arshi commits suicide and he brings Arshi to her home there is a fleeting moment where he has a startling reaction on hugging Arshi and imagining Jhanak, the first time perhaps where he had them on his thoughts simultaneously but he dismisses it as an aberration looking to focus on keeping this compartmentalised. Itβs just that the heart/brain never understood this instruction and did the opposite.π Is ehsaas par bas hain kisi ka? Bodomaβs wise words recentlyβ¦and there were wise words on that situation from Bodoma to Jhanak as well that night ( it should have been to Ani too but anyways)
At the same time his actions towards Arshi are completely in line with his traits. I will try to explain that too
When Jhanak went to Mumbai after aag, we see an Ani who goes ballistic ( as is his nature) but yet is composed as he knows that his actions have caused turmoil and he wants to sincerely move on and do right by Arshi (And principally Jhanak too) . It might have seemed strange to Runak lovers but it is indeed move on in the strictest sense that Leena planned for both Ani and Jhanak at that stage to say if these are to meet again, fate would have to play a role. His attempt at SR even while conflicted was his way of putting his past behind him. He respected Atshiβs wishes to give it time or whatever it was that convinced her that Ani wasnβt committed fully. Yet the Mumbai visit for the competition proved to be his undoing, he couldnβt move on and he came back bitter and later the baby saga unfolded. His insistence to Arshi to be there is still his commitment to her based on his accepted course of life. Similarly, his mind does not see any reason to forsake Arshi even at the height of the baby announcementβ¦. True, his heart again wanders and somehow Jhanak going away not claiming anything from him leaves him heartbroken but he soldiers onβ¦OFC The only way Ani makes sense to me in this track for my sanity is he is thinking that Jhanak is getting back at him for asking her to lose to Arshi ( this is the aag episode reloaded but here too suspension of logic is very important ππ)
BUT then again that call comes
When Ani went to Mumbai after Adiβs call all that mattered to him was that Jhanak had asked for him to be informed. That quelled any anger bitterness he had and his mind was just focused on her well-being as always. His outburst with his family was his extreme worry for Jhanak and as always her well-being linked to hisβ¦He sincerely offers to Arshi to accompany him to Mumbai to satisfy himself that she is fine. At that time too, he doesnβt see this as a forsaking of Arshi but when the family questions him and Arshi threatens, his wall of patience breaks , his mask everything drops and he walks out of the relationship as the moment of reckoning was close. At the core was Jhanakβs well-being in question and in that he has always crossed all boundaries. It could have happened at any stage in the past but maybe Jhanak not being there made all the difference that the moment of realisation of boundless love was unusually ripe. If his family or Arshi hadnβt cottoned on to it, sheer bad luck ππ
When he reaches Mumbai, he is in that state of having been more vocal ( at least to himself) about his love for some length of time and he has now realised that there is place for only Jhanak in his life but he comes back disappointed and dejected with Jhanakβs rejection. He accepted his love for Jhanak as inevitable and when he returns home dejected to break off with Arshi ironically when Jhanak had rejected him completely. That question of why Ani never left Arshi irrespective of Jhanak is answered coz at no stage had he linked the two so when Jhanak rejected he didnβt think he must be with Arshi after his complete acceptance of his love..
He is lifeless and is also ready to break it off to Arshi but he finds it difficult to break it to Arshi COZ in his mind, Arshi wasnβt ever the cause for his involvement with Jhanak. As any decent person, he was having his moment of reckoning where he finds it difficult to articulate that he fell in love with Jhanak and if things had progressed in normal course and if he hadnβt been unwell maybe he would have found the words to articulate his desire to part with Arshi in as humane way as possible.
HOWEVER,
When he returns the family and Arshi pounces on him at his physically weak moment and he succumbs to that pressure ( his backstory a testament to his lack of intent for his own self preservation). He aimlessly proceeds to UK and there the full force of Arshiβs brutality is felt by him. Nothing prepares him for that lack of humanityβ¦ I wish the narrative had lingered on Aniβs expressions where he holds on to her in his pain and she yanks it offβ¦ Something broke irrecoverably β¦. The love they shared had long past died but even the sense that they could have been partners in a loveless relationship died. Atshiβs lack of humanity in that moment and Jhanakβs overriding concern even amid a chasm of misgivings providing a stark contrast. Her actions have always been adding up in his mindβs eye but the ferocity of Arshiβs hatred for Jhanak had only begun to dawn on him as it played out in all its naked glory. Once you awaken there is no sleep!!
When Ani chooses himself for the first time.. he does it with clarity. When he has a chance at life, he does not want to waste it on people who donβt deserve it. The time to tell Arshi carefully in a way that we have always seen Ani do things is now past. That moment is gone forever. So, his backlash comes in a torrent.
Priya, I am not belittling your concernsβ¦ there has been butchery ofc but itβs also a love story that has been built so beautifully so I am looking for signs it is breathing ππ
Now as they are bringing on ML I have no idea where this goes but for my sanity I am assuming that Ani would have sought her out in Jammu even if he hadnβt read the letter and fallen in love with her after bringing her to Kolkata and sab ki band bajata at some pointβ¦ I canβt accept that their meeting again was dependent on that letter πππ
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
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