Originally posted by: AreYaar
@bold: I agree with this...it wasn't out of character for Ani to want to support Arshi after the aag given their long term relationship and him wanting to support her in a crisis.....but yes it was weird how they tried to flip the narrative into showing him forcibly distant from Jhanak and not being shown thinking about her unless people in the family or Arshi would taunt him with Jhanak's name. That was some poor writing. They could have shown that he was aware of his feelings for Jhanak but had accepted that she left him, that is why he decided to stay and support Arshi since she needed him then. Instead they tried to forcibly show Ani thinking he doesn't even love Jhanak and he loves Arshi instead 
It gets all the funnier when you see the current storyline which is all about glorifying the greys in love and relationships, trying to justify people making up their own rules about which marriages are valid and which aren't
....lol so why have Ani and Jhanak been held to such stringent standards by all the characters in the story?
Ani has been sort of shown accepting that he tried to make it work with Arshi from a perspective of companionship but even that didn't work out cuz his heart always craved Jhanak and he couldn't look at anyone else.
Jhanak is currently in the zone where she knows Ani doesn't love Arshi but expects him to make it work with Arshi from a companionship perspective over the technicality of shaadi label....so not sure what kind of implosion she needs to witness to realize Anishi can't work from that angle anymore either....neither love, nor companionship....there is total incompatibility there.
@bold: This is what worries me and irritates me the most!
Why both Jhanak and Ani didn't think of eachother atleast once during Mumbai track...
But even then, based on how they've potrayed Ani now, I can assume he's given his all to revert back to before Jhanak era and don't think of her or hurt thinking about her at all... He has his responsibilities clear and didn't want to wallow in love which has nothing left...
(Now, he's not giving himself that excuse and openly accepting everything infront of everyone!
That's what I loved about him in today's epi too!)
And I may also assume that on top of all this, he's also guilty he didn't support Jhanak during Aag incident and maybe thinks he doesn't deserve to love her...
But then when he saw her with Aditya khud ko jealous hone se rok nehi paya...
He's very instinctual and self-contradicting sometimes. And very human...
And as for Jhanak, I can only tell that something broke in her when Ani married Arshi, which didn't heal till now, even when he confessed everything to her...
Jhanak always chooses to run away from him and doesn't think about him at all whenever she gets a chance. Par jab wo saamne aata he to khudko rok nehi pati he...
I don't understand why she wants to run away at all in the first place, especially now...
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