Originally posted by: Apsvenky
From what I understood with today's scenes, I am assuming that RK would have been in the same ashram & he would have interacted with Shivani & found a kinship with her, due to which he took care of her all this while & was her Aaru. Yes it was selfish in his part as he had no family, but it was also something that Armaan feels gratitude, as atleast for those 10 years, Shivani had a feel that her Aaru was alive & well, seeing him in RK. She suffered a little less as she saw him in front of her, rather than look around for him & deteriorate further. That was why Armaan offered financial assistance, as he assumed that RK has done so much & Armaan can fix that part of his struggle.
The funny thing is that I understand why they had that bit of Armaan offering money. That shows the Poddar bit in him. Be it Kaveri or Armaan, their default setting in any situation is to first throw money at it to see if it would get solved. Kaveri did it with Shivani & Armaan did it with RK and even before he has done it multiple times. While Kaveri or Sanjay do it out of a malicious intent to cover up their crimes, Armaan does it as a default mechanism of seeing it work when his family does it. So while RK took offense, Armaan had no I'll intentions or tried to put a value to his contributions. He just assumed that by taking care of his financial burden towards Shivani, he can make up somewhat for not being there with her all this while
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