Originally posted by: EkPaheli
I think it’s not exactly feelings of love but it’s feelings of realisation. He is figuring out how he was held back by his own limited views.
He had a friend in Munni, they truly had a genuine connection going on there where he was seen and heard by someone so ardently and seriously for the first time who’s not his mom perhaps. He knew she had ambitions to study and become something more than a maid but financially she was struggling and ergo the job as a maid. Her financial situation was her obstacle that she was working through but he made it along with her job status at his house a priority when he judged her feelings for him.
He boxed Munni up in his head by not just her status but also her whole personality. He probably felt like she was also the sort of girl who may never move on from him if her feelings for him were genuine back then, as she claimed them to be, and not her means to boost her status as he presumed was the case.
Munni is proving him wrong repeatedly. She’s not relied on anyone beyond Tulsi for the initial financial help and with her success proven that Tulsi was right in helping her. She wasn’t waiting for a sugar daddy to help improve her circumstances as he presumed was the case when he found out she’s his online friend. She genuinely had the fire to do more but her circumstances had her limited not her abilities.
She first shocked him when she was the collector he met, an unexpected turn of events for him even if he knew she had plans for a government job probably. He probably didn’t expect her to get into an elite position via IAS services but maybe a minor job as perhaps a secretary or a government school teacher in some rural area or something at most. Not this administrative level job.
Then he sees she has not been pining away for him but she’s moving on even if she’s just being practical and not doing this out of love. Her fiancé is not a random loser guy but he’s also not some sugar daddy Munni’s trapped. He’s a regular guy with a good job who comes across as an appropriate match for someone of her stature now.
He’s learning he can still talk to the girl who cared enough to ask him about his feelings and worried about him post his suicide attempt. There’s an unease there, no doubt; a subtle undercurrent of the past but there’s also some ease, comfort and a lingering sense of friendship and respect. Things he can hardly say about his marriage and his wife. He got a girl appropriate for his status but life has found a way to make it into a nightmare of unimaginable proportions of misery, solitude and suffering.
He is realising he could have had a better life with a better woman who had serendipitously appeared before him too, but he was harsh to judge, quick to dismiss and stupidly rude, biased and ignorant of his status when compared to her, which had nothing to do with his own abilities or hard work but was entirely a matter of circumstances which were orchestrated by fate. He was luckily born in a privileged family, even when he lost his parents rather early when he was perhaps too young to even remember them, he ended up getting adopted into and raised in another privileged family all because the two women he had as mothers happened to be sisters, again a happenstance that he had nothing to do with.
He has come to discover, privileges can be lost even if they’re unearned but losing yourself as a person is far more painful, humbling and humiliating than one can ever imagine it to be. He insulted Munni without letting her have an opportunity to explain herself in his anger and looked down upon her. Today… he’s looking up at her and looks down upon at his own circumstances.
She’s risen, he’s crumbled.
That’s what I am getting here so far.
They’re changing the tones of the scenes subtly even if they are including the forced third angle scenario. This is to create drama as we know ahead, perhaps grounds for the impending divorce between Mittali and Hrithik wherein she’ll assert he is having an affair and given the history of the men in this family, it’s not even a new thing nor unimaginable nor unexpected.
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