Asad, Zoya & an EPIC-FAIL attempt at a clean sever - Page 2

Originally posted by: TanHa911

Buying her the replacement iPad and cellfone ... its as if Asad is trying to ... err .. whats the phrase in Hindi ... EHSAAN CHUKANA ? I am pretty sure Zoya's genuine gesture of the haldi paste kept messing with his head as he tried to first outright dismiss , then ignore and eventually, cross-examine it out of frustration trying to decide what was her angle in it ... eventually reaching the conclusion that she meant nothing but heartfelt sincerity and gratitude. Gratitude he could take . But sincerity ? Heartfelt ? That would mean something way beyond mere thank you gesture. It wasn't supposed to be this way between them. There would be no lasting warm-feelings. He'd save her, they'd come back home, she'd say a polite thank you and they'd get over it like nothing happened and move on. But Zoya seems to want to take things forward, haldi paste et all, beyond clinical, civil co-existense. She actually wanted to get along with him. And that scared the shit out of Asad Ahmad Khan. So how does he go about fencing her out ? Ofcourse by doing what he does best - Closing the deal , balancing the books ... buying her a replacement for her lost belongings so that there'd be no room for any form of attachment between them post-Mangalpur . Like the reminder of a missing iPad and the events that preceded it. It'd be a clean sever, a well-closed business deal. She'd make haldi ka lep and in return he'd compensate for her iPad and they'd move past that. Unfortunately for Asad, as the song goes :

I have a slightly deviating take on this, though I agree with most of what you said. I don't think he has it in him to be too mathematical about Zoya at this point. His head is not as clear and calculative as it used to be. 😆

I was going to make a separate thread on it but I'll just post it here:

Let's back up to the terrace scene first. He's lost in his thoughts of Zoya and she comes with her haldi paste. He just wants to be polite with her and make an escape ASAP. So he says 'its ok' to everything. And then when she mentions how she is sorry because 'meri wajah se aapko bohot chot bhi lagi' we see a hint of happiness on his face because of all the reasons that she mentioned, the chot wali reason is important to him and because it is true. Usko chot lagi. The rest of the things she apologized for (for being herself, for being a museebat)-his heart knows it's not true and therefore, an apology over that is not as important. So when she apologizes for the 'chot' he has that soft, content expression on his face as he blinks his eyes slowly (He usually does that when he is mesmerized by her or when he is happy inside). He's still calm and listening to the haldi wali story and doesn't even retract his hand. He would've let her apply the paste but her comment about the Z was a rude wake up call. It reminds him immediately of the trespassing his heart is up to and he immediately puts up a cold front. Zoya gives it right back to him and worse. So here we have a guy, who can't help but care for this girl but this girl just hurts him, compares him to Dilawar-the-kaatil-mamu and walks away (when he was the one with every intention of walking out on her in that scene) with the haldi paste. His 'chot' be damned.

In the same terrace scene,by telling him that she was sorry about coming to mangalpur, she is acknowledging, rightly or wrongly, that yes they should have been apart. And that's quite the pinch to Asad who is all flustered right now because of this change in feelings. He can say all he wants that he didn't want to stay with her, but he knows in his heart that it is not true. However, the moment she agrees with what he said-that she should not have gone with him-it hurts him because he subconsciously interprets it as her wanting distance from him.

Then later that evening, he overhears her convo with jiju. So he knows she needs a phone and an ipad. And then she makes him sick with worry by leaving without a phone in the night. He most definitely got her the phone for her safety and secondarily because it's wouldn't have been too easy on him to get sick with worry each time she sets out per her whim and fancy. 😆. And the ipad was nothing but indulgence for his Hoity Toity Princess coz she is always glued to it and he knows she would miss it. It was all niceness on his part. But here is his dilemma. Andar se care bhi karna hai aur bahar dikhana bhi nahi hai. Thodi si attention bhi chahiye par zyadi attention bhi nahi chahiye kyunki dar lagta hai. Zoya ki terrace wali kadvi baaton ka tit for tat bhi karna hai- coz if I burn, you burn. To top it off, after he gives her the ipad+phone, Zoya says "out of all people" I wouldn't call you- he is slighted. He responds with "hum phasgaye the" with emphasis on phasgaye, returning the favor. He then reiterates the rest of her words from the terrace encounter. He is such a liar. None of what he said during his apology is true- the ipad and the phone were not lost because of him. And Zoya knows it's not true. So she takes it as being mocked at and tears up coz he has deliberately made it seem like he's 'closing the deal' and returning the haldi paste favor by giving her those gadgets. Poor girl.

For his worry and care, he has to give her the phone and ipad. For his pain and restlessness, he has to give them to her in a rude way.