Originally posted by: Rockerchic
Then why show him leave? To realise he feels something for Zoya, that was the point right?If he was humane then like people mentioned they could have shown him planning etc while he was being silent.
I'll disagree on this. He after-thought, his epiphany could have potentially been about any human being, especially if he knew him/her not just someone he feels something for. In the threat of the moment, he walked away. Once the immediate threat of guns and swords was gone, the realization of leaving someone/anyone to die of suffocation may have hit him invoking guilt and humanity (reasons 1 and 2). Given that that someone was Zoya, the potential feeling of attachment might have been an additional reason (reason 3) for his return. Reason 3 could explain his frantic, emotional nature of the search but it does not solely explain the initial cause of returning, to me. For a guy like Asad, I think reasons 1 and 2 would have sufficed to make a return.
I think we're mixing what the PH's intention was vs. taking the scene at face value leaving the director's intentions out.