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There are many posts on the forum blaming one or the other lead for the current situation in the show. As I mentioned in my yesterday's post, I really didn't want to make any analysis or speculations on the characters before the track is completely revealed to us. And that's exactly why I refrained from commenting on these posts too,
Suddenly I felt that probably I too should make my two cents on the characters, thier progression and their love story and the here's it is,.
For me, the first 50 episodes of the show was about how this fresh faced, dare-devil, honest, impulsive, stupid reporter sneaked into the heart of the arrogant, manipulative, Kabir Sharma. There was a gradual progression of how he fell for her, how it started as attraction, how she exasperated him with her antics, his grudging appreciation for her ability to get hard hitting stories, then the comreadership in working together, her defiance when he ignored her, all along the possessiveness he felt for her, then the vulnerability he witnessed when they were held hostage, this girl slowly, but steadily captured his wounded heart and made it hers..
I was always convinced that Kabir was totally in love with Ananya, the real Ananya, not a mirage, or a myth, he had seen her strengths and weakness, the positives and negatives, and he accepted her wholeheartedly. His love is so absolute that there is nothing about her he wants to change. At times, we people at the forum were exasperated at what we considered as Ananya's immaturity and her insensitiveness towards Kabir's feelings. But Kabir never complained, he had always seen her as his strength while we weren't so sure of it.
Coming to Ananya, I wasn't sure what made her fall for the Kabir Sharma, Yes he is her idol, he is smart, he is handsome, but I hadn't seen the gradual process of falling in love from her side. It always made me uncomfortable, that the Kabir Ananya loves maybe a dream man, the infallible hero, but we all know (atleast the people who experienced life know) no human is perfect, but she sees him as perfect. Yes, he told her in no nonsense terms that he is not as strong as what the world or herself thinks of him, yes, he shared the gory details of his imperfect past, and she had also seen the shaken up Kabir Sharma, but what matters is, when the situation demanded him to take control, whether it is to save their lives or to convince her family & friends to give them a chance, he delivered, he had been a knight in shining armour for her, at the every turn of their shared history. He is so perfect that he is even ready to pacify her forever and give into her every tantrums. He doesn't care who is at fault, he is ready to apologise. He is nothing short of the perfect boyfriend every adolescent girl dreams of..
But perfection doesn't exist, remember? And here comes the imperfection, the not so heroic side of him, the proof that he is indeed an ordinary mortal.. The one thing we had noticed in the journalist Kabir Sharma, is his integrity, no doubt he is an opportunist, no doubt he plays with viewers' mind and emotions for winning the rating game, but he doesn't propagate falseness, we haven't seen him compromising his values for the sake of numbers.. He brings in numbers in-spite of his ideologies, and value system, and that's indeed the uniqueness of the man,..
For the first time ever, his integrity is questioned. I would say even now, his commitment or love towards Ananya is not in doubt, but the questions that arise in our mind are about why he had seeminglay let down justice for an innocent man, and then why he had hidden the very important fact from Ananya. We don't have answers yet, in the first look, he does seem guilty , but doesn't this man deserve to be heard out? Doesn't he prove his braveness and integerity time and again in the last 100 odd episodes.. Can't we give himself benefit of doubt for few more episodes and wait for his side of the story before judging him harshly? I am not saying this as a fan, but as a neutral viewer, Kabir Sharma does deserve a fair hearing, if not from his lady love, but atleast from us...
If the first 50 episodes were about Kabir falling for Ananya, the next 50 are about how Kabir & Ananya became KaYa, how they had grown as couple, how the reluctant Kabir opened up, how the charming Annaya indeed became the strength of her man.. The love story started with them as individuals, one feeling lucky for the second chance, for the breath of fresh air in his barren life, and the other who got her dream man dancing to her tunes. Ananya indeed made the most of it, she thrown tantrums, made him beg for her forgiveness, kept him on his toes, enjoyed his undivided attention and in the process she did irk some of us ;). I would be lying if I said I was always impressed with their pairing, there were times when I did have this nagging doubt, whether Ananya deserve this seemingly perfect Kabir Sharma.. The very first time, she raised to the occasion was the rumal burning scene, she made me fall all over again for her with her delicate handling of senitive Kabir, but even after that she continued to be insensitive to Kabir, by singing Shreya Nama when her man obviously has a very troubled past with the same woman. Her progression is slow too, from being the heady girl in love to the woman who is so confident in her man's love that she can ignore his past transgresion and accept his continuing friendship with Tarini..
But again the same question, what is it about Kabir which made her fall for him? She still claims her love is 8 years olds, we all had crossed (or some of you are in ) teenage, we all had crushes, but these teenage crushes don't develop into love, especially when your crush is your idol. Ananya's love for Kabir has matured over the period of time, but it indeed started as the hero worship, and the basis of her love is the fact that he defended her father when no one else did, now that basis is shaken up, the hero is no more a hero.. He may not be a villain. But he is certainly not the fearless hero she assumed him to be. Can her love survive this abrupt change? As I said I do believe her love is matured, but unfortunately she hadn't seen all his weakness yet, what he had exposed her were past wounds, where he failed, but also where he managed to get over that failure and survive, and these past failures are no where directly related to her. She stil considers him as the perfect man, because that is what he seems like, but here comes the ugly truth, the seemingly cowardly side of the perfect hero, where the hero failed to live up to his reputation, and what is worse, it is directly related to her and 8 year bonding with him.. This is the man she trusted with closed eyes, and why did she do it! Because She thought he deserved it.
How do you expect her to behave? Be mature and listen to his side of story? Can anyone of us do it? I can't, I would behave the exact same way Ananya behaved, I would slap him for betraying me, for being a wimp instead of a the hero I assumed him to be, and then I would throw the ring on his face.. Does Ananya stop loving him now? Does she stop believing his love for her? She won't be hurting if she stopped loving him, and she is not even in the position to think of his love. Her dream is shattered, her perfect man no longer exists and the hero who defended her father is the same man who let her father down too.. What she can do now? At times, love take a back seat, and this is one such situation, we can't expect her to give precedence to their mutual love over her loyalty towards her father,,.
Having said that, do I expect her to continue behaving so? No, I don't, I do believe the journalist in her would raise her head at some time and also the lover.. And the journlaist would seek questions on what exactly happened while the lover would question her man on why he did what he did. But how long it would take for these two to emerge out of the grieving daughter? We never know, different people take different time, and let not forget this is the same Ananya, who refused to talk to talk to Kabir for 2 full days after the promotion incidence,..
Let's give her time to heal, and give him opportunity to come clean..
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