Originally posted by: sanfan
Purely as a person reacting to a love story..I would say thisโฆ love isnโt transactionalโฆ
If there is an enduring message in any love storyโฆ it about the timelessness of love.
For me there were several moving moments in the storyโฆ but one I particularly want to highlight.
When Ani pleaded to Jhanak to tell him the truth at the wedding in Kashmir when she was being held captive by Tejas - he had once in the past asked her and she had lied but she takes the leap of faith. Jhanak liberates Ani by telling the truthโฆ Two things I appreciated in that sceneโฆ Ani promising to honour her wishes - he wasnโt there to fight Tejas if she chose the fate willingly however broken he beโฆbut he asks for liberation by truth. Jhanak who did all this for his safety knows at that moment liberating him from his pain of her betrayal is more important than anything else and she takes that leap of faith.
Unfortunate they couldnโt hold to the leaps of faith in love and have to get to the stage that viewers will debate who should or should not do what!!
To me, Jhanak standing by Ani is an important leap of faithโฆ Then Jhanak was held captive, now Ani is held captive. The situation may not be comparable in like for like term but for meโฆI donโt see any justification in the story for Ani to suffer under false pretext. Love must be liberating at all times. If their love is based on compromise, which Arshi/Ani had signed up for what is the need for this deception?
Bold - you said it. J was being held captive by a man she detests and has not encouraged one bit. Ani is being held captive by a woman he has handed himself to in marriage and has begged not to leave him. Ani will never learn, yet J should stand by him? Maybe he wants to have and eat his cake? Thats what it seems to me. The minute J leaves or hurts him he runs to Arshi for her comfort.
You are course making the assumption here that they love each other. enough for this kind of faith :) Both have shown time and again neither has this faith wrt the other. If writers show something where their faith in eo is rebuilt - it would make sense. Here writer seemed to be going there and then did u turn with asking Arshi to stay because he feels weak in front of her. Sorry Rekha, they have made Ani seem like a weak helpless man, when the situation does not warrant it. So many love stories go through real trauma and people overcome it. Here trauma is generated by the leads decisions when there are clear options to get over them. Suffering because you chose to give in to your parents wishes or being in a non ideal situation because of your own sense of commitment; these are choices you make and keep by them. Here Ani makes these choices like he is some great mahaan and then cannot keep up with his own promises in the true sense of upholding his decisions.
J wants Ani to be happy with Arshi and Ani wants both J and Arshi in diff ways. Two river banks that will indeed never meet. You actually want to see J protecting Ani, post Arshi using him, The very notion of Ani making love to Arshi while imagining J is nauseating. Let's not blame only Arshi in this matter. Ani is the one who created the situation that has allowed encouraged and justified Arshi in her mind to do the creepy stuff she is doing. Vinayak had a line where he said if Arshi follows her mother insead of her vusool, ... so this is Arshi crossing the line to become the vamp. in Imlie the FL support for the ML post rape was understandable, the FL and viewers were convinced of the ML's love for the FL. He repeated it and was at a stage when she was his accepted wife. Here Ani has accepted Arshi and has started to move on without J. He even told Arshi that in time he wil be able to give her the darja of wife. He is only saying he loves J; he is doing everything to ensure he has option #2 lined up, once he finishes grieving for J.
J is always watching out for how she is being perceived (home breaker) over her feelings rather than focussing on their love, and Ani loves J, but is weak in front of Arshi and is ok to be with her if he cannot get 'J'; after all per him love does not happen just once.
For a truly upto 200th episode love story, I do see your logic. Now that kind of love does not exist from both sides, as far as the storytelling goes. I can only go by the story I see and the choices the leads make, not by what I want to see.
If you can see the kind of love from Runak now that calls for a leap of faith - then i can see your take. I cannot ...so I still cant see J jumping into a scenario that should not concern her. She has left BH for Arshi didi. She has first hand experience of Ani insulting her to an unforgivable extent because he forgot. There is no basis for her to give Ani the benefit of doubt here. There is too much working against him here.
But eod, sequence is important here. Lets see if writers come up with something now that can justify a J leap of faith amongst all the nonsense that has been happening lately? Lets see.
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