Originally posted by: vdna
yes my thoughts exactly!! like I had assumed the conversation between him and his mom had gone along the lines of him pitching the idea of marrying mehru so his good for nothing bro can get a "get out of jail" pass. But today it seemed like the marriage was mommy dearest's idea ..
also if the aim was to get the brother out ..perhaps if he didn't tell mehru about that doctored video footage showing a different driver, he would be out!!
Shahnawaz is one confused soul - we need more of his backstory wherein we get to see how his mom has controlled and shaped his every thought and emotion and we also need that mom-son conversation shown to us in flashback to make sense of his actions currently!
He wants Mehru to think this whole game of love was a plan and even his marriage to her, he was compelled to marry her by his mom. He is only doing it because his mom told him to. By pretending it was his mother's idea, he wants to show her he is indifferent to her and that he is not bothered by her even to make a plan for her. It is his defence mechanism so that she doesn't ever understand that he feels something for her. By putting it on his mom, he removes any direct equation between Mehru and him.
Mehru taunts him with bepannah Mohabbat. So when he is with Amal and she says when did you start flirting, he is triggered by her words, the same words Mehru used when she at her office accused him of flirting. Here he says, I don't flirt, it was sacchi mohhabat. All the words he can't /won't say to Mehru.