I agree that this show is handling the subject of love and abuse and also brother-sister love or sibling love in a very unhealthy manner!
Be it the "Khushi-Payal" love for each other or the "Anji-Arnav" love for each other! Neither are balanced at all! Especially Arnav and Anjali are BOTH very obsessed with each and they appear to have "Tunnel vision" when it comes to each other! If they think ANY threat is there to the happiness of the other they react in an irrational manner! Heck NOT just happiness they react in an irrational manner when it comes to EVERYTHING to do with the other!
Arnav and Anjali both monitor each other's Med's and worry about each other constantly! I suppose losing your parents young, and not having anyone else to confide in, will bring siblings together in a way that may not be "Normal" to us! They worry about losing each other! I feel sorry for them as well!
As for the whole Shyam-Khushi angle, her hiding his pervesion is VERY dangerouse and under NO circumstances must someone think that hiding such a thing is the right thing to do! People like Shyam THRIVE on the secrecy of others and bribing others into keeping their dirty secrets safe! I think MORE nasty revelations about Shyam will come in the future, which will make both the Gupta's AND the Raizada's feel like idiots for letting such a person near their lives!
As for Arnav... I think he is VERY complicated. He is capable of GREAT love and even greater hate! He is egotistic, and impulsive and easily angered! (Read irrational when his emmotions are involved!). He is emmotionally immature! He is vulnerable when it comes to showing his feelings. He is NOT secure at all in his feelings or emmotions! He is almost childlike when it comes to these things! He is a savy business man, and no one's fool in that arena! However THIS does not translate to having a lot of maturity when it comes to feelings! The ONLY significant female in his life to date is Anjali! NOW there is Khushi! He knows where he stands with Anjali but he was NEVER prepared to fall for Khushi!
She leaves him totally confused and tossed at sea! He loves her and he HATES her at the same time! He is totally out of his depth with her! He has had girlfriends but his relationships with them have been on an almost "Transactional" level! Never an emmotional connection that he found hard to break! He is totally Naive when it comes to love!
I will be honest it is Arnav and his complexity that keeps me hooked! I also LOVE Khushi as she has so much spunk! That is the reason that Arnav loves her, coz she DARES to stand up to him, and is not intimidated by him! Arnav's love for her is VERY complicated! He hates how she makes him feel weak! (because he thinks emmotions weaken you!). Therefore he has taken great pains NOT to feel strong emmotions for anyone outside his close circle (his family) and mostly his sister! However he FEELS this connection to Khushi, which he cannot deny!
When he was about to admit to her what she means to him, he was given an ugly blow, and bought down to earth with a thud! He is STILL reeling under this rude shock! His behaviour is NOT good, and I do not commend it! But I TRY to understand it!
I think the work they did setting up these charachters is what has paid off for this show, depsite going on a tangent latley!
Edited by MrDarcyfan - 12 years ago