Thoughts on MJHT - MN

Wonder where the MN story is heading. If I was the writer, I would be doing a compare contrast between SG and MN - one pair building up love through a beautiful friendship, where both are interdependent on each other, both are closest to each other and have complete trust in each other - and the other , a love story which started on the basis of almost nothing and still seems to me to be more infatuation than love. Where is the love story in MN? They started off by fighting - one of the most cliched, hackneyed starts (the other being the stud boy meets nerd girl of SG) which so many stories have used, including the famous Armaan Riddhima story - they carried on fighting and they still continue fighting, on the silliest of issues. Their story has progressed at breakneck speed - they met, fought, got attracted, confessed, fought, made up, fought again, made up again ... and are still fighting.
So my question - are they really in love at all?

Mayank - studious quiet guy, not exactly a nerd - all the girls wanted to get near him, but he wasn't interested. So why did Nupur manage to get under his skin? because she was bold and bubbly, because she was everything he didn't like - loud, filmy, over the top, a chatterbox ... and yet, completely comfortable in her own skin? As he was - is that what attracted him? Or what it something more basic - pure physical attraction to a girl whom he could not ignore? Nupur is the first girl who managed to get close to him, the first girl he couldn't manage to ignore, she got under his skin so he had to notice her, interact with her - so is she just an infatuation? Does he really know her? what makes her tick? And if he doesn't, isn't this just infatuation - and not really love? Add to it his obsessive need to keep their relationship secret ... isn't that a sign that he himself isn't sure where they're heading?

Nupur - is she in love with Mayank? Or is she in love with Raj ... with Mayank's face? Her thought processes are easier to follow if I assume the latter. She was always ready to fall in love, she was on the lookout for her Prince Charming, her Raj all along, unlike her studious, quiet sister. And the first guy who first confused the wits out of her, then aroused strong emotions of anger, even hate in her then started behaving strangely, giving her long deep meaningful looks - at least I think that's what they were supposed to be, but AB is a wooden faced actor, so can never be sure ... no wonder the girl started thinking there was something between them. And he was always the one pushing her to declare her feelings - she was never sure it was love - the part I find very believable!!! It was the events in her sister's life which pushed her into declaring her feelings, which made her feel that she was luckier than her sister to have a boy who loved her and she should probably hang onto him. But does she really, truly love him? Or does she love Raj?

It may build into love ... later. As they get to know each other, flaws, warts and all. But to me, at the moment, it isn't love - yet. And if I watch the story from that perspective, then the MN story still has a long way to go. Because it really hasn't started yet.