the plot takes a sudden twist when it is revealed that amar has survived the accident and has been in coma as an unidentified patient for the last eight months. he returns home after regaining consciousness. on learning of amar's return, shekhar decides to distance himself for taran and her family. eventually, taran realizes that she continues to have feelings for shekhar and tell amar about what happened when he was away. together they decide to break up and stay close friends. taran goes back to dating shekhar. what amar does not tell taran is that he is only pretending to be okay with the breakup. and that he is very hurt and miserable without her. in the meanwhile, shekhar starts to notice that though taran is dating him, she too misses amar. when he speaks to taran about this she confesses to having chosen him over amar because "it was the right thing to do". especially after all shekhar had done for her in amar's absence. once when taran runs off to help amar, shekhar gets very upset and refuses to speak to taran a number of days. eventually, he calls taran to inform her that he's leaving the country.