Aright, now guess who is back!
So...
My Gosh... Phir Le Aaya Dil... *am I not swooning in love for this...*
And this update...
It killed me, literally keeellleeed me man, big time!
So, going back to nostalgia (I know this sentence is framed weirdly) let me warn that below is a super long long pending comment for your oh so fantabulous chapters ok. And let me tell you that you have the biggest blame out here - every time you leave me speechless after an update and this mortal ends up feeling way too lowly to be able to comment on what thou has written.
I am serious! I literally bow down to you for fleshing such amazing emotions... really!
If you didn't see any of the amazing gifs I posted, just know that IF swallowed them!
Now, finally coming to some sort of sensible commenting for Chapter 8 - Homecoming... and trust me I am going to analyze PLAD really seriously and critically.
Yeah, that seriously...
So coming to Homecoming - this was a wonderful chapter and in fact started off with the fuzzy yet warm feeling of blossoming love. Wait, so Piu is 20 now :O... okay, she is a big girl... just like that day she was eight, fourteen, sixteen *sigh*. Ah, Siddie can always predict what his Chuhiya does and it's so adorable.
I honestly so love the hate love tease relationship they are sharing at the moment. It's spicy yet sweet... and an extra "something" when it comes to define such a relationship! Siddie's gentle yet pronounced actions on her seem much more important than hinted, the sudden holding of shoulders, wrists which subtly let out that she's his.
Even if he doesn't think to that extent at this moment - it just makes the entire situation all the more full of anticipation!
Oh God, this is such a lovely thing you pointed out and too damn realistic! Piya getting lost slightly as she watches her and Siddie's names together - this is such an early love thing... brilliant. And of course the hug.
Honestly I really love the way they are un/intentionally taking baby steps towards each other and pausing to savor every moment extended - it speaks a thousand words... literally.
"how everything he had just uttered while teasing me, was actually true."
this sentence took it all, I swear. The impact of this statement is more profound than hinted, really. There's always this undeniable goofy smile on my face whenever I read their interactions - and that's a wonderful thing, simply a wonderful thing.
Haha, momma calling a billion times to make sure her child is safe in the flight is so so so so sooo true man! Happens to me every time and even if I act annoyed, I honestly love the care and attention of being the "princess", really! Damn, was that slight jealousy? Of Siddie glaring at Piya due to the little attention she got from the male attendant?
One of the best things in this update - apart from Piya and Siddie has to be Arjun. Really, I like that guy much more than Sakshi in this story. You've painted him like a wonderful lion! Protective, caring, concerned and above all - someone who easily doesn't let his daughter slip away. I was worried if you would have forgotten the importance of their relationship while focusing on SiYa but I can't tell you how overjoyed to see that you've kept that bond special and alive.
There is honestly something in Arjun and Piya, this father and daughter duo were once the best friends for each other... and just like Arjun, I am beginning to sense the vacuum of Piya in Arjun's life. Our little Piya was everything Arjun had and if not for her Arjun would have lost everything. It's so painfully natural to see the slight suffocation and irritation in Arjun on seeing Piya give her primary importance to somebody else.
Even if it's the boy whom he trusts the most.
Having lost his wife in between for an agonizing number of years, it is much more natural to note why Arjun simply doesn't want to let go of his daughter. Sakshi is his wife, his lover and his soulmate but Piya is his strength and his reason to live. More than just a father's love and concern... it is so natural to note Arjun's fear on not having Piya as the dependable one anymore.
And to a certain extent... his fears are true.
Piya definitely loves her family the most but one can easily note that the first most important person in her life is not her father, not anymore. And it's not a bad thing... it happens with time. For Piya the first, now, is Siddie followed by Pari and then her dad and mom. And this is not at all a negative thing. Even internally she might refuse staunchly that her family, especially her dad comes first. But we all know that her actions speak others.
And actions speak louder than words.
While Piya reels in the new blossoming love with Siddie and Arjun feels sidelined, it's wonderful to see Sakshi rising as the one who binds the family once again. It may not be a great topic of discussion but it's true... another woman in a son's life or another man in a daughter's life often develops cracks and distances under the surface. It's never visible but it's present.
And that's a painful truth.
Piya spending her time with her Papa serves as nostalgia and a soft reaffirmation that her dad is everything but it does look like nothing but a loving consolation to her dad. When the say a girl is not of her own family - it's not to evoke feminists or regard that a girl has to leave home... at times her own heart and mind are uprooted from the very family which created her, nurtured her.
And being the woman Sakshi is, she realizes the soft blossoming love and puts a balm of wisdom and advice. It's true that time changes everything, but it's sad that parents often get affected the most (this is in the case of parents as loving as Sakshi Arjun and children as loving as Piya Pari).
Keeping all this emotional stuff aside, can I say I LOVED Siddie Arjun's interactions. Man, when Piya and Siddie will get married - watching Arjun go all red alert on Siddie makes me roll on the floor, literally laughing! It was FANTASTIC!
God, I didn't know how much I craved to see Sakshi Arjun after reading the little paragraph written on them. I never realized how faded and long lost their love feels, like not that the love has faded *grin* I am talking about their memories together... it feels like as if the passion has simmered down to warm waters. Where they're more of parents than husband and wife - another reality!
The last scene of Piya fighting with Siddie, again, was hilarious! Seriously! Even Sameer couldn't control his own laughter at that, including Arjun! It was epic, seriously! And teasing Sakshi in the slight end bit was 🤣
So now I am off to the next chapter and if you really thought I was going to show my sass and be overtly critical about this thing then SHUT UP! You have been one of my greatest inspirations and reasons for writing Arjun Sakshi in the first place, I simply love what you've written here... honestly 👏
With lots of love,
Edited by IArmageddonI - 9 years ago
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