Sudha i am really speechless after what i have read...i need sometime to regain my thinking...i am blank now i dont really have words to praise this effort...i think i should go find some words that can really justify this awesome os that you have written...loved it the core...will be back shortly...
Un Reserving Now
Sudha Dear now i am back to open my views on this os... First of all don't ever think that I will go in to the critical aspects of your anyday because I don't possess that caliber to do so...so I know Meera, Shishir, Kanks and Nidhi and Muskan are some who can do so because they know aspects of writing better than me...so count on them for technical reviews... what I am expressing is just what you made me feel while reading this OS...
So in simple terms I am just expressing what I feel about this piece of work personally... Sudha you are a fabulous writer and you don't have anything to prove on that part... so while I saw the PM from Sudha-SK having subject SwaRon OS - The Perfect Read, I had surely told my mind expect this to be a master piece of work as it has came from a writer who is just so special in her own way of just geting the plots and ideas to any of the story she has written... So that was on the board that this will be something unique as knowing you I can bet that you will never repeat something you have already done...
Now this story actually led me to the journy of a film of which viewing experiecne was just awesome one for me personally because of the way you have narrated the story... and now you will be curious to know which film I am talking about????...right so I am talking about the film by Imtiaz Ali "Rockstar" where he has used this similler kind of narrative style...you know I saw that movie I first felt he could easily have told the story in regular sequence of events and it would still had that same effect on the viewers... but after somedays of watching the movie i saw his interview on zoom tv where he was actually being asked why he choose certain unfimilier style to tell the story... he just gave one answer at that time and you know what he said... he replied like this "YOU KNOW THIS STORY ACTUALLY DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING CAPTIVATIVE IN ITSELF AND ITS A SIMPLE STORY OF THE JOURNY OF AN ORDINERY BOY TO THE EXTRA ORDINERY SUPERSTARDUM...IN WHICH HE HAS A LOVE STORY WITH A GIRL WHOM HE LOVED SINCE HE MET BUT HE NEVER REALISED UNTILL SHE GOT MARRIED...SO PEOPLE WILL NOT FIND ANYTHING NEW IN IT...BUT I HAD THOUGHT OF REVEALING THIS STORY IN UNCONVENTIONAL WAY WHICH CAN ATTRACT VIEWERS AND THEY REALLY BE ON THE THINKING PAD TILL THE END OF THE STORY..."
So this same thing I saw in your story... this story was purely based on the guilt and realisation of a girl who has by her own faults lost too many opportunties of being with a person whom she never realised that she loved out of her skin and could never ever live without... But sadly she is realising all this after that boy is not with her...
The way you started with title of the book and than how perfectly you described her thoughts in sync with the lines of the books... what was intresting here is the way you related sharon with that book... because the way it seemed that an ordinery story in the book led sharon think about her own story...
I was plesently surprised to see how one after another chain of events happend and led sharon realise all the events that happend between herself and swayam... and I can bow down to you for expressing sharon's feeling so well that anybody can relate to the feeling sharon was passing through in the entire story... it was really simple in terms of the expression but that was what needed to make the story really believable... You seem to have possess the same simplicity that you showed through the character of sharon through out the journy of this story...
There were few extraordiery remiencies that sharon went through and which actually touched my heart the way they came and presented... We all know what sharon had told swayam before the Dance Camp so it was not new to read,,,but still it touched my heart because it was presented in whole new way with a touch that really was amazing because you related a sad memory of sharon to happy memory of some other couple and inteligently done because the happiness of the boy and girl lead sharon to think that even she had a moment like this but she herself ruined it...
Than came the part where sharon was leaving for Delhi and she was eager to tell swayam what he mattered to her...But this time you again used your brillience in describing and came up with this that " It won't be possible for me to let you go if you say what I think you will say" You this was a masterstroke because this really changed the story around because this was the main reason of Sharon's guilt this is what I felt after reading the whole story... I felt like this becasue Swayam had this feeling that once he would listen those words from sharon than he would not be able to survive a single second without sharon...But as far as Sharon was concerned she really had this only chance to explain to Swayam what she felt...because the story gives an idea that sharon is not that expressive about her feelings...so this was the only time in the story she was actually going to be expressive but swayam's reservations stopped her from doing that... and ultimately the thing happend which she feared most from inside that it was actually her last meeting with his love swayam...Because swayam was asking her to not let them wait for long for being "US"... and somehow shaorn was late so swayam had left thats actually what I can think form the run of the story itself...
And then finally the way you described how sharon's life changed after departure of Swayam from her life... she was not expressive from the beginning but the feeling of being alone and lost the love of her life led her to be brutal and some other person which she actually was not... so its again interestingly done because it was followed by the reason of shifting base from Mumbai to New York...and then what you described in last about the ending sequence was just beautiful because it had the myth of whole story as to she was reading a book but it were actually lines that she was going through because she was altogether in different world and different feeling...The feeling which the book wanted to convey was not actually what sharon felt because the book took her to relive her own story...
So now in whole I can say brilliently penned work sudha...you were just flowless at each stage in the OS...there was never a time when I felt distracted or I felt I am not able to understand where the story is moving on...It was indeed a pleasure for me to have read this kind of story on SwaRon... You know I am a big Imtiaz Ali fan because his stories are always different and he has this uncanny style of telling the story and you made me feel like I am watching one of the Imtiaz Ali creations... So hats off to your creative skills Sudha...You really rock with this OS...
And I think now I have actually made a way too long comment which is making you borded now because your neck would be frozen by now reading such size comment...so I think I should stop now...because I can go on and on...First when I read the OS I didn't had a single word to actually say how I felt... That's why I took sometime to give words to what I was feeling...and Now I am not able to Stop my words of appreciation for you... so I am sorry for making this much long comment but I am not able to make any short comment on this extraodrinory effort of yours...
Thanks so much Sudha for the PM... and I am proud to be a Fan of Sudha Write ups because of efforts like this that you put in... Do Write more and more... and in the last ending speech you have mentioned that you have started editing well well i haven't seen any of them... so you have to make a PM to me which has links to your edits...
Pratik
P.S. I am really sorry again for being late in Un Reserving my post and making such a huge comment...
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