The Beginning of the Fairytale

After discussing RDX sir's party at the TanHa AT for well..a few weeks now.. I couldn't resist reminiscing about that night on the forum. They say epics aren't created overnight, but this one was and what a night too! A lanky-boy next-door finally got a glimpse of the dream. The dream that was Sharon Rai Prakash, the Diva. She had everything looks, talent, style, money but most important of all a golden heart, a heart she was too afraid to let the world see. A heart she kept imprisoned more securely than Fort Knox so it couldn't be trampled on by the ruthless world. I'm not going to narrate the scene here, there is no need. Every SwaRon fan knows it by heart. Instead I will talk about what that night meant to Swayam and Sharon and us. We knew Swayam loved Sharon. What we couldn't figure out was why, why does he love her so much? We saw what the rest of the world saw- an arrogant bitch and we couldn't for the life us make sense of the perfect guy mooning over her. That night, we saw. When the dope kicked in and the mask came down we saw a thing so beautiful, so radiant that most of us spent the next one and half years defending every mean barb Sharon threw at Swayam. For Swayam that night was merely an affirmation. He knew the truth, had seen it in her eyes long before we had even bothered to look. That night gave him the strength to keep loving and keep hoping. For Sharon that night was the night her well constructed walls developed that 1^st fatal crack. In that brief drug induced moment the floodgates had opened and bathed her heart in the sunshine of Swayam's love. Her soul had soaked up his warmth and surrendered. For one brief moment she had been exactly where she was destined to be, in his arms. As expected her mind fought back soon enough but her heart that had been held captive for so long had tasted freedom and proceeded to put up a fight that became the SwaRon story. What followed was a vortex of pain, love, passion, denial and surrender. A vortex in which we tossed around along with those two and loved every minute of it.

As I write this I am unbelievably grateful to the people who made this possible:

The writers- I have cursed more often than I have praised but I will be eternally thankful to them for creating this magic. It is easy to write extravagant, larger than life scenes and dialogues but subtlety takes talent. They showed us Sharon's true face with just one line- "kya dekh rahe ho tum?" The girl who walked like she owned the world, who sneered at her countless admirers, who threw a disdainful yeah so' look at whoever told her she was the best, in five words laid bare her disbelief at being considered worthy of being looked at with such utter devotion. For me that was the moment I fell in love with Sharon Rai Prakash.

Shantanu Maheshwari/Swayam Shekhawat - I didn't believe inexperience could be a blessing till I saw him. His rawness added to his character's innocence. His not-yet-pitch-perfect voice made Swayam sound huskier and somehow added that fairydust to the scene. When he whispered "tum bahut special ho, humara first kiss bhi bahut special hoga" in his raw, immature voice we felt our hearts skid to a stop. The guy won over a million hearts that night and rightly so.

Sneha Kapoor/Sharon Rai Prakash - Sneha was a newcomer portraying a character so complex she could be a case study for advanced psychology students and in this sequence she had to show every layer of that formidable personality. Did she succeed? Damn right she did! Reams have been written about her acting. The creatives and her co-actors have publically stated that she was scary to work with coz she was so good and in this sequence she showed why. Be it the disgust on her face while abusing the weaklings in the beginning, the wobble in her steps while walking along the pool reiterating her confidence about Swayam not being able to deny her anything, the initial hesitation in her body language when he asks her for a dance, the following surrender, the blessed smile on her face as she let Swayam's words touch her soul, the gratitude in her tears as he wiped them, the devotion in the soft kiss she planted on his palm or the shock and horror in her eyes when she woke up and realized she had committed the cardinal sin, Sneha Kapoor was beyond brilliant. Everything about her portrayal of Sharon was subtle yet it reverberated like an executioner's gong in our mind. Perhaps the biggest testimony to her brilliance is the fact that in the period from Swayam asking her for a dance to her running out of the venue, she had a grand total of two dialogues with one of them being just one word- "Swayam". Sharon's life changed in that period, the fairytale called SwaRon began in that period and all Sneha needed to convey that was two lousy dialogues.

I can't be preposterous enough to think I may have captured the beauty of what conspired between those two diametrically different people that night in such few words but I do hope I reminded people of what we fell in love with and brought a smile, maybe nostalgic maybe wistful, on their faces.

Here are a few pictures to help relive that first breeze of love😃

Beautiful post Oin me loved it ❤️ yes it brought a smile on my face while reading it. You just said everything and yes this was the Swaron which we all fell in love with. Each and every line in the post is so true. RDX Party holds a special place in my heart as it was from this scene I started falling in love with Swaron.

"They say epics aren't created overnight, but this one was" and in the same way Swaron also won my heart overnight. Before the RDX Party we get to see Swayam being latto on the arrogant diva and for Sharon he was just a weakling and a nobody to her, but that night changed everything we get to see Swayam's love for Sharon which was unconditional and eternal and Sharon for the first time could feel it and swayam from nobody started becoming someone like special in her Sharon's life though she kept denying. Swayam and Sharon both led their guards down, especially Sharon and were just themselves. They just mesmerised me and I got carried away to the land of Swaron. That night was also important because we get to witness another side of Sharon who is an arrogant diva to the outside world but a simple sweet girl from inside the one only Swayam could see. Sharon was a big surprise to me Sneha enacted beautifully, she brilliantly brought out the innocent girl hidden inside an arrogant girl and made the complex character real and made us all fall in love with it. Shantanu's rawness in acting was an asset it made the character swayam pure and innocent.

Shantanu and Sneha together as Swaron nailed it.⭐️

The title is so apt it was the beginning of Swaron Fairytale..

Lastly a big wala thank you to Oin for making such lovely post 🤗🤗

Oin , your words , Hats off ! Woah felt awesome while reading all that . I have big smile. I would really like to say a Big wala Thank you for highlighting Swaron Tanha related things..👏👏👏

Oin A big tight hug to you 🤗. Thank you so much for this post.

This was the scene where I truly fell in love with SwaRon and got hooked to it. It truly told us what SwaRon is about. A scared innocent person who has put up an act to protect herself and a guy who sees that innocence and trying hard to make her realize that there is no harm in being what or who you are. The acting of both the leads was superb here, they were new to the industry but they sure knew how to leave an impression on the viewer which they did and I totally adored SRP after this scene. It showed her truly. I would also thank the writer for penning down such an intense scene which Sneha and Shantanu portrayed onscreen as pros

Such a beautiful post Oin.Luvd the way how you described the entire scene.The chemistry between Tanha in this scene was mind blowing.Tanha has certainly given me beautiful memories to be cherished and this is one such scene.In fact this is the scene when I actually realised that Swayam's love for Sharon is true and eternal and not just attraction.Also that no matter what,Swayam will make her believe in his love and at the same time help her get over her insecurities and prove himself worthy of being her true life partner or a better half.Sharon always needed someone who would understand her true self...someone whom she had hidden from the world.And the way Swayam understood her and her feelings and the way he respected them was something which touched me.Swayam was a character so ideal that he would definitely get a good girl.But this scene told me that Sharon was the one who could reciprocate his true and immense love.This was the scene which told me Swaron are meant to be and they truly deserve each other.I always hated cheesy stuff and I still do.Tanha had this quality in them which I always luvd and that was they didn't need any intimate scenes to depict the Swaron fairytale.Their eyes did half the work.And they did it with so much ease that it made so many Tanha fans including me fall for them.The Tanha fanbase started increasing and their chemistry seemed to be so natural.I will always love Tanha for this beautiful depiction of Swaron.Proud to be their fan.And thanks Oin,this post made me relive those beautiful memories.