Arhi remarriage track
by indi52
Marry me... once more?
Everyone suspected ASR would do something special for Khushi once he'd come back home after the excruciating and harrowing days of kidnap. He loved her, he was a man of conscience, he knew their wedding had been far from what she'd imagined her wedding would be. He'd do something special for her.
No one however was quite prepared for Dadi and her venomous tongue. In fact, just before the entire issue of marriage came up, a tumultuous night had passed. A man had yelled exasperatedly, angrily when a woman had asked him what then has meaning, if no ritual, no social custom has any, he'd shouted in that thrilling way of his, "That I love you, dammit!" She had heard the essence of that declaration in his gussa supreme... and her face had crumpled with a sweet accepting lover like smile, she'd gone back to their room, to the bed she had rejected earlier, and waited for him. But alas, he had been too agitated to come back.
When he returned he found his paternal grandmother casting terrible aspersions on his beloved, legally married (as he clearly mentioned) wife. He'd have fought and won this battle too his way, even if his entire family were against him, but then he saw his wife's tremulous vulnerable expression... and in an instant he took a decision that took everyone's breath away. Including his wife's.
Okay, if that's the case, said Arnav Singh Raizada, he'd marry his wife, his patni... once more, with all customs and rituals, in the socially accepted way.
And so we came to the "Remarriage " of Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada and her pati, her husband.
Every ritual he didn't believe in one little bit, he learned and observed perfectly... because he loved her. Nothing else. Just as she, in a stunning acceptance of the unfathomable nature of love, had done whatever she could to stand by her marriage. A marriage which was nothing like what she'd wanted, where she was forced and coerced and never given a chance or choice. Yet she had believed that sindoor and mangalsutra he gave her meant something, meant this was forever.
If one marriage had been forced on her, one had been practically forced on him too. They both found the most moving ways to show why they are the lovers we can never forget. They showed us how magnificent a relationship can really be and not confined by conventional notions of practically anything.
Khushi, who was so badly hurt by his actions and went into many harmless plans to teach him a lesson, thought nothing of playing on her life to save him when she sensed he was in danger. In fact, she never ever stopped loving him, nor could she take off her sindoor and mangalsutra... no matter how bitterly they fought, or how many times she planned to leave him.
Endearing beautiful love. At Shagun he was "technically" correct when he came to see her and she admitted she had always belonged to him. At Roka, he dragged her to the poolside and there was the tumult of "Aane do, aane do, aane do", during Kuldevi Puja, he entered the temple just to be by her side when she asked for blessings, then came Mehendi and a man calling aside his wife to tie her dori... he who had so brutally snapped it once.
All along he pointed out to her they'd been through many of these rituals in an Arnav Khushi way, though neither had realsied it then.
The days of Remarriage brought gems one after the other... "Mat jao", biggest deal, a cheek coming closer and closer at Haldi, "Love can reduce anyone to anything", bachelor party, Namak Ishq Ka, episode 248 and a night unbelievably beautiful, and so much more, till at last we heard, "Aana toh tha hi"... till at last they took those pheres she had so longed for her... till at last he lifted her up in his arms and crossed the threshold bringing her back home, to him, to them... to hamesha.
Arhi aab na jaa dance sequence
by indi52
He doesn't believe in rituals, so of course everything about Karwa Chauth he questions. Most of all he can't bear to see her go without food. He knows how important food is to his mad jhalli wife.
She is resplendent in the flaming colours of her love for him. Her first Karwa Chauth... and for him, for him only, she wants to do it, despite the rumbles in her stomach, she is loving every moment of this.He is looking hotter than ever in a midnight blue kurta pyjama, she is beautiful in red and very hungry. He is hungry too it seems... but only for her.
After all, this is the poolside, and she wears that colour he loves... that took them all the way to Diwali... that almost, sigh, kiss.. That night there was no moon and tonight it's a wait for that very object in the sky... the moon, which brings its own message with it... like those stars do. Some love stories are written not only on earth, even the heavens want a role in them.
He tries to trick her into eating. She's angry... all she's trying to do is live happily with him for hamesha, and she believes if she does this vrat, painful as it is for her, that hamesha might be stretched a little longer.
Only Khushi could say that. Only Arnav could feel that love so instantly and be contrite. Could he do anything to make it better? Yes, he could get her the moon.
He does. Of course. And though this scene had been done before in some far away film somehwere, it becomes another uniquely Arnav Khushi moment.
Their reflections dance in the water of their pool, that witness to their story of nafrat of mohabbat. The reflections begin to turn. The rhythm of their communication takes a new turn. A need a heat twirls in... he holds her hand but then slips behind her, drwing himself closer, she closes her eys... and again a dance begins... Ab Na Jaa. Never ever go away.