Arjun FF: The Lady in Red.. Thread 2. Link added.. - Page 37

Originally posted by: Keshaaa

Hello hun,

I'm sorry i didn't comment before, i had exams and i had a tight busy schedule. Sorry & thanks for all the pms😉 I'm off to reeaad this new FF of yours. The prologuue is intriguing Updaaate soon. 😳

Originally posted by: sips_crazy

Hi ...

If only i would have utilized my brain so much in studies i would have been a gold medalist ...

Lol.. And I would've probably won the Nobel in Medicine by now.. 😉😆

Bring on the mystery girl and i should coin you as mystery girl from the mohabbat one !!

Haha.. I'm honoured! 😃

Let me give my grey cells rest and let you brainstrom ...

Amazing Update

Originally posted by: shilpa09

sorry 4 late reply avantika...

i just want to say...this update was ..

FANTASTIC...

i cant wait to read more after reading precap...

do continue soon:)

thnx 4 pm:):):)

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Avantika,

If this chapter was a painting, I would say a Van Gogh, and one of his most tormented Provencal landscapes ' the trees twisting in the wind, the corn stalks tossing like demented spirits, and colours totally at odds with the natural order of things.

Rosanna at the beach is like a Van Gogh, not visually but emotionally. The seas surge and ebb in the inner recesses of her being, and joy and sorrow, belonging and abandonment, happiness and heartbreak, all clash and eddy like the waves on a storm-whipped shore. And all these contrary emotions find voice in her singing: the song you have chosen is remarkably apposite.

Gosh! Shyamala Aunty, you're indeed spoiling me with your perfect and beautiful analyses.. Yupp, that's exactly what I wanted her to come across as..

When I was reading that passage, I was reminded of the song of the Sirens in the Odyssey, that lured men to their doom. Rosanna is no Siren, but she has an effect on the otherwise jaded and streetsavvy Karan that is just as hypnotic.

Yes, Karan is indeed getting drawn to her mystic personality day by day.. Only he hasn't realised it yet.. But maybe Rosanna has..

Of course I do not know what happened to Rosanna and her once close knit and loving family, what was the incident that wrecked her cosy existence, what were the wrongs for which she seeks revenge and justice. I will wait for them to be revealed, but you hint at a manmade calamity that has scarred Rosanna for good, however hard she might try to appear whole and unscathed. I do not know whose is that smile "the most innocent one she had ever come across", or whether this smile belongs to the 'one other' who would always stand by her. As I tell you often, I regard these teasers with unruffled patience, and there is no way, my mischievous Avantika, that I am going to be running in circles trying to pin them down!

😆 Is there nothing I can do to tempt you into speculating? 😆 Kidding! There's a lot more than what meets the eye at present is all I can say..

Commenting on your last chapter, I had noted: Rosanna, my fey spirit, does not hide from loss and pain and grief, or run away from them. She absorbs it all, and hugs it to her innermost being, drawing strength and sustenance from that very loss and the sense of desolation it brings. Strength to venture where she now has to venture, and strength to do what she now has to do. Without the memory of her father to steel her spine, she could not have done it. She is the strongest and most focussed of them all. I am now very pleased to see that my take on her has proved to be accurate. She is a tough cookie, is our Rosanna, and no Pereira is going to rattle her.

Absolutely, no Pereira, no Karan and possibly even the supercop may not be able to rattle her being..

I am also delighted every time she proves that she is cleverer and more on the ball than any man ' witness her explaining to Karan why Pereira's thugs would not kill Lobo, and then refusing to follow them when they carry him off, as that would have endangered her mission. She has her priorities all down pat, and she knows what not to do and when, better than even the seasoned Karan.

Finally, there is that endearing glimpse of a soft streak in our Mata Hari, her love for her parents (happily still among the living) and for Ayesha. And for that 'one other' as well?

Hmm.. And that's what makes Rosy different from Mata Hari and the likes.. She's got a more humane side to her, which inevitably pops up every now and then.. SInce it's a part of her being..

No prizes for making out ' NOT guessing; as Sherlock Holmes used to say, guessing is a habit that is destructive of the deductive faculties ' who the three water sprites are, and who is the exasperated teenage boy. But I shall leave it to your solid phalanx of admirers to do the honours on this one!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Amri174

Hey Avantika! Haven't been on IF since a month,so it was a delight reading the last 4 chapters all at once.

I especially love the care that you have given to Rosanna's character. She is such an enigma, and as we get to know pieces of her we are immediately delighted. I just love the way you have shaped her, and as you said, she is the hero of your story indeed.

Kudos for such brilliant writing, and hope to read the next chapter soon.

Regards

Amri.

P.S. Loved Marquez's quote, he is such an amazing writer:)

Originally posted by: tani23

finally i have started reading TLIR

read chapter 4

the line u wrote in starting of chapter was very gud

amazing

liked rosy n karan's talks

sumthing is dere in her past which she s hiding

n arjun n aisha were amazing

dere connection wid d place seems very emotional

read chapter 5

OMG arjun n aisha knew each other for 15 years

now u r killing me wid suspense

yeh chakkar kya hian

i liked rosy's past glimpse

dis was d story behind her singing talent

so sweet

going to read chapter 6 now n haan i liked d warning u gave at end of chapter 5 for silent readers

😉

loved chapter 6 even more

Rosy's self talk ..dose few moments she spent alone on karan's persistence were amazingly written

i m liking dis mystery girl more with each passing update

watever happens...how much emotionally she s disturbed but wen it comes to her work ..she performs her duty well..n i like her spirit

waiting for next update

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