Sach me jo pehle na hua..par jo J ki stories ke baad hota hai, overactive imagination and sleeplessness.
I LOVED this one..for it gave me the Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon..as advertised in THAT promo pheelz down to my fingernails. But I am finding it awfully hard to explain what I mean by that.
In the last chapter it was A doing all these things for K, without understanding why he was doing them..And in this one its K doing all these things, that might not make sense..but she can't help doing them.
Jo pehle na hua...indeed.
The overarching confusion in their actions, is what makes it such a mysterious relationship..there really can be no name to it. And I think you have really captured that here. I loved A's opening up to K, trusting her, the phone calls, the photograph incident and all finally leading to the big finale of special guest at sheesh mahal proposal acceptance.
Anyhow its best I stick to my list of why I loved this chapter (hopefully this will make more sense then ^^^^):
1. Intuition vs proof..oh the irony, boy am I glad it didnt require a forced marriage and kidnap track for A to believe it all!
2. I knew it would be Shyam! To be correct in a J cliffhanger, twice now..is just so much FUN :) The thing I like about this story is how plausible-y you have handled the political aspects, I really dont find much need to question it all, perhaps because I know very little. J I think you have maintained a perfect balance between research and telling a story. May it be this, or the spelunking. BTW speaking of..cannot believe you can drag us to caverns of CA adventure sporting one moment and the next we are in the middle of intense political drama, and all without blinking twice! Den Versatile Writer Award Dun.
3. The debate between AR vs a political career is finally out in the open, although I feel it doesn't hold as much weight as it might couple of chapters down? And yet I can't help take it all in like a hawk. One of the most amazing things about this story is that for the first time ever I finally understood what a "passionate" about his profession ASR is like! Thank you J. Also you kind of answered one of things that was bothering me, how does a scion of a political dynasty, not really have an opinion or is uninfluenced by his family when making a decision..I like your justification for Now, I am starting to think there is more to it in the past..was whatever happened influenced by a political catastrophe, or is it my 2am overactive imagination?
4. Trust. What a word. I think this is what cements a relationship doesn't it. I mean its what let KKG allow ASR to open that dori in the farm house SR in the show haha. I am so glad you brought this in..because all it took for him was to work closely with her and really get to know HER to develop that feeling. Also now the prologue scene and K's pheelingz make so much more sense!
5. The phone calls. J, you really do have a things for phones dont you? LOL. The normal way in which you showed the progress of their relationship..the whole first part was them really getting to know each other and opening up, what better way to do it then this!
6. You know just how much I love the photograph scene in the promo, and I was so happy that you decided to use that. Added it to the confusion bit..because how does it make sense for them to have each other's photos..at first I thought maybe you'd use it for the past. Par like the way you did, now the kostin is where is his photo of them?
7. THE ELEVATOR. Too much hyperventilation and nose block dun. Too much dhak dhak and chest infection dun. You write the best eye sax, without trying to even make a big deal out of it..I love how that brought the "physics" back into the playing field. J you have really really managed to create the multidimensional wala lau between them, its not just based on this attraction..there has been SO much more to it! No easy feet with all the hate that was also looming in the background..which again brings me to my whole iss pyaar ko kya naam doon pheelz theory. You have managed to create something so much deeper than the usual kind of lau and at the same time its as even more fragile because there is no name to it.
8. PM, Party, Proposal. Why do disastrous things happen in threes, must ask Ekta Kapoor. I love how you tied in the prologue to the story here. I could feel K's unease..and it was disconcerting. Its funny how lau can make you overcome things..for A isn't even thinking about the past anymore and K who has always feared it is ready to face it for him! I love this story dammit, dont mind my overanalysis...You know weirdly enough this chapter totally follows the show arc, doesnt it..where A does nothing but encourage the pipe dreams that K is building for them..and then in the next moment he goes and breaks them all.
PART 2. KYA BOLUN AB. THE WHOLE THING. THE WHOLE EFFING THING WAS BRILLIANT. Its Arnav to ASR. Mohabbat to Nafrat. Present to Past. The transition was so SMOOTH, and you managed to do it in just one part of a chapter. I bow down to thee! I have never got these many IPK pheelz before, not when A goes in mummy's garden instead of turning up for his wedding...not when A cries when he finds out about "shyam and Khushi". I really dont want to overanalyse this bit and ruin it. Also a total devil's advocate (or sheetal's) but I absolutely love the way he dealt with his hate here.
I have found it awfully hard to understand this:
"He might hate her with everything he had, but he had never stopped wanting Khushi."
And yet after this chapter is over, I get that COMPLETELY.
J you have always done a great job trying to explore your characters through the stories may it be LLATW or Tales..but this one of the BEST jobs you have done in exploring what Arnav/ASR has meant to me (yes I have read sins), the man with a facade that we kind of saw, but never got a chance to dig deep into.
As much as I am curious to know about the past, its the what happens NOW..is what I can't wait to read about. How do they move past all this..if they do, at all?
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