To Shivika, With Love - Page 4

This post jus made me cry.

My Shivika will always be the best memory in ITV for me 😳


Thank you Nakuul Surbhi for portraying the characters so well ❤️

Even OmRu, Sumo, Gauri, Bhavya ,Pinky , Sahil, Shaktiji, Jhanvi, Tej, Tia, The classy Svetlana, Daksh, Veer, Mallika , Mrs.Kapoor, Khannaji , Paribaby, the Oberoi Mansion, Shivika's room.

Im gonna miss eveything about the Classy Season 1

There is so much I want to say but I guess this best sums up the emotion I am struggling with at the moment

Tanha adhoora sa
Khamosh lamha sa
Thehra hua hai dil yahan
Mehsoos karle tu
Jazbaat ki khushboo
Khud se karoon mein kya bayan...


Today for Shivika I just want to say

Lafzon ka yeh rishta nahin
Lamhon ka yeh rishta nahin
Sadiyon ka hai yeh wasta
Hai rooh ka rabta...

And as for the way it all went down

Ishq mein adhoora sa
Rooh mein poora sa
Dard hai yeh saari umr ka...

Both we and Shivika deserved better but it was not to be.
But some love stories never die. And nor will Shivika's. Shivika will prevail.

Originally posted by: soapsuds

I don't know how I missed this post AY. But am finally here.

You have pretty much said everything AY and said it so well that I have nothing much to add.

Where do I even begin with Shivika? For me they have been a one of a kind experience with ITV. I have never been so invested in a couple in the way I became with Shivika.

My journey with Shivika began very late. The show was somewhere between 350-400 episodes at that time. I used be a fan of Gul's previous show on StarPlus although after the initial 6 months that actually lost the plot and never lived upto it's promise and the end was very messy as is a pattern with all Gul's shows with bitter fandom wars and everything that it brings in its wake. Having been burnt by that I pretty much didn't watch any GEC show until IB barring an episode or two here and there. I actually started watching SP because of IPK3 more because that was a reunion of sorts with my old forum friends but all of us found that show to be quite unwatchable. It was a personally difficult period in life for me at the time and I was looking to a show to watch as destressor and distraction and a most unexpected friend suggested IB. I was sceptical and wary but with nothing else worth watching starting watching it with really no expectation. Fortunately for me although the show was closer to 350-400 episodes in real time I started watching from episode 1 on Hotstar resisting the temptation to watch the current episodes until I had caught up.

Anika was the easy character to like because she was so engaging and Surbhi played her beautifully. Shivaay took a little longer but before I knew it I was completely sucked in and I binge watched with barely any sleep (i don't how I functioned 😆 ) and in 3 months caught up with 400 episodes and started watched real time with the 2nd KC episodes. And of continued watching until the leap. It was easier to deal with lack of story and plot lines while binge watching because I could move on to the next episode immediately but by the time I started watching real time the story had lost its plot long since and what held me still engaged was just Shivika and Narbhi. I almost gave up many times but never actually did because one good Shivika scene with substance would reel me right back in. Such was their magic that it outlasted all the crap that IB threw at the viewers in terms of writing. No matters what anyone tries to project or pretend and whether the makers ever acknowledge or not this show was always Shivika's and survived only because of them. NM-SC were what held it together.

It's ironical that Shivika were conceived as a cliche but took a life of their own and became anything but. A large part of the credit for that I think goes to the nuanced way in which NM and SC played them. They made Shivika special and far beyond the standard hot TV Jodi. I think if anyone else had played Shivika they might have been still popular but not unique. They would have turned out to be like any other hawt couple from Gul's shows because the template was the same.

Shivika were never about TCF or LLHH or any of the standard hot Jodi tropes. What always drew me in was their conversations be it their banter or the emotionally charged poignant ones or the powerfully evocative non verbal ones. They were truly saurangi and every rang held me spellbound. There are countless stand out Shivika scenes and if I start recounting them I will never stop. And the sheer range of emotions they navigated often in a single scene transitioning them so seamlessly without it being jarring is truly kudos to NM-SC. And Shivika were a team. Always. That was the standout for me. And what kept me connected to them despite everything else.

Most Jodi's however popular lose their charm after the major romance milestones of confession, marriage, SR etc are reached. It barely lasts beyond 200 episodes. RU Shivika lasted the distance and never lost their charm over their entire journey of 567 episodes.

And NM and SC played Shivika superlatively. Theirs was truly a one of a kind tuning as costars where they managed to play the whole range with aplomb (and what a range it was!) from the eyes that emoted so powerfully without any words to the zany chavvani chhaap dancing and everything in between. NM-SC managed to ace it all. It never felt to me like they played Shivika. They seemed to live Shivika.

A big thank you NM and SC for Shivika. Without the two of you Shivika wouldn't have been what they are.

No one gave Shivika their due for what they brought to the show while they were on the show or even in it's bitter aftermath but the place they created in the hearts of so many who love them will bear that out over time. Shivika will prevail long after the show as they have through all that was thrown at them on the show.

I am finding it hard to let go of Shivika. I guess it's going to take me a while (if ever) but I will always cherish them for the joy they brought to me. They were a truly khidkitod pair.

PS: I have just been rambling and already for too long and real life is beckoning urgently at the moment. I also want to read the rest of the thread but that will have to wait. A goodbye to Shivika probably deserved a better thought out post but even though there is a lot I feel I can't seem to string it together. So I am going to let your words talk for me as well AY. Thank you for this post.

AY to be honest all that the copy paste is serving to achieve is HIGHLIGHT the very thing that Gulneet are trying to undermine. It only underlines what NM-SC jointly brought to the table to make Shivika special. All that her her cheap tactics served to show is how irreplaceable Narbhi together are to the show and how the show belonged to them as Shivika. They ARE what is truly meant by BEST Jodi. It's not just about looking good or hawt scenes. It's that intangible something, that sync as coactors which made their pairing special and which made Shivika sabse alag and sabse khoobsoorat. Ekdum hatke.

I am trying to avoid ranting here because this is not the place for it though there is plenty to rant about. For me freeze frame is Shivika walking back hand in hand in the rain snuggling into each other and sheltering each other and weathering the storm like many others that they have in their journey together, shaking their head and smiling at the silly old man and his silly ideas about love because they do know better. And that is how life went along with lots of bantering and bickering and showing tadi and wanting to have the last word but all wrapped in loads and loads of love that encompassed in its warmth and protectiveness not just themselves but all their loved ones too.

I feel bad to see the fandom's anguish over Shivika's death even if it is AU Shivika. Although I am a sucker for happy endings I know that there can be great love stories with endings that are tragic and poignant and full of angst. But this was not even that. This was just plain Gulneet being wilfully cruel. But I don't want to dwell on that here. Like I said this is not the place for it.

All I want to say to not just Gulneet (for being so cruel) but to all of us who have loved Shivika,
To live in hearts you leave behind is not to die.
Shivika will always be there and be cherished by all of us.

Gul always does an unhappy ending for the abusive male romantic lead (followed by a generation leap) in her shows when given the opportunity. It's just that some of her shows have ended prematurely thus preventing it.

Qubool hain was horrifically depressing if you shipped the main characters.

Humsufars was going the same route as Ishqbaaz until it was cancelled. It was only Sony TV's focus on producing rewatchable content that gave Gul the chance at a proper ending.

In Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon Arnav was meant to die on the way to the wedding and there was supposed to be a generation leap with Sanaya playing Khushi's daughter. However, spoiler leaks prompted fan protest and Star Plus decided to end the show instead. (That is probably why Gul was so tightlipped about Ishqbaaz's generation leap).

My intent with this thread is to post a goodbye and cherish Shivika. I would request ppl to not make this a general recapping of Gul shows ke endings.

As I've already said, this mess has been unique even by Gul standards. The leads never got devalued and dismissed to this level before.

So I would rather VALUE the real leads of the show I.e SHIVIKA here. Thank You.

And since this VM is sort of like a continuing part of my goodbye letter, I guess I'll post it here too :)

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/ishqbaaaz/5076310/shivika-vm-dekhna-yeh-ek-din-zaroor-hoga

Addendum:

Dear Shivika,

Somwhere I imagine you sitting together right now, watching Fokat Raja, with Pav Bhaji for Anika and Saira Bano kaali coffee for Shivaay. I imagine Shivaay alternating between W*F-ing over sports shoes waali bhootni and laughing over Anika's animated descriptions. I imagine Shivaay saying "O Bete Ki and Anika saying "What's with the language? And then I imagine them bursting out into laughter together again 😆.

And ultimately I'm left with one line echoing in my head....humaare beech jo kuch bhi hai, woh humara hai, sirf humara.

With love,
AY

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Addendum:

Dear Shivika,

Somwhere I imagine you sitting together right now, watching Fokat Raja, with Pav Bhaji for Anika and Saira Bano kaali coffee for Shivaay. I imagine Shivaay alternating between W*F-ing over sports shoes waali bhootni and laughing over Anika's animated descriptions. I imagine Shivaay saying "O Bete Ki and Anika saying "What's with the language? And then I imagine them bursting out into laughter together again 😆.

And ultimately I'm left with one line echoing in my head....humaare beech jo kuch bhi hai, woh humara hai, sirf humara.

With love,
AY

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Originally posted by: soapsuds

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

This Fokat Raja date was a long standing item in BW ki wishlist you know? 😆

Gulneet fulfilled many other wishes of hers, but not this one. Haha so we fill it in in our own imaginations :)

I also would have loved to see Shivika actually work through their equation with Pinky more. Lots of scope there for nuance. But Chalo jitna bhi mila, wasn't bad either :)