Ever since I have heard about Heer-Ranjha scenario coming up, for some reason (totally unrelated to IPKKND, perhaps) I can't get the following lines out of my head:
Door nigahon se aansoon bahata hai koi,
Kaise na jaaon main, mujhko bulata hai koi,
Ya toote dil ko jod do; Ya saare bandhan tod do,
Ai parvat rastaa de mujhe; Ai kaanto daaman chhod do
...
Sehra main aake bhi mujhko sahara na mila,
Ghum ko bhulane ka koi bahana na mila,
Dil tadpe jisme pyaar ko; kya samjhoon us sansaar ko,
Ek jeeti baazi haar ke, main dhundoo bichhde yaar ko
...
Though, if his Khushi is ever taken away from him, poor Arnav just might end up as good as a wandering Ranjha!
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Okay, back to review!
1. Khushi, good girl! I'm never disappointed in you. You gave it back to him good and straight.
No, Arnav I'm never disappointed in you either, but then you don't care, do you. You and your VERY BIG ego!
Khushi, LOVED your question and the way you asked it - kya hain aap? (What are you?)
Arnav LOVED your reaction to that question! I had a VERY BIG grin pasted on my face when she asked as she did and you reacted as you did by way of that smile - with an overdose of pride & arrogance.
Ah! She asks about ME! She's interested to know what I am all about ' the great ME.
2. HURRAY!! ARNAV CONFESSED ... his ego!
I'm SURE Khushi was SO shocked with that answer, as were we!
Apart from your over-publicized brain, your over-sized ego is the next humungous thing that has been on constant display.
3. Arnav, Khushi has really been learning a lot from you - you must be so proud of her!
The way she changed tactics when Nani ji was around, even you couldn't fathom what went into her.
LOVED you Khushi the way you jumped into the 'loving-wife' role and confused the living daylights outta your husband.
Did we spy a bit of appreciation in your eyes for her when you figured out that Nani Ji was around?
By the way, Arnav, she's proved herself trustworthy again.
Well, it reminded me of the time when you fed her the kheer to show Anjali Di how much you loved your wifey.
Now, it's Khushi's payback to show Nani ji how much she loves her hubby!
Only, Nani ji is not as dumb as Anjali - she sees what really happens, not what what she wants to see. I actually won't be surprised if she intentionally caught you, and made you play Ranjha - Nani ji can conspire rather well.
Didn't I tell you Arnav, you have got your ASR genes from Nani ji.
4. Arnav, when will you learn not to get into a war of words with your wife!
Arnav: I'll take this, it's heavy.
Khushi: Leave it! You have to carry your heavy ego as well!!
And by the way, Arnav, she did carry it rather easily. Well, if a woman can carry around your filthy secrets, she can sure carry a heavy bag!
Awesome, Khushi babe! By the way, it's just these things that you do that have stolen his heart away. Though the nutter is ignoring the fact for now.
5. LOVED that when the two banged into each other, she grabbed hold of his head and banged it with her head again!
He was barely out of the impact of the first hit, when she did it again!
Arnav: Are you mad!
Khushi: I don't want horns growing out of my head.
Arnav: *doesn't begin to know how to respond to that one*
LOVED that when she blowed on his head, Arnav literally went - SHE CARES FOR ME!! YAY ME!
And Khushi goes - Oops! I care for him!?
Okay, I agree that you fail to realize your love and fail to trust each other. Granted you the dumness or sheer ego!
But how can you both continue to ignore the care that you have have for each other. You have to make conscious efforts to hide the care you keep showing off and on. And this time, it's not just Arnav, Khushi, you are equally guilty of the same.
If she falls, Arnav catches hold of her - by default. That fact is as sound as the sun rising in the east.
If he hurts himself, she must scream and make a fuss out of it. That fact is also as sound as the sun setting in the west.
Catching her twice or thrice! Blowing on his head, and all! What, do you two even know the meaning of hatred?
How many days has it been to your MU and the (un)eventful wedding now? 7 or 8 days? And already you both have lost it? How will you survive the hatred for the 6 months?
And incidentally, it is equally by default, if the fact that the instant you two catch a quiet moment by yourselves, someone must and ABSOLUTELY MUST pop up!
6. Aww, Arnav! She always manages to catch you off-guard when she's being herself and having fun! By the way, you didn't look like you'd recovered quite well from under the curtain incident when you showed up beside her, while she was busy dancing away to glory!
How pagal and cute she looked when she was dancing with Nani ji and Mami Jaan. Even Mami Jaan who was standing with Payal could not resist coming to the other side to dance with 'your' Khushi!
LOVED the laughter you suppressed - as if!
And she caught you looking at her antics so dreamily ' and then you caught yourself smiling away like af fool in love ' eventually getting confused about the expression you were sporting.
Didn't you love it when the organizer came around and said ' Mrs. Raizada and Mrs. Raizada! Wow! That look of pride on your countenance - you're lucky Khushi didn't see the pride you feel when someone calls her your wife!
And perhaps, that was the reason, you decided - 'That's it. I'm leaving!' yeah! Too much exposure to Khushi having fun and dancing is injurious to ASR's angry, grouchy facade!
7. Tu hi mera mera mera - Rightly said, Arnav! Khushi wearing her fake jewellery dancing to the words on your heart.
She again sensed you calling out to her - wordlessly.
You again saw her missing earring and returned it to her.
How long you keep sensing his presence without making sense out of it?
How long will you keep collecting her fallen earrings and returning them to her, without accepting how much you still care for her?
Even when you handed that earring back, you spoke that she belongs you, and when you walked away, you kept looking back for confirmation from her, that she did indeed understand what you said without words!
LOVED that moment
Keep this up, and the pretense isn't going to last very long, Arnav! The day you stop pretending, she'll stat accepting.
8. LOVED how pretty Khushi looked in red.. and hey AAARRRNNNAAAVVV - Khushi isn't playing fair; she's cheating! She's in RED again!!
Up your guards immediately before you lose it once again! though, there isn't much hope for you.
9. LOVED Arnav's expressions when Nani Ji put the sherwani up to him for size.
Buddy, though you looked at her as though she'd lost it - she's smarter than you give her credit for.
I'm hoping to see that she's planned to trap you here.
Just as Khushi is out to prove that she's the wife of the Great ASR Almighty, so is Nani out to prove that she is the Nani of the Great Arnav Almighty!
Though before that you were worried why your Nani ji had sent your wife on the stage when you hadn't rehearsed for the 'Stupid Love Story'! Yeh you SO know that if her partner doesn't arrive in time, how nervous and disappointed your Khushi would be and that you wouldn't be able to see!
10. and How with rapt attention Arnav listened to the tale of Heer-Ranjha! Taking in all the emotional bits quite seriously!
Yes, Arnav, this is all in preparation of you to play Ranjha!
Your Nani sent Khushi alone on stage, knowing that now you'd follow her - like the sun around the sky! You won't let Khushi alone on stage getting disappointed in front of everybody.
You really didn't like the idea of Heer dying, did you, ASR? The words about Ranjha being incomplete without Heer sure hit you straight.
Looks like the Heer-Ranjha would being back some (if not all) of your dhak-dhak!
Others:
Before anything else - NANI JI, YOU ROCK!! HATS OFF TO YOU!!
(And to the CVs too!)
1. LOVED how Nani ji took the keys from Arnav and Arnav fell into Nani ji's trap as easily as off a banana peel!
2. LOVED LOVED LOVED Nani Ji and Arnav's Convo. It was SHOOO CUTE!!!!
3. LOVED how Khushi munched on Chanas while Nani tried to arrange for costumes!
4. LOVED how Nani ji took Akash's keys as well and threatened him with not letting him see Payal's performance ROFL
5. LOVED how poor Arnav had to take advice from Shyam about keeping being a support system for the wife. Life tough, Buddy!
6. LOVED how Shyam had to adivse Arnav to support his PATNI when she performed! The poor the Creepwa!
7. Arnav we know you love your sister, but she can sit down on the chair on her own, without you chanting 'be careful' in the background. That chair can take the weight of your feather-weight sister on itself, without dropping her on the floor!
8. Shyam, you're such a goof-ball! This is the third time you have entered the lion's cave. How many times do you s'pose you won't get caught? The way you're going on the file-hunt, it makes me feel that perhaps Arnav had put you in his or Anjali's will or bought some property in your name.
And this time, you've left proof behind!!
9. Shyam, looks like your starter is nearing its fuse days - If the man leaves home, he's gonna take his wallet with him. You, being a man - a pathetic excuse for a man, but a man nonetheless - should know this. Don't you get it? Okay, let me try again:
Man has wallet.
Wallet has money.
When man leave, man need money.
Man carry wallet when leave home.
Man at home -> Wallet at home.
Man no home -> Wallet no home.
Got it!?
That's the simplest I can be, without getting into caveman drawings.
I still can't believe that this dialog left your mouth - where's the wallet? It was here this morning!?
10. LOVED Mami Jaan all dressed up and LOVED Payaliya all dressed up! :) BOTH looked really nice!
11. LOVED Mami Jaan and Khushi's bonding
12. Mami Jaan: Last time jab hum gire the, tab sabse zor se yeho baji thi!
13. LOVED Khushi matching up with Mami Jaan's dance steps.
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