What happened to the Lizzyfication of Khushi?

She is lost somewhere.

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Hey Fari🤗

Interesting topic, you've brought up a lot of issues with the current state of the IPK and the current state of the forum!😆

To be frank I still think this whole forced marriage track triggered IPK in the downward spiral that is still going down in with a few redeeming moments here and there with some deserving episodes and moments. But I think the ME and revelation of the MU will be the turn of the tide we're all desperately hoping for! Will help restore IPK to what it was before. The whole delivery of the MU, from how ASR found out, to his reaction to the way Khushi still doesn't have a clue about it is flawed. They've compromised both characters for the sake of dragging this MU and it's a pity because before this track came along the characters have remained fairly consistent with growth. After this MU forced marriage track, the CVS have aimed to show intensity and sometimes damaged ASR's character by portraying him as extremely cruel and also at times made him seem bipolar but adding in these supposedly soft moments when he warms and feels for her. Likewise with Khushi, the CVS have aimed for comedy where they've ended up reducing her character to a simple caricature of what she was before, shredding her of the real depth she had before. Too much damage. With a few moments here and there, I've felt Khushi's behaviour and reaction until yesterday's suicide has been fairly justified, she's been lashing out at Arnav in her own cunning chamkeli way without being reduced to a glycerine-fied SP bahu (thank you CVS) but this suicide track is wrong. Seeing Khushi behave effectively defeated and resigned to her fate at the hands of ASR sort of kills the story. The tension goes missing because though Khushi can be quirky, silly and funny she can be equally feisty and vicious - like her reaction to ASR endangering her life after GH sequence. Yesterday's track practically undid/cancelled or made a mockery of the Khushi we've witnessed before.

The Lizzification of Khushi, I love P&P, one of my complete favourites and the initial IPK episodes does have traces of it, especially the dynamic between ArHi and Elizabeth and Darcy being similar. Khushi is lively, witty and extremely caring like Elizabeth who'd garnered interest of the more cute, stand-offish, aloof, extremely proud and usually silent ASR just like Mr. Darcy but this MU has done a lot of damage. I hope that somehow the writers can bring the story back to these kind of lines again!

agree on all your points, especially about comparisons.

thoughtful Fari :)

yes, some of the game plan did include the growth and maturity of the character Khushi; but not much depth has been added to it later i guess..

we have questioned why everyone thinks Khushi is silly and also think ASR who fell in love with his silliness.. has he gotten a choice.. the mature graph of the character has never been consistent.. there at times.. not there at times.. so the only thing he can smirk about is the salman's poster 😆 and the character of Arnav just got meaner.. extremity sigh*!!!

as much as there has been a darcification of Arnav; there should be a lizzyfication of Khushi.. i know that'd be too much to ask of a ASR loves Khushi story, but only that would make a sensible and interesting watch plus justify Sanaya's prowess more!

i also miss those baby days of the forum you know? things were so smoothly intense! :)

The entire tone of the story has been lost. Endless comedy on serious subjects of unrequited love, adultery and forced marriages with a dash of attempted murder. How does comedy translate into these themes. It doesn't and that's why the protagonist/victim who should be dealing with these situations with a bit of gravity and is instead toing toing around the house, screaming like a banshee and hallucinating murder by rat poison is not resonating with anyone except those who turn in to only watch a guy and girl in the same frame or the actors' die hard fans.

Don't even remind us how IPKKND was before the contract marriage track😭. My heart aches thinking about what went wrong with such a promising show😭. Since the contract marriage, we have only seen glimpses on the characters we knew, everything else was mindless comedy😡. I know some people liked the comedy and I do not mind it, but comedy always! Khushi was such a strong character and strong women who stood up and was able to give a piece of her mind to Arnav. And agree she was more like Lizzy then. Now toh... oh I'm not even getting words to describe her behavior. I liked IPKKND for its intensity and the cuteness and occasional stupidity of KKGSR. There seemed to a good balance between the two. But, now its more of the latter than the intensity. CV's have managed to convert some of the intense moments into utter nonsensical comedy. Someone pls remind them that they need not try so hard to give us comedy. Khushi in her basic character/elements is humorous enough and that was the genuine humor that I enjoyed. I don't understand how can she think Arnav and La are planning to kill her. Wasn't La her friend (I think this point was raised by Priya)? The whole Arnav planning to kill her didn't fit well with me at all and the way the whole thing was handled was a sore to the eye. I hope they get the intensity back once Arnav blurts the truth. I repeat it again... pls CV's do not try hard to get comedy in. Khushi in her basic form is very cute and funny... go and watch he office and the pre-diwali track to know what I'm saying.

IPL... what IPL... i recently watched few episodes of this other show about a cancer patient. Looks like they have all their powerful tracks planned during IPL. and it worked just great for them. If IPL was the excuse for the comedy, I am going to kill the CV's if they pull another comedy track post monday...well not literally kill😉.

PS: How many of you are with me when I say we shud send the IPKKND track before Payash mehndi to CV's to remind them about what the show was all about? Looks like we need to play it everyday like in 50 first dates to recover them from their daily partial amnesia😭😭😭

Lizzy will always remain as the best female character for me...Comparison between KKG and Lizzy in the beginning was justified...but never in the wildest dreams would lizzy be reduced to what KKG is now...I fail to see any trace of lizzy in KKG now...its a sad state of characterization...if only somebody from those initial writers bring back the comparison...