"I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw. I'm scared of what I did, of who I am... and most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you."
-Dirty Dancing
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When I signed up for IPK...I just knew that whatever this love-saga might be..It's just not cliched...Now every serial steps into the broad Prime-time arena with a promise of being "different"..But sadly..Not many..in fact most of them don't leave upto their promises'and are hence lost in the anonymity of regressive saas-bahu crap...Romance takes a back-seat and we are served the same old concoction of family drama and kitchen politics...
But luckily...IPK is still not lost...In fact...it's pretty impressive how they have maintained their tagline of "Nafrat paas aane na de'Mohabbat door jaane na de"to the T!!TRP's...Well I really don't get the real deal...But TRP-seems to be a very trivial term for an eternal love odyssey that IPK is...Fiction it might be..But it's fiction at it's best!!👏
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Arnav and Khushi
"They didn't agree on much
In fact, they rarely agreed on everything
They fought all the time
And they challenged each other everyday
But despite their differences,
They had one important thing in common
They were crazy about each other"
- The Notebook
Now..two orphans...bound by destiny..bound by fate..but above all..bound by songs of love...that remain unheard by people surrounding them.I have always maintained..Arnav was mesmerized by Khushi at the moment the two met on that fateful night at Sheesh Mahal.As luck would have it...the meeting wasn't how two lovers are expected to meet in general...but then again...these two are the eternal star-crossed lovers!!More than a year has passed since that fateful night..and both of them have indeed come a long way...
The splenetic young man ASR is a ghost of the past now...No he's not lost forever...But somehow the conscience that lay buried somewhere deep down..has made it's presence felt...He always found it difficult to express his feelings'he has never justified his actions to a soul'he has never in his life bowed down to the hollow,man-made traditions and customs...But I guess'everything has its "first"!!Khushi is like that lost song in his life...that disappeared in his childhood'as both his parents committed suicide'and his Daadi abandoned him...he was left with nothing but despair that soon became a facade of anger that he took refuge behind!!Now Khushi came...on one hand feelings and desires were surging'while on the other hand..his ghost of the past..just won't let him bask in that new found love...So he hurt her...and hurt her some more...But the more he hurt her...the more he was surprised and amazed...at her resilience..at her strength to smile...at her power to rise up from the heaps of insults he hurled at her...He saw a fighter in her..a girl that would never give up!!And boy!!Did he ever realize...how this girl would change him...Well I guess "change"won't be the motjuste here...It actually are the feelings that were lying deep down..Not a morsel of which he'd let the world outside to see....The feelings that were kept safe in the glass-house of his heart'were unleashed by this girl Khushi...The glass walls finally broke..and we are here today...After a year of love-hate saga...we have reached a point...where the man of few words..is apologizing to his wife..his Khushi..the reason for his being..that he regrets every single act that might have hurt her..broke her heart..He is sorry that he wronged her...
Now for Khushi..Arnav is a blessing...Orphaned at eight...The biggest flaw of this character is a terribly low self-esteem..Maybe being brought up people who are not her parents showed its effect in this way..Morally upright..but she just doesn't know how to stand up for herself...When ASR questioned her morality or tried to hurt her..left,right and centre...She could stand up to him...pay him back in his own coin...She faced him with all the courage she had!!But when it came or still comes to the society...her family...she can't open her mouth!!Somehow..in spite of being brought up in a caring household...she had always been a loner..A fighter who always fought for her home..her family...But never really got that back!!But Arnav...in spite of hurting her more than anyone..has loved her too more than anyone..The care,that assurance,the belief that no matter what...I'm always with You...she received only from Arnav...He is the person she has somehow opened up to in her times of distress...Because subconsciously she is well aware of the fact that Arnav is there for her..Shaiitan or Raajkumar..he is always there to hold that hand..to reassure her..to scream at her "Don't you ever do this to me" when she goes missing...to cry with her and to laugh with her..He is the only man she can hold onto..anytime and anywhere..in sickness and in health!!And now that her faith in him has been reaffirmed'she too stands upto her Buaji when she speaks ill of him...Because she now knows..Arnav is the person she loves beyond anything...and that their feelings matter more than anything now!!
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation??!!"
- Khalil Gibran
Now the path of their love is bridle and with past rearing its head from the debris under which it lay hidden all these years...their journey is sure to be bedeviled by a lot of adversities...Daadi thinking of Arnav as a young man besotted with an amoral girl like Khushi...Or Garima slapping Khushi with an unknown rage and helplessness-past is sure making its way!!And with past in the picture..the circumstances for the lovers might seem insurmountable..and happiness seems to be an illusion...but this time'the bond that these two share..the bond of love and longing...will not lose its bearings in the anonymity of misunderstandings!!I'm keeping my fingers crossed!!😃
Here's to the lovebirds'.who will fight every menace that comes their way now..No matter what'Whether it's Daadi's imperious attitude or Shyam's serpentine entry'because the bond they share now is eternal..no less than Radha-Krsna'!!😳
But all said and done...I simply can't get the fact..Why does everything seem so rushed??I understand the need to raise the TRP's...But "Creative Team"..make sure you don't make a balls-up of the story while trying to rush things!!Believe me..if we could bear a 2 month long kidnapping track'.we won't mind a separation track with lots of sweet yearnings for each other and loads of sweeter romance,period!!
Performances...
Barun Sobti:You know I love you Dammit!!😉The pain in your eyes so limpid as Arnav has those haunting flashbacks..Kudos to you..Just like ASR..You too have come a long way as far as acting is concerned!!👏
Sanaya Irani:I simply loved you in the Hug scene..The pain,the fear and the pangs of separation..so evident in your eyes!!👏
Swati Chitnis:I can just say..these days..your performance is making me love to hate you..I mean your character!!👏
Abhaas Mehta:That one minute appearance with that darkness around was sure a spine-chilling one!!Welcome back!!👏
"Enough"said today'Such a long post shold make up for my almost a week of no-post!!😆
Take care
Love😊
Sam😃
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