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Di,
I am one of those who started watching IPK for Khushi or Sanaya .. I watched the first promo, thought the leads were good looking, kept watching the show as Khushi amazed me .. and then somehow, somewhere in months, I fell in love with ASR.
I have read only a few Mills & Boon .. have never been a James Bond fan .. started appreciating Di Caprio after watching Blood Diamond only .. The only man who has ever been on my hard drive was SRK, that too a decade back. I am still the same person .. and eventually now I had been into fight with my hubby for Barun Sobti who had managed to sneak into my hard drive 😳.. whom I have also started to appreciate much, much later on .. it was never his good looks for me .. so I know, he in my life, is forever too .. just like SRK, just like my ASR ..
I watched a few epi of BHPH because I found it funny and probably thought the hero was cute .. after months of watching IPK, I realized it was Sobti! I loved that Biwi or TV ad but it took me months to realize it was Sobti. It was never his extra good looks or dashing demeanour that made me appreciate him .. so I know my appreciation is not superficial. I started appreciating him when I started to learn to read his eyes .. I started to appreciate him when I watched him grow as an actor .. being ASR so much that the simple lad from Delhi was lost somewhere. And then his off-screen moments would amaze me .. is this the same man? And one fine morning, I gave him the certificate .. "In my life, forever". 😊
I have a life that cries for more than 24 hours everyday .. there are days when I feel I cannot take it anymore & want to run away. It was him .. his anger, his desire, his stubborness, his regret .. that saved me everyday. In the beginning, I would feel embarassed realizing that I loved to see him in anger, I loved to see him hurting Khushi, I loved to see him lashing it out on her .. but as I stumbled upon IF, I met you .. all immensely touched by the same infection that we adored.
IPK has given back to me something that I thought I have lost years back .. my teenage hormones! And how I loved to have it back .. thanks to Sobti & Irani .. yes the story matters but the same kind of story did not leave me breathless ever before ..will it be foolish to say it was more Sobti & Irani than the story itself that made the difference?
His piercing gaze, her heavy breathes .. his anger, her antics .. his rigidity, her vivacity .. his stepping forward, her stepping backward .. his laughter, her surprise .. his arms, her falling .. his finger, her lips .. his shirt, her earrings .. his sugar free coffee, her jalebi .. his English one-lines, her Shudh hindi .. his legally wedded wife, her swami .. his impeccable white shirt, her rainbowy wardrobe .. .. .. .. there is too much to miss, there is too much to cherish ..
I miss ASR. Yes. But I miss Barun also .. whom I always found merged into ASR .. I dont find either of them now .. a shadow of ASR is fighting the game alone as even Sobti is slipping away.
Would it be too much to ask to have those sparkle back in the eyes of ASR that would tell us .. ASR is Sobti .. Sobti is ASR?
Edited by Omoraboti - 12 years ago
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