missing asr, missing barun. //upd pg 14.// - Page 16

Originally posted by: indi52

firefly,

so good you broke your silence. beautiful meander through your thoughts on what happened to us as we watched ipk.

i am 52, and i felt my feelings at 15, 16, and even before when i first started to believe in that forever thing. i never really "grew up" enough to grow out of it, but the everyday had pulled a quiet pall over the feelings i guess. they lay deep within, still cherished but set aside in a corner.

till a man with storm in his eyes looked angry yet mesmerised at a girl.

i have felt exactly as you that asr and khushi, barun and sanaya, have reawakened in me thoughts and emotions essential.

just hanging around them makes me feel alive and in love.

and barun. well, he's only just begun. i am waiting to see next.

perfect, the way you describe the heart molecule shift. from tingle in toe to sting of tear behind eye, felt it again and again. nowadays the sting more though.

the "sufi" somewhereelseness, lovely. that telepathic conversation for me was real, actually if you are connected, this happens. only barun and sanaya could have had it. and the scene you speak of, i feel like turning my cheek into her palm the way he seems to.

i never felt he was acting asr. he was asr in those moments. otherwise how could we have all those things we did, the ones we know no writer could have written.

not being said yet, some day will be acknowledged, asr was one of the finest performances by any actor ever in our land, tv, movie, or theatre. i personally have never seen such a performance over so many months before. it happened on a low brow thing like a daily soap on a hindi gec, but a thing it was of beauty.

thank you for opening up and sharing so much. we get each other, especially when we sound nutty. thanks to you know who.

must go see those scenes again. 😆

Originally posted by: kushikumari

Originally posted by: bs_deeps

If I look back, I did many things in last one and half year which I never thought I would do. My knowledge about daily soaps and entertainment channels was so little that I didn't even know SP was famous for saas bahu serials..I would cut off any friend / colleague if they spoke about any soaps..I remember them mentioning BV but I never bothered..My interest was always in sports and English movies'Then one fine day, 14^th June 2011, I was switching the channels and one thin girl's scooter crashed into an SUV..I just watched it for few mins and changed the channel..no..It was not love at first sight for me..

I forgot about it completely and lost in my own world..On one lazy weekend, 9^th July, I was literally bored and happened to land in SP again..but this time I was little interested in what I saw, I saw a boss who was sending his employee to a guest house as he didn't want to see her face..I wanted to see what happens next..but watching TV at 8 is almost impossible at my place as that's our dinner time..something which we followed for almost 10 years..the only exception for me to watch TV while having food is when Tendulkar is on strike..Had tough time convincing dad to wait till 8:30, as I just wanted to watch that one episode to see what hero was going to do'who knew at that time that one episode is going to be turned into such a long journey..I was neither flattered for Sobti nor Sanaya initially..But loved the way he wiped her tears in that guest house scene..ASR started taking place in my heart..

Then I googled and came to know that the actor playing the role of Arnav Singh Raizada is "Barun Sobti"..Didn't like the pic that was given in Wikipedia..Days passed and there came Teej episode..after watching that I had to go back and watch all the episodes from the beginning and that's when I fell in love with ASR'his entrance got me hooked to that character..I started thinking about his attitude and the one liners that he gave.."Arnav Singh Raizada ka nishana kabhi nahi chubta" who would forget that.. But I didn't like Barun's voice..I had to rewind the episodes again n again to understand what he spoke..Again I didn't know at that time that he would prove me wrong. First time I liked Barun as an actor was in rain hug scene which I watched much later..His eyes spoke volumes in that scene..and when I watched him say "Lemme finish"'there was no going back..

I have ended up watching BHPH to see how Barun was as Shravan, landed in IF, watched all the ads where he appeared, browsed for all the interviews that he gave. I was never obsessed with any actor, I liked Kamal Hasan, Chiranjeevi in 80s as commercial hero, SRK in 90s, Aamir as a matured actor in '00s but never fell in love with an actor, that too both as an actor and as a person. I started loving his work even more when I saw his offscreen segments. How can one man be so chilled out off screen and with full of attitude and power on screen..

This show, Arnav-Khushi, Barun-Sanaya, gave me lot of relief in my life, when I needed the most, when I needed to be distracted. I will always remember their fights, his attitude, her fighting spirit, her madness, their unspoken love, heart breaks, misunderstandings and their final submission to love.

I had problem with broad band connection once, when service engineer came and logged on to my laptop, 4 windows were open with ASR's pictures, I was so embarrassed. I called up one person to enquire about their services and I asked "Is it AR group?"..Even today I have no clue what I was thinking. I called a colleague "Barun", my dinner shifted to living room, I used a male actors photo as DP. This list goes on.

I was about to write more but realized that I am getting carried away. Just now I wrote in a PM to Farha that there can be only one ASR and there can be only one Barun..which already happened to me I have had enough of wonderful memories for a life time from this show.so I don't want anything else from Indian tele..I am done!!

Originally posted by: indi52

"main mar nahin raha hoon, yaar."

"nahin nahin, main ne break nahin liya tha kabi bhi... laast time also i was shooting consistently for the show... i was shooting for both the things... i used to shoot uh... shoot double double shifts, but i shot for the show as well, so i never left that time either."

at last he says it in so many words, the truth. there was no break. the much touted propaganda by gul of being the "understanding" producer was just that, propaganda.

i trust this boy. poignant that first sentence of the interview, when all they are trying to do is kill him off as asr, in his profession, everywhere.

can asr die? just because you hit him with a truck and we all got to see it? you are just killing your own story your own path your own future.

woh mar nahin raha hai.

and i believe him.

"i'm also very emotional.. i don't show a lot of stuff..."

to barun to life to asr, l'chaim.

and what's that "that time either?" a lot of hope on that "either."

Originally posted by: bs_deeps

If I look back, I did many things in last one and half year which I never thought I would do. My knowledge about daily soaps and entertainment channels was so little that I didn't even know SP was famous for saas bahu serials..I would cut off any friend / colleague if they spoke about any soaps..I remember them mentioning BV but I never bothered..My interest was always in sports and English movies'Then one fine day, 14^th June 2011, I was switching the channels and one thin girl's scooter crashed into an SUV..I just watched it for few mins and changed the channel..no..It was not love at first sight for me..

I forgot about it completely and lost in my own world..On one lazy weekend, 9^th July, I was literally bored and happened to land in SP again..but this time I was little interested in what I saw, I saw a boss who was sending his employee to a guest house as he didn't want to see her face..I wanted to see what happens next..but watching TV at 8 is almost impossible at my place as that's our dinner time..something which we followed for almost 10 years..the only exception for me to watch TV while having food is when Tendulkar is on strike..Had tough time convincing dad to wait till 8:30, as I just wanted to watch that one episode to see what hero was going to do'who knew at that time that one episode is going to be turned into such a long journey..I was neither flattered for Sobti nor Sanaya initially..But loved the way he wiped her tears in that guest house scene..ASR started taking place in my heart..

Then I googled and came to know that the actor playing the role of Arnav Singh Raizada is "Barun Sobti"..Didn't like the pic that was given in Wikipedia..Days passed and there came Teej episode..after watching that I had to go back and watch all the episodes from the beginning and that's when I fell in love with ASR'his entrance got me hooked to that character..I started thinking about his attitude and the one liners that he gave.."Arnav Singh Raizada ka nishana kabhi nahi chubta" who would forget that.. But I didn't like Barun's voice..I had to rewind the episodes again n again to understand what he spoke..Again I didn't know at that time that he would prove me wrong. First time I liked Barun as an actor was in rain hug scene which I watched much later..His eyes spoke volumes in that scene..and when I watched him say "Lemme finish"'there was no going back..

I have ended up watching BHPH to see how Barun was as Shravan, landed in IF, watched all the ads where he appeared, browsed for all the interviews that he gave. I was never obsessed with any actor, I liked Kamal Hasan, Chiranjeevi in 80s as commercial hero, SRK in 90s, Aamir as a matured actor in '00s but never fell in love with an actor, that too both as an actor and as a person. I started loving his work even more when I saw his offscreen segments. How can one man be so chilled out off screen and with full of attitude and power on screen..

This show, Arnav-Khushi, Barun-Sanaya, gave me lot of relief in my life, when I needed the most, when I needed to be distracted. I will always remember their fights, his attitude, her fighting spirit, her madness, their unspoken love, heart breaks, misunderstandings and their final submission to love.

I had problem with broad band connection once, when service engineer came and logged on to my laptop, 4 windows were open with ASR's pictures, I was so embarrassed. I called up one person to enquire about their services and I asked "Is it AR group?"..Even today I have no clue what I was thinking. I called a colleague "Barun", my dinner shifted to living room, I used a male actors photo as DP. This list goes on.

I was about to write more but realized that I am getting carried away. Just now I wrote in a PM to Farha that there can be only one ASR and there can be only one Barun..which already happened to me I have had enough of wonderful memories for a life time from this show.so I don't want anything else from Indian tele..I am done!!

Originally posted by: adithyan

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