Khushi The Character Dedication - Page 3

Originally posted by: boreddamsel

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Get ready .. there is a good chance this post will end up to be long. 'coz honestly I cannot stop telling you how much I love Khushi and Sanaya.

The Khushi I loved.

As a sister : Doing everything she could to save her sister's marriage, joining hands with the guy she "hated" to bring happiness in her sister's life, making her life miserable (by accepting Arnav's contract marriage) so that she could save her sister's.

As a daughter : She never let anyone know how depressed she was, she pulled herself together. She loved people who were not her own, but she saw them and treated them as her own, with so much ease that they forgot that she was adopted .. Garima's own words that really made me tear up! When she almost died in the guest house, she did not think about herself, she thought of the pain her death would cause her family!

As an individual :

When she saw her family was in trouble, when her father's shop was being sold for the sake of dowry, when she realized Buaji needed money, what did she do? She stepped up; she took charge. She walked out to negotiate with her sister's future husband. She took responsibility to earn money for her Buaji. She didn't think twice about what people might say, in fact she fought with Buaji to let her work. With La, she took responsibility for the missing goat, so that La could be saved. She wanted to do her job right.

She would do anything to even help out a stranger. (Note: I am not talking about sacrifices here, I will get to that).

She could not see anyone hurt, especially not because of her .. proof, Anjali. She was hurt by Shyam, but she couldn't bear the thought that she would be the reason for the destruction of something precious to Anjali.

Her innocence and her devotion and treating DM like her best friend.

She stood for her beliefs .. her morals. When Arnav said he didn't believe in God, she didn't stay quiet. When Arnav talked about value of money, she didn't stay quiet. When Arnav challenged her, she took the challenge and every other task he threw in her face, she took it with guts and completed it smartly and using her brains, and not her beauty! When she almost died in the guest house, she recovered from the shock of facing death and made sure she let him know where he was wrong. When she handed him the resignation letter, she made sure he knew he had lost. She was not scared of anyone, and she feared nothing except losing her family and being alone.

As a lover (and not wife .. I will talk about it later):

She hated Arnav, but something about him drew her to him. What started as pranks because of hatred stopped the moment she caused him pain unknowingly (when she poured hot tea on him) .. slowly she started noticing that he was caring and a good person.. and she felt comfortable with him, remember the Nainital trip? Unknowingly, she had accepted him to be someone she could rely on, someone who she could turn to for comfort, and someone she could open up to .. hence the hospital hug. She realized she had feelings for him .. when she saw him with La.. and then the heartbeats started. She couldn't take her eyes off him, she couldn't stop thinking of him, his touch sent shivers down her spine, every time she saw him watching her, her heart raced .. she had found her love!

All of the above .. is what made me fall in love with Khushi. For the first time when watching an Indian show, I could relate to a character, a simple, loving, caring, hard-working, and independent .. there was nothing great about her .. but at the same time, she was an amazing person .. and she fell in love. I wanted to watch the show, for the same reason, I read a romantic novel or watch romcoms over and over again .. to remind me that one day, I will meet the guy who will love me, truly, madly and deeply! Sigh ..

Then.. the bubble burst. Khushi became a sacrificial lamb .. and she had no worries any more.. I think the last track of hers that I liked was kidnapping .. in fact my show died the day Arnav came back. The pain she expressed when Arnav was away, when she felt he was in trouble.. that day I cried.. when she leaned against the window talking about her love.. I have never felt for her after that. There were days after the kidnapping track when I had wanted to slap Khushi for behaving like an idiot. I could never ever relate to Khushi since the moment she and Arnav met and they came back to RM after the kidnapping. She never said anything when her husband let her get insulted. She quietly (well, she resisted a little I guess), listened to her husband's threats .. what crap! She said nothing or did nothing, when her dream wedding was a nightmare. She even forgave her husband, who the night before had slept with her and still ran away leaving her to suffer alone at the altar, the moment he realized her mother was responsible for his parents death. She even said nothing when her husband was flirting with his ex, especially after he knew that she was worried about her. And the sacrifices, I would have still been fine if she had given up something for her husband (well if he had been loving and caring1), but no, she went ahead and sacrificed for her husband's family too even when she knew he was against it and without discussing it with him first. Wow! I would have loved Khushi if she had left Arnav, the moment after Arnav didn't support her even after knowing Shyam's truth. Then I would have loved this show.

Ha, and the worst is the way she moves away when her husband tries to show his love. Yes, I agree this is a family channel.. then why even bother with almost kisses. I was really pissed off at whoever came up with this idea of almost kisses.. the Diwali one was brilliant, 'coz she never ever pushed him away. But every other time, they made her look like she hated it. This is no woman.

I was told many a times, that I shouldn't expect Khushi to behave the way I would. Well I wouldn't have, if I hadn't felt that she was like me towards the beginning of the show. I wouldn't have, if she was shown like a typical divine, soft-spoken, sacrificial idiot at the beginning. Or maybe I expect a lot from a tv show. But this is a show watched by lots of young and old women. In fact I feel bad that they show such shows on TV even now.. there is a reason why even a very close friend of mine criticized me for the decisions I took in my personal life regarding my marriage. Yes, teach the girls of tomorrow to suffer everything quietly and accept that whatever her husband does is right... already they blindly feel that everything a hot guy does and says is right! I don't agree that is what gives a good TRP, then shows with stronger women won't be at the top of the charts.

I still say Khushi was one of the best characters I have seen on TV, but she was killed, butchered, cut into small pieces and crushed under the feet of cynical writers who wanted to highlight the hero.

That said, now to Sanaya. She is one of the reasons I am glad I watched this show. Not only is she a talented and versatile actress (she looks hot even when she cries .. who does OTT comedy with such brilliance.. ), but she is hard-working and sincere. Even when her character was being treated unfairly, she never looked bored or uninterested, she worked her ass off .. and she looked to die for! (Yes, I am comparing her with Bhaiyya!!) And she single-handedly kept the show running even when the lead actor was busy making a career in movies .. and at the same time she was practicing for some dance show too. I know Shar once said Sanaya lives on the other side of Mumbai .. and has to sit through traffic to get to the sets. I'm sure she was super tired, and it sometimes did show on her face too, but did that ever affect her acting? Never! Even when she got no awards, even when she was given ridiculous looking clothes, even when her character was being an idiot, she gave her best. Yes, she was hurt when people asked for the show to be shut down because the lead actor was leaving. She was hurt, because she had given everything to this character .. those tears you saw them on SBS ..!! (Fans imagined tears in Barun's eyes .. and here we saw real tears ..still I didn't see those fans feeling sad for her!)

Sanaya Irani, I am proud to have known such an awesome woman like you. So yes, I was disappointed with Khushi, but at the same time I am so so proud of you! I love you!

Ok, now I am off to cry after writing this.

Harshu, I am sorry if this post turned out to be a little negative, but I had to say it!