Blast from the past thread#2! Episode 31- page 128 - Page 137

Originally posted by: indi52

ami,

hi and welcome back. ah our obligations. 😳 so my looong delve into why asr does what he does almost convinced you, haan? i am a bit biased you might have noticed 🤣. loved your things that won't be the same again.
actually katelyn is the one to bring up the teri meri week and kick off our tango with it. i just sort of nudged everyone. so glad i did. beautiful stuff from all of you. got some lovely caps. will share something tomorrow. and lau your reminiscing shots, that hair clip one, ohhho ho. how good did he look in the mirror, lips lopsided, and her all lost and confused and aroused all at once. this song, you are right, was made for them dammit.

Originally posted by: BarunDiwani

thanks for the welcome back! now to catch up with epis 34-36 and now adding 37 😆 and then to finally read all of yours...i got my work cut out for me, looking fwd to all the great reads after writing mine. I have noticed a bit of your bias, but since i tend to agree whole heartily, i enjoy it whole heartliy, hehe. Glad you like my things that will never be the same post 😃 never seen the movie Bodyguard and actually never seen the video...kinda glad b/c it was meant for ARSH and that's all i can picture when i hear itI!!! I can't tell you how "arousing" i found him in that outfit in that mirror and lopsided smile and the conviction he walks towards her and his "thanks nahi bologi mujhe? tumhare isharo pe na sahi tumhare saath to nacha" and how she finally thing she's safe but he comes back and take the hair clip out like uska pura haq banta hai...and she has no objections😆.UFFF...ok me getting carried away when i need to be catching up, will see you guys back here soon

Originally posted by: indi52

Indi, Just took some excerpts from your review

"this too is love. just that it doesn't see that it is time to let go. later he will say, "maaf kijiyega naani, par aap bhi bhool rahin hain, ki jinki zindagi ke faisle aap kar rahi hain, woh bade ho gaye hain." in our culture, elders are always accorded a special respect by virtue of their age. he doesn't defy that, but he points out that there's a basic fallacy in the approach nani has taken: she hasn't understood that those whose lives she wants to make better and as their elder took decisions on all these years, are now grown adults. capable of taking their own decisions.
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Indi so beautiful your explanation is. Yes, respect is automatically given to elder people in our country. But here, this chote is already a bada, handling everything just like an elder would do, for his family.

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beautiful, classic counterpoint. a wonderfully crafted scene that left me breathless, from the point that he hears nani has refused food and enters her room. first a tentative, "nani?!" then sitting by the matriarch whom he too loves completely, "nani, aap theek toh hain?" akash joins him with "dadi, kya hua, aap khane pe aa jaiya," and a scene of family ties, bonds, concerns expressed through body language; grandsons leaning on either side, grand daughter, daughter in law, son, all arrayed around. everybody gives a damn for this elder. she is special to them.

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Beautiful Indi. Oh, I love my IPK because of these scenes !

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everything takes a turn for calamity on nani's "aap wahi kar rahe hain jo aapke pita kiye rahe hain." being compared to his father in any way is intolerable to asr. he can't take it. still he tries: don't bring him into this, thsi is about me. no, avers nani, this is not you, this is your father's blood talking. that does it.

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I often wonder why nani felt that she should compsare her righteous grandson (he is morally always been right, isn't it? never cheated on anyone which is essentially what his father did !!) to her immoral son !! She knew the truth, then why did she do that ? Was it to rile up ASR ? Isn't it a unfair comparision ?

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"haan ussike paas jaaonga..." with more emphasis, "wahin rahoonga..." and the final hit, "uske saath."
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This outburst as you said is only as a stubborn retort to nani's accusation.

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(the word "usske saath," brought memories of 1 august 2012. he's telling khushi, all she has to do is come back to him... mere saath, mere paas. somethig terribly sensual in the way he says "paas, " "saath," possession, ownership, belonging in there)
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Apt connection between the two incidents. One was in anger and one was with love.

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notice how he turns away on those final words. so characteristic. can't be cruel looking into the eyes of those he loves. they need to be shut out. the man who looks you in the eyes and speaks, when he turns away, he knows he is saying something he really shouldn't. but his nature won't let him stop.
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Beautiful Indi, do you think the writers had given these scenes so much depth and analysis ? Which bird carried them far far away from IPK land ?

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who would have thought this was just a performance, and he but an actor of asr. this man was asr. i was rapt as i watched him. brilliant is the only word that seemed to fit.
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I so much agree with you. I sometimes wish I could have been able to read Barun's mind during the shooting of such scenes. How does he go about doing these scenes !!

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the agnostic shoots out his hand to keep her diya from blowing out. he insists that she have juice, because he's done research on teej and knows this is allowed. research? as he did later on every ritual he didn't believe in but was important to the love of his life. and insisted things be done the right way. strangely cute is our mr arnav singh raizada.
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So true ! he is an amazingly lovable character. If you go deep into his characterisation, his love for his loved ones is 100% complete.

Originally posted by: indi52

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 36

"miss gupta!"
he was standing there in his office, looking down at her. glowering, dark, unreservedly mean. then he spat out those two words.


khushi leapt out of bed. she'd been dreaming of him.
"hey devimaiyya," she exclaimed horrified, "har subha hame uss rakshas ka sapna kyon aata hai?" why does he come to her every morning? is this a curse upon the innocent princess? if that's the case, why is she rushing to get ready, go meet him? especially now, now that there's no valid excuse to? she resigned the day before.

khushi looks stricken when payal reminds her.
"haanh abhi humey uss arnav singh raizada ki shakal dekhne ki... koi zaroorat nahin hai." her voice drops wistfully on the last few words. her rakshas, and she won't be able to see him.


"ok... ok..."
he's flipping through the calendar shots and talking to aman. he turns to the third page, and she's there.

pause.

sound of breeze fades in, as he gazes at her photograph and the phonecall is forgotten. the swishing breeze envelops him, the only thing moving as he goes very still. soft piano notes, rabba vey comes in to join him in his reverie. he is locked, a prisoner of what his eyes behold. or perhaps his heart. memories of a woman in red shyly walk by, he wants more. his fingers move searching, he turns the page. camera goes closer, as absorbed in him as he is in her. a muscle twitches near his right lower jaw. he looks on, unblinking. his hair catching the breeze, playing with it gently.


what's happening to him? a gargantuan effort to control his helpless succumbing. he closes his eyes. a flash of anguish on his face. he really is trying to get a grip on himself. this whole thing is disturbing.

almost a minute and 10 seconds of no dialogues but it was as though a whole emotion came to visit and time had no idea what to do, it just stood quietly and watched.


what do you do when someone gets under your skin? when you have to do nothing, they will come to your mind unbidden. when you can do nothing, for what's done cannot be undone. a feeling that catches you unawares and leaves you in no state to think, to be in control, to breathe calmly.

jo tum mehsoos karti ho... jo main mehsoos karta hoon... a link is forming somewhere, an awareness making its claim. in two lovely sequences, episode 36 brings this feeling closer to us. the treatment is light, quirky, cute in one sequence, the way of the character. yet at the end, the look on khushi's face, something deeper there almost a yearning, and a delicate confusion. what is the matter with her? and for him, a sensual interlude with the woman whom he can't stop thinking of. alone he sits in intimate space with her. lost in a world of beauty and burgeoning desire. till the pain of it is too much.

di walks in and unwittingly saves him, jerking him back into this world and his ever present shell.

"di, mujhe khushi ki photographs dekhne mein koi interest nahin hai..." just as he wasn't interested to find out how she was doing after the guesthouse mayhem, now he couldn't care less about her photographs. perhaps anjali believed, or perhaps not. but the moment she left, he had to pretend he believed. and he threw the photographs away from him violently.

relationships and their meaning throughout episode.

a younger brother who became the mainstay of his crippled elder sister one terrible day, gathers her hands and says, promise me, you'll never believe you are less, for you are not, you are precious, priceless."aage se aap kabhi yeh nahin kahenge ki aap lucky hain kyonki jeejaji aapke saath hain... aapse bahut zyada lucky jeejaji hain, kyonki aap unke saath hain."

an underhand young man with ties he will not acknowledge is caught in the dreams of an older lonely woman, who sees in him a perfect match for her sweet innocent niece. little does she know that her niece dreams of a monster, or the young man she trusts is perhaps the last person to give that precious commodity to.

akash is caught in the problem being created by his sweet mother with all her desires for rich bahu. ostensibly because it's good for the girl, but is there a trace of self interest here, my dear hello hi bye bye? maybe you think you can grasp power more securely in the household with a bahu from a wealthy khandan? ah the queen of kitchen politics is at it, the two men in her life perplexed and helpless. akash dreams of a laxmi nagar girl in the rain. he is sweet gentle, not a harmful bone in his body, and everyone walks all over him. "mujhe kya chahiye, kissiko parwah nahin hai," he mutters as he exits. completely oblivious of his desires, certain that the her boy will not even dream of questioning his mother's desire or choice, she counters "ee leo... aingree young maeen banke chal diya."

buaji wants payal and khushi to observe teej, so they may be blessed with handsome and good husbands. just like shivji. an interesting outwardly imperfect male principle, with all that's perfection with, shiva. a sophisticated understanding of character in our mythologies and pantheon. for him today five women will fast.

khushi is almost as horrified by the prospect as by the dream. what, no food? "kya? hum khudse poochhe bina vrat rakh liya?" poor girl keeps reaching for the papad and jalebis, but buaji seems to have a third eye.

payal is accepting of the inevitable, just keeping the peace, sympathising with her voracious eater younger sibling.

mamiji is in hell, in this matter exactly like khushi. she is sure she's going to become a kareena like size zero after this single day's fast.

lavanya receives a call from di, and pragmatic and focussed soul that she is, decides if giving up food for a day will get her closer to nani and therefore asr, so be it. "ok, la... tum jo kar rahi ho, woh asr ke liye kar rahi ho. aur yeh vrat toh sirf dieting ki jaise hi hoti hai. don't worry, yeh din bilkool butter ki tarah smoothly nikal jaayegi." poor girl, collapses at "butter," food food. but she ain't giving up, she will get it done.

and anjali is gorgeous in red, colour of her status as a married woman, her sindoor, fasting with devotion for her shivji like husband. he who never comes after promising he will. but she has faith,. and she tells mamiji, he's never let her down on thsi day these three years. today, she trusts, it will be the same. bharosa. poignant on the lips of this gentle, loving, woman who walks with a tender hobble, makes you want to be there, help her, ease her life. that's what her brother daoes, that's what khushi will want to do some day. but her husband? watch out, make sure the diya flame is steady.
a phone rings away in a cupboard. buaji, in the strangest fit in a while has decided shyam must ahang around with the girls. a secret ploy to get him to open khushi's fast maybe. she's confiscated his phone. this isn't school, buaji. anyway, the truant boy, manages to sneak out his nearest and dearest, the phonewa, and escapes to a corner to kootchie koo with someone.

teej, what will it bring to the celebrants? a hint here maybe, in this clever edit?

Originally posted by: cinthiann1758

Posting early probably won't be on much this weekend very busy family weekend.

Episode 36

Because, I Said So

RM- We open with Arnav's Vow to Anjali. "Di, I am with you. I promise I will never let any harm come to you in your life and as long as I am with you no evil can touch you." The wind blows, the diya's flame flickers, the brother first, then the sister with their hands united shield it's glowing light from extinguishing. But Di must promise something to Arnav as well, that it is her husband who is the lucky one to have her. Because, Arnav said so!

Mami's room- Akash's family is in discussion about his bride. Mami is all excited and wants him to marry a rich girl. Akash is like why a rich girl? Mami says even Nani wants your bride to be from a rich family. Akash worriedly ponders but nobody asks what I want, he pictures Payal, nobody cares what I want! You will marry a rich girl, because Mami said so!

GH= Kushi in bed sleeping and dreaming about ASR. "MISS GUPTA!" She bolts up and she asks DM why must she dream about this demon everyday? DM: Because, I SAID SO! She looks at the clock and realizes her sister didn't wake her up. She is late for work! She jumps out of bed, runs inside grabs a towel and meanwhile Payal and Buaji are preparing for Teej, they notice Kushi dashing about. Buaji , 'ah, the princess is up!" Payal asks, "Kushi what are you doing?" Kushi responds quickly with, "If I am late, Laad Govenor... '" Payal, "Kushi you quit your job." She is stunned and saddened. Payal asks her if she is okay and Buaji interjects ,"you do not have to see Arnav Singh Raizada again , got it? Now take your towel and bathe today is Teej." Kushi still despondent says to herself as if to convince herself, that's right there is no NEED to see Arnav Singh Razada. Because, SHE said so! (But then why are you not happy?)

At poolside at the RM ASR is on speakerphone with work. Checking things over ... file, check. Calendar file,check. Opens calendar file'sees photos ofLisa'...ok'...Lisa'...ok'.Kushi'.Stops... dead right there and stares. His heart quickens. Rabba Ve'' He is just dumbfounded, taken aback, mouth dry, he swallows, he blinks, he stares'she is beautiful in that red saree. Is he breathing? Di comes. "Kushi modeled?" He takes a breath. "She looks nice. Nani would think it is good that you are looking at girls other than Ms. Kashyup." He says, "it doesn't interest me to lokk at Kushi." Liar, liar pants on fire. Because, YOU said so, we are suppose to believe you? Anjali asks what if Lavanya dressed in a saree Nani would like that and possibly change her opinion. He asks if we are talking about photos and she says no I am going to the wishing tree with Mami and Akash. He tries to interrupt her saying her health but she says firmly, "I am talkingand I am going!" Because, I said so!. She leaves. He goes back to his daydreaming of Kushi, gets angry that she is still under his skin and tosses the calendar pictures.

Back at the GH Buaji is slapping Kushi's hands everytime she reaches for something to eat or drink. Nothing? I can't have anything? Nothing, no, because, I said so! You are fasting for a good husband. Shyam comes and Buaji is elated! Elated to let him know Kushi, um both girls are fasting! He says he has work. 'Nehi, you will not go to work today, you are needed here'ah'um ..Kushi needs you, no, I mean the girls need you here. We will go to the mandir and you will come with us right?' His phone rings he tries to answer, Buaji won't let him, he says it is important but she won't let him. She takes his phone and puts it away in her bedroom closet. It was Rani Sahiba. She says she is doing all this because he is like part of the family. Don't be mad'Because, Buaji said so.

RM- Anjali has been trying to contact her husband to no avail. She is thinking whether the decision she is making is the right one for Arnav and Lavanya. She thinks if her husband was here and she could discuss this with him all his decisions are right and when he comes all will be right. All problems will be solved. She has to take matters into her own hands and decides to call Lavanya and asks her to fast for Arnav today. Lavanya agrees hesitantly at first, more because of herself but then says yes she will for ASR. This girl is not so bad she truly loves ASR. Anjali steps into the mandir and smiles at her diya which is still glowing!

GH- Shyam receives a package and Buaji asks what it is. He says that they are just some files for work. He tells Buaji he has to go and she tells him we will discuss it later after lunch. Everyone leaves to go to the kitchen and Shyam lifts a saree from the bag he just received. Who is this for? His phone is still ringing.

Lavanya is at her house in front of the mirror. She is convincing herself that she can do this. Every time she says something it reminds her of food. She says think of fasting like dieting'good for your figure. This will go as smooth as butter'ugggh She must stop thinking about food and start thinking clothes. Yes! That's it, clothes to impress Nani. What color'Tomato red. Ugggh food again! She can do this because, Di said so!

Anjali and Mami are ready to leave the RM where even Laxmi is fasting, Nani's goat. LOL. Mami asks about Anjali's husband and she says he has never failed her, he will be there, he never betrayed her trust. They are ready to go when Arnav comes with Akash and says he is going with her. She is very happy!

GH Buaji is telling Payal the plan for the day and how they will go to temple and before that the wishing tree where they can place all their desires and wishes. Shyam takes this opportunity of preoccupation and goes into Buaji's room to steal his phone back and as he is coming out of her room she catches him. He said she left the door open and he leaves. She is bewildered but she believes him because, Shyam said so!

Outside on the porch of the GH Shyam is on the phone with Rani Sahiba and says," sorry I will be late'let me convince..ah uh um.. finish my work and I will be there."

He is lying! Something is fishy...'.Because, I said so!

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