Blast from the Past Thread #5, Epi 70, Pg 125 - Page 6

Originally posted by: BarunDiwani

Hiya!! thanks so much, it means alot. we really do have a blast in this blast. Don't be so silent, we like it loud here 😆😉

Indi 58 & 59

Indi today since morning I am catching up with my comments and hubby is simmering in anger thinking I am a workaholic and doing my work at home asking me to go slow wink wink if he hears music and dialogues he knows I am relaxing and watching some silly show but when he comes near I put my word document where I am writing the comments see how we camouflage things he is sweet and does not really peep in.😊

so, after meeting her favourite rakshas whom she can't leave alone and go away from "hamesha ke liye," and all the upheaval of him catching her, metaphorically as well as literally, the tension of confrontation, the irritation of being interrupted by a possessive la, plus the thick swarming of emotions within as a result of not knowing what's getting to her really but something certainly is, khushi decides the way out of this situation is to concentrate on the work at hand and get into the party mood.

Quite a enterprising/mature/childish girl/woman of substance madam we have here sachayi se jee todh mehanat karne wali,sab ko Khush karne wali bringing all the sunshine in Letting the blessed sunshine in everyone's lives despite her Raskshas, insulting laad Governor who keeps saving her,and the problems her family are going through.

khushi at her most resolved, beautiful, convinced, convincing, sanaya spectacular in portraying this innocence and ingenuity. her beautiful lilting voice spectacularly well modulated in this scene. and how lovely her wide, fearless smile, eyes clear... untouched by the material world, spirit shining through.

Very well put and to think whenever ASR mets her he rubs her as money minded how far from the truth he is all thinks in terms of profit and loss. Business.

i loved khushi's deep understanding of relationship. it is indeed a bit above and beyond the sanction of rituals and customs. which is why the later khushi, who loved her arnavji possibly more than she loved herself, yet couldn't accept her relationship without rituals, seemed odd. especially since asr said they were legally wedded. i bet in the original plot, the story was somewhat difference. the girl who had a valid point against crackers one diwali was saying just the opposite the next year. same with riti riwaaz and marriage. khushi loved the idea of marriage and its customs, if asr devised it on his own to make her happy, one thing, but what was shown was strange, if we are to believe in these beautiful characters that make us think and feel so happy.

Iss CVs ko kya naam doon jaane kyun ek chehare par doora chera laga lete hai log(why people change their face)very well put.

khushi is managing to make anjali happy, a job asr depends on himself for. he sees her doing this, she's taken aback, immediately worried. doesn't take a second for him to unsettle her completely, get under her skin. same with him, looks as though he wants to say something but, ah, the words just don't come. "usski shakti toh pati patni ki aankhon mein hoti hai... unki chupi main hoti hai... aur mushkil waqt mein chehre pe muskurahat laane mein hoti hai." the smile has been brought back, though the relationship is still sitting quietly in a closet behind lots of brown black grey navy blue and refusing to come out.

Using their dialogues to describe the feeling of ASR and Khushi wah wah wah what the '.. what a analysis.

Yeh mamiya is very bad but then otherwise how will Khushi come back to RM but then as they say every action has a reaction.and life is Khabi Khushi Khabi Gum

Liked the way how you compared the mess both Khushi and La were in and how they need each other to come out of it.

in a bit of a clinch. maybe her sixth sense picked on the attraction that no one was ready to face. so she was even disturbed about that.

She has seen it in the office and now at home how extreme not normal asr behaves with Khushi too much feelings and emotions with others he is just emotionless .

Devi maiyya working for her fav bhakt who also plays roota rooti with her so also Devi maiya.

So her anger made her make jalebis and also take care of the situation by having the mithai for guests who all loved the hot and fresh jalebis served after dinner praising the maker and La drank and made a fool of herself calling Naniji Gabbar making her mad others shocked including mami and also making ASR angry.

The street smart Khushi's reaction is something which is helpful for all yet La has to learn lot of things from Khushi finally she will also act in a way getting the appreciation of all when she leaves RM

Shyam a big crook two timing his wife but he is also instrumental in bringing ASR Khushi together.so waiting for him to reap what he is sowing now.

Thanks Indi for your indepth analysis love reading your posts.

iss hawa ko mein to us ka lehrata aanchal kahooon ga
iss ghata ko mein to us ki aankhoon ka kajal kahoon ga
kaliyon ka bachpan hay phoolon ki jawani hay meri mehbooba, mehbooba
badi mastani hay meri mehbooba

beet jate hein pal kat jati hein barkha ki raatein
ham na jane kiya kiya karte rehte hein aapas mein batein
mein thoora diwana thoori si diwani hay meri mehbooba
badi mastani hay meri mehbooba

Anita

59 60 61 62

Thanks for the lovely analysis

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he kept doing that during the party like he wants to say something but cannot (maybe like thank you for cheering di up) but khushi just walked away from him…Khushi and payal thank nani and Anjali for doing the favor for them…I still think they should have paid them but oh well

ASR is always like that with Khushi by the time he wants to say something good he never can and then she moves on which raises his anger and he becomes her insulting Rakshas slowly she will realise this when he apologies to her the 1^st time.

yes I think they should have paid even if as per mami they used the ingredients from RN but then is it not so in houses and marriages the cooks do get the money no one does anything for free. Stupid mami and the manager no sense at all.

arnav is by her and gave her nimbu pani and not looking at her (I died when I saw his face and that green and black sweater, do not get me started on that). Still not looking at her arnav gave her medicine…la was still trying to explain…after la ate the medicine, arnav tried to walk off but la stopped him and said please look at me…

He was extremely droolworthy in that get up and asking La to apologize he knows she has gone too far this time.

Anjali lets him go…obviously shyam is going to the guptas now grrr to two time GF

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she said if you are going to make a mistake atleast look at the clock and do it, so we could sell these sweets at the store the next day...but these sweets are bad looking now... Payal was such a sweet sister, and backed up khushi saying she did a great job and how she saved the situation by making jalebis

Lol Buaji and her good advice lol she is indeed Sanka Devi senior.

Anjam both go to sleep (right now i am wondering how in the world is anjali sleeping in a sari...i cannot barely stand in one and here she is wearing one 24/7 and that is one fancy night sari...rant over) and anjali thinks of what shyam said and connects it with khushi...she wakes up and said khushi!!! shyam wakes up and said what happened and anjali said she found her solution and they both go back to sleep

That happens not all wear nighties but change into cotton sarees when sleeping..Liked Anjili's solution and how she will counter Shyam two timer is in a soup will have to stay away from his house

payal said i am serious and khushi is like it is on my ankle and she notices that she does not have her payal on now she is looking for it wondering where she left it. Then scene switches to arnav picking up the payal and holding it just mesmerized by it (he looked maha hot). I don't know why but that scene reminded me of lord of the rings with golum holding the ring, Arnav was holding the payal like my precious...i cannot believe that i compared arnav to golum right now...they are like poles apart but i hope you got my point

Payal reached its destination till the next major Arshi meeting/showdown/romance

Liked the description of the cornered Snakewa

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Pictures Arnav tying the tie too good

Bua ji is like i am her bua ji with ishtyle...and mami ji is like i am her mami with such great ishtyle too...

I liked this scene a lot both equally good giving and taking.

Khushi said she will not do the job since it is arnav singh raizada's house, i respect her for saying this...this shocks mami ji...Anjali accepts this decision and walks off dejectedly...And then she had an idea...She said that arnav might have forgot about the contract but i have not...if you do not do this job then have to pay one lakh to the raizadas...this shocks the gupta and khushi the most...khushi said she has not forgotten but i am shocked you are saying this while tears are brimming on her eyes. Anjali walks off and turns around saying i will give you 1 day time to make a decision...she leaves a shell shocked gupta behind

Good descritpion.

62 liked your colorful 62 amalysis

Shyam then said that if i am in trouble you would indeed help me and khushi is now thinking...shyam finally leaves but bua ji asks him where he is going...he said i have to go to work, i don't want to leave but my mind will always be here...

A different color for the creepy Snakewa and his drama of trying to stumble on his broken leg grrr.

Oh and the picture you used for showing mami the result a picture helps a lot mami scared and wants to go back immediately lol.

Whatever the probem Khushi does not accept anything except if it is from ASR that too with great reluctance.

I know shyam is doing this to save his behind but he made a really good point

Liked your comment correct

Shyam calls and said that he is arranging the money and payal then said that she has gone to shantivaan but shyam did not hear her...DM is helping out here!!!!!!!

La calls arnav and tries to tell him what happened but arnav said they will talk about this later and he has some work to do...then khushi comes and said that you are doing this to impress arnav and his family and i am doing this and thinking of this as a job...la was like so we both need each other to get what we want...khushi was like yes but it is up to you to decide what to do next...What will La's decision be????

Both Khushi and La realize their need for each other and come to a compromise and start making ladoos .Lets wait for ASR's reaction.

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 60

so re do so fa mi do so... piano notes tip toe in. lilting, dreamy, breaking the bounds of hard reality. and we enter another space within, perhaps without. wherever this place is, it is precious, not often accessible, and when once reached, it's hard to leave. lovely that it is, and so so real.

that's where asr finds himself now, as he comes back out into the night, after all the drama and tension, the drunken girlfriend, the disappearing jeeja... to touch what's pure, untainted. just an emotion. one which doesn't even have a name.

it is felt. it is known. it will not be denied.

asr is not unaware that an ahsaas is swamping him. he struggles against it, making futile promises to bury it, to throw it away like those helpless little pearls. believing that is a sign of strength. yet his heart knows it isn't. it leads him back to the corner where he saw the payal drop from her ankle. he bends down and touches it, and the whole world changes in an instant.


hey... hey... is the warmth of her being still clinging to the moonlight hit metal? does it feel as though he is touching her, not her anklet, does it remind him of that night in the guest house when he caressed her hair, stroked her cheek, that very first time, almost hypnotised unable to control himself?


rabba vey... he stands there for nearly two minutes of serial time, not a word spoken, no disturbance, no noise. just him, his memories, her payal, their intimacy, and the night. the moon and the breeze play with the water, reflections undulate across his visage. a hint of the ankh micholi his mind played with memories running out of hidden corners, dupatta flying.


he remembers her by the pool, disturbed... her payal falling off as she walked away...



he had seen it on the floor but kept quiet, perhaps not knowing what to do do then, yet knowing he wanted it to stay close by... there she was in his cupboard uncovering one eye cautiously... and... why did i get the feeling, this is it?


this is when he fell for her. completely, just like that. many things had changed and gathered tinges of all kinds of emotions through their meetings. but if there's one moment where all of it came together, the whole array of sensations and feelings; and crystalised into a single sharp phenomenon, it was here. he fell.

"kahaan gir gaya hoga..." where could it have fallen, she'd wondered about her missing payal, and at that moment the director took us adroitly to the silver ornament being picked up by him... but in a lovely layered communication, i saw him fall at that spot too. the payal took him pronto to that lovely sight of ms khushi kumari gupta sitting pretty inside his most personal world. she was so khushi there, fitting he should just flip for her right then.


a delicate, malleable, happy, sparkling skein of silver, with little bells that make the prettiest of sounds, a simple innocent anklet. but in the moonlight, suddenly sultry, sensuous, sylph like. is this a little glimpse into the girl who wears it? his fingers don't want to let go.

andthe payal that he was engrossed in. that couldn't run away. that didn't even seem to want to, how resolutely it left the ankle it had been around for years and settled into this place, as though it had a right to be here. it wished to be here. it was her mother's payal. a sign of her amma.


much later, when anjali set off to persuade her "solution" her "key" to all problems to buy into an idea, and with that bring khushi right back into rm, into his home, "mere paas, mere saath" near, i couldn't help but notice the red roses scattered across her verdant green saree. roses red. didn't we find out later that was something he associated with his mother? a sign of ma.


so were mothers trying to be mothers even from far away and working to get the two together? there are timesin life, i do feel this happens, mothers never go away, never abandon you. whoever wrote these bits possibly had a similar inkling, and let it in gently, without making too much of a point of it. or maybe not. i saw what i wanted to see.

but again, as life and a great ad campaign has told us, perception is reality.now you may ask, which reality, indi. this 3 dimensional restricted one or the one in which asr is lost right now?


he recalled how she'd stopped and looked at him when she leapt out of the closet before disappearing without a word, he'd held on to her without knowing why, just needing to i guess, she'd said she was going away forever, and now she was here, oh the feeling of it all. he clasped on to each of those unsaid, unspoken inner meanderings now and stayed on. no hurry, no running away, just for a while asr submerging slowly into the depth of an ocean, exploring, wandering, just letting it be.


very unusual. lights like fireflies sparkle on the water, camera tracks over them and up to see a man no longer struggling.


i have loved this quiet, penetrative side of asr always. man of action, but man of introspection, and an ability to dream. only that his trust is broken, and something must restore it.

8:42 to 10:10, really caught me this episode. while a lot happened to take the story forward, and it was told with style, great dialogues that neatly fitted into each other, clever connecting of dots, and i thoroughly enjoyed myself, yet it was always for moments like this that i stayed on to get attached to a serial. this understanding and exploration of a feeling we've come to call love. and its expression in what is often called romance and we have less and less space for it in our lives.

if i think about it though, this is what makes us feel alive. just feel. feel the spark of life itself. and without that, can we be human?

other thoughts


three womenwith head in hands and two pickle jars framing them. while biuaji and girls were despondent, and most unlike themselves in the face of this loss of money and work, why were two piclkle jars so prominently displayed? story still pickling slowly, taste seeping in, ufff point getting ready? or maybe with all the connotations of "achaar" and purity, etc., associated with it, it has deeper meaning.

la and shyam will become instrumental in bringing khushi into asr's life. when something must happen, and if it's to be for the good of two innocent clear hearts, even the devil will become nursemaid. and every adversary turn friend. such i guess is the power of an idea whose time has come.

of course nani, and di ably help in this mission. right in the nick of time nani says, "ek taraf khushi hai... itni samjhdar, itni samhli hui... har shabd mapa hua... her kadam suljha hua." on one side is khushi... so intelligent, together and measured... every step thought out...


"aur doosri taraf? woh mees kassyap... agar ek pratishat bhi agar woh khoosie ki tarah hoti toh..."on the other! that miss kassyap, if she were only one percent even like khushi...


shyam was lost in his dingy dream of khushi and talking "wise," having completely failed with naniji this time (yay yay yay clever nani), his besotted wife pondering his words (dialogue writer filled this bit with leads, clues, hintwas galore), when the truth slipped out,

"khushi ke liye kuch toh samadhan dhoondna hi hoga..." he was looking for a solution to his problem, wanting to find a way to khushi.

"ji?!!" jumped in his wife... and he showed her the way...

"aisa koi upay jisme sabka khushi ho"... a solution that would make all happy, he stuttered in looking to cover his gaffe.

and she got it. the key is khushi. shyam unlocked the door and held it wide open for her. bless the snake. in lucknow style though, i want to kick him out with of the same door with a "pehle aap," first you, sir.


khushi is deep in devi maiya conversation and tells us a bit about herself.
"ek aap hi toh hai dm joh hamare iss hasin ke peechhe ki pareshani samajh sakti hain?" you are the only one who understands the tension hidden behind my smile. so that's her defence... humour. we'll see plenty of it. some of it delightful. the rest, ah well.

aisa kyun hota hai...
asks anjali and my heart skips a beat, remembering holi.

"himmat... ab kauno heel tap se kude ka padi ka?" courage... do i have to leap off a hill top, screeches mami. again my heart goes zzzup. don't tell me the 3 july 2012 cliff top scene was already on the cards almost a year before that? her words like a payal bring on a tumble of flashbacks. mami is a sweet one, i say.


shyam tried his best to "hide" khushi, but she refuses to budge from delhi and run to lucknow... "devi maiyaa ka ishara galat nahin ho sakta...
upay khud chalkar hamare paas aaygi"... the solution will walk over to us.

wrong khushi, it will race to you on wheels.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
~~~ e e cummings~~~