A numbness grabs him at the sight of the flowers and other puja essentials on the table, Anjali sees right through his pain, he gestures a nod "i'm ok" but she knows better, she goes to his room . His fingers are on his laptop but mind is fighting that dreadful day.
lOVED Ami the way you described it was a very intense emotional scene and the collage fantastic acting
Moving his eyes back an forth , gulping down the tears he's trying stop, the intensity of it all increases, he slam laptop shut. Eyes need closed, more images of that day, she is running through the halls of sheesh mahel to the sound of shehnaai (wedding instrument)...a 14 yr old Arnav screams for her "Maaa!" his eye open horrified, it's like he is that 14 year old again. Anjali came just in time, he needed that hand on his shoulder badly, he felt as lost as he was that day...He takes all the pain and wraps his arms around her in the hope that she would take it away, and as always, she tries her best.
The tears needed an outlet, she knew that "kuchh mat kaho" no need to explain.
Slowly mustering up courage, he releases her hand and stands up.This scene came at the end of episode 80, but haunting of that day and anxiety of barsi coming up, had been lingering within him all day.
He woke up with a bad headache, one can only imagine the night he had after a marriage proposal from La and the nerve of the low-status girl who disconnected his phone, add to it, the thoughts of barsi coiming up. Then at the breakfast table, more marriage talk by Di, he's quick to remind her he doesn't believe in marriage. He does not want any binding emotion he is exhausted with all the commitments it entitles and is angry with this topic coming up again and again
And through a small window we learn his mom and dad have something to do with it...but the window is fast closed by Arnav ademently "Di, i don't want to talk about this!" He's furthure irritated when La comes still in her traditional wife avatar, so he clearifies again in front of Nani, Di and La, "mein yeh pehle bhi kahe chuka hoon, shaadi ke baare mein mera khayal badla nahi hai aur naahi kisi ke kahne se badle ga (I said this bofore, my stand on marriage didn't change nor will it change just by someone telling me)"
This marriage proposal couldn've come at a worse time, the barsi (death day) of his parents coming up, also a brutal reminder of the day his parent's marriage shattered and with it his trust in the institution of marriage...now he has to deal with marriage pressures and constantly remind everyone his strong stanze against marriage... all because the mistake of Khushi Kumaari Gupta. He needed to settle the score with her for filling La's head with nonsense, but more imortantly for disconnecting his phone yesterday. awesome explanation
Khushi seems to be a step ahead as she does all she can to avoid him. First she cuts him off when he tries to talk to her by dragging La into the kitchen.
He follows her into the kitchen, only after Di and La have left ofcourse. "Kya soch ke tumne mera phone kata tha, (what were you thinking when you disconnected my call?)" taking his signiture step of intemedation. "tumhe to lagta ha bolne a haq sift tumhe ha, hai na (you think only you have the right to talk, don't you)? areh baba why do you always target her why not the whole family and La why this young chit of a girl when you dont take anyone else to task she is only doing what she has been paid to do😉 and this talk was there even before she entered RM😕
he is able to get those two lines in before she causes disterbunce out of fear, by dropping a container of flour, getting it all over him and making him sneez, maami runs in and he has to leave. what happens between them, stays between them. He leaves highly disapointed.
Again a lovely collage why cant he burst out laughing when he sees her trying to hide and go
helps her sitdown "Khushi!" she asks for water and when Arnav call JP, she hurries him (she must've been thinking about the teej fast breaking incident coming up with this ploy), "Ok" runs to get it. KHushi's tactic is disclosed, she's digging a deeper hole for herself...her cuteness did not appeal to me here. He comes back with a glass of water, where did she go? "Khushi!". He scans the room. His eyes stop at her duppatta caught in between the front door (that dupatta of hers always seems to play for team Arnav, today it lingered for him to tell on her) ,
the door pops open, its her frantically freeing her dupatta and running for her life. This was the moment, the one of maha-provocation the limits had been crossed, his feelings were tampered with, this time she pushed him over the edge. The wrath of it all endured by the glass in his hand. what is the fault of the glass😆😉
"ENOUGH KHUSHI!" for the second time, his thoughts immerged in Khushi's is spilled in front of La. La shakes it off "its ok ASR"...her denial has begun. Arnav really has had enough from Khushi, in Khushi's defense, all of her actions were out of fear, the man knows how to intimidate the poor girl, but with the fainting tactic, we see that she is very capable of playing dirty. thinking about her 24x7 and then x365 so only her name comes out not the sophisticated La
This takes us to on of the most intense scenes on the show, after Khushi returns and is surprised to find LG behind the door, b/c wasn't that his car that just left the RM?
A panic driven Khushi rushes upstairs to help mami, while he is determined to get some answers. She opens the balcony door, but it's forced closed by him, she tries to escape a few different ways before finding herself trapped between his arms,
Does not want to answer but when cornered she fights back no coward here
looking up, she finds his face inches away from hers, she steps back. loved this scene kuch kuch is definately happening between the two pyaar/inkaar two in one their intense looks and expressions definately not anger😉
"yoou're way past your limits Khushi Kumaari Gupta" he warns. The limits he speaks of are more of her defiances over an over. Again he asks about disconnecting his phone, informs her that she may not move till she answers his questions. Still an uneasy Khushi looks around, for some help, infuriating him furthre "you don' t see anyone around? that's because noone is home...SAMJHI TUM (understand)?!! his voice echoes through the RM.
"Tum ho kaun jisse baat karne ke liye itna kuchh karna padta hai, sirf di ki waje se mein tumh apen ghar mein apne aas paas bardasht kar raha hoon varna..."(Who are you that i have to do so much just to talk to you) (why are you doing then) questioning her identity again... "Do the work your supposed to do, you're here to train Lavanya, not teach her your middleclass mentatliy...do you work, take your money and quietly leave...and yes keep the mearriage ideas to yourself! do you understand? Ms.Khushi Kumaari Gupta"
This scene was never about marriage ideas in La's head, its more about Khushi messing with his belief system especially days away from their parent's death anniversary, its about showing Khushi her limits, he thought he had her cornered but she fires back, giving him a jolt, he has to step back and listen.
"Shaadi ka idea hamaara banaya hua nahi hai, Mr.Arnav Sing Raizada..." She goes on to explaign her idea of a marriage...a blessing from God, a bond even death can't seperate, sacrificing your life for your loved one...a promise kept till the end of life. Her explanation of marriage was breaking down a thick wall inside of him, he has never heard it explained this way and it was far from the example he has seen . as he would later tell Khushi"do log zindagi bhar ek saath rahe hi nahi sakte, time se saath saath log badlte hai, aur aage nikkal jaate hai (Two people can't live together for their whole lives, people change and they move on)" ...that is what he was left with after he lost his parents. Khushi proceeds with a statement that stems from her discomfort about his "live-in" status with La, she assumes that the relationships are meaningless to him, that he's incapable of understanding them, and the nail on the coffin "aapka character hi dheela hai" So there she comes out with all her questions and answers to her samosa eating and hiccups scene and it irritates and gets into his brain probably his deep rooted thinking which he does not want to accept is also the same. Ami loved this description
Her attack on him here reminded me the one during the resignation scene when she accused him of perposely putting her life in danger...i almost expected him to remain as quiet as he did that day, but he did just the opposite, crossing a limit of his own.
He grabbed her hand from behind and with enormous force, turned her towards him and pulled her close, really close...uff. He doesn't seem to know why he's doing what he's doing but sexual tension was oozing out, mostly from him and a tad from her. I also felt here it was more on the romance side and Khushi was watching his lips how he will punish her for saying character dheela but then she has a powerful weapon her tears which always hurt and pain here so here also the same thing happened
"who said i'm done talking, what did you say? i have a loose character? i'll show you what a loose character is." horrific words for any girl to hear, khushi terrified, tears rolling down, a plea in her tone "that's not what i meant", this is where it really gets interesting for me: He puls her in even closer, the anger only becomes an excuse to be as close to her as can be.
"to batao mujhe kya matlab tha tumhara (then tell me what did you meant?)" his soft voice modulations here, it felt more like a flirty question than a threat. On her end, fear was present but throughout the moment her trust in him appeared again, and what's this? she's looking at his lips...
a part of her was not objecting to his nearness. His face softens with her tears, slowly her pain is reflected in his eyes too
He finally releases her, he looks at the door like he knew La was coming...keen ears and shatir dimaag is killer combo ASR!
Khushi needs a minuts to be by herself, wiping her tears, she looks down at the mark his tight fingers left on her hand, but then she feels it trying to figure it out, figure him out, but certainly not hating him for it... and he on the other hand, stands there apologetic, feeling every tear of hers magnified "hazzaar baar" (thousand times),
ashtonished at what this girl drives him to do, to react in ways he never did. Ofcourse with his parent's marriage, their barsi coming up, all played a role in elevating the situation, but there is no denying the forign things she makes him do.
I found a sweet closure to the intense scen above in the "rabba ve" moment that followed. The tension from what happened earlier is carried over into this scene by both of the immensly talented actors...staring down eachother...and he was just about to leave when Khushi's face started to flicker in the candlelight, thats all it took..." rabba ve"
she feels him looking at her, she looks back to find it true but he quickely looks away. She holds the candle up for La, and turns back to have another look, this time his eyes haven't moved an inch from her,
Yes this was a beautiful scene like he is apologising that he hurt her
there was apology for hurting her, and an acknowledgement from her. Her candle stick is tilted too far while she is engrossed in him, at the same time La is about to take a tumble...he is seen pushing the the candle away from Khushi while La fell...felt bad for La here, Arnav Khushi were lost in each other briefly, until the "ouch" from La. Both are well aware of what just happened... and both know it was no small deal...
He helps La up and takes her inside, but under the moonlight, over the pool, their gazes upon each other are clear as day...no small deal indeed
This moment was the perfect "marham (remedy)" on the "zakhm"(boo boo) from the previous intense one. Somewhere she knew there was more to all of him, we are fortunate to find out what in his room when Anjali comes goes to console him but she just knows.
Special mention for my man, Sobti was beyond brilliant in these episodes. He carries every emotion off so perfectly!!! its really hard to take ones's eyes off of him, and not only because he looks alone are enough but the talent is UNBELIEVABLE. Especially in his room trying not to cry, gulping, and how he broke down when Anjali came with out going an ounce over board. mmmuuuaaas Barun!
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