Thoroughly enjoyed the read Ami.Originally posted by: BarunDiwani
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Episode 126 : Rajkumaars & Asli Duniya: Great theme Ami.
"asli duniya mein sapno ke rajkumaar kahan hote hai?"
"Where can you find a prince in the real world?"
The episode opened with a cute moment between two sisters talking about Rajkumaars and happy endings. Payal sure bought out the spark and smile on Khushi's face with the mere mention of the two words, but it didn't take long before Khushi slipped the bridal dupatta off her head and questioned, Rajkumaars in asli duniya? Paya seemed surprised by her sister's question,
"Why? don't you think they're true anymore?" she asked Khushi
What payal didn't know was that her little sisters mind had wandered to a man that may have killed any beliefs in such fairy tales for her on Diwali night and forced her into the asli duniya (real world) where "sirf dil tut te hai" (there is only heartache).
"How did we think such stories were true as a child, Jiji?" she asks as a soft breeze returns her thoughts to the moment he grabbed her shoulders vigorously, in his eyes all of his pain and despair. She tells Payal that Rajkumars here are "gussel(angry)" people and they yell at everyone all the time ...but really is the gussa the only thing she got from that interaction with him? or did she see the rajkumar in those eyes that ached from learning that she is engaged to someone else? much later she deems him to be shaitaan and rajkumar all in one, or was it from this moment or even before this? He has been no less than shaitaan(rakshas) since the day she met him but then she did experience the Rajkumar who came to her rescue countless times. ... and at times handled her with such care and tenderness as if she was his queen. Above all of these moments though, there is an unexplained pull that linked her to him and before she knew it, she gave him haq (rights) that she would never give anyone. A gradual sense of belonging to him and him to her. Even after suffering a broken heart, she sits here and calls him "Rajkumar ," speaking volumes, angry or whatever, can she think of anyone else as her rajkumar?
Great thoughts ami, you resonate my sentiments. That belongingness in her always present. Out of my many watches of these epis, this is the first time around I could feel/ see Khushi 's emotions on par with his. Some how in all my watches up until now, I felt his feelings/ journey more strongly.Across town, like a true Rajkumar, he continues to suffer in agony over the news that the woman he loves is engaged to someone else. In more agony than I've ever seen any other rajkumaars in fairytales. Other rajkumaars would have a plan of action to bring his lady love back, but this one can't even do that...as much he terribly wants to.
While giving Arnav his mediicine, Anjali brings up something that's been bugging her. Khushi's lack of interest when her engagement is mentioned and the discomfort when she talked her fiance. "there was different type of uneasiness in her eyes." she says, alerting her brother instantly, he keenly listens "I even tried to ask her...Chotey, did you notice anything?"
He had heard every word Anjali said and applied it to his broken heart, and with the most emotional piece of music that fits his state of heart perfectly, in the backdrop, he starts to pour his hear out as if in a trans.
"bechain hai, kush naheen to shaadi kyu kar rahi hai? aisa faisla liya hi kyu jisse baad mein pastana pade? Khush nahin hai toh sagaai kyu ki? kis ne kaha tha haan kehne ke liye? kisi ne zabarzadti ki thi kya? Jisse pyaar nahin karti, jiske saat rahe nahi saki, uske saath puri zindagi kaise bitay gi? aur mei-"
"If she's bechain, not happy then why is she getting married? why make a decision that she'll regret later, if she's not happy they why did she get engaged? who told her to say yes? did some force her? She doesn't love him, she can't live with him, how will she spend all of her life with him? and me-"
Anjali seems to have picked up beacahaini in his voice as well, she looked scared almost , she had to stop him. I have a feeling if Anjali hadn't interrupted, he would've went on for a while...and boy would i like to know what was coming after "aur mein"(and me). Anyway, the man is in loads of pain, he's numb from it. All the questions he asked in resentment but his love, care, jealousy are all sipping through his mellow, husky aloof voice. He's right about the zabarzasti (forceful) part. His last question is a bit funny isn't it? about how she would spend her lifetime with a man she doesn't love...Mr.Harward forgets that the same applies to him...his focus is her only here, perhaps what he's trying to say is only he can make her happy, noone else...or how dare anyone even try??
LOVE that pouring of flood of emotions from him. Wonder how any genuine sister, except for a daily soap one 😆,wouldn't get what her brother is going through when an otherwise taciturn man pours like there is NO end at a slight mention of a girl!"Tum aisi baatien kyu kar rahe ho (Chotey why are you talking like this)?" Anjali asks worriedA slight movement in his eyes indicating he's not out of his trans but walks further away so he doesn't get caught by his sister but she walks beside him and places her supportive hand "chotey kya hua tum-" (Chotey, what happened?)
"Di, i'm fine" he quickly answers, briefly closing his eyes knowing otherwise..."just leave me alone for some time" he asks and she leaves. His own words haunt him "jisse pyaar nahi karti, jiske saath rehe nahi sakti uske saath puri zindagi kaise bitaye gi"( She doesn't love him, she can't live with him, how will she spend all of her life with him? " the idea of her spending her life with someone else is causing a storm inside of him and this storm finds its way to her.
She stands outside of her home, and his words about everyone else being happy with the news of her wedding "lekin tum?" (But you?)...he may have meant it maliciously but here she knows he's right and the very fact that he noticed... deep down she knows, but so many pieces to this puzzle of Arnav Singh Raizada. In the midst of her thoughts, a rude interruption from her so called "fiance" who continues his lies, as that's the only way he got as far as he did. He uses Buaji's name again, this time to put a bracelet on her. Khushi wanted to badly to object to the "haq" that allowed Shyaam to grab her hand to get the bracelet on her, but Buaji had told her that he has rights of her life now, so she quietly leaves the hand with him while looking away, as if the rest of her completely separated from that hand. 👏 Beautiful!
He can smile and laugh evily about getting away with so much but he would never have Khushi's affection, in fact he had even lost the friendly affection she uses to have for him.He tries to manipulate her into thinking that all of this is just as hard and ajeeb for him but smack in the middle to his bull shit a bolt of lightning and all she hears is Arnav . The wind blows hard as their thoughts find each other. Under the stars, through the wind they share their anguish. The bustling leaves fly with the gushing winds, leaves in around Khushi as his voice fills the open skies
"Tumhari sagaai ho gayee, kaise? tumne mujhe batan zaruri nahi samjha? what, KISI KO PATA KYU NAHI HAI KI-!" then how he tries to answer her question"Mujhe faraq padta hai dammit Kyu ki"
...she hears the hurt in his voice, and IMO she completes his sentence after "kyu ki"
After circling her, the leaves make their way to the RM by the poolside, where he stands like statue but everything shaken up inside with two small sentences
"aap yeh angooti nahi pehna sakte, yeh hamaari sagaai ki angoothi hai...aap kya kehe rahe hai, hamme kuchh samajh nahi aa raha"
He swallows hard at these words completely lost in them much to the disappointment of La who is trying to plan their honeymoon. After taking a look at his face she realized that he hadn't heard a word she said... she leaves, but IMO with a few thoughts of her own as to why he is withdrawn more than usual.
Somehow they both managed to get through the night, however no escape from each other the next morning. After HP lets her in, she froze as did Arnav while passing by. They look at each other like a couple who broke up, distance maintained but a slew of feelings/emotions/moments shared between them, and lastly the hurt of losing each other in both of their eyes.
As soon as Khushi breaks her gaze and looks down, his dimaag goes to work. Keenly studying her face to look for the "bechaini"...uneasiness his sister spoke of that day. Sure enough it was there , all of it, in her eyes shifting left to right, he studied and studied till she walked past him and uff how he shifted his entire body to follow her face...he seems to have come to a satisfactory conclusion...she is "nakhsuh"...unhappy and from what Anjali said it has to do with her engagement.
His satisfaction is short-lived though "did your fiance gift it to you too?"
He had to stop and turn to look after hearing La's question. How could he not? a soft nod from Khushi confirms his fear...the green eyed monster consumes him. La only makes is worse with another remark about how this man has tied her to him with a ring on the left hand and a bracelet on the right hand. Arnav leaves, needless to say hurt and jealous but he wastes no time taking it all out in his arrogant ways when it fall off of her hand later.
"Apne mangetar se kehe dena ki agli baar tumhei itna sasta gift na de" (Tell your fiance not to gift you such cheap gift in the future)
He proceeds to leave after letting off a bit of that jealousy/anger. Khushi seems to have enough now, she answers back "hamme saste ya mehenge se koi faraq nahi padta" (Cheap or expensive doesn't make a difference to me)
"faraq padna chahiye, kyu ki sasti cheezien jaldi tut jaati hai"
He is absolutely right actually amidst all his crazy anger.( It should make a difference because cheap things break easily) then he turns around with full intentions of more insults "Make sure that guy you've trapped thinking he is rich doesn't turn out cheap like this bracelet"Love how unknowingly he is right about cheap fianc and how Khushi ends up breaking off the engagement because of him. True indeed! After all he is THE SHATIR DIMAAG business man!
She know what he's trying to do and she is deeply hurt again by his gold digger accusations. She decides to face him and give him answers that she knows will get to him."you don't need to worry about my fianc's bank balance Mr.Raizada, because he is very rich in the things that are important to me"...her addressing him so formally, that's gotta sting him.
This is the Only positive comment Khushi made of Shyam after all the engagement fiasco! Ofcourse she doesn't have a problem with Shyam, the person, but ONLY shyam her fianc!"itna yakeen hai toh nakhushi kyu lag rahi ho?" (If you're so sure then why do you look so unhappy) he stops her"Hamaari baat chodiye Mr.Raizada, kyu ki hamaari khushi kabhi aap samajh nahi payange, par aapka bank balnce to bahut accha hai, toh phir aap itne pareshaan kyu lagte hai? Yeh sawaal aapko hamse nahi apne aapse karna chahiye ki aap itne nakhush kyu hai" She got to him alright, his blood is boiling...then she goes pale and her eyes almost robotic as she lies the same lie as him to La the day before.
"aur rahi hamaari baat, ham aapko bata dein ki ham bahut khushi hai."
"As far as i'm concerned, I'm very happy"
Both know the other is fully aware of the reason for their "nakhushi" (unhappiness), but how cleverly the CVs have masked it behind these words that almost reveal their true feelings...ALMOST. His insults had backfired and the sight of her picking up that bracelet, he gets even more worked up and somewhere this becomes about winning...about getting her to admit her unhappiness
this entire convo was such greatly written with back to back retorts from both them.. where both were right in their own way, playing that hide and seek where they very well knew the reasons for the other's nakhush as you rightly pointed...hats off to the CVs and dialogue writers..👏"Listen -" he tries to get her back but is interrupted by Naniji , but he's angry and like every other time, ration goes out the window, in addition, he just doesn't know how to dear with these feelings...overreacting and extreme steps seem the best options. He hangs up the phone Anjali was on telling a guest of the engagement in a month."This engagement will happen tomorrow, not next month"
His announcement leaves everyone shocked but his eyes scan for only Khushi's reaction, and it was to his satisfaction.
"ASR, you're not kidding are you?"
"DO i ever?"...hehe, such an ASR thing to say :))
Anjali also protests, "there are so many preparations to do" but he is in his mode with a fixed focus and there was no changing his mind "What preparations DI? we need two rings, you and La get them!"...If I was La, i would be very worried about these red flags going up. He had snapped at everyone for making wedding plans Diwali night, before leaving to drop Khushi home...Suddenly he wants to get engaged right away. ASR can care less about other rituals but not wanting to be involved in purchasing the rings and talking as if its not big deal...yah I would be worried. Without any regard for the repercussions, he has truly used his relationship with La... then again, i suppose all he sees is Khushi and is only looking to effect her at any cost. nothing else matters. Even nani's attempt to make him understand doesn't work
"Since I made the decision for marriage then what difference does the dates make?" he cleverly turns the tables on everyone " when i wasn't ready, then everyone had a problem and now that i am ready, everyone still has a problem!...has going against my wishes become a fashion in this house?"
They beg "just think it over one more time" but he gives an ultimatum "this engagement will happen tomorrow or never."
So much said in the last few seconds when he walked towards Khushi and looks to her.
Fuming with pain, in asli duniya, the Rajkumar declares war on his Rajkumari before storming off. No, this rajkumaar certainly has no plan of action to bring her back but he does have plans to break her before he does. Soon a flat out question from him to her about farq leaves no mysteries as what he wants...or at this point what he NEEDS : a confession to her feelings about him. No beating around the bushes for Arnav Singh Raizada but if she functioned like he wanted her to...this tale would be boring as any other...
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