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Some very interesting discussions going on here.Never thought ASR manhandled Khushi, I always felt it was his way of showing his intense love and pain, there was something pure in it, of course Barun made it just perfect.I remember people were disappointed there was no redemption, redemption for what? As ASR himself said "iss pyaar mein sahi, galat nahi hota"...it is just love, being nasty, hurting the one you love - all part and parcel of those crazy feelings ! As you so rightly say, what matters is that the love, respect and trust remains intact.Barun always maintained he could play ASR so well only because of the writing, well, if you want to know how ASR would have been if Barun was not playing him, watch the other shows which also have such angry young men and see the difference. ASR may be been brilliantly written but if it wasn't for Barun, I don't think people would have felt so much for the character. I mean who else can say "shaat up" or "oh really" like that?Was just thinking about Khushi, what an endearing character ! Even today, I simply adore her and I also know what you mean when you say you have no idea what they did to that character. Sad because Khushi was so different from the usual soap heroines, she had her values, alright but she also came with her own flaws, in many ways she was like ASR.Towards the end and even after the fiasco, I think it was Sanaya who made Khushi likeable. If I could forgive that suicide attempt and peon disguise and still love Khushi, a lot of it is because of the actress ! Wish they had made her as real as ASR, she was real for a long time until something went wrong everywhere in IPK. ASR alone survived, even at the peak of the mess, this character alone remained untouched, minus the gussa though. Guess the writers too were in love with ASR !By the time it came to Mrs.India, I knew it was all over and was waiting for the show to end rather than watching it go down day by day. I was seriously hoping they would let her get back to the dabba service but no, she had to be Mrs.India ! But, try as they might, they can never erase the memory of Khushi Kumar Gupta in those gaudy coloured salwar-kameez complete with pompoms, side plait and a funny looking bag !Can't believe I am up at 1 AM and writing this, got a long day ahead tomorrow...will I ever get over discussing IPK?
hi harichandana,
i was up till 3 am last night doing what i can't fathom. welcome to the cusckoo club.
thanks for lovely post.
in pink. barun as asr. who else could shaat up, oh really, get out and tum theek ho quite like that? i often wonder what would happen to asr with any other actor. all i can muster up is a faint shudder. no one at home or here will believe that it was barun's acting that finally stayed on in me... immense potential... i have rarely seen this level of interpretation. there are great actors... but to do 398 episodes back to back and that too without too many words most times, or repeating similar things again and again, and create a difficult character while conveying every nuance and feeling of it... i wonder who else could have done it.
oh i know what you mean about other shows and angry young men... no subtlety, no calibration, no idea what's in the heart and sinew of character.
my niece and i also argued and raved about certain things which we felt were not asr. funny how, the personality has become so real we can actually say what is and isn't asr.
from the very first moment that he took off his shades and looked with inert yet searing gaze at sheesh mahal, you could feel the complexity and the possibility of the man. which other actor? so yeah, nice that people tell themselves character is king, the actor is not indispensable, etc... but i am sorry, no can do. maybe after years will come an actor who can do asr, as with mr bond, but really as things stand?...
about sanaya and khushi. again it was the actress who made her. would any other actress look as weird and cool as she did with her khushi clothes? and do we have any other actress with that sense for comedy? again, a fine interpretation. i must say i also feel she was a casting coup. the lissome, fair, tall, city bred metro girl from an upper middle class back ground added a twist to the small town girl which a more predictable choice might never have... a bit like the ultra sophisticated, completely palace worthy audrey hepburn doing eliza... that contrast and that intelligence did something to the whole thing. for me at least. we have more "small town" "middle class" looking actresses, who might do the affronted righteous young woman thing with a certain flair. but who could do the cookiness of khushi, the intensity, the passion. you are right, if we can still talk of her with affection despite peon and suicide... it's only because of sanaya.
we got so lucky. hmmm.
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