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Originally posted by: Arshidiehardfan
Hi blasters 🤗
Came back from home just 4 days back but again I am feeling home-sick 😕 I feel as if there are so many pending works for me I had a nice trip 😊 Visited so many temples - Manthralayam (there are so many other holy places around - Panchamukhi, Navabrindavanam, Hampi & Bikshalayam), Pazhani, Shastha temple & few other temples too... I climbed up 670 stairs in Pazhani temple... I felt giddy & even after 10 days my legs are still paining...
I didn't check the previous pages yet... I was crazily re-watching bali episode yesterday & made few edits... Iss addiction ko kya naam doon?
It is almost 11 months since the show is over... Has there been a single day when you haven't missed or thought about Arshi? My answer is a big NO ... And I don't think such a day will ever come... I tried watching many shows but I couldn't watch it more than few episodes... I start to miss Arshi more... We have all told a lot about acting, direction, music, script & all... To me, IPK was a typical fairy-tale that amuse me so much...
Ok friends, bye for now...
Originally posted by: IssPKaur
Wiwy the wicked! Happy Karva chauth darling! What a lovely post from you. Hum deadwa just reading...how you managed writing this mesmeric material on sargi morning, me not knowing! But perhaps it is your own feeling the moment that has brought about such romantic expression...and the images...uff! I'm with you babe... how hot he looked by the poolside there...one of my most fave picture perfect moments emerged from it...
Thanks for your beautiful interlude of a post!!
thanks chalhov,
you are so right. and frankly one has dealt with much bigger chaos than moving house. but somehow this taking apart of a personal world one creates... this time it was over 4 years... and just moving... it's getting tougher at my age. my skin is thinner, my sighs are deeper... but i will make a home of that one too... at this moment, my garden is looking at me and saying, how could you... aah... but yes, that thing you say about change, so so true.
i love the feeling of plants... i trust people who are good with them... like you know who. thanks for liking the edit.
credit goes to the maker
Episode-187
Shyam tries to garble Khushi's image by his shenanigan. He wants to prove Arnav that both he and Khushi are in love with each other. And now he can't hide this truth any more. When he says it's Anjali's misfortune, Arnav assails him vehemently, not to utter his di's name from his filthy mouth. As much as Arnav enrages Shyam taunts him more. He says he was not in love with Anjali ever, now he doesn't keep it secret.
I want the real love come in front of the world.
Arnav is getting tremulous in fury. His flagrant anger is making him frisson.. the devil now tries to manipulate him. he suggests him to think about Anjali before telling her the truth. He knows very well if Arnav reveals his secret the truth will also come out that Khushi doesn't love him. It was all shyam's evil plan.
Shyam instigates Arnav, as he is threatening him, he should go to tell it to his sister. Arnav is about to hit him, then somebody opened the door. The camera focuses on Khushi at the same time, who also opened the door of a room. First I thought Khushi came. I wish if khushi would come and see them, so that she came to know what snide game Shyam is playing! But it's not khushi but HP came to call them. Shyam says him derisively to join the wedding and they can talk about it later. Before he gets out from the room, he smiles back at Arnav devilishly. Shyam's effrontery was really unbearable to watch.
Khushi is searching Arnav everywhere. She has to reveal Shyam's truth to him. But poor girl, she doesn't know her life already turned topsy-turvy.
Nk comes to Payal's room to give her a gift. The gift is a heart shaped photo frame with Payal and Akash's picture in it.. There is valentine's day written on the side. Payal doesn't get what valentine's day is. Nk emphasizes her, the meaning and significance of valentine's day.
It's a day to unite two lover's heart. It's a day of candle; it's a day of couple.
Payal adds, it's a day of love. During their convo Akash calls on NK's cell and asks him whether he gave her the gift or not or why didn't he call him to let him know?. OK so Akash sent the gift. He wants to talk with her. He guesses Payal would've feel uncomfortable to talk in front of NK, so he sends him to get green tea for her. Cause he thinks Payal also is stressed out now. Akash tells Payal that he doesn't believe in valentine's day, cause he thinks why just a particular day to express love. But he is wishing her today, as it's their wedding day also. he wants to tell her something, what she already heard from him.
I love you so much. And will love you forever. That's what I wanted to say.
Payal is smiling in coy. Akash is about to hang up, Payal tells him that she also wants to say something what she never told before, but he must know it. She says that she also loves him a lot.
Amma and bua are getting prepared for some pre marital pooja. Khushi comes there and bua gets mad to see her not dressed yet. She is about to go, when NK comes there with his camera. She asks him whether he saw Arnav or not. But Nk didn't see him, but he is enjoying capturing Khushi in his camera. Nani scolds him to stop video recording and tells him to take the ghee in the mandap. All the guests also started to come. Seeing Khushi still standing there, bua hits her again that why she is not getting ready. All are going towards the mandap, so bua tells Khushi to take her babuji to the mandap and gets ready soon.
When Khushi was taking babui to the mandap she sees Arnav is coming down from the stairs. She smiles at him and thinks to talk to him. but Arnav exasperates to see her, he clenches his fist in anger. He reminisces the sweet memories of them, which he had kept firmly tethered to the sacrosanct realm of his mind. Their almost kiss by the poolside, their passionate sangeet dance, his sweet peck on her cheek. Then the horrible moment in the terrace assailed his distraught soul. His anger pulsates more, his eyes are getting stern in disdain. He looks at Khushi with resentment. But khushi is still smiling at him, unaware of the tempest what will soon create sacrilege of her sacred heart. Arnav comes forward to talk. Khushi tells him that she wants to talk to him. But he got distracted by Anjali. He thinks talking to Anjali is more important now. He follows her. khushi gets incredulous to see Arnav's pique. Bua comes there and takes her to the room to get her dressed and brings Payal to the mandap. Khushi is looking back, still is precarious, what's wrong with Arnav.
Arnav follows Anjali to her room. He needs to talk to her right now. But she is in haste, she can't talk to him now. She is about to leave, but Arnav holds her arm and tells her that he needs to talk to her urgently. Anjali asks him what he wants to say? Arnav is in impediment, his eyes are getting teary. Anjali now gets scared in anticipation. Arnav turns around. He can't reveal the ugly truth of Shyam by looking in her eyes.
Jijaji is cheating you. Shyam and Khushi together are deceiving her.
He turns and sees that Anjali is lying on the floor unconscious. He carried her on the bed.
Gosh the PH should've paid Barun extra money to pick the women of IPK. Khushi was petite, but Anjali was a big woman. Poor guy. I feel sorry for him.
He is apologizing to her for telling the truth. He thinks Shyam's truth frazzled her. but what he could do, he could not bear it. He is beseeching her to open her eyes. Anjali gets back her sense and asks him why he is apologizing. Arnav realizes that Anjali didn't hear anything. She fainted before listening to him. He sighs a relief. She asks him what he was wanting to say. Arnav is repugnant. What to do, he has to tell her the truth. So he starts to speak that he wants to say a very important thing to her. But can't continue, as HP comes with her medical report. Arnav gets anxious to see the medical report. Anjali tells him that it's nothing just a routine check up. Anjali's facial expression changes to see the repot. Aranv asks her, what's wrong.
Shyam is looking for Anjali. he is scared whether Arnav tells her about his secret or not. He told those words in anger. He dithers, if Anjali throws him out after knowing his truth! Where he will go?. After all she is his ATM machine. And from where he will get the respect what he is getting as raizada's son in law. Khushi already told him that she will not come to him ever, whether he is married or single. Mama gets ambiguous to see his tension. He asks him what's wrong. He says mama that he is worried for Anjali. He still misses her after so many years of their marriage. Gosh what a hypocrite! Mama tells him that she is with Arnav, so he doesn't need to be worry. Shyam perturbs more to hear that. Mama doesn't know that the reason of his cowardice is Anjali being with Arnav.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKoMWdz8Zs
Credit goes to the maker.
plz ignore typos and mistakes.
omg, wiwy, this is just damn good.First of all happy karvachauth. I really love the concept of Kavachauth. A wife keeps fast for her beloved husband for his long and prosperous life. she prays for his well being and wishes to be with him for eternity. How surreal and romantic at the same time.Obviously if the word karvachauth is heard, my thought goes staright to Arshi. what a sensuous, romantic moment they cherished on that auspicious night. your sublime description depicted it all and was giving me goose bumps every now and then. all the lines i marked red was too good.I've been contemplating this edit for a long time and believe me, it is making me aphrodisiac.I wish if i could get some time to make any edit or gif of arshi for this special day. As I couldn't, so thought to share this karvachauth Vm of Zoha[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JizXQfACRV0[/YOUTUBE]
Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha
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YOU HAVE SEEN MY HUMBLE SIDE. TRUST ME YOU WON'T LIKE THE OTHER...
EPISODE PART 184-185
"...Roses Vs Thornes..."
He was standing in the middle of road in this dilemma " Mujhe Laga main ne tumhain kho diya hai.."[I thought I've lost you ...]He hold his love,Khushi and expressed his fear of losing his beloved one by pouring his heart out.Again he is standing Today at the brink of losing his mother like sister "Di mujhe laga..."[Di I thought...] incomplete sentence with drowning voice...and that is my grabber...His love and emotions are at higher pedestal for his Di as compared to his love at this point...and for saving her, he will crush the budding ROSE of his Love.He indeed lost his Khushi , his trust ,his love,his reason of survival...His mother's words comes later,"Kanton keh saath phoolon ko saza mat do..."[Don't give punishment to flowers with thorns]...when he will be standing again and will be tested again but he is not in a state of feeling the pain of flower yet or in other words flower's fragrance is not that captivated to be cared enough. A heart which was awakened from its long slumber , felt intense joyous moments only for it to die in the stillness of a Night ,unsung unheard.
PONDERING CONNECTED DOTS: Khushi mentions a big ROSE while telling Kids Sundari's story and shares her fears and delusional thoughts later...and how Shaitan forced her to marry yet she always sees him as her Rajkumar."Pal main sukh aur dosre hi pal main dukh.." He will be standing in the same state when Dadi will show him the reason of his Mom's suicide.Again he will be challenged with these outrageous emotions which pull him away from his Khushi,from the happiness of life.
The Basilisc Shyam who is evasively observing the family ,jubilating the moment of pre assumed singlehood in a joy,
"...Sawah..."
Symbolism and connection:In Punjabi...Sawah means ashes...Love the deep connection by Baisilsk's mouth.I gave him this name for a reason just Like Scorpion if you noticed it.The Basilisk snake's venom burns not only the opponent but also everything around him too. Mythological,The basilisk is actually a 5 centimeter in length and it was killed by forcing it to look into a mirror.A MIRROR which he used to message Khushi..."Aa bail mujhe mar..." His impatience and lusty frustration is bringing him near to death...to ashes...Love CVs for this...
What a scoundrel lover he is,yes he loves Khushi so much and for that he can fulfill his loyal wife's wish after all she is just a vending machine for him to withdraw money and nothing much .Creep!!!😡
The whole family is horrified after hearing about the accident. Arnav wants to talk to his di but couldn't. He retrospect and recalls every word of Anjali what she told him about life and it's unpredictability and not being around forever. My grabber is this look ,Just look at this breathless ,empty and deadly visage of him as there is no life in him.
He is facing his fears and those fears are making his each step as deadly as it could be by descending down the stairs.The very steps he will ascend later for the far most deadly moment ever.My grabber is he is rushing downstairs but he will ascend slowly.Excellent contrast of actions which is indicating his upcoming actions...
He gets panicked and runs for his Di...Who meets his shaken visage in the doorway. "Di, mujhe laga keh...[Di,I thought[...he tells her in quivering voice.His fears are again infront of his eyes and running in his veins the very same way as he was running after the ambulance.
He couldn't hide his inhibited feelings and tears flow out from his eyes without his command. He touches her cheek gently to feel her to come out of his fear the very same way he did to Khushi..."Mujhe laga main ne tumhain kho diya hai..." He conceals her in his embrace as he can't let any harm happen to his sister. Anjali also caress her brother's cheeks lovingly. She can feel his agony.Both have seen enough ups and downs of their life,words don't need to verbalize any one of those.
Arnav cries like a child..."Aap theek ho na di?...[are you alright di?]Anjali explains all about the accident and the failing breaks...
My grabber he calls hospital for Driver Mohan as anyone who cares for his Di is the most important person of all and that is the reason he was having blinded faith for Shyam who was a god to his sister.Anjali finds peace when Arnav took care of the driver.
The whole family gets emotional yet my grabber is Anjali's care for her hubby ...she indeed has a blind faith and trust and that will be impossible for Arnav and the whole family to break easily.
PONDERING CONNECTED DOTS:Today Naniji is worrying and crying for holding Anjali's face,and in future she will be doing this for Khushi and Arnav after kidnapping.Both time Shyam designs and crafts the accident.
Arnav standing like a kid, hurt and crying and having hard time expressing his inner turmoil.He is shattered and droopy when Anjali calls him to sit with her.He comes and lays his head down on her lap and cries his heart out in front of his mother.Di, "I'm sorry...for every time for talking to you rudely, for not listening to you,and refusing to do whatever you asked me to do...Plz don't ever leave me like mom..."
This is a devastated 14 years old boy whose life never proceeded after his mother's sudden death."Di jo chod keh chale jate hain who wapas nahin aatey..."[Di those who leave you never come back to you...]Barun nailed this part stupendously...
Anjali caresses her brother lovingly. She is his mother and he is her chotey, who can do any thing to keep his mother like sister safe. This is surely the prologue of the upcoming storm of Arnav and Khushi's life which will definitely harm Anjali the most.
PONDERING CONNECTED DOTS: Later when he will lay his head on her lap she will remove her hand and will call him by his name "Arnav,humain akaila chod dijiye.."
My grabber today is If Anjali is his priority then Anjali's first priority is Chote...as she mentions..."humare liye sab se phele tum ho... [you are always my first priority..] family is second and she mentions her hubby ,the last one...GOOD job but how CVs forgot to connect it later...as her hubby becomes his 1st priority ...
Anjali makes him understand with moving words " Do not put off any matters of heart till tomorrow when things go wrong always listen to your heart,No one sees tomorrow... and doesn't know what will happen on the next moment. live your life to the fullest because you don't know what is your last moment. Whom do you love the most, and who are so close to your heart, you must not let them go.If sometime some foolish and pointless thoughts come to you , still you should listen to your heart."
Such poignant, beautiful and heartfelt words but much needed to make him understand the situation later after the dark clouds.But he will follow his Di's words unintentionally and will never let Khushi go away at any cost. He looks at his Di one more time before leaving with Khushi's thoughts.
Pondering Connecting Dots: He does follow his heart during his Kidnapping and that day he did not think twice to say "Khushi , I love you..."...These are almost the same words of Arnav's mom"jo tum se pyar karta hai aur jo tumhare dil keh kareeb hai...use khabi chot no puhnchao..."[who ever loves you and is close to your heart , never hurt those] which pull him out of the vortex of his painful time zone to reach to his Khushi during remarriage.The same words La said to him pointing the same.
He follows the music played by his heart and brain as he seeks out Khushi to embrace her with open arms by opening his heart today.His heart finds its beat, Khushi going up the stairs and he mesmerizes by her sight ,her smile which is the reason of his survival..My grabber is he is so anxious to tell her yet got stopped by Her Di and her bandage as she is his 1st priority as always...and she will be the reason to have a wounded relationship with Khushi...
Symbolism and connection: He is bandaging Di before going to Khushi as he did exactly the same, he accepted her wounded marriage and to save hers he put a bandage of Khushi by marrying her forcefully but he forgot the bandage will wear and tear by the time because of the harshness of the wound.ANJALI asksToffee...imli si meethi hai ...toffee se khati hai...indeed Sweet relation is going to be sour..
Pause here:When he sees Khushi he stops moving towards her and she keeps moving as the distance is growing between them, a future indication.
Khushi ,just like Arnav is finally getting to the point where she wants to be caressed by his charm ,by her Rajkumar who she wanted to come on Horse to woe her,the story she fantasized with her sister.She wanted to be the beat of his heart without knowing that she already is as he always wanted to keep her close to his heart and she never wanted to be apart either.This innocent soul thinks the message on the scroll is from Her King for his queen and unknowingly is heading towards the venomous den where only a hissy Basilisk is hiding with his malignant and immoral intentions which are going to just destroy almost everyone if not saved by the Horus.
Love the parallel scene of both sides.If she is remembering his feathery touch which created havoc in her ,he is seeing a Diya...candle burning among roses which takes him to his red ROSE among Diyas whose heavenly touch creates avidity of her closeness more than ever in him.If she remembers his lips on her...his "lums"which is blushing her attire ,he remembers that blush with her soft red petals and his desirous urge to feel em ,her "lums" to be inhaled and grasped but both ends up remembering standing in the same frame where his hawking way of casting his right was accepted by hers.My grabber is ROSE is in the pic as This ROSE [Khushi] is going to be thrown in thorns...and Arnav's hands and heart will be bleeding along with hers...Mom's words will make sense to him later...but not now
Pondering connected dots: This epi takes us back where all of this started...chakarvyue..She got trapped in between 6 circles of Diyas and he went in to bring her out and today that is exactly happening ,she got engaged with this creep that night just because of Arnav backed down but today that action of him is standing in front of him to face it and feel it.
The darkness descends on her under the stars and lightens her fantasized world with the real life Demonism.A demon, a suitor ,a Basilisk is peeling off his skin in front of her and she stands there bewildering the entire length of this demon.A concentrated and agitated Khushi tries to walk away but a ticked demon forcibly stops her ,holds her in his venomous clutch.Khushi is still not aware of the depth of Shyam's lusty obsession yet her anger ticks him off into demonic act.He pulls her back and engraves his anger into her skin with his clutch. That transfers a fear in her and she really begins to sense a real animal in him.He already threatened her on Sangeet night and now she can see the severity of his actions more than ever. She realizes that he means it even she tries to remind him his married status and how much Anjali loves him and means to him . All of her acts provoke Shyam revealing his intentions from the beginning and that is my grabber...[as I mentioned in Devastated souls] He tells her how he stalked and followed her from Lucknow to Delhi till now.This is new to Khushi , a girl who never thinks or imagines or saying evil about others is face to face to a Demon.She stands there numb, shocked and calcified and had no clue how to handle this. Her petrified brain stops its signal to make her disengage from this Demonic hug of lusty Shyam.A young innocent soul is shocked with a sudden change of gentleman turning into an untamed and delirious animal. She has no idea how to react or grasp the situation in her hand from such a demonic device.
Other side a 14 years old boy in an armored shell of Arnav Singh Raizada is finally ready to open his heart "main Khushi ko bata keh Rahonga ken mujhe Fadak kyuon Padta hai...",[I will tell Khushi why does it matter] A boy who has stopped to listen to his heart after one horrific night is walking with determination yet calm towards his reason of survival, towards his future with gloating and relishing smile on his lips and in his avatar.
He opens the door expecting to see his queen in his Taj Mahal [castle] but just like Khushi, his fantasized castle collapses. His eyes gets stones watching his queen in other's arms in bewilderment and the other is no other than his BIL, his Jijaji who is declaring his love for Khushi "hum sirf aapko chahte hain Khushji , hum Rani sahiba ko apni patni nahin mantey..." A bewildered Arnav replaces with cold ASR after seeing Shyam hugging Khushi and he sees Khushi in his arms without any hesitancy without knowing that She is in her fright and caught in his web unintentionally. Arnav listens Aghast and in growing shock as a confounded Khushi who is holding on bravely to her shattering emotions yell at Shyam, crushingly demand that "agar aap keh liye yeh rishta koi mani nahin rakhta tou aap yeh shaddi tod kyuon nahin daite...chod dijye Anjaliji ko..."[if Shyam feels so suffocated the it is better that Shyam leave Anjali ].. Arnav gets shattered and defrauded after listening his Lady love, his heart broke into pieces , burnt to ashes [swaah].He turns away from this venomous den which has destroyed his hope, trust, faith , love, happiness ,and above all his whole world in seconds... Barun was awesome in this segment !!
Pause here: Arnav is standing in the illuminated background while Shyam is in the dark one and so is Khushi . Khushi has to turn towards Light and she did but Arnav couldn't see that and wasn't there to make that union happen ,A union of luminous of happiness...instead ...
Pondering connected Dots:He will be on Terrace again to be ready to take pheras and will confess his Love which he couldn't do it today.."I love you Dammit..."
A Hell befalls on Arnavs and Khushi's life. Nothing will remain the same from now on. Khushi has now seen the harsh realities of life, that everything will not turn out good. There are demons out there and life is not fairy tale. Testing times. And Arnav who opened his heart and had brought down his guards only to be proved he was right in guarding it. Now his reaction will be more fierce than ever ,can't even imagine. Mistrust and betrayal are two strong emotions looming now. Very very dangerous. Dangerous volatile and potent moment...
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MOMENT OF THE DAY
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtLZdSEENs[/YOUTUBE]
Just look at this breathless ,empty and deadly visage of him as there is no life in him.
He is facing his fears and those fears are making his each step as deadly as it could be by descending down the stairs.The very steps he will ascend later for the far most deadly moment ever.My grabber is he is rushing downstairs but he will ascend slowly.Excellent contrast of actions which is indicating his upcoming actions...
My grabber today is If Anjali is his priority then Anjali's first priority is Chote...as she mentions..."humare liye sab se phele tum ho... [you are always my first priority..] family is second and she mentions her hubby ,the last one...GOOD job but how CVs forgot to connect it later...as her hubby becomes his 1st priority ...
Anjali makes him understand with moving words " Do not put off any matters of heart till tomorrow when things go wrong always listen to your heart,No one sees tomorrow... and doesn't know what will happen on the next moment. live your life to the fullest because you don't know what is your last moment. Whom do you love the most, and who are so close to your heart, you must not let them go.If sometime some foolish and pointless thoughts come to you , still you should listen to your heart."
Such poignant, beautiful and heartfelt words but much needed to make him understand the situation later after the dark clouds.But he will follow his Di's words unintentionally and will never let Khushi go away at any cost.
Arnav could never really distinguish between the roses and thorns in his life after the shocking death of his mother. And as luck would have it, that Basilisk Shyam entered his life and much to his grief tried to crush his two precious roses, Di and Khushi! Thanks to DM,and his mother's blessings ultimately he did listen to his heart or the venomous snake would have turned everything into ashes with his 'Suwah'!
episode 184wrapped in memory, a place of stability when the storm out of nowhere landed one evening and blew it all away, a gentle steady love that gave him a reason to live, a reason to strive in the worst days of his life... his di.
anjali was much more than just an elder sister to him. she was perhaps the one thing that kept a 14 year old boy's heart alive. otherwise dimaag would have become his only mainstay. dil completely dispensed with. a dil that had the depth and breadth of an ocean and more... buried forever.
when we see anjali we see her as she is today, but the way he looks at her, i feel i can see her through all the years of his life. even his most dreadful nightmare begins with him smiling at her, so happy to see his di looking lovely... and then the look on her face changes, and everything spirals. gunshot... maa.
both the siblings had lost their parents and a whole way of life overnight. all they had was each other. di connected him to his maa, his sense of family. he connected her to the same things. both vital to each other.
even more so for him perhaps, for right from his birth, di was always there. she was the only one he associated with his earliest days, who didn't disappear in that storm.
she was his connection to love.
and she was always the one who tried all she could to never let him deny the place of heart in life. of love.
it was her words that he heard in his years when he suddenly realised while picking up a file that the girl he gets so vexed about actually means something to him.
the story of asr and khushi couldn't have started without di, so perhaps a good story teller knew how sweet a turn it would be in the tale, if because of her really it would almost end.
he is about to tell the woman he loves why she makes a difference, when he is called away.just a few short minutes ago, he'd reached khushi and was about to start telling one of the two most important women in his life that she had started to matter to him, but before he could get there, he is called away... and reaches the moment that would start unravelling everything. the other most important woman in his life, his di, is the reason for nani's call.i thought the story was told very well, though yes, a bit predictable that he should be interrupted at that very moment... this is a daily spap taht depends on drama and tension in every 22 minute pellet, and is not making a pretense of being arcane literature or anything, but the level of emotion stirred in him was almost at the same pitch, involving the two women he cared about. i found that rather well designed, he will be torn between these two women and his strong emotions for both radically. the one he will choose to hurt, the choice for which he will be hated and for which some day he'll feel terrible, yet won't it show whom he loved more?don't we usually end up hurting the one we love more? and protecting the one we see as less strong? just a thought.here on the one hand all his love and excitement and perhaps a glimmer of the future... at last, a dream for the future that might give him respite from the nightmare of the past and maybe that's why all those mirrors showing what might be.and then on the other, a stark, compelling, convulsive pull back from the past, an immediate presence of it in his wobbly, scared,"aa... waaz?" sometimes just one word, one delivery can call up a whole story, an entire past, a complete character...when nani ji says it's anjali bitiya... di? kya hua di ko? he rushes in, in an instant alert and tense. nani ji relates the call in frantic tone ending with there was a ... "jor ki aawaz..." a loud noise.
and the fear kicks in... in one single word it is all there... he stumbles over the word, his voice reflects his terror, you can feel his nervousness, a feeling rising.
he reaches for his phone, does he feel more in control of things when he holds that instrument somehow?
"di... what the hell... yeh stupid mohan ka phone kyun nahin mil raha hai..." he can't get through to "stupid" mohan, the driver he tries to call. lovely, his words, stance, anger, all speak of his fear and love around the woman who is the centre of his universe. the only person that matters... till along comes that girl waiting by the mirror.
as his panic escalates, a brief cut away to an obscene man reveling. quite sure his wife will die soon and he will be free to marry khushi. the fool thinks that is the reason khushi won't have him, because he is married. how he runs from the truth... that it is him that khushi despises, not his marital status. he will hold on to this illusion for a long time. maybe even he needs his illusions just to make himself tolerable to himself. i decided not to waste time making edits of the overacting shyam today. just mentioning him is ugh enough.
asr receives one of the scariest phone calls of his life... the darkest shyam of all has both him and khushi trapped. using their feelings for someone else... someone who matters so much.
asr confirms the car is his when the inspector calls, the silence at the other end unnerves him... "inspector, aap bolte kyun nahin, kya hua" ... why aren't you speaking, what's happened. finally the voice is raised.
"mr raizada, daryaganj ke paas gaadi ka accident hua hai..." there's been an accident near daryaganj. my mind checks, daryaganj? isn't that where asr was held by the kidnappers later? what's this daryaganj fixation? something there?
accident? he's shocked
nani ji starts. everybody is horrified. "swaha" says shyam. like a little dance drama, or rather greek tragedy. nani ji and family members a fabulous chorus to the action onstage...
"meri di se baat karwaiye... what!!! kya matlb hai aap ko nahin pata hai ... how can you NOT KNOW!" the protagonist has started going to pieces... let me speak to my sister, what!!! what do you mean you don't know where she is... how can you not know!
and he remembers her saying things about not being around, though all is well now, but "bhagwan na are kuchh ho jaye aur hum... hum rahe na rahe..." god forbid something should happen, whether i live or not...
he was walking slowly gripped by fear, recalling that evening when she'd said these things, mainly to get him to consider marriage, but even then all he'd reacted to his fear of losing her, how vehemently he'd asked her not to say such things, how sweetly he'd picked up her hand and kissed it... soon after he'd kissed khushi.again now, one moment khushi... next minute, di... life does try ar.nav singh raizada.at that "hum rahe na rahe," a terrible feeling... he starts running.great direction to elucidate an emotion, and such natural acting.
during a wedding one night had come death and complete destruction, it's a wedding again, what awaits the night?he runs and then suddenly stops short... at the gate stands di. alive. in bandages, but alive. he goes through a thousand feelings.. he'd thought she was gone. but...
"chhotey..." her voice is sweet and scared and yet loving like only hers is. he is close to tears. this is di for god's sake... his di.
she walks toward him, he's rooted to the spot.
"chhotey..."
"di.. mu...mujhe laga ki..." di, i...i thought...
the14 year old chhotey returns to feel all the fear again. his voice breaks, losing all its husky masculine edge, it's almost child like, tears drench it.
he strokes her cheek, the gentlest, "aap theek ho na, di." you're okay, di?
and as she nodded he just has to rush and hug her. and she him...siblings who have been through hell... always tied by a different string. their music keening, sad echoes of all that.
she comsoles him with looks and strokes as she always does whenever he's worried. then she cries like a baby to him about the car brakes... he holds her... each others support... like parents to each other they are.when the family, relieved and worried at once, takes her away to her room, he stays back to call the hospital, make sure mohan the driver is taken care of.
anjali shows resilience and a great attitude while the family fusses over her. no need to tell anyone anything, let's get on with the wedding. poignantly, she is glad her husband is nowhere to be seen, no need to worry him too. ah the illusions we live with. despite all those nights away, always with the weakest of explanations, anjali never ever thought of doubting the man she loved.life had taken too much away from her. this time she meant to hold on tight.as she talks asr arrives, absolutely in tears by now. when everyone leaves, brother and sister are alone at last. he just stands there staring with tears brimming over. these tears as heartrending as the smile he gave to khushi on that verandah that morning. the smile and the tears seem to come from the same place.and this time too he will move propelled by his feelings... she was the closest thing he had to a mother. a mother whom he missed every day... so much, he had to block everything off.
when she says, "yahan aiye humare paas," come here to me, in that mother like tone, a strain of music that reminds of maa plays.
he looks away, then looks at her... moist reddened eyes, a softness, a broken feel, and he walks to her; with each step his feelings rise as do hers... then he suddenly lets go and buries his face in her lap.. a giving up and falling on a mother's lap there.
and he cries.
"di, i'm so so sorry."
"sorry, chhotey tum humey sorry kyun bol rahe ho..." why are you saying sorry to me, chhotey, she asks crying herself. they both know why he cries, how close she might have come to death.
"har baar jo maine aapse badtameezi se baat ki usske liye..." for every time i have been rude to you, says the nasty, caustic, get off my back asr.
"har bar jab aapne mujhe kuch karne ke liye kaha aur maine saaf mana kar diya, usske liye..." for every time i just refused to do what you asked me to...
"i'm really sorry, di" some time back, on a day when he was sensitized to his mother's going away, he'd understood a young girl's, another orphan's pain and apologised... a first for him.today again that fear of losing on the back of losing maa forever. and he says as much after that sorry... i thought you... please don't leave me like maa did... "mujhe laga ki.. di aap kabhi mujhe maa ki tarah..."
she shudders understanding his panic, and strokes his hair, calming him, slowly bringing him back to now, the present. but the past has already claimed his heart and left it tender, so vulnerable.he will not think when it is struck again. he will not think... only spiral into crazy feelings.
the roiling of his emotions was so necessary for him to completely lose his head. great writing and orchestrating of emotions.and in a room by herself, oblivious to all this smiles a girl, remembering things, touching a gift left on the mirror for her. on the mirror a reflection of a future... with the man who gave her bangles and kisses, and haldi marks, and constant dhak dhak. she touches her bindi with so much wonder and joy and feelings soft and sweet.and then she sees the message... lipstick letters across the mirror,"khushi, meet me on the terrace now."
she sees the sign and she is rattled, she runs out to check...
something tells her it is him... was it the "abhi"? now! so asr that command. is that why shyam added it? she is misled... i think of othello, so terribly led astray by what he thought was evidence. now she, later asr... innocents twisted to see things his way by a knave.
the dhakdhaks come... she thrills to his voice saying, "khushi, tumse baat karni hai... bas karni hai..."
and then in the sweetest sign of reciprocated love, she wonders, "aap humse kya karna chahte hain, arnav ji... kya aap humse wahi kahna chahate hain jo..."what do you want to tell me, arnav ji? do you want to tell me the same thing that...so close to telling each other the state of their heart they were. there was no doubt in either's mind... just dreams.she wipes off the message. no sign is left of the charlatan's trick. at this moment it did feel as though fate is the only thing that has a say over our lives.couple of other things:"hello hi bye bye agar aap logo ka prem kahani khatam hui gayi ho... " mami ji said, hhbb, if your love story has ended... was she again acting as chorus and hinting at things to come?she was of course, horrendously rude, and the gupta family squirming before her not a pretty sight. at too many levels utterly wrong. would have been good to see later, how she and payal adjusted to each other, and grew to have feelings for each other despite this wedding time madness. or perhaps they never did, and payal found hr voice back after being provoked incessantly. would have ben interesting to know.
nk brought green tea... i giggled, suddenly this form of tea is so in in my land. when i was growing up, no one had heard of it apart from tea planters. now in every serial, especially in wealthy homes, it pops up. gh's other show, sathia, has the hero practically addicted to it. seen as panacea to all ills. also i think a mark of sophistication. hello hi bye bye.nk also brought ek chutki sindoor, a pinch of sindoor... oh what a rendition of that will come soon.he said 60 instead of 7 for the pheras... wonder why.akash's kids it seems would call him uncle, uncle. was there a story there? was there some plan of showing that someone was not fathered by his or her supposed father?and nk also brought along haivan pareshan... devil disturbance. that, alas, is about to reach untold depths.
Indi, just read your riveting analysis of 184. All the edits are astounding, esp Anjali on top and the genesis of ASR from age 14. you are right although it was predictable that he wouldn't confess verbally, the writers/ directors could still retain the whole essence of the dilemma of this man between the two imp women in life, albeit he is unaware when that waiter called him. Till now, the story never lost its focus between these three people and no scene was felt redundant or superfluous, except for shyam's overacting, that although a few things are cliched, they could
retain the core intact, like he going away from Khushi from that mirror, what beautiful symbolism in rather simple looking things.Loved how you delineated his attachment to his mother like di. Not sure if it is the well depicted/rationaled vulnerability of these two siblings or the instant crackling chemistry/ acting of Barun and daljeet, that their bond never looked contrived, otherwise such relations in Indian drama many a times can easily look over the top.On another note, I always felt there was more to Anjali's accident there. some doctor who nursed her injuries emerging later on for her, yes I did think there was some dr. Verma there for her, lost a few bets about it too!Yes, Shyam exploiting ASR's urgency in that "abhi" or her urgency to hear it from Arnavji ... Both essentially driven there by fate... One can surely sense a Othello there!Thanks Indi.
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