Third Anniversary at Blast from the Past : Gulaab, Kaanta and IPK

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Horizon

@Horizon

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Huge round of applause to all the NEW vm makers in the house.. wiwy, indi, faiqa and rhea.

Here is one to that magical love story that is still inspirational and to all the inspired fans continuously honing their skills ...

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aarwen

@aarwen

Dazzler

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Posted: 11 years ago

#222

really Indu.. This is such an inspiring place to be in.. First the story itself inspires you..makes you believe in love and everything nice.. and then I come here and see you all.. Mostly am amazed at how you all juggle AD and SKD.. kids, jobs, plumbers, deadlines, sleep, exams and still you all spend hours on each frame of IPK.. Write up, Stories, Edits, songs, quotes, wit, jokes, laughter, appreciation..Vms (and drumroll to go with it!) .. so much to learn.. More new words have been added to my vocabulary in the last six months than the cumulative last six years.. Only negative side I may end up with glasses the amount of time I spend staring at IPK on screen or BFTP threads.. Can't say it enough times.. love being here.. and thank you everyone..🤗

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Katelyn

@Katelyn

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Ocean of Happiness

Posted: 11 years ago

#223

Originally posted by: aarwen
My first VM 😊 .. I am super excited.. keeping my fingers crossed..
Thank you Wiwy, Indi di and Faiqa for the inspiration and Kizh for the final push..

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG98xNRdUEA[/YOUTUBE]

Wow, congrats Rhea on your first vm! 🤗 🥳 I am so excited for you!! Loved it especially all the diwali scenes!! 🤢 Great job! 👏

IPK and all our friends here are our inspirations...wholeheartedly agree with you and I always felt that way! Love this bunch! ❤️

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Horizon

@Horizon

Dazzler

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Posted: 11 years ago

#224

Originally posted by: aarwen

Thank you 😳 . Truthfully that karwa chauth sequence didn't even come into my head.. by that time the story meanders so much that I rarely remember those sequences when thinking of IPK. I like this Euphoria song ever since it was released. And the actual video is also quite lovely.. Have you seen it?

I can imagine how bad it must have been to have it end. Afters years of books and build up of the final movies when Harry Potter inevitably ended I felt exactly this.. a void.. That waiting for a new episode each day with expectation and excitement..and then discussing it here.. wish I could experience it.. but then thora nahi bahut dard hota at the end.. utne dard ki aadat nahi hai.. aise hi achcha hai Induji..

dreamy start.. I need to go watch my own VM again.. hehe.. And my friend will be so happy with your comment on her edit.. thank you for indulging us...

Post Sept 28th, the remarriage, IPK almost doesn't even exist for me. Thats why I always have hard time recognizing any pics from that phase. Haven't watched any epis of that Oct till date, watched a few in Nov. This one I recall many of us thought the magic is some what back .. only to be lost for ever...and the only other sequence in my head from Nov is that pool side Yoga ve.. my official last rabba ve of this love story with both of them in the same frame one last time!

Altho familiar with Euphoria as a band, didn't know this song prior to IPK. So yes my only memory of this song would be of these two.

I am sure many more wonderful vms are on the way from you..

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 11 years ago

#225

just recalling, how much i had hoped someday ipk would get back to its original honesty and beauty.

even when sheetal came, even despite that lauki-baingan attack by khushi and the reckless time at the wheel. i thought oh yes, maybe thsi is going to be chudail time, a bit of real delving into the man woman thing between them. instead... aarav and paternity test... ugh... but of that came a memorable scene... jaa rahi ho. a most drastic and real question there...

oh till the end i watched, often just cringing... only 397 i didn't see. somehow i couldn't bear to see the silly sugary ridiculous achhi bahu accentuated mrs india going into its final and most smarmy rounds with the girl who could defy asr if she felt she needed to... nah. not fair the whole thing.

and the cutout asr presence, unbearable.

if i have loved what i love truly, i have to say what i don't love... and still adore ipk... because really there's no name or reason for this longing. the rational assessments are all there... but this is beyond that. and i will not add a smiley to that.

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 11 years ago

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the only thing i liked about karwa chauth was his questioning the whole thing with a rational air... of course they were planning his death then, so all that death talk was good for that, but it worked for me anyway... asr would ask such things. liked their talk about the practice... he right in his place, she in hers. also i abs freaked out on his gift for her... her company, again the death track brought it on, but i did love the way he said why he was giving her this.

and yes, went hot and bothered watching a couple of moves of the ab na jaa dance sequence. one of them is on the main post. i am not much of a candidate for pat dialogues like samhaliye and hamesha samahloonga... barun's expressions are what i thrilled to. always the utter male with that excruciaatingly stunning streak of vulnerabilty. in my head and heart he is all asr.. i have never split him into arnav and asr. asr was all of what i got... and even if i call him arnav, there is all of everything in him from gussa to pyaar to arrogance to tenderness to humour to that hot damn sexiness... the brains the thinking... everything... and oh the flirting. those intennnse looks.

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aarwen

@aarwen

Dazzler

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Posted: 11 years ago

#227

Indi di.. You mentioned silly and I had to come and write though I did try to refrain for almost a whole day.. So forgive my long rant.. Silly.. That was the major problem I had with everything around that phase. Everything they made khushi do was silly. The music in scenes was silly too. And she was never that to begin with. Oh her sanakaness was of exact measurement.. Her antics did not take away from the character, but made it real and extremely endearing. In a way that is what ASR fell for too, isn't it? The breadth of fresh air in his gloomy life.

I think I mentioned this before that when I reached that trip to the movie hall I stopped watching for a few days. Of course I came back because by then I cared too much about dearest Khushi and Arnav and was completely addicted to this show. Still they showed an almost lovesick ASR and a couldn't even care less Khushi. Remember that girl who teased Payal in all sorts of ways before her wedding. Pulled or thought she pulled Payal into the bathroom as she herself enacted the part of Aakashji. Dressing up like mamiji to cheer up her jiji. She had imagined Arnav showering stars and rose petals on her at the very onset of falling in love and now she did not perceive him wanting to be alone with her? All the times she would turn back for one lingering look. The garbar, the dhak dhak .. where did it all go?

And who was this girl we starting seeing instead? The day of the basketball match, when she was almost a caricature of the Khushi I knew, in the velvet anarkali dress with keds and a headband I almost looked at Sheetal and wished that Arnav got a little bit more classy life partner. I wanted to kill myself for thinking this, but it is true I did think it. Don't get me wrong the girl in those tight bright churidars with a plait and pom poms was fashionable to my eyes , but this girl on my screen was definitely not.

And ASR really was doing nothing. I felt bad for Barun. I was watching the show for him and he was still amazingly good though he looked almost zombie like tired and worn out. his eyes continued to speak to me. When he gifted her the company I was overjoyed , but then Mrs India... ughh.. it made no sense. And we had already seen a track where small town girl was treated rudely by Sim, Pam, Lavanya. How refreshing had her handling of them been. And now she was quite stupid. If someone doesn't want you to call him bhaiya .. well she thought of nanheji when NK didn't appeal.. now she did no thinking. And I cried at her answer to the question in the Mrs India Final. She spoke random stuff about everyone of her family member and then something like Arnavji will always be with me. What nonsense... I wanted to throttle everyone.. I did not want this impassioned rehearsed, like you say, achchi bahu nonsensical speech.. I wanted to see my girl in love back one last time.. I wanted him to smirk and yell and not be indulgent all the time. oh I wanted time to rewind..

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Katelyn

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Ocean of Happiness

Posted: 11 years ago

#228

^ Rhea, well said! I couldn't agree with you more! They decimated her character so badly. Frankly, I was really annoyed with Khushi for being so clueless when a hot hubby was trying to romance her! The basketball match is WHAT THE...for me...like really! As for the Ms. India track, I didn't really watch it! I missed a big portion towards the end because I had no focus and I was in quite a state with Barun's quitting or ASR death etc news!! Til this day, I haven't seen all of those November episodes! 😳

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indi52

@indi52

Stunner

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Posted: 11 years ago

#229

^^^

rhea, kate,

abs true what you both say.

khushi was an act like no other indian heroine. she was classy, sassy, cool.
and if she was duh, it was the kind of duh you wanted to be.

she was the precursor to rani of queen, way before rani was even a thought in anyone's head. the difference i guess is in the size of certain unmentionables in the makers of the two shows.

one fought to make it work, even respected his leading lady enough to let her write her dialogues.

the other just grovelled and wheedled before money and and trp.

the difference. uff kills me.

khushi didn't get dhakdhaks any more, not find the "hot hubby" (yay kate) a turn on at all. she fell over him with an inch tape without feeling a thing, while asr quietly lost it having her so near. she ruined his birthday... and all the other things we all go ugh at while watching.
they had already messed with her age a while back. her personality was pushed to fit the need of the hour... and when they all forgot what exactly was the need and core of this story, everything just went.

actually, for me, ott khsuhi onward is great worrying time and the haywire going of ipk has started.

no one was writing the basic story with any direction any more... so the characters i guess just had to go anyway.

i believe barun complained that he was missing asr's gussa which he had created so gorgeously.

yeah, suddenly asr is a lovesick sweet boy. i mean for that role who would want to go for sharp haircut and oh come and kill me grooming... here, you have to smile sweetly while a dopey woman is ignoring you and staring at salman ji or chasing shyam ji, or justlosing her braincells every second, please look like diwali because trp will rise, girls want you to show those stick out pinna of yours, uh really?

khushi is only concerned with saving the family... i mean she brought back shyam? huh? what was that?

i won't go on... i too was addicted so i watched. i was sensitized enough to notice how hard barun tried to keep asr alive. and even when he was leaving, he was no less given to asr...or so it seemed to me.

i write a story called without you... i guess that is where my real frustration at the way they ruined it with lack of pyaar comes out. yesterday a reader, a very old member of this forum read the whole thing through and wrote, reading without you felt like watching ipk, slightly shifted from what one has seen. i was elated... that was the thing, there was just so much left in ipk to be told, to be explored. i wish the writers and producers and channel of ipk would stop talking nonsense and acknowledge there was a heck of a lot in the original story and much they could have done with it... they just let it all go... to this day i will not understand why.

i mean khushi?

if asr was heartstopping hotwa... she was head buzzing sanka.

what nonsense they wrote and showed. are they even vaguely professional these people?

the indian girl's mind is happily being ruined by the heroines shown on daily tv, ad nauseum. the girl before us is a fantasy of the patriarchal milieu's chauvinistic misogynistic longings. ah to have a world where girls are just clearly utility oriented with no individual need space dreams nothing.

so now to scam us we are shown as smart intelligent professionals even but in essence all we seek to do is a) marry (yeah without a male in our mangalsutra we cannot breathe), b) fall for our ma in law, c) protect fam from all kinds of tsunamis and typhoons headed in a trageted fashion our fam way. we are the saviours you see. mahaan, holi, devi...

gah, i hope someone is going yikes at the stealth bombing of the girl that is just okay to be who she is... a girl, her girl, perhaps with teda choti.

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kizh72

@kizh72

Voyager

Posted: 11 years ago

#230

Indi di, Rhea, Kate, What a convo! had to join in!

The girl who carried out a scientific experiment on dhaks dhaks and arrived at a null hypothesis, who found a tear fall down on seeing a man hug a woman who you considered your friend and had worked hard to bring them together, who inspite of the way he had behaved got together with him to bring their siblings together, who sweetly got him a gift ( her style, the sanka intact) and thanked him for bringing her jiji happiness and wished him happiness in turn (Ipoona on the reliving thread, described it as her goodbye, her last few moments with her laad governer before he became someone else's. I thought that was poignant)...

What they did to her was criminal. They didn't just dumb down khushi, they took the audience also to be dumb. They could as well have stopped the whole thing with shyam's ouster, not that everything before that was great shakes.

Oh well, we should be thankful for what we got, we wouldn't be having convos like this if not!!!

I can't believe they actually thought of killing him off!