Nice conversation Indi and Indu di..
I have always liked ASR and Garima's relationship from the start.. he had slammed bundles of note in front of buaji (lol! oh I miss him), but with aunty he was respectful from the start (if am not wrong the first time he met her was after the diwali showdown.. what a moment there..)During the Gupta house days when he says sorry for his high and mighty ways she is so understanding and lovable.. same with when he calls her aunty and says he can't call her amma.. she was a bit nervous around the hi fi hot headed damadji, but knew her daughter had found the perfect rajkumar.. and he just liked straightforward people I feel. He had warmed up to Khushi's family really well..IPK's take on relationships was spot on.
hi rhea,
hi fi hot headed damad ji is giving me palpitations. 😆 why does the word hot go so terrifically well with asr by barun in any and every sense? okay, no need to answer that question. i am remembering issk's hotstuff aka hotisstuff.
you are so right, they had the sweetest relationship, he did meet her that night of diwali, his heart already touched by a girl who can't sleep in the dark, whom he must protect, whose father is unwell, whom he must return the payal to, whom he must kiss. the girl who has koi matlab nahin in his life.
poor bua ji got that money slapped on table intro... sigh gosh yes, i just miss that fellow. the look as he left the room... aaargh.

garima seemed to have both the typical gentler woman's need, esp if middle class, to give the damad a certain place and respect, also keep a certain distance as the relationship asks for... and yet, from the time she saw him at gupta house, struggling and trying to be part of the scene, a funny kind of almost maternal tenderness in her, she gets damad ji somehow... and on that issue of calling her amma, beautiful understanding of a boy's heart, one who says in a broken way, i don't have a mother.
piyumori mehta created a lovely nuanced emotion for damad ji. there was a naturally gentle, kind, motherly woman's love there, also strains of society and its expectations. but push come sto shove i felt she would go with her feelings for a young boy terribly hurt as a child and who seemed to also be a bit nuts about her daughter.
you are so so spot on... ipk understood relationships.
uff to pull off the mami bitwa one... every relationship felt real. i used to particularly like the payal khushi one... never flat. khushi's all giving happy love for payaliya and payal's protective almost fierce love for sibling... payal is presented as sweet and a little sedate even, not a spitfire sort, but if khushi is troubled, watch out. actually, her getting mad at khushi for interfering with her relationship with akash, also somewhere real... i am sure she and akash had an interesting relationship and she was not the silly creature she was made out to be for a while. i liked her wearing that nightie stuff, sort of real again.
sorry, rambling attack.
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