sneha,
please don't be influenced by my reticence... enjoy the new telecast.
i am a bit partial to the show as it was... with its flaws. happy to mull over what was not right, but not wishing it to change into something i wouldn't recognise. it's an old friend of mine, a part of my dhakdhak... whatever it is, the way it is, is fine by me.
i have to though disagree on one point. i don't think khushi's influence will make asr mushy and a non stop talker. had they chosen this route, then deeply thought about how asr would talk about it, it might have worked. and i might have seen to watch barun do asr the way only he can. but this is pedestrian writing, with no real creative aim... just an economic one: they are repackaging ipk to earn money during a not too popular time slot... that's fine, just that there isn't the talent in it i've come to associate with ipk.
and, i must say, i never needed asr to "change", just feel... get in touch with himself, reach out for what had left him years ago: trust and happiness. he did... that was khushi's triumph. and she fell in love with a rakshas, for she needed him as much as he needed her. perhaps to let her touch feelings within she'd never felt... perhaps to feel a sense of huq, which she really never had over anyone else. they both were also physically extremely attracted to one another, i loved that too. they made each other feel the way no one else did.
they both said to the other, do not change. there is no need to. that is submission to a feeling, a beautiful submission.
i like him too with his flaws, and deep seated flaws never really quite disappear. plus, no, he just would not talk so much. khushi too i hope has remained essentially who she is... change takes place over years and settles in our corners and crannies, it shows itself in unexpected ways even, but does it make you someone else?
i started watching ipk when i was 51, i guess my reaction is bound to be different from someone younger (or older) and at their stage of life. and our expectation from characters and of this feeling which is hard to name, also would be not always the same. not that someone of similar age will react exactly the same way... in fact, i have a feeling, even at sixteen i wouldn't have wanted him to change... not essentially. i like rough edges, almost instinctively... too sweet and tame and you've lost me. 😆
i hope you enjoy your watch of 1 - 20. some of the best episodes, with all the shades of ipk in them.
Edited by indi52 - 6 years ago
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