DOTW: Ek Jalakh Mein Hi...

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Posted: 19 years ago
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Hello everyone, How are you all?

Well...we all know that JJKN has been one of the biggest blockbusters not only on Sony, but all channels. And, many of us at this point cant live without seeing JandA, Apu, Mona, or the show! Even though the show has lost its touch to an extent, a lot of us are still crazy about it!

So what did you think about the show when you first saw it air? What did you assume this show would be like? Did you ever think that you would be this crazy about the show? What were ur reactions on Apoorva, and Mona? Did you think the show would do that good?

Come on, tell us all...

Mallika~

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Posted: 19 years ago
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Well Mona was new to me. But i don't like Apurva, right from the pardes movie 🤢 , i liked bebe though very much . 😃
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Posted: 19 years ago
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GREAT Topic Chutki!!😃

I had heard a little bit of the story, and I saw the promos for the show when the charaters weren't revealed, but when it was more of just voices in the background. The show had a fresh new theme which I loved from the start! I loved the true essence of the show and the fact that I'd be able to watch a show with my nani! 😳 😆 That was our bonding time, and we both loved watching it together! And moral of the story, and the morals that were taught in the beginning of the show, was what I loved best about it! And YES, I had a hunch that Jassi would fall in love with her boss and vice-versa and I just love ugly-duckling-turned-swan love stories, so it was definitely the bomb! Hehehehe....last but not least...I liked armaan/apu! I loved the character from the start and of course, no one could do a better job playing Armaan Suri than apu himself!😉😃
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Posted: 19 years ago
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my sister actually got me watching this show, and when i first saw it i was like wow...this is different!...when i continued watching it i realised that it wasn't just a comedy, but it had a lot of emotional parts to it...for me JJKN will always be the simple girl trying to find her way in the world...

lol...some long essay 😆
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Posted: 19 years ago
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I never intended to watch the jjkn premiere/curtain raiser show on sep 1st .The promos was nice and they created nice hype abt it,at that time i was seriously following kkusum and never into other show.

Then by chance i was flipping channels and i saw JJKN's first episode and when I saw jassi ,I got the shock of my life and my mom too. My mom thought it was a guy playing jassi's role😆 and then we got hooked on to the show.

I just loved her acting right from the first episode👏 ,u know when she cries to her dad abt her being ugly and not getting a job,that brought tears in my eyes😉 .Then saw arman suri and I was not so impressed in the sense that i didnt give that much attention to him .I liked him though,he was manipulative yet he did care for jassi and always supported her even before he played games with her.


Even then i was not into JJKN ,I was not emotionally attached to it.

When purab entered I completely lost interest 😡and then i got married and came to the u.s and lost touch. I started watching JJKN again ,by that time kkusum took a leap and was boring and I stopped watching it.

Then came dec-jan when arman was slowly falling in love with jassi and whoa came the octaviour epsodesthat just got me hooked and i loved arman and jassi with arman at his passionate jealous best.I was emotionally attached to the show and was very passionate abt it😳 😳


then came aug 5th😭 😭and all went down the drain and all was lost,now I watch just for the addiction😭 .

Edited by tina59 - 19 years ago
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Posted: 19 years ago
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wowies..i remember the first eppy. me was still in india
then! i was at my friends house and his mother kept reminding us that a
new show was coming. so i agreed to stay for dinner and watch. i actually
thought it was a guy playing jassi too, because i misread an article in the
newspaper 😆 😆 but the show seemed interesting and funny. and
whenever someone would do something clumsy, we'd relate it to jassi. my
family would watch it every night, and i'd sit and watch as well. but it
didn't mean so much to me then. i didn't really fall in love with the show
and armaan until he fell in love with jassi. when he first realised it..that's
when i realised it. and then it just grewww and grewww. but when we
came to the states, we didn't have the dish network setup for a few
months. sooooo my friend (the same one who i started watching the show
with hehe) would drive me all the way to the indian store to get the videos
made. the store guy would put the week's eppys on a video and my friend
and i would watch them every saturday night till like 3 AM 😳 😳 😳
man i wish i still had those vids..
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Posted: 19 years ago
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Well, jjkn started when I was in the 10th grade and I had a friend called Monali who used to force me to watch it...I used to watch kkusum but as my friend forced me so much, i watched the first episode.....and really i didnt feel anything at first....I found the concept interesting but i did not relate to the characters....but my friend used to force me to watch it everyday and slowly by around october 2003, i had bid adieu to kkusum and i was fully into jjkn😃i loved the concept and i loved jassi.....

i never liked armaan at first....He used to bark like a Dog at jassi.......and neither was apoorva's acting all the great..infact the first time i really felt that armaan is really handsome is during mallika and armaan's engagement in 2004...mallika insults jassi and says that "tum joh apne jhothe bhi apne kapdon ke saath theek tarah se match nahi kar sakthi ho, tum tho mallika seth aur armaan suri ke engagement party ke organizing kar rahi ho....tum meri duniya ke baare mein kya jaathi ho......woh duniya jjise tum sapnon mein bhi nahi dekh sakthi ho....."...and poor armaan(who was the one who ahad asked jassi to organize the whole thing) just helplessly stares....he looked sooooooooo cute then in a red sherwani😳😳😳....and from then,the rest is history😳😳😳then jassi got dejected and left for alibagh with bebe😊.......

then Master Rohan Mehra😡 made his entry and i just wanted to spank that kid.......and with him, his step brother Saint Mahatma Purab Mehra🤢.....I liked Purab in alibagh when he told jassi that you have a heart of gold and that you worry about everyone else but yourself......i loved that scene....but it was irritating when rohan came and asked bebe as to whether Jassi and purab can marry🤢...I was like Please, not this early.......and then jassi came back to Bombay, as a more confident person and then troubled armaan😆....till then she had always blindly followed armaan but after purab's pep talk, she gave armaan a tough time..like not staying back at office and asking for a new cabin😆😆...

but when purab entered the second time as jassi's suitor, i hated him😡....i was just 15 then and so i really hated it when 75% of india voted for purab over armaan as then i could not see the "nice soul and the perfect match for jassi" purab as anything else but fat and bad looking🤢......armaaan was a jerk then but i have always liked him as there was a hidden goodness withing him ....... and wanted jassi to be with armaan.....and i hated Rohan who tried to play the cupid and took jassi and purab out for the elephant ride(thankfully, jassi and purab were not on the same elephant) and the bhel puri episode.... millionaire purab wouldnt eat the roadside khanaa and i hated him more😡....and mainly because jassi was not in love with him but she agreed to marry purab as her parents were for it...and looooooooooool....i remember the episode when jassi tells purab that she agrees to marry him and purab's jaw fell down and his mouth opened up🤢....loooooooooooooooooooooooool....what a funny hilarious exprression..........and not to forget those J-P beach episodes.....🤢

and when jassi and purab got engaged i fumed😡.......and that party.....and Meenakshi Sinha😡😡........and especially when meenakshe asks Purab as to what he saw in Jassi😡😡...Meenakshi was like your dream girl had the eyes looking into which all the sleepiness of the early morning would fly away...those eyes which are as freh as the flower in bloom, the zulphein which aare as soft as the tender leaves etc etc.....😡😡😡..I was sure that we would dump jassi....especially after he just goes off to alibagh....thinks and thinks about his decision to marry jassi...and writes that deadly letter that your upbringing is different from mine and that we can at the most just be good friends.....and when purab dumped jassi, i was soooooooo happpppppppppppppppy😛 ..

I wouldnt say that I enjoyed the jealous armaan episodes as much as youll did as then i was not really sure as to whether armaan's love was true or not...like wen armaan reads raj's letter, he just tears the letter but never reacted in any different manner...so i was really suspicious as to whether or not his love was true......but when he runs behind jassi trying to stop her from boarding the flight to Mautitius, gets hurt, get admitted in the hospital but yet goes to the airport only to fins that jassi has left.....well, that was when i was fully convinced that he was in love with jassi......

i hated those mauritius episodes as armaan would be tadaping and purab would be with jassi dancing......like the devdas scene....armaan was fully drunk and yells out"I love you jassi" but madame j was in mauritius dancing with uncle purab🤢.....and the chances of a J-P union were so high that i used to curse purab so badly.....then after she came back as jessica(firstly it was supposed to be jaisinha) i liked the track ......and when purab quit jjkn, co one could have been happier than me😃.....i liked purab in alibagh but hated it when he tried to save jassi from armaan and sent arundhathi

lol, i have listed out why i hate purab😆😆 ....but it was fun😆

Edited by Buffie - 19 years ago
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Posted: 19 years ago
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initially when the promos were playing.....i would be like "who is this jassi???"... at the time i was just watching Kkusum....so i wasnt really into any of the shows......

i believe i missed the first 2 weeks of the show...and when i was flipping the channel after kkusum...i caught a glimpse of JASSI.......

FIRST REACTION ----> 😆 LMAO 😆
i laughed till i was cryingg....i would tape the title song (at the time it was Jassi with the pink umbrella) and i would re play it just to have a good laugh!!!! and i seriosuly thought Jassi was 13 years old on the show...she looked SOOOO YOUNG!!!!!!

I didnt like Apu at all....saw him in Pardes...thought he was crap (i know...how could i!? 😭) and then i slowly started gettinhg HOOKED on JJKN....i would skip Kkusum, but would not miss an episode of JJKN for the life of me..........it was just tooo good.........and i started lowingggggggg APU and MONA and RAJ and everyone on the SHOW......

and then....JandA happend............😳 and the rest is history.......

gosh....the memories................................
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Posted: 19 years ago
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I remember seeing those promos with Jassi twirling her pink umbrella and looking like a dumb school girl and I used to think...how could Sony even think to introduce something like this among the various kanjivaram clad heroines of those days....

Then I saw the first episode and immeidetly started relating to it, and the ever romantic i me started dreaming about the day she would be the boss there.

Those days I was completely into Star Plus, totally hooked to Sanjivani, Kehta hai dil and des me nikla, in that order. But JJKN started making inroads, so much so that I started switching channels, getting the other serials only when the break came, except for Sanjivani. Then a time came when I was totally and completely hooked to the hillarious antics of the gang, the one upmanship game between Aryan and Armaan, the idiocies of Paru and funny and wicked humour of Raj. I loved watching the goofy Jassi and waited patiently for the day when Armaan Suri would fall flat on his arrogant nose and start loving the ugly Jassi.

Then I came to US and followed it thru the Set India updates (which were weird to say the least) and for a while I lost interest with continuing insults from Armaan and she not winning anything....Purab came and the interest that was left was almost gone......when suddenly the show sprang back to life and we were treated to those unbelievable ramance and conflict of love and hate, the fall and rise of Armaan Suri.....

Ahhh those were the days....
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Posted: 19 years ago
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I shall also give in my own views...!! 😃

Well, i will start off from the beginning. I was already mad enough that such a geeky show is replacing Kutumb, all though Naam Gum Jayga had came after Kutumb. 😕 I started with the first episode and saw this 'JASSI' - LMAOOO!! 😆😆 I could NOT BELEIVE that they were gonna show this ugly looking girl as the main actress!!! I imanged Gauri, or other big stars in glasses and everything...thinking who would play this role...when i saw it...i was like HUH??? EWWWW!!! They show was filled with new comers...!! 🤢🤢 Then i saw armaan..."god, i have really seen him somewhere, but WHERE"..and when i remembered he is the rajeev from pardes...oh my god...i was mad!! 😆 I continued with the show thinking of only one thing - that his armaan suri and jassi are gonna be together at the end, how will he fall in love with such a ugly person... ( the thought of watching the show for jassi was NOT in my mind! 😆🤢) it got quite interesting though!!! 😉 In about a month..adored Armaan....he was cute and everything. But actually became a Armaan lover from when he started his 'I love you Jassi' natak. He had just gotten TOOOOO adorbale and funny then!! Mallika was actually one thing that really got me into the show too! 😆😆 Then Purab...😡😡😡 I dont want to talk about him, i HATED him!! and still dooo...! Even if jassi didnt need him, he squeezed in...all he bragged about was the fact that he has more companies the Armaan, blah blah blah!! 😡🤢 The JandA romance came in from the day when Armaan said "i love you jassi' in the rain closing his eyes...ahh i still remember, that was the first time i was actually jumping up and down....😆😳😆 I actually thought that Jassi was pretty with the specs and everything. 😃 I am forgetting Nandu here...i thought he was the god of uglyness!! 🤢😆😳 But Oh he came out to be one cutiee!! 😉 Anyways, when it came to Armaan's jealously....OOOOOHHH i was CRAZY....i blabbed about him all day long...said 'i love you' one million times a day!! 😳...I was amazed, how he fell in love with Jassi...it was just so beautifull....!! i said..."jassi jaisi koi nahie" 😃😆 Purab the dumby was still in the way!! everytime jassi yelled at him, or refused to be with him, i partiedd!! 😆 It was from those days when JJKN became a part of my lifee..! 😳 The craze increased when i actually came to I-F an year ago...i figured that i'm not the only one thats crazyly drooling over armaan! 😆 JandA romance came to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL after that valentine huggggg....😳😳...i swear that has been one of the most PASSIONATE and AWESOMEST scenes of JandA....😳😳😳

I was only 11 at the time, and that show showed me what love meant, how important someone could be in your life...!! 😳😳

And now the show...i never thought it would turn out to be like this...! 😕 I feel soo bad when i hear people say that JJKN is such a bad show, or what have they done to it....even though thats the truth to an extent...

But i guess that i am addicted to the show! 😳😆

Now i should calm down...all i can say is that THOSE WERE THE DAYS! 😃

Mallika~

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