How JJKN gave ME a makeover! - Page 2

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that was awesome. both apurva and blyton 👏 👏.

i have watched this serial from day 1. there was so much hype and i was just curious. the story had a good pace and was different from all the stuff we had been seeing so far... so i was stuck with it.... to the point when i had to google to find updates for the portions i missed....

i would usually wanted to shake jassi out of her passiveness initially when she would take all the beating from her boss without a protest. i could not understand how she could fall in love with him. purab was the best thing that happened to her, in term of handing her back her self esteem. i was still unable to comprehend why she still preffered armaan. the first sour note came when purab turned crazy and left her after the engagement. he lost for me a that point and he had no reason to hope for anything from her after that... then armaan did an equal crazy turn and realised that he could not live without his jassi...

i think the decision to leave the BLF track was a terrible one. i have not been able to let go of the story completely, but have not been able to take the bloopers either....

Blyton wonderfully written. Apurva I am always contemplating going back to work. My daughter is the only child... so I feel she will be more lonely if she has to come back home to a NANNY. Your post only made me stronger that I should remain home longer just for her.


I started watching JJKN in my mom's house when we were there on vacation. I loved everything about Jassi. Her specatacled look, her simpleness.
Secondly I was at this stage in life where I was neither working nor studying. That gave me plenty of free time to pursue my hobbies. I loved watching JJKN at 9.30 pm and made sure my daughter was in bed and hubby was in the GYM. To get uninterrupted quota of JJKN. I never even spoke to my hubby at that time... I always shushed him and said later... 😉 😉 And he is the most cooperative hubby he patiently waited for JJKn to be over.
Growing up in Bombay I never ever had the time or energy to enjoy any other serial as much as I did with JJKN. In Bombay major chunk of our time goes in studying working and travelling. In US it was like I said peaceful without any distractions....

After NOV 2004 I got addicted to the romance between J and A... And to a very large extent all the postings by fellow JJKN writers got me drawn towards Armaan and Jassi.

I have to admit I always thought PURAB was husband material and wished he and Jassi be together. Those days Armaan was a big casanova . Rude and Bossy . But when A fell for J that was the best ......Purab had taken a back seat 😆 😆 after all he did ditch Jassi with just a letter ....

JJKN rocked for me. We didn't get Star plus. So we were saved from EKTA's serials.

JJKN truly was a great serial till August 5th😭

Now waiting to watch the reruns and discuss them on our JJKN group...😉

OMG blyton that was so sweet of you to share your story with us. I am really touched and impressed by your courage too. I can now imagine what jassi means to you. I still have to read apurva's part.

Oh Blyti and Apurva, your stories brought a lump to my throat. I can so totally empathise with your emotions.

As for me, I can identify with jassi at so many different levels - when I was in school, i was this studious nerdy girl WITH braces, which were bigger and scarier than jassi's 😆

In college, I used to wear these ill-fitting suits like jassi, which used to "hang" on me and gave me the nickname "hanger". My hubby used to call me "chuchundar" as well, as I used to walk timidly along the sides of the corridors instead to walking confidently in the middle like most people do!!! And not to mention my clumsiness. I fall and drop things like nobody's business!!! 😆

Then like jassi, i too fell in love with a guy (my hubby), who, although physically is completely the opp of armaan, was a total casanova. So many times i had to help him get out of sticky situations. For him i was a very good friend, whom he could totally trust and confide in. For me - he was and still is, the world. Like Armaan, he too realized his feelings for me after I left.

I could go on and on - there are so many things that happened in my life that are similar to scenes in jjkn -like the time jassi and armaan lost their home when jassi was expecting or the scene where Armaan pops a piece of chocolate in jassi's mouth. Only in my case it was this huge round lollypop, who's stick broke just as I was pulling it out. So here I was with this huge lolly which was bigger than my mouth. I couldn't spit it out as at that time i was totally in awe of my hubby and didn't want to give him a bad impression. Neither could I bite it - it was much too hard, so i just kept my mouth shut and grinned foolishly at everyone for half an hour until it finally dissolved 😆

Anyway, as i was saying, like Blyti, sometimes while watching jjkn i too have wondered whether they stole a particular episode from my own personal diary 😆

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG di 😳 ...what an exciting romantic story ...........no wonder you love jjkn so much 😉😳

I have wathced JJKN from september 2003 but i must say, i was not really enarmoured with the show till march 2005.The concept was appealing, it was atypical,amusing and outre 😆 ...it was very anomalistic and stood out from the rest.....i got hooked to the show instantly......initially i used to watch it for out and out entertainment


i couldnt connect to jassi completely as jassi(albiet clumsy and butterfingered) was sketched to be the quintessential daughter , every father's dream......perfect to the T, obedient and had a very acquiescent nature and always used to listen to her dad even if she wanst too impressed with certain views 😕....very subdued and submissive and used to comply with everything that her family used to tell her....i was never ever like that and thus i wouldnt lie saying that i could completely connect to jassi 😉 ................armaan on the other hand was an oaf 😕 ....spoilt,insensitive and manipulative....so as i said, initially i couldnt connect to either of them but watched it for plain recreation.....


I used to get irritated when armaan manoeuvred jassi into fudging the balance sheets and jassi used to comply coz of her love for armaan.....I have said this earlier in malks' "ek jhalak mein hi" thread that i loved purab when he boosted jassi's confidence in alibagh, told her to love herself as she loves everyone else but herself......and jassi's changed attitude was a treat to watch....but when he returned again as a suitor for jassi, i hated it as the it seemed as though my jandA fantasy was pulverized 😭😳

Things started getting more and more annoying as armaan was made completely negative and my JandA dreams were almost squelched when thankfully purab left ......and from then, boy, i've gone bonkers over the show 😳 ...It was armaan that i really connected to 😃.....Armaan's character was an enigma...the change was so believeable and it was a gradual one contrary to what we get to see on tv where overnight the villain becomes a saint 🤢 .....And what was really commendable was how armaan sustained his change....Jasdsi easily ran away, and left armaan all alone to face the wrath of his parents, mallika and the remaining board members...armaan was deep in debt and faced with forfeiture of GM.....puru never missed an oppurtunity to call jassi a thief.....ila was ceaselessly egging on armaan to forget about jassi and move on with mallika...mallika incessantly poisoned armaan saying that jassi betrayed him....aryan was the worst......raj too wasnt all that supportive(infact he was no better than the rest 🤢 )......the walias were antagonistic...nandu was belligerent.....inshort, he had none on his side....and that's when a person is the most vulnerable and can be swayed if one is not impregnable......kudos to armaan's invincible spirit .......rising after a fall is not easy especially when everyone in the vicinity are hostile ......and where i identified with armaan was in his indomitable trust in what he believed was right and doggedly defending jassi to everyone 👏 ...when i say i identify, its not that i literally identify with armaan but analogously i could identify 😳😃 ....i do identify with armaan's passion for whatever he does, he's partially a zealot, so am i 😛😕(which is bad as sometimes its better to let go 😉 )

what an imbecle armaan was! and how he changed!!!!!that was the the USP of jjkn.........though jassi had an image make over, it was armaan's mental makeover that realy moved me 😃👏 ....


My adulation for armaan extended upto apurva as i REALLY thought that for someone to pull off a character so well, one has to @least to some extent identify with the character in real life too.....SHEESH!!!!!there was not a scintilla of truth in what i assumed....Apu is just a great actor , that's it.....everything ends there.....I used to really like apu but now i hate myself for being soooo stupid 🤢 ...what an uxorious, dumb fellow 😕...and ever aftre i saw KF where maninie and shilpa acted soo foolishly(SS even went on to say that abhi is dark and one needs a torch to see his face at night 😡😡😡 ), i hate apu all the more 🤢 ....what a whipped spineless fellow......but credit where its due, he played armaan impeccably and full marks for that

wow hansa and blyton and apurva,such beautiful experiences ....wow .....
well I watched JJKN's first episode out of mere coincidence. I was switching channels when Ii saw this gal and I was shocked.I even thought she was a man at first and then the very first episode she touched my heart when she cried to her parents for her being "ugly"

.From that day we watched jassi and we even got our neighbours who didnt know even a word of hindi to watch and they got hooked too.They would ask me akka(sister) what happened in JJKN 2day"

Later I got married and came to the U.S where we didnt have dish until july and I had no idea abt IF or any yahoogroups so i missed JJKN and I was actually bored too after purab's entry in JJKN .

But all this changed the day arman realised his love for jassi ,from then on i got emotionally attached and frantically searched the net for updates and groups and thats when i joing J_p GROUP AND IF .

Since then it has been a beautiful journey.I have no friends nearby so IF is the only place where I have so many friends .My husband thought I was wasting my time reading updates and spending so much time for a serial but he later understood that it was not just abt the serial but abt the bonding and friendship with all of you .He too reads some of the posts that I show him and he laughs witt me .

For me , JJKN was a serial that brought so many from around th world together and bonded us and gave us wonderful lifelong friends.
I will miss u all and hope to keep in touch with all of you

The one thing that I loved abt JJKN is that ,the love shown between a-j was so pure and passionate.Arman inspite of being so arraogant and having so many flaws ,changed and his entire life was for jassi and not even once did he think abt anyone else after he fell in love with her and the best part was that he was a fighter and he ws determined to win jassi's love and never let her go .This was a change from the ghisa pita sacrifice that we see in so many other serials.

I also loved the fact that inspite of so many misunderstandings,evil forces,separations and whole other obstructions ,their love was steady and strong ad they never stopped loving each other and stayed true to their love I too want my love to be like that,steady and strong in all times.

In an era where heroines married several times and heroes marrying several times,this love story was unique and true. JJKN showed what true love is and that love conquers all👏

Awwwwwwww Sid!!! no wonder jjkn is so close to our hearts and we all connect so well with each other 😊

oooooh armaaan.. 😳

ok now to the topic! 😆 seriously i started watching jassi beacuse of the hype and wow!!what a totally different concept it was...from a young age i myself used to despise the importance given to looks specially for girls in an conservative indian society!! 😕
i liked jassi a lot though sometimes did wonder how she listened to all her father's orders..but still i thought she was lucky..perfect family friend career only thing she was "ugly"..but i could undertand how everyone of us does want to be pretty! 😛
coming to Armaan well he was an insensitive jerk..but somehow i used to sympathise with him (he never pretended to be someone better and somehow didnt know what love was all about 😳 )!!and the romantic in me beleived he would one day fall for jassi..
i just loved jassi-armaan's relationship!!the way they used to share their deep secrets and talk ...perfect couple!!i always felt armaan had feelings for jassi which might not necessarily be 'love' !its only when you lose something that you realise its true value!!armaan took jassi for granted and imagined she would always be there for him !!though he used to "patoafy jassi' for gulmohur somehwhere i thought this stupid guy cannot survive wothout his secretary..i mean love need not neccsesarily be all about candle light dinner and bedroom romance!!this where i felt mallika was lacking!she might have loved him but she niether trusted him nor tried to understand him...
i am now glad jassi gave him a second chance!!!! 😳
He's a character i will never forget!!(oh my..i have almost written a composotion on him! 😆 )
As for purab well never liked him as i could never connect to this guy and perhaps i thought him to be a perfect kabab me haddi in armaan-jassi's story..
and when he dumped jassi well!god gave him a chance and he let go it himself...
but i do feel guilty sometimes that i never liked this guy who actually was a good human being.. 😛 !!!
well inspite of some cruel twists TD gave some memories of jjkn i will never forget some memories!!
Hope they give it a fairytale ending with all our armaans coming true! 😳