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Posted: 8 years ago
My harshu 🤗
just mind blowing updte lashy👏i felt d attitude of AMK was like coconut hard from outside soft within i mean d softness reserved fr heera sahiba only...😉
Of course...but, isn't he always like that?

but d dn chachajaan could see d reason behind dis attitude it wasnt a normal one but he was hiding it from heera only to protect her from his enemies...
Of course!
d chap was emotional and sad too so finally both will part from each other...dis parting scene was painful indeed...
Awww dear... 🤗
anyways m waiting for more from ur next updte...🤗❤️

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Posted: 8 years ago
Akkaaa!!🤗

This was so so so heartbreaking! My heart goes out to Heera, with every passing second I saw her expectations and happiness fading, her heart breaking at his indifference. The one time, the one person she had found happiness and a sense of safety with after her jiji and she's broken all over again.

Gauri's fears are so genuine. As much as I know she doesn't understand Akbar and his nature the way Heera does, I also know that she doesn't want to cos it's not something that matters to her. It's Heera who matters, she's been sensing and observing Heera's every action since long. Her protectiveness and sisterly concern for Heera makes me love her so much!

The interaction between Akbar and Heera was heartbreaking. Like it said, she didn't expect him to embrace her again or maybe even show his feelings..she probably just wished he would acknowledge what happened the other day. She wanted to know what went through him, his mind after that incident..did it mean anything to him at all?

But nothing! No reactions, no looks- the Khan Sahib she knew and understood didn't surface at all...it hurt so much to think of what must she have gone through at that moment. Plus he says he barely remembers anything. She must have been shattered ille?! The indifference must have hurt so much after all that transpired..and he just says a sorry, incase anything wrong had been said or done when for her it was the first time she had felt something right in those few moments with him. *sigh*

But but but, the self-respect she has is the best part of her and she just showed it again! That's the best bit of this chapter for me..she held her head high and left.

For once, not in the mood to talk about Akbar, even knowing he's not at fault in any of this. He's just doing what's best for them both, and the fact that he considered marriage for the first time in his life, his fists curling up imagining another man marrying his Heera or touching her and yet having to let all of it go because that would be safest for her and him..made me feel bad for him as well.

But this chapter belonged to Heera. This woman is an inspiration! The manner in which she walked out of his chamber makes me proud of her. It doesn't matter if it was Akbar on the other side.

Now with her leaving I suppose the marriage proposal thing would come up. I can't imagine what she would feel to be asked to marry a guy she considered her jija.

Wonderful wonderful chapter di...you make every bit of it so special and every emotion come to life! Love you!🤗

Nathu's song selection is PERFECT!!! My forever favourite song goes so well with one of my favourite FFs!


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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: harshu27

However, when she was seated within her palanquin, about to take off - there was a small corner of her heart that wasn't ready to leave yet. A corner that hadn't managed to shake off the disbelief, wondering if his familiar voice would call out from the other side of the haveli gates, going - 'Stop... please put the palanquin down... I have to talk to the Sahiba!'




Excellent da... I loved this... you have no idea how much I enjoy your musings... and today you've got them perfectly... 110% apt
Beautiful her expressions here - 'lost' is emoted perfectly!

Originally posted by: harshu27

Crossing the line of threshold, she stepped into the unfamiliar chamber - a spare room, perhaps. It was a part of the haveli that she'd never been in before.

Glancing ahead, at a far end of the room, Heera observed his shadow that loomed over the lattice screen he stood facing. His shoulders were stiff, his head held high - a mark of confidence. It was a good sign, wasn't it?





OMG... this part made me feel like I was watching the scene.. thanks a lot dear.. the best musing of all the musings you've done so far... 👏
if you were here, I would've hugged you and not let you go for a good 10 seconds 😆

Originally posted by: harshu27

Two days she'd been waiting for an opportunity to meet him in person. And thankfully, the opportunity had come, just in time. Strangely though, all of a sudden, she found herself just as worried as she was relieved now - relieved that they were finally here, together, alone. But terribly worried where this path might lead to. Relieved that he appeared hale and healthy. But also worried that the recovery seemed to have replaced his vulnerability with an air of formality, once again.

Calming her nerves, Heera attempted to end the most unsettling spell of stillness she'd ever encountered

'Salaam Khan Sahib...'


'Salaam Sahiba...'

Another awkward lull followed - him waiting for her to continue, while she waited for him to.

So, Heera decided to begin the conversation, by enquiring after his health.

But just as she was about to speak up, he beat her to it - by coming straight to the point.

'I heard you wanted to meet me... personally...' Akbar turned around, to face her 'something important to discuss, Sahiba?'





God! look at her silently nervous expressions... and his 'unmoved' looks...
Edited by lashy - 8 years ago
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Posted: 8 years ago
Awesome chapter n thnxx for pm
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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

As wonderful a chapter of the pains of love as the stable chapter for the womders and joys of it. Read it twice and found it more of a melancholy filled poetry than a chapter of a story.

Awww how sweet... thanks so much Sandy 🤗

The forest scene was so vivid, AMK's kashmakash palpable. And his decision understandable.
❤️ I loved writing that scene too.. personally, I feel, those were the kind of 'scenes' that JA barely showed us.. and CN is depriving us of!

Can't decide whose condition is more heart tugging. Heera's or Akbar's.

Pain due to ignorance of the truth. Or pain due to knowledge of the terrible truth.
😭

Now with Mahender's ear-filling, Heera is going to think that AMK played along or behaved so gentle-man-like for his assignment's sake. She'll be sure that he had wantonly decieved her with his pretense courtesies so that she doesn't suspect him. She'll hate him and herself more for having fallen for his pretenses.

Hmmm... Mahendar is not in camp Shehzaade... he is trying to become part of camp Shehzaade... so, he doesn't know the nuances of the plans here...
that's the thing... no one knows about the Farmaan yet... AMK doesn't know about Mahendar... Shehzaade/Khalil don't know about what's going on here in Aidabad... Shehzaade doesn't know about this Khalil-Mahendar covert contract either... Chitranjan knows nothing😆
and the one thing that connects all of this is
1) Farmaan
2) Heera

Basically, knowledge is power😉

The parting scene, Heera's hesitancy and anticipation and increasing disappointment at his indifference was so well built. Excellent Lashy.👏 So was our Hero's sternness that hid all the tempest within him which only his chachajaan could decipher. But like Akbar he too didn't have a solution.
😭 thanks da
Only the clever Lashy Granger has one.😳
🤗

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Posted: 8 years ago
The heartbreak - Part 1 - Heera.



I leave you Saahib, forever now
I knew i would some day
But not so broken. How oh how?
Could you send me off in this way!

You were a support, my sole solace
In my days of sorrow and grief
I felt so much at home at your place
Though my stay here was very brief

Like noone else, you understood me
Your presence dispelled my fears
But not even once, did i ever forsee
That you'll give me so much tears

You saved me once, from a venomous sting
You spared me pain and ache
But with your aloofness and cold parting
You've given me worse, a heartbreak

Reassured i felt, in your soothing embrace
Though you were unsteady and faint
You remember nothing, you say, in your daze
To whom do i address my plaint

I turn around to see, if you'll wish me so long
If you'll give me a gentle farewell
To assure me that, i didn't read you wrong
That my despondency i can dispel

Whatever i had lost, when i came here, i had
My pride, my spirit, my heart
Oh stranger, you have wounded them all
Your attitude has torn me apart

Misfortunes mine or destiny's score
That tragedy has struck me twice
Forced me to leave my shelter once more
Devastated and without device.


Edited by Sandhya.A - 8 years ago
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Posted: 8 years ago
Writer-e-khaas,

Our Akbar is one torn man ... and maybe Heera and Akbar are torn apart in this chapter, but that is where the Part 2 starts on how they come back together.

This week my take will be short and I don't even know how to describe it. However, somewhere I felt that every interaction Akbar had was somewhere a reflection of a part of him, and in combination tore him into conflicting pieces.

Did that even make sense? Maybe not, so I will try to clarify with my take. This is all in Akbar's perspectives.

1. The wolves that I hunt with, with their piercing, glassy eyes, were the demons of my own heart and mind that haunt me. They make me aim in all different directions, consider every option. Will I be able to hunt them down or will they hunt me down only time will tell.

2. The hazel eyes of Sahiba - so pure, so clear are a mirror to my own consciense. The way her eyes question me, the way they seek the truth from me, they burn down all the facades that I have used to silence my own conscience. Alas, it may be too late, may be too late for my conscience to ever come clean. Instead, I stand in front of her a different man, a heartless man.

3. But my heart is very much there, beating under the buttons of fate that have enclosed it in its trap. Cha Cha Jaan is that heart, pouring out, unhinged, recognizing my troubed state. His questions of "You're ready to let her go" and his perception of my jealousy as I thought of Sahiba's life with another, made my own heart come out. And out came every reasoning that convinced me to suffocate my heart to submission- that letting her go was the best option. I could silence Cha Cha Jaan but how could I silence my own heart. And so, my heart still weighed heavily.

4. A heart weighed down by my brain and Shehzaade was that brain. A mastermind who recognized my talent and raised me up in life. Now, I wanted to repay him with the price of my heart.

It was this brain that created an escape route for everything my heart wanted. It was this brain that does not view the gifted ladoos as a cherished token but as a gateway to Parnagarh.

5. And I Akbar, am torn between all these facets of me - the demons, the conscience, the heart, and the brain. I am fighting between the black and the color of my life. So far, I have pushed the burst of rainbow behind the stormy clouds. But you know, there may be one ray of hope that the color may come back? And that is ...

our writer-e-khaas! And now I come out of my take. This idea of a take, of metaphors and personification of Akbar's emotions, is an attempt and I am not sure it worked. But hope it captured some of the turmoil of Akbar. When I saw how he hunted with the wolves, I immediately felt it amazingly captured one facet of his turmoil with each twang and the metaphor continued for me as I read the chapter. So much so, I wanted to capture it as my take immediately. So, kudos to your amazing writing.

And now, I am ready for part 2! You already took a vacation. I demand it sooner.
Edited by divyavm - 8 years ago
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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: lashy



😕 😲 😡 ⭐️ 👏
Sandy 🤗


😲 So many emoticons!
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Posted: 8 years ago
Wow..what a way to pen a story..leave the reader in the shoes of the protagonist's. brilliantly weaved together and I cannot pay a better compliment than the verses out togther by Karkuzhali.
I have read the story in bits and pieces but from Chapter 18 I am caught hook, line and sinker. Will need to read from Chapter 1.

Thanks for the pleasure.
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Posted: 8 years ago
such a brilliant take divya di...👏

so soo loved it...❤️

especially this - A heart weighed down by my brain and Shehzaade was that brain. A mastermind who recognized my talent and raised me up in life. Now, I wanted to repay him with the price of my heart.

it was a touching one .
Edited by cute.manasi - 8 years ago

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