Originally posted by: Sabdabhala
HOLA AUTHOR SAHIBA 🤗 AN EXCELLENT UPDATE ⭐️ FAST MOVING AND WORTH EVERY BIT OF PATIENCE, AND HOW !!!
LET ME SHARE MY COMMENTS
This is beautiful for its gesture, masterful in the way it has captured all the nuances of 47 and sublime in the way it has been presented Lavanya!🤗 This truly IS your best review till date, me thinks... I was bowled over and I don't say this as flattery... there were elements in this write up that enlisted the undercurrents of the sentences/scenes as I'd intended for them to be!Thanks a ton for this gift! 🤗
SAYYID - HE IS USTAAD'S STUDENT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! VALIANT AND BRAVE. HIS MIND STAYS SHARP EVEN IN THE TOUGHEST OF SITUATIONS. HE THINKS WITH PERSPECTIVE, ALWAYS HAS THE BIG PICTURE IN HIS MIND.
👍🏼 and the underlined - that is what it is all about!
HE NEEDS TO BE APPLAUDED FOR HIS THOUGHTS, ACTIONS AND EXEMPLARY EFFORTS, BUT THIS APPLAUSE SHOULD BE MOST FOR HIS SENSE OF PRIORITIZATION!!! EVEN AT SUCH A TIME OF CRISIS HIS THOUGHTS ARE ABOUT HIS MENTOR AND ALL THE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON HIM!!! ⭐️
As you said earlier... it's about the big picture! Good people know to put others before themselves - especially when it's the question of many! And for Sayyid - like for AMK - their men are the only family he has..
KHAN SAHIB HAS CERTAINLY CHOSEN WELL AND TRAINED THEM WELL, NO DOUBT, BUT THE MORE IMPORTANT THING THAT STANDS OUT FOR ME IN THIS SCENE IS THE TRUST THAT THE SAHIB SHOWS ON HIS MEN - HE SHARES EVERYTHING WITH THEM BECAUSE OF WHICH THEY ARE ABLE TO APPRECIATE HIS DECISIONS AND VALUE THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES MUCH MORE 👏
He shares with them what needs to be shared. For example, he hadn't told anyone about Kunwar Mahendar till they actually needed to capture the Tejraj's friend and even then possibly not everything. But they have seen his decisions succeed time after time.. they have seen he always means well and balances practicality with idealism... so they do as asked! This is also life in the military. You follow orders - with no questions asked even today!
BOND, OUR ASSASSIN, SEEMS TO HAVE GOT REALLY LUCKY WITH THIS ONE!! 😉
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THE SNIPPET ABOUT THE VAID THAT RESCUED AND TREATED SAYYID WAS SUPERB - THE WAY HE DEPICTED SAYYID'S CONDITION, AND THE RATIONALE THAT HE SEEMED WELL GROOMED AND NOT IN POOR WAYS. AND VERY TYPICAL OF THAT ERA WAS HIS THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE FAILING HIS GURU IF HE GAVE UP SAAYID TO THE SOLDIERS FOR A FEW COINS, AND HIS ACCEPTANCE THAT NOW SAYYID WILL NOT WAIT ANY LONGER 👏.
👏👍🏼 so well said!
I LOVED THE THOUGHTS IN SAYYID'S MIND ABOUT THE COINS ⭐️ EVEN IN SO MUCH PAIN HIS THOUGHTS ARE LOGICAL AND CLEAR
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INTERROGATION - THIS SCENE WAS AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO READ!!! AND YOUR PROWESS AS THE WRITER AND CREATOR CAME OUT STRONG IN THIS SCENE
Really? Thank you da😳
EACH DETAIL CAME OUT VIVIDLY IN MY MIND. AND WHAT A SMOOTH MANOEUVRE!! THE DIALOGUES WERE SPOT ON, THE KNIVES THROWING WAS CHIC, AND THE CLOTHES STOLEN FROM THE LINE WERE THE ICING ON THE CAKE 😆😉
Awww 😆
HERE TOO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRISONER WAS DONE TO PERFECTION - FIERCELY LOYAL TO RAJPUT HONOR, RULES AND HIS HUKUM. BUT NOT BLINDLY SUPPORTIVE OF KUNWARSA. IN HIS HEART OF HEARTS HE KNEW THAT HIS CAPTORS WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE KUNWAR IN THEIR ACCUSATIONS, AND HENCE HE REVEALED THE INFO
I am glad... I wanted him very much to be a normal man... like us... neither a caricature... nor a lofty folkish Rajput with an overblown sense of valour. But a commoner who knew right from wrong and practical from impractical.
I HAVE A FEELING THAT HE WOULD HAVE BUCKLED EVEN WITHOUT SEEING HIS KIDS' CLOTHES, BUT I GUESS THE CLOTHES JUST HASTENED THE PROCESS
Definitely, it was the threat to his family + horror stories of what he'd heard about Ustaad that led him to buckle!
PARNAGARH - THE HAPPINESS THAT HEERA FELT WHEN MOHAN BANNA WAS FINALLY PAIN FREE AND HEALTHY WAS LOVELY TO READ! SINCE KHAN SAHIB HAD CONFIDED IN HIM AND GIVEN HEERA HIS RATIONALE FOR THE SAME, I WAS HOPING THAT HE WOULD EMERGE STRONGER SOON. BUT THEY WAY YOU DESCRIBED THE SCENE - HEERA'S SMILES, BINDIYA'POEM... WAS A PLEASURE! 👏
Oh really? Thank you da😳
THE WHOLE KHAN SAHIB IS COMING AND HEERA PLAYS COY SCENE WAS HILARIOUS - 😆 BINDIYA'S PREDICTIONS WERE SPOT ON AND VERY REFRESHING TO READ. AND I LOVED WHAT YOU WROTE ABOUT GAURI - BEING SUCH AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN HEERA'S LIFE, I REALLY LOVED TO READ ABOUT GAURI'S FEELINGS OF ELATION ABOUT HEERA AND KHAN SAHIB 👏👏
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THE RIDE - WHAT CAN I EVEN SAY ABOUT THIS MARVELLOUS SCENE LASHY DEAR 😳⭐️
>>>☺️FOR ME THE BEST PORTION TO READ IN THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER WAS THE PARA ON THE LIBERATION THAT HEERA FEELS WHILE SHE IS RIDING WITH HER SAHIB
IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING ELSE 👏⭐️
HER IMMEDIATELY AGREEING TO ACCOMPANY HIM.
I hope I do not come across too proud when saying so... but I find this trait of Heera so refreshing and so different... without losing her own sense of identity, she has assimilated herself completely in him. And has no problem dropping whatever she does to say a 'Yes' to him, knowing his every ask would have a justified reason behind it!
HER JOY IN HIS SMILE, HER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THIS COULD BE FOR, HER RECKLESS ABANDON GIVING LITTLE IMPORTANCE TO PROPRIETY...UFFF
Reckless abandon... isssh☺️I COULD VIVIDLY IMAGINE BOTH OF THEM ON BAHADUR...
HEERA'S BREAKING DOWN WAS BEAUTIFULLY EXPRESSED. I COULD FEEL HER ANGER ON THE KUNWAR FOR HIS DUPLICITY, I COULD FEEL HER ANGER ON HERSELF FOR TRUSTING THE KUNWAR
THEIR SCENE OF ABORTED INTIMACY WAS ETHEREAL, AND THE PROMISE THAT THE SAHIB MAKES WAS ❤️
I am so liking your choice of words here aborted intimacy and ethereal would rarely be used in one sentence and you've made it sound so perfect!OF COURSE, THE MASTERSTROKE OF THIS CHAPTER WAS THE BOW AND ARROW SCENE
THE THOUGHT, THE PLANNING, AND THE EXECUTION - EVERYTHING WAS JUST SO SO PERFECT
SAHIB CONVEYED HIS MESSAGE IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE
I am so so so so glad!😳
TWO THINGS STOOD OUT FOR ME IN THIS SCENE
1. KHAN SAHIB WANTED TO SHARE EVERYTHING WITH HER IMMEDIATELY, AND FOR THIS, HE HAD METICULOUSLY PLANNED THIS ENTIRE OUTING IN THE WOODS THING SO PERFECTLY, SO THAT SHE LISTENS TO HIS UPDATE, GETS SOME TIME TO GRIEVE WITHOUT BEING NOTICED, AND WHEN HE WOULD BE AROUND TO SUPPORT HER
Yes...
2. HEERA TOO IS BECOMING MRS USTAAD WITH GREAT SPEED. SHE UNDERTANDS HIS MOTIVES AND WANTS TO BE HIS BIGGEST STRENGTH AND ALLY. SHE EMBOLDENS HERSELF TO GIVE HIM RESPITE, EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS RECEIVED THE WORST NEWS HERSELF
Yes again...
BOTH ARE BECOMING A TEAM TO RECKON WITH
Whistle podu comment!😎SHEHZAADE - KUNWAR - I HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN THAT KUNWAR WAS PLANNING TO MEET WITH THE SHEHZAADE, AND HENCE I WAS QUITE SHOCKED THAT IT WAS SO SOON
Oh yes... he was planning for ages... even before the hunting trip... and with the messenger's blurted info, he had the perfect ammunition... didn't want to waste time since every past plan had been foiled... Plus strategically he was at the perfect spot to head off to the capital - seeing how he was in the MP/UP borders already
THIS SCENE TOO WAS A PLEASURE TO READ, AND THE BUILD UP WAS SUPERB
I LIKED THAT THE SHEHZAADE IS SCEPTICAL OF THE KUNWAR'S INTENTIONS AND TREATS HIM WITH DISDAIN, BUT WONDERING HOW LONG KHAN SAHIB'S GOOD LUCK WILL LAST. HOPE THE SHEHZAADE FIGURES OUT ABOUT KUNWAR KHALIL NEXUS BEFORE HE GETS TO KNOW THE INFO ON KHAN SAHIB'S TREASON.
Wait and watch da!
BUT EVEN THEN, THE NEWS OF TREASON WILL CERTAINLY NOT BODE WELL FOR HIM, THATS FOR SURE.
True...
SO THIS TIME OUR WAIT AND WATCH IS GOING TO BE FRAUGHT WITH WORRY!!!
SO THATS IT FROM ME
THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL UPDATE - BEAUTIFULLY WORDED AND EXPERTLY PRESENTED
And I thank you for this wonderful.. beautifully worded and expertly presented review on it!🤗 love you loads!
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