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Posted: 7 years ago

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Good morning Sachu Patti and all my dear baisas! 😳
Happy Saturday! 🤗

Good evening Lana di, Vathsy di, Rekha di and Aparna di 🤗 🤗 🤗 🤗
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Posted: 7 years ago
Olla Baisas, I hope you all are doing good !!
Now,Lashy sahiba, what a blazzzing hot chapter,every emotion is at the peak including my anxiety.
I knew when Ustaad left for capital, this is going to be a journey of freedom, freedom from the every shackle which were holding back our couple, from having happy ending of a peaceful life. But didn't know " How part, with this chapter now we can see that Hope is a only good thing and with that our couple will get their heaven.

The main difference between Ustaad and Prince, in regards to royalties which they get from their team is, Ustaad truly embraced them as family with out reminding what he did from them, on the other hand Prince, always keeps them in check by reminding what he did for them.

Congratulations Lashy sahiba for such a wonderful chappy 👏 🤗
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: al_pal

Olla Baisas, I hope you all are doing good !!
Now,Lashy sahiba, what a blazzzing hot chapter,every emotion is at the peak including my anxiety.
I knew when Ustaad left for capital, this is going to be a journey of freedom, freedom from the every shackle which were holding back our couple, from having happy ending of a peaceful life. But didn't know " How part, with this chapter now we can see that Hope is a only good thing and with that our couple will get their heaven.

The main difference between Ustaad and Prince, in regards to royalties which they get from their team is, Ustaad truly embraced them as family with out reminding what he did from them, on the other hand Prince, always keeps them in check by reminding what he did for them.

Congratulations Lashy sahiba for such a wonderful chappy 👏 🤗


OMG Pallu, after ages! 🤗 And what a dhamakedaar re-entry! 👏 Loved what you wrote here especially the difference between Shehzade and AMK! 👍🏼

How have you been? Less attendance here because of work? How is the first summer in Dallas so far? Making you climb up the snowy mountain yet? 😆
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: Sabdabhala

HOLA BAISAS 🤗

REALLY, WHAT A CHAPTER ⭐️


LANA I LOVED LOVED LOVED YOUR POEM 👏 SO RIGHT THAT THE SHEHZAADE GAVE KHAN SAHIB REBIRTH...BUT HIS EGO/DISPLEASURE/FEELING OF BEING HURT MADE HIM BLIND...ENOUGH TO LOSE SUCH A RARE GEM


ROSE BINDUP KAWSI LANA AND OTHERS...AWESOME REVIEWS 👏


AZZU KUKU 🤗 HAVE ROLLICKING FROLLICKING FUN 😉


AUTHOR SAHIBA...WHAT A MASTERPIECE ⭐️


LET ME FIRST START BY SAYING THAT I HAVE BEEN A LITTLE EXTRA CHEERFUL THE WHOLE OF TODAY 😉 I AM SURE YOU CAN GUESS WHY...


I AM PERSONALLY NOT FOND OF ROLLER COASTERS...BUT THIS CHAPTER WAS PHENOMENAL...WITH SUCH DANGEROUS TWISTS AND TURNS...THATI FOUND MYSELF BEING HURLED FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER...JUST LIKE A ROLLER COASTER


AS USUAL, ALL MY PRE UPDATE IMAGINATIONS WERE TOSSED RIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW 😆 I DONT KNOW WHY I EVEN TRY


YES, THE ONE THING THAT I CAN PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK FOR IS THAT I HAD AN INKLING THAT THE SHEHZAADE WOULD NOT HONOR THE FARMAAN, SPECIALLY NOT IN HEERA'S CASE, BECAUSE SHE WAS AN ACCUSED, JUST LIKE KHAN SAHIB


OF COURSE I HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THE NAJAAYAZ ANGLE THAT THE SLIMY FS BROUGHT IN - COME TO THINK OF IT, ACCORDING TO ME, THAT WAS THE ONLY PREDICTABLE EVENT OF THE UPDATE...WONDERING HOW THE SHEHZAADEIS NOT ABLE TO SEE THROUGH THE WEASLE 😡


I LOVED THE WAY THE INITIAL SCENES AT THE COURT ROOM PLAYED OUT...GOD IT WAS DEJA VU...😭 SEEING THE SAHIB SO DESOLATE...SPECIALLY AFTER THE SHEHZAADE REFUSED TO HONOR THE FARMAAN...MY HEART SANK...😭 THEIR FIRST THOUGHTS ABOUT EACH OTHER WERE SO BEAUTIFUL AND TENDER...😳


AND I JUST WANTED TO MURDER KHALIL FOR HIS COMMENT ON HEERA...😡


AND WHEN SAHIBS MEN WERE LED INSIDE...😭 I ENDED UP FEELING MORE HOPELESS THAN THE SAHIB...I COULD VIVDLY IMAGINE THEIR CONDITIONS - BATTERED, TORCHERED... UFF BUT WHAT MEN...I RAVE AND RANT ABOUT KHAN SAHIB'S SUPERB CHARACTERIZATION THAT YOU HAVE DONE...BUT EACH OF THESE MEN HAVE BEEN ETCHED TO PERFECTION BY YOU DEAR LASHY...👏 GOD!!! I REALLY HAVE NO WORDS...


SHEHZAADE'S IMPATIENCE AND UNWILLINGNESS TO OPEN HIS EYES MADE ME ACTUALLY FEEL SAD AND SORRY FOR HIM...I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE THAT THE HUZOOR, WHO SPOTTED TALENT IN THE SAHIB AT SUCH A TENDER AGE, WAS ABLE TO MENTOR AND GROOM HIM SO WONDERFULLY, WOULD LET HIMSELF BE SO CRUDELY BLINDSIDED...HE TOOK SAHIB'S ACTIONS TO HEART SO SERIOUSLY, THAT HE BECAME TOTALLY BLIND AND OBLIVIOUS TO EVERYTHING ELSE


SO CONSUMED WITH RAGE WAS HE THAT HE JUST COULD NOT SEE BEYOND KHAN SAHIB AND HIS CRIME...TCH TCH...HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO PAY SUCH A HEFTY PRICE


I LOVED THE WAY YOU HAVE DESCRIBED THE MENTAL UPHEAVALS THAT THE SAHIB AND HEERA EXPERIENCE...POIGNANT AND GUT WRENCHING 😭


THE 'AZEEZ DRAGGED TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK' SCENE WAS A WHOPPER 👏 AND EVEN IF YOU HAD NOT EXPLAINED ABOUT HIS SCOFFING LOOK WHILE BEING DRAGGED...I WOULD STILL IMAGINE IT SO...WHAT A HERO...KUKU 👏 TERI TO LIFE SET HAI BABY


THE TWISTS OF THE CHAPTER WERE SO WELL ORCHESTRATED...IT MADE FOR A SUPERB READ...OBVIOUSLY COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT FINALLY WE READERS WERE GIVEN SOME HOPE...LONG DUE, DONT YOU THINK. I LOVED HOW THE SAHIB COULD FINALLY PLAY THE OTHERS INTO DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVES...NICELY DONE 👏


MY LOVE AND RESPECT FOR THE SAHIB HAS MOVED UP A FEW NOTCHES...BECAUSE OF HIS MAGNANIMITY...HE KEPT TRYING TO REASON WITH HIS HUZOOR, KEPT TRYING TO MAKE HIM BELIEVE IN HIS INNOCENCE AND LOYALTY...AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE HUZOOR ANNOUNCED THEIR DEATH SENTENCE, AT THE VERY FAGEST END POSSIBLE - THAT THE SAHIB USED HIS ARSENAL AGAINST HIS MASTER...I THINK HE DISPLAYED THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF MORALITY THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN 👏


BUT, FOR ME, THE MASTERSTROKE OF THIS CHAPTER WAS THE SCENE WHERE THE USTAAD WAS KNEELING IN FRONT OF HIS HUZOOR...😭😭 GOSH...IT TORE MY HEART REALLY...AND IT LEFT IN MY MIND, AN IMAGE SO POWERFUL...THAT I AM ACTUALLY SPEECHLESS...AND I ALSO THINK THAT IT WAS THIS VERY SCENE THAT CAUSED A MINOR CHANGE IN THE HUZOOR'S ATTITUDE...ALMOST LIKE THE SHARP DAGGER HANGING ON THE SAHIB MOVED AWAY A LITTLE BIT...


THANKS FOR THIS TREAT, LASHY. I HOPE YOU HAVE A LOVELY VACATION!!! WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, REST ASSURED THAT ALL OF US WOULD HAVE A 1000 IDEAS ABOUT THE DUELS 😆


OF COURSE, NONE OF IT WILL EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE SURPRISE THAT YOU WOULD EVENTUALLY DISH OUT 😆


JUST A QUICK QUESTION - IN THE LAST SCENE, WAS THE SAHIB HINTING AT SHAHENSHAH OR AT THE HUZOOR???




Lavanya di 🤗
Wonderful review...especially the underline part 👏
I enjoyed reading it! 😳
You always speak your mind 😊
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: lashy


Omg Bindup... I was so shy-coming when I read these lines the other day
And I am so shy-coming now as I write my thoughts on it now...

>>> Aww 🤗 🤗 🤗


it's beautiful and I can't see how I could be deserving of such a lofty set of words...


>>> you deserve every bit of it...if only you can see yourself from our eyes 😳


but when coming from you, I wouldn't ever think of refusing anything...

>>> Thank you! 🤗


Thank you from the bottom of my heart!🤗 and from every corner of it! Thank you for coming into my life, dearie!


>>> same feeling di ! 🤗


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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: Sabdabhala

HOLA BAISAS 🤗

REALLY, WHAT A CHAPTER ⭐️


LANA I LOVED LOVED LOVED YOUR POEM 👏 SO RIGHT THAT THE SHEHZAADE GAVE KHAN SAHIB REBIRTH...BUT HIS EGO/DISPLEASURE/FEELING OF BEING HURT MADE HIM BLIND...ENOUGH TO LOSE SUCH A RARE GEM


ROSE BINDUP KAWSI LANA AND OTHERS...AWESOME REVIEWS 👏


AZZU KUKU 🤗 HAVE ROLLICKING FROLLICKING FUN 😉


AUTHOR SAHIBA...WHAT A MASTERPIECE ⭐️


LET ME FIRST START BY SAYING THAT I HAVE BEEN A LITTLE EXTRA CHEERFUL THE WHOLE OF TODAY 😉 I AM SURE YOU CAN GUESS WHY...


I AM PERSONALLY NOT FOND OF ROLLER COASTERS...BUT THIS CHAPTER WAS PHENOMENAL...WITH SUCH DANGEROUS TWISTS AND TURNS...THATI FOUND MYSELF BEING HURLED FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER...JUST LIKE A ROLLER COASTER


AS USUAL, ALL MY PRE UPDATE IMAGINATIONS WERE TOSSED RIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW 😆 I DONT KNOW WHY I EVEN TRY


YES, THE ONE THING THAT I CAN PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK FOR IS THAT I HAD AN INKLING THAT THE SHEHZAADE WOULD NOT HONOR THE FARMAAN, SPECIALLY NOT IN HEERA'S CASE, BECAUSE SHE WAS AN ACCUSED, JUST LIKE KHAN SAHIB


OF COURSE I HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THE NAJAAYAZ ANGLE THAT THE SLIMY FS BROUGHT IN - COME TO THINK OF IT, ACCORDING TO ME, THAT WAS THE ONLY PREDICTABLE EVENT OF THE UPDATE...WONDERING HOW THE SHEHZAADEIS NOT ABLE TO SEE THROUGH THE WEASLE 😡


I LOVED THE WAY THE INITIAL SCENES AT THE COURT ROOM PLAYED OUT...GOD IT WAS DEJA VU...😭 SEEING THE SAHIB SO DESOLATE...SPECIALLY AFTER THE SHEHZAADE REFUSED TO HONOR THE FARMAAN...MY HEART SANK...😭 THEIR FIRST THOUGHTS ABOUT EACH OTHER WERE SO BEAUTIFUL AND TENDER...😳


AND I JUST WANTED TO MURDER KHALIL FOR HIS COMMENT ON HEERA...😡


AND WHEN SAHIBS MEN WERE LED INSIDE...😭 I ENDED UP FEELING MORE HOPELESS THAN THE SAHIB...I COULD VIVDLY IMAGINE THEIR CONDITIONS - BATTERED, TORCHERED... UFF BUT WHAT MEN...I RAVE AND RANT ABOUT KHAN SAHIB'S SUPERB CHARACTERIZATION THAT YOU HAVE DONE...BUT EACH OF THESE MEN HAVE BEEN ETCHED TO PERFECTION BY YOU DEAR LASHY...👏 GOD!!! I REALLY HAVE NO WORDS...


SHEHZAADE'S IMPATIENCE AND UNWILLINGNESS TO OPEN HIS EYES MADE ME ACTUALLY FEEL SAD AND SORRY FOR HIM...I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE THAT THE HUZOOR, WHO SPOTTED TALENT IN THE SAHIB AT SUCH A TENDER AGE, WAS ABLE TO MENTOR AND GROOM HIM SO WONDERFULLY, WOULD LET HIMSELF BE SO CRUDELY BLINDSIDED...HE TOOK SAHIB'S ACTIONS TO HEART SO SERIOUSLY, THAT HE BECAME TOTALLY BLIND AND OBLIVIOUS TO EVERYTHING ELSE


SO CONSUMED WITH RAGE WAS HE THAT HE JUST COULD NOT SEE BEYOND KHAN SAHIB AND HIS CRIME...TCH TCH...HE IS GOING TO HAVE TO PAY SUCH A HEFTY PRICE


I LOVED THE WAY YOU HAVE DESCRIBED THE MENTAL UPHEAVALS THAT THE SAHIB AND HEERA EXPERIENCE...POIGNANT AND GUT WRENCHING 😭


THE 'AZEEZ DRAGGED TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK' SCENE WAS A WHOPPER 👏 AND EVEN IF YOU HAD NOT EXPLAINED ABOUT HIS SCOFFING LOOK WHILE BEING DRAGGED...I WOULD STILL IMAGINE IT SO...WHAT A HERO...KUKU 👏 TERI TO LIFE SET HAI BABY


THE TWISTS OF THE CHAPTER WERE SO WELL ORCHESTRATED...IT MADE FOR A SUPERB READ...OBVIOUSLY COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT FINALLY WE READERS WERE GIVEN SOME HOPE...LONG DUE, DONT YOU THINK. I LOVED HOW THE SAHIB COULD FINALLY PLAY THE OTHERS INTO DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVES...NICELY DONE 👏


MY LOVE AND RESPECT FOR THE SAHIB HAS MOVED UP A FEW NOTCHES...BECAUSE OF HIS MAGNANIMITY...HE KEPT TRYING TO REASON WITH HIS HUZOOR, KEPT TRYING TO MAKE HIM BELIEVE IN HIS INNOCENCE AND LOYALTY...AND IT WAS ONLY WHEN THE HUZOOR ANNOUNCED THEIR DEATH SENTENCE, AT THE VERY FAGEST END POSSIBLE - THAT THE SAHIB USED HIS ARSENAL AGAINST HIS MASTER...I THINK HE DISPLAYED THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF MORALITY THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN 👏


BUT, FOR ME, THE MASTERSTROKE OF THIS CHAPTER WAS THE SCENE WHERE THE USTAAD WAS KNEELING IN FRONT OF HIS HUZOOR...😭😭 GOSH...IT TORE MY HEART REALLY...AND IT LEFT IN MY MIND, AN IMAGE SO POWERFUL...THAT I AM ACTUALLY SPEECHLESS...AND I ALSO THINK THAT IT WAS THIS VERY SCENE THAT CAUSED A MINOR CHANGE IN THE HUZOOR'S ATTITUDE...ALMOST LIKE THE SHARP DAGGER HANGING ON THE SAHIB MOVED AWAY A LITTLE BIT...


THANKS FOR THIS TREAT, LASHY. I HOPE YOU HAVE A LOVELY VACATION!!! WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, REST ASSURED THAT ALL OF US WOULD HAVE A 1000 IDEAS ABOUT THE DUELS 😆


OF COURSE, NONE OF IT WILL EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE SURPRISE THAT YOU WOULD EVENTUALLY DISH OUT 😆


JUST A QUICK QUESTION - IN THE LAST SCENE, WAS THE SAHIB HINTING AT SHAHENSHAH OR AT THE HUZOOR???



Splendid review Lavanya!! 👍🏼 And thank you for the praises! 😳 Go and read Sandy's poem now, you will be blown away! 😃

And your understanding of the Shehzade and your admiration for him! 👏 Specially the paragraph in blue. Yaar Lashy, please confer another Ph.D. to Lavanya on Shehzade! 😆
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A


THROUGH THE TEST OF FIERY FIRES

The blazing red fires may destroy all it touches in its mad fiery spree
But it cannot burn away another flame which is the Ustaad in me
I have been the shield of you my master, my former master should i say
Blasting every danger that sought you and every harm that came your way


No worldly interests and temptations have ever weakened my loyalty to you
Yet none of my years of devotion seem estimable in your shaded view
For an offence that was trifle and harmless you have put me through the fires of hell
When greater faults of others have been ignored by you graver crimes as well

For my steadfast and earnest allegience to you, for considering you my hero and my guide
You have chosen to magnify my modest mistakes all to satiate your ego and pride
Put me through the fires of humiliation letting the evil devils mock at me
You whom i considered dearest, my friend, my brother, my closest family

I withstood all hoping you would soften when the clouds of misunderstandings cleared
But when i saw the fate of my dear ones, my every shred of forbearance disappeared
You threatened to harm my boys, subject my lady to bear words of disgrace
Thus snapped the chord that fastened me to you, my faith you have erased

I know that the betrayers around you stand on your side for reasons of their own
You will be lonely in your high place with vultures hovering around your throne
But none of that is my worry now for my loyalty to you stands dented deep
My love my boys and my people will be my only concern till i sleep


I shall use every speck of my resourcefullness and save them all from this ordeal
I'll show the devils that the fires cant harm me, Ustaad is made of hardrock steel
I'll turn the tables on those very wicked men make each one of them repay
And you will realise what you have gained and what you hsve lost some day

They have dared to challenge the Ustaad, i'll ensure that they repent their deed
Even from the jaws of grim failure the Ustaad and his boys can succeed
I will use every trick and every cunning and against you too if the need be
I will burn them all with the very fire they ignited to harm my dear ones and me




What can I say Sandhya di...just Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
Looks like Ustaad himself penned down this ⭐️
His apt feelings and promises to his love ones
I feel so proud of him 👍🏼








Originally posted by: Ighosh



You have not seen the last of me I assure you my Huzoor, I have bowed and bend,
The hard rock steel in me was swayed after a decade with moist eyes to a bitter end!
You have seen me crumble and fall in public and yet you were nonchalant all the way,
I burned to ashes by the infernos in me but the Phoenix will rise within me in dismay!


A promise to you my Huzoor, my once-upon-a-time Master, brother, friend and family,
I will make sure you know who your allies and foes are even if it pains you, but so it be!
You will be standing all alone at the end realizing what a well-wisher you have lost in me,
But it will be too late since I will move away from the loyalty and bondage I had - all free!


My loyalty and love will be for my Begum and for my Men who stood by me in high and low,
To them, I didn't have to prove my loyalty nor do I need to tell them of my love - they Know!
For them, I am their Sahib, their Ustaad, and I will remain so, tending and protecting them,
But what will you do Huzoor? Sitting on the throne with no dear ones but your precious diadem!




Another superb addition, Lana di! 👏
I just love the underline part most
Very well said 👍🏼

You and Sandhya di are ⭐️ ⭐️
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Posted: 7 years ago


Lashy you wouldn't want a peephole, we will be the one turning away all red, ears burning hot and eyes all down with a telltale smile! 😉🤣 As it is we are already privy to the pouncing! 😆
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: al_pal

Olla Baisas, I hope you all are doing good !!
Now,Lashy sahiba, what a blazzzing hot chapter,every emotion is at the peak including my anxiety.
I knew when Ustaad left for capital, this is going to be a journey of freedom, freedom from the every shackle which were holding back our couple, from having happy ending of a peaceful life. But didn't know " How part, with this chapter now we can see that Hope is a only good thing and with that our couple will get their heaven.

The main difference between Ustaad and Prince, in regards to royalties which they get from their team is, Ustaad truly embraced them as family with out reminding what he did from them, on the other hand Prince, always keeps them in check by reminding what he did for them.


Congratulations Lashy sahiba for such a wonderful chappy 👏 🤗



Pallavi di 🤗
Beautiful review 😳
Bold part 👍🏼

I hope you are doing well too ! 😊
Edited by binduprasad41 - 7 years ago
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Posted: 7 years ago

Originally posted by: lghosh




Sandy if Lashy had got Azeez's hand chopped can you imagine what will happen? One fine morning Lashy gets up in the morning, goes about doing her chores, school run, matargasti here and then suddenly 'ding dong', the doorbell rings! She opens the door only to find a young college girl in 'Ma Kali' avatar with an axe in her hand saying 'Yeh haath mujhe de de Lashy di'!! 🤣 This nightmare kept Lashy awake many a nights trembling and shivering in fear!! So not even in her nightmare she would do that! 🤣


God 🤣
Lana di ...aap bhi na 😆

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