Hope your exams are going good. Good luck. I am sure you will rock as always. π€
* phhandoooh thing: ai haai .... heer's eyes are closed, but her hands search for prem's and holds on tight... mar jawaaaan!!
that was so sweet, wasnt it? even i went ai haai.... mar jawaaan!!
* little thing: c'mon, confess. who else was terrified that heer would not find that little note that prem tucked under his pillow??! i mean, c'mon! who tucks a letter away like that??!
me too. me too. i was expecting to get all disturbed and worried and start making the bed mumbling to herself before finding the letter. i am getting over dramatic now. π
* little thing: oooh! after the lalit-juneja-nihaal pooja sequence, i wondered: so is lalit-juneja going to be the one to discover that it was vitchface veera who spiked her own marriage with nihaal? ooooh, y'know? that would be sooo nice!
me thought so too. will we have another slapfest when that happens? or is the slapfest only reserved for the junejas boys??
* big thing: 'kay, i thought that heer refusing to be blackmailed for more money totally rocking!
i mean, she was firm 'bout not paying up the blackmailer first! insisting on telling prem 'bout it came second. and i loved that! heer - at the end of the day - has always shown some common sense to her priorities that i've always liked.
and woot,woot,woot! she hung up on the gementor! woot,woot,woot!
heer totally rocked in that scene.
* little thing: heer haunting everyone, searching for prem. π
the one thing i noticed is nobody even bothered to question back heer juneja why she was so frantically searching for prem. or have got used to such phone calls from prem and heer looking for each other? π
er... and isn't prem the sole owner of the hotel, btw? didn't that ownership change happen at the beginning of the show when heer went to jail for prem? hmmm...! oooh, so does this tell us that prem and gementor are faking this drama together?? er... do we care any longer? π
association by marriage? does it make heer the joint owner of the hotel?? π i shud start taking law classes now. but i for one no longer care if gementor is faking or not.
* little thing: heer reading prem's pome again, 'bout ''if you want to search for me, search for me in your heart...''.
when she starts seeing him everywhere - in the mirror, behind his desk in his office - who else soooo remembered when the same thing happened to prem, when he first knew he was obsessing with heer at the start of the show? oh, that boss prem... all quiet and obsessing with heer... ai hai, mar jawaaan... π
that scene i felt was somehow out of place. it was as if they just wanted to justify the lines written in the poem.
highlight of the episode: hmmm. heer's sleepy phhandooh capture of prem's hand. ππ prem all spruced up in his white shirt, telling heer with deadly intent that he is going ''where he has to go...''. *sigh, such nonsense dialogue! which we all happily lap up just 'cause it's prem in a white shirt saying it! π darn the guy...! π*
totally!! π
* heer thing: oh dear! heer is soooo stressed by the end of her day without prem. poor heer! i couldn't help but remember how she waited for prem during the first days that prem was ... apparently dead. that was such a horrid time for heer. and now that she has got him back - after sooo much heartache and effort - she is sooo stressed that he is not there. and that too, 'cause she thinks that she did something to push him away!
poor, poor heer! all i wanted to do was fiercely hug her! π€π€π€
that scene showed heer's insecurities didnt they? and all thru she was just worried and concerned that her relationship with prem might change. i was a bit upset with prem for just going away like that. duffer!
* little thing: y'know though? i was sooo glad that she had lalit-juneja to talk to 'bout it. *sigh* i think - i really think - that i'm gonna have to go back to calling him lalluchacha now... *sigh*
for the past few days even i felt that lj-heer's equation has change. its become more like a dad-daughter more than a daughter in law. a big hug to lj for that. π€
* big thing: it was nice to know that there are other people in the house who have noticed that prem-heer-are-one but not so happy just now. i've always thought it was horrid how the junejas were a terribly self-centered lot, who always used to depend upon prem-heer to do everything.
but now? it looks like the responsibilities are nicely beginning to spread out and rest on other shoulders as well.
but what bothered me most was why aren't anybody trying to find the cause for the change? are they just assuming that heer going to the office is the only cause? π
which is what is the nice thing about this story. the characters have really grown nicely since the start of the show. now, if only they can (a) fix/eliminate vitchface veera (making her vanish like maya would be okay! π) and (b) let gementor switch back to being gayatri-mom... soon! π
Amen!!
* little thing: heer, under the moon, thinking of prem. i loved the way her face switched from misery to an enlightened smile after she figured out where prem is...
* oooh-flashback thing: prem draped all over heer, leaning closer into her, all in that prem-heer-blue-moonlight... omg, it is such a difference watching it on big screen!!... ai haaaaai, mar jawaaaaaan...! *plotting to get a wide-screen viewing of the shows that i missed at pcp's home rsn... π*
Aai Haai, Mar Jawaan!! loved that phrase... nice description E.
* little thing: confess!!! who else were as disappointed as heck when heer took the car to go to shiv mandir? *i'm not even gonna bother asking who didn't figure that heer was going to shiv mandir... !!! π€£π€£π€£* and who else went woot-woot-woot! when the car broke down??! π€£
poor heer! it's become sooo expected to see her run to and fro shiv mandir, no?
Exactly!! heer and her marathons....... But somehow I felt for the first time that the distance between the juneja house and the shiv mandir was very far. π€£
* little thing: oooooh! mad-spinning-lady's back!! woot-woot-woot! as if we needed any other sign that prem-heer-are-one is gonna win big time over gementor's evil plans!!! π
* stretching-the-story-line thing: *sigh* really! did msl have to sing such a huge song, eating up a whole segment?? *sigh*
y'know? it really hurts when we get stuck with such an obvious effort to stall the story going forward. i really think that this story's one of the nicest that i've seen on tv so far. they really deserve all my admiration for keeping my attention on it so far. but the one thing that these guys have flopped on -- from the start of the show to now -- is the pacing of the story.
i'm gonna keep my fingers crossed that one day, before this show is over, that they'll finally get the pacing right as well. c'mon guys! i'm rooting for you! π
it kinda keeps you glued, doesnt it? you never know when the storyline will take a shift. i for one was not expecting this shiv mandir thing last week......
* heer thing: y'know? whenever heer's come to have a private conversation with her god at shiv mandir, it's made for lovely dialogue. and it was lovely today as well. i remember being struck by her conversation the last time -- how everything had changed, paths had changed, except for her -- she was the same. still searching for prem. and today? there was the same sense? that once again everything was the same, except ...? for her need and desire and pain for prem.
i actually loved how she said ''prem ka dard'' after saying that the mohabbat was the same. 'cause for heer, love and prem are actually the same thing! and what is brilliant is that it has always been so for heer! even before she met him, love was prem for her -- that was shiv mandir #1. after she lost him, love was prem for her -- that was shiv mandir #2. and now, at shiv mandir #3, she is almost resigned to her fate, no? i totally liked the note of inevitability and resigned acceptance that ag used in her voice delivery today -- ''what do i tell you? you know everything.'' -- before her head drops down to her god's idol and she cries.
that last moment was a brilliant touch.
that was beautiful acting by ag. she really does the emotional scenes wonderfully. guess thats the reason she is always shown crying. creatives, ag's smile is great. please let her smile more.
and then, of course... there was the sound of the payal. and how her entire stance changed! from downright misery in her eyes -- the kind of misery which made prem ask her ''tumharey ankhon mein itna dard kyun hai?''βΊοΈ -- to incredulity and the first stirrings of hope.
and as i watched heer, going through that riotous shift of emotions, all i could do was laugh aloud. and stir up my own cauldron of hope that is my heart these days - that maybe from tomorrow onwards, we will get to see a heer who is smiling and smiling and smiling till the end of the show? π
Amen again!!
highlight of the episode: er... would it be cheating if i chose that moment with prem, leaning into heer, like a lord enchanted by his lady, with his eyes draped by his eyelashes, totally focussed on getting his - our! - kiphph. and heer, with her arms open and her hands passive and waiting on the bed, waiting to receive him? βΊοΈ er.. is it okay to chose something that happened many weeks ago as the highlight of today? π
totally E. π
'kay, i also liked heer's resigned demand of her god. as i liked her hearing prem's voice at the shiv mandir telling her to search for him in her heart... search for him where their love first started...π and i liked the anguish in her eyes as she spins around and cannot find him there... as if it was the last place she had to search for, and her hope is breaking 'cause he is not there in front of her eyes.
Actually I was expecting Prem to be crouching in a corner listening to Heer. There goes me being dramatic again. π
ooohph! man, i'm glad i started watching this show, aren't you? i have never seen a show that has kept love-together-and-whole so wonderfully before. prem-heer-are-one and i love it.
now wish me luck for my next two (and last) exams - i am finding i need all the luck i can get! π€
Good luck.π
but before i sign off, i have one more ... thing! π
* estee-of-the-past thing: didja know that 26/27 may last year was the first big things, little things on record on the phorum? π³ ya, my pcp told me so. and so i went and dug it out. see?
and i read it and guess what? it was a rather nice bt,lt... no? it was short. it was to the point. and totally much better than the long, ponderous, convoluted stuff that i write these days.
Would you believe that that was the first episode of kdmhmd that I watched? the prem confession one? I immediately logged on to the forum to update myself on the show. and I read ur bt,lt and i was hooked onto it. i shud tell u though, i thought u had written more earlier.
i miss that estee and those bt,lts. π i do!! they were so much simpler ... and happier things! no? π so, i've made a resolution -- to be like them again. er... i've tried a leetle bit in these bt,lts. er... does it show? *taking a look* not much, no? i'm gonna have to try harder? π
actually ur 25th may bt,lt was short and i was wondering if u were busy. so u had to cut it short. Guess there's a hidden agenda here, isnt it?? Honestly E, i love ur bt,lt long or short. keep them coming girl.