* big thing: prem and heer at shiv mandir are always magical. i mean, what's not to be magical 'bout? shiv mandir always puts them in that phantastical blue light. and this time, they're also dressed in white.
but there is one thing different 'bout this shiv mandir edition -- prem and heer actually spoke to each other! i mean, using their voices, rather than their eyes!
and oh, what a conversation it was! i realised listening to them that this was actually the first time that prem spoke sentences that were not paragraphs! that had simple sentences. some of which were in reaction to what heer is saying! 🤣
no really! usually when prem-heer have (vocal) conversations, they usually sound like... a forties hindi movie, no? 😆 anyone else doing it would've been stiff and formal. but these two make stiff-and-formal into the most normal-romantic talks ever. 😆
this time around, their conversation sounded like it was more like... a fifties movie! 🤣
* background score thing: oooh! that score! the last time i remember it from was ... that night when heer was drugged and prem spent all night watching over her with all the locked up longing of his heart, showing in his eyes... ai haaaai, mar jawaaaaan....! i can't remember another time when i remember it from. d'you?
* prem-heer voice thing: omg. what beautifully delivered lines! i really, really, really want to know how much of this stuff comes out of direction. or these days, are hc-ag sooo comfortable in their prem-heer avatars that they get it themselves? (btw, i really want to know how many takes this sceen took. seriously. how many times did prem actually gently spin heer 'round to face him holding her waist? i want to know... 😆)
and for me, the best lines were...
-- the way he said no to her ''are you angry with me?''. the way heer answered his ''are you angry with me?''... mar jawaaan... and his face as he listened to her then - that beautiful inflexibility and lack of pity for her at that moment - after all, her keeping secrets from him was the reason that he went away to make her come to him.
-- prem saying oh-so-tenderly ''i called you here to find out if you still understand me.'', ''there's a peace and content i feel'...
-- and then, heer's ''manzil woh hai where prem heer ho jayey..'' heer! and her ''meri harr baat tumsey hai''...
-- and of course, that brought in a whole new world of prem's voice asking her what the heck she is afraid of! in that inimitable prem way. where the heat is not on the surface or the volume of his voice. but felt from deep within. isn't it an amazing thing how prem can make you feel his anger without raising his voice or doing drama at all??? 😍
--and oh, that last line: ''even if i am broken into a thousand parts, each part will say one thing -- heer!'' *sigh, although they did mess up the editing of that part, kinda... sigh!*
* knight-prem-and-lady-heer thing: 'kay, why, why am i such a sucker for prem kneeling in front of heer? whhhhyyyyyy???
look! i'm not one of those soppy types 'kay. that whole ''a guy bends his head before only three women ...'' thing doesn't tickle any of my romantic bones.
then why, why do i go immediately and instantly into goopy mode when prem does that with heer? why??! i hate prem!
the way he bends down on one knee, graceful and sure -- like there is no obligation on anyone, like it's the most natural thing to do. i could soooo feel why heer was looking at him with that much love in her look. but the real killer just had to be his look up at her, when he has her foot resting on his knee.. that was totally ''ai haai, mar jawaaaan!'' once again, i can't quite put my finger on what was totally melt-down 'bout it. he was being so ...
*lemme try again* y'know how when you read 'bout such things, you get the sense that it's a very dramatic thing for a guy to do it? drama is something over and above what is normal, what is natural, no? but with prem-heer? it's not drama! it's ... real!!! it's a part of prem-heer-are-one.
is weird. but is true. that's the way they make me feel. the matter of fact way that prem ties the payal 'round heer's ankle, saying ''that first day, it fell off. i'm putting it back, tying it with my love... my trust.'' 😍 and heer's look at him through the whole thing, not a word to say, just love, love and love.😍 ai hai.... *you plug in the rest while i phrool.... 😆*
* phhandfootooooh thing: 🤣 i don't know why i bother pointing these things out anymore. when the first phhandooh-at came up, kimz (kimmu) pointed out that i was being ridiculous in saying that there was magic just in phhandooh. or pheyeoooh. that there was magic in every part of prem-heer.
guess what? she was right -- i was being ridiculous!!! 🤣 the way that he gently held her foot between both his palms before setting it down on the floor again... *sigh - in how many ways can i hate prem-and-heer? hmmm... i must put up a list when i get time this weekend... 😆*
* prem-voice thing: seriously, wasn't the most perfectly said lines the part where he says ''until the moonlight of the moon continues to touch this shivling to do it's worship, until the worship continues to make the world go 'round, until our hearts continue to beat, our prem-heer-are-one-ness will continue to be unbreakable...'' ai haiiii... seriously mar jawaaan.
*sigh* didn't anyone else wish that they had made prem's voice do mad spinning lady's lines as well...? that voice makes anything sound sensible...😍 and it makes me almost forget one big thing...
* phhandooh thing: oooooh! did anyone notice how sweetly that phhandooh happened? the last one where prem-heer walk off into the distance? how prem's hand slid down and took heer's hand? brought it up to ask if they should go? and then drops down between them, tight and secure and constant, as they walk off? oooooh!!!! 😍
* big thing: er... so prem still doesn't know that heer's misery and secret rests on his mother, does he? that the promise that he made to heer, to leave whoever it was that was making her frightened was the other person he loves that much? hmmmm.... *thinking it's gonna make for such interesting watching to see prem-heer-are-one survive this... seriously. 😍*
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