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my superstitious aunt sez there's a price for laughing too much. maybe she's right. 'cause after laughing for hours last night on the forum, today i got to watch the show with the most sceptical of my gang who landed up as surprise guests for dinner. boys. twins. both sci-fi maniacs. and today's the day that the show had to show us the storm! me and my poor show have barely survived this....
* little thing: kinda liked the intro of a set of prayers at the wire-mesh with thread knots of hopes-and-dreams. laluchacha -- sigh, still self-pitying. veera (??!!) crying 'cause they were leaving prem behind? (huh?? noone from the family knows prem's there right??). kulraj-di being her sweet self. and heer. heer, determined to leave her prem in the dargah. 😕
* little thing: dramatic windy meeting of the two sides -- kinda liked that. and then they spoilt the whole mood by letting dirtchachi have the final prayer!! damnit! 😡
* prem-heer thing: yes, yes, he let's heer's hand go to move ahead. what i want to know is - what was he hoping to do?? whatever it was, he could've done it holding her hand? 'cause, of course, heer took that opportunity to run away crying.
but i must say: heer's little action of putting her hand to her head, as if to stop the thoughts of "don't go, don't leave prem, he's your life - what does it mean to leave your life?" and then pushes herself to run, was touching.
* prem thing: i must say this. he moves away into the middle of the storm. to the point between his father and his heer and then stops. maybe because by then there was no-one around. but his voice is telling a whole rich story. his voice as he calls out to his father is strong. but when he notices that heer is not there -- his voice is rich with the very depths of panic. "heer?!, heer!!"
heer is the only one that can make prem panic like that -- ever.
hc's voice is perfect here. that two-second bit was perfect. but then, by now, he's had practice? 😆
* prem thing: btw, did someone really throw that drum on hc's head???? i mean, how good an actor can hc get, damnit??! that was too believeable. he must've got hit?? i was amazed (so were the obnoxious twins, btw -- ha, ha, take that, you prem-non-believers!)
* prem thing (just for pari if she's reading): oh, that poor defenceless head lying on the ground. that poor otherwise-glowing skin, all covered in muck. that poor dusty hair flying around because of the storm's winds, rather than lifting with the puffs of wind that dance when heer's standing with him. somehow, that was a sad little sight...
* little thing: laluchacha's trust in god protecting him in his search for his friend's last momento. somehow, that rung true for me... finally. something that did. 😕
* little thing: hmm, did anyone else wonder where the rest of the men in that group went off to? just being heroic and helping other people to safe places? hmmm. even before they got their own to a safe place? hmmmmm....
* big thing: meher slaps ashlesha!!! oh, i was so thrilled!! it was terrible. the twins couldn't believe that it was gandhian esther sitting and going "woot-woot" in front of the tv at the slap. then, they got really horrified when they heard me beg for "one more, meher. at least, one more! she is still hysterical, damnit!"
(and i had to pay a price for it - the dumbos spilt the beans of my violent desires to my mom at dinner. who - arrgghhghghghgh!!- lifted her right eyebrow at me!!! terrible things happen when my mom lifts her right eyebrow at me. damnit! i hate snivelling, tattle-tale, goody-goody, i'm-your-mom's friend boys. 😡)
* little thing: that entire nihaal-mom-dai-jaan interchange is more than just old-generation-vs.-new-generation attitudes to religion, is it? is there something old there as well??! dai-jaan was hysterical about being killed. nihaal's mom has secrets about who nihaal is? hmmm.
* little thing: okay, there are bicycles flying in the wind's strength. a jeep even..! and yet, that dupatta is fixed to the ground, flying like a signal calling to laluchacha. (this was the beginning of the end of the silence from the twins.... ) and it calls to heer as well!
(for a moment, i was terrified that heer would see it and say "say! isn't that the dupatta that i had given you a long time ago from that girl who tried to kill herself and her lover in the barn? you kept it??")
* big thing: how they showed laluchacha's essential core of civility and decency was so lovely. he's still hating heer when he finds his dupatta. he tries to push her away "get away from me. get away from here!". the same all the way to the little hole that she finds and pushes him to.
but then, they see that the wind is getting stronger - the little boy, and then a goat, fly by!! (🤣, sorry, but i've been thinking of laluchacha as a goat for the last three days, and this cracked me up. the twins had completely given up on me by this point..)
and that's when laluchacha's decency comes up loud and clear: "come in with me. you also come in with me!" and this was before he noticed her chain. laluchacha - you could rock big time all the time. why didn't you?? why do you have to cry at all the wasted opportunities? why did you have to pile up so much regret?? 😭
* heer thing: the hysterical strength she used to force laluchacha to come with her -- she was one of the few who looked totally panicked today. 👏 and then, the sadness in her face when she saw that he knew who she was. poor little heer. it was like something she had protected so staunchly had been lost.
but, in all that segment, the thing that stood out clearly and loudly in my mind was her reason to save laluchacha -- "meri bauji ki dosti ki kasam". that touched my heart so clearly that i was afraid the twins heard it and would laugh at me. she was not doing it for prem! well, he is still a reason for saving laluchacha - after all, she does call laluchacha "bauji" now. but heer did this for her father's love!
i've said it before, saying it again: i adore this show for keeping the characters true. this was the best sense of trueness they've shown about heer - second only to her saving prem from jail. i loved her for it.
* wind thing: okay, i have it on authority that winds -- no matter how strong is it's source -- cannot lift things in the setting of a crowded indian village/town/dargah/city. apparently, the force of the winds are constantly being broken on various barriers -- like walls, trees, etc. tornados can happen in open spaces -- like deserts, or flat plains like arkansas or texas. not possible in the dargah.
as soon as things were being lifted in the wind, i was watching the show with much derisive noises and dialogues about the complete stoooopidity of what the winds were doing. thank goodness, i could infer most of the story by just fiercely concentrating on the screen.
(tell me something: why do boys bother sitting with you if they don't care about the show, and are going to talk to distract you any way? i want to know!)
* little thing: i must say that heer flying off in the wind put a frown on my face -- she can't have been blown off very far? and then, i remembered that prem had been knocked unconscious and was lying in the open ground, waiting to be blown off too?
and then, i wondered if the winds were kind enough to have blown both of them off somewhere together. where they would become conscious together and find they were next to each other. and i thought then that strange winds with inexplicable powers of lifting things could've been a divine intervention. a way of making all prayers come true. they make laluchacha's prayer of getting a gift true -- he knows heer's a maan. and he has meher maan, if not heer maan with him. they make heer's prayer of healing relationships true by letting laluchacha see the pendant (before she flew away on the same winds of healing and grants). they can jolly well make prem's prayer that prem and heer "will be", that they will never separate come true also, no? 😊
* big thing: the heer-meher secret is out! even though, my general principle is boo to flashbacks, this was an interesting set. it allowed us to see laluchacha's set of "big things": heer has explicitly hidden from him. 😕 dirtchachi has explicitly lied! 😡 prem has always been true to him. 😕 he has been rotten as heck to heer. 😕😕
now heer has flown away (literally! 😆). we have yet to find out if prem will be discovered, but i think he's going to be unconscious and out of action - so "flown away" will work for prem. the only thing laluchacha can act upon is ... (drumroll!) ... dirtchachi! oh. i. am. so. going. to. enjoy. this.
i want revenge. i am as non-violent as all heck. but i want revenge. said this before, saying it again. i want all her riches and finery taken away. i want her to live. i want her to be banished to a hole in the sewage gutter to live. where she will feed on garbage. and every day. every hour. every minute. every second. i want her to regret she has ever been mean to heer and meher. i do.
but i suspect she's going to find mr. rampal sooner or later. and she will not be in the sewage gutter for very long. but i do wish she is there for sometime at least. i am going to sit back and enjoy this.
* big things: guessing out aloud. we are in for a week? a month? of vengence? what i really want to know (i do!) is: is prem going to be in it or not.
i'd rather not. i think (no matter what the smokescreen of ag being put out of the show is supposed to make us think) that hc and ag are still in as prem and heer. the story needs prem and heer as one. and it's not quite possible to think of prem-heer as anyone other than hc-ag. it would be kinda suicidal for any other pair. so i can imagine another prem-heer pair -- ie, non-ag-non-hc both. and that should take some time putting together. until then, we have:
- vengence on dirtchachi (hurray, hurray, fiercely hurray!)
- preet-ashlesha-meher
- nihaal's secret out
- nihaal-mom-daijaan
to work with. lots of stuff until they either get new-prem-heer or they get all the episodes where hc and ag get to act together in the mahabharat. (okay, that second part about ag being in the mahabharat is complete fiction coming out of my head --- puhleeeease don't make any posts about it!! 😆😆😆)
any which way, this story looks like it's going to be marching forward. the question is: will we ever get our prem and heer back? that's something to wait and watch about. and i mean, from some authentic sources. not two-bit or non-two-bit newsrags/televison channels! 😳
* highlight of the episode: today, it was all lines that rocked: "bauji! heer?? heer!!!!!". "tu bhi andar aaaja. tu bhi andar aaaja!!!" "meri mujhe bauji ki dosti ki kasam, mein apko marney nehi doongi bauji".
and of course, meher slaps ashlesha! no matter what my mom's going to do to me for that bit of violence-love, i'm fiercely glad she did. wanna more slaps of that sort. kinda. maybe. don't tell mom, 'kay?
* little thing: kinda liked the intro of a set of prayers at the wire-mesh with thread knots of hopes-and-dreams. laluchacha -- sigh, still self-pitying. veera (??!!) crying 'cause they were leaving prem behind? (huh?? noone from the family knows prem's there right??). kulraj-di being her sweet self. and heer. heer, determined to leave her prem in the dargah. 😕
* little thing: dramatic windy meeting of the two sides -- kinda liked that. and then they spoilt the whole mood by letting dirtchachi have the final prayer!! damnit! 😡
* prem-heer thing: yes, yes, he let's heer's hand go to move ahead. what i want to know is - what was he hoping to do?? whatever it was, he could've done it holding her hand? 'cause, of course, heer took that opportunity to run away crying.
but i must say: heer's little action of putting her hand to her head, as if to stop the thoughts of "don't go, don't leave prem, he's your life - what does it mean to leave your life?" and then pushes herself to run, was touching.
* prem thing: i must say this. he moves away into the middle of the storm. to the point between his father and his heer and then stops. maybe because by then there was no-one around. but his voice is telling a whole rich story. his voice as he calls out to his father is strong. but when he notices that heer is not there -- his voice is rich with the very depths of panic. "heer?!, heer!!"
heer is the only one that can make prem panic like that -- ever.
hc's voice is perfect here. that two-second bit was perfect. but then, by now, he's had practice? 😆
* prem thing: btw, did someone really throw that drum on hc's head???? i mean, how good an actor can hc get, damnit??! that was too believeable. he must've got hit?? i was amazed (so were the obnoxious twins, btw -- ha, ha, take that, you prem-non-believers!)
* prem thing (just for pari if she's reading): oh, that poor defenceless head lying on the ground. that poor otherwise-glowing skin, all covered in muck. that poor dusty hair flying around because of the storm's winds, rather than lifting with the puffs of wind that dance when heer's standing with him. somehow, that was a sad little sight...
* little thing: laluchacha's trust in god protecting him in his search for his friend's last momento. somehow, that rung true for me... finally. something that did. 😕
* little thing: hmm, did anyone else wonder where the rest of the men in that group went off to? just being heroic and helping other people to safe places? hmmm. even before they got their own to a safe place? hmmmmm....
* big thing: meher slaps ashlesha!!! oh, i was so thrilled!! it was terrible. the twins couldn't believe that it was gandhian esther sitting and going "woot-woot" in front of the tv at the slap. then, they got really horrified when they heard me beg for "one more, meher. at least, one more! she is still hysterical, damnit!"
(and i had to pay a price for it - the dumbos spilt the beans of my violent desires to my mom at dinner. who - arrgghhghghghgh!!- lifted her right eyebrow at me!!! terrible things happen when my mom lifts her right eyebrow at me. damnit! i hate snivelling, tattle-tale, goody-goody, i'm-your-mom's friend boys. 😡)
* little thing: that entire nihaal-mom-dai-jaan interchange is more than just old-generation-vs.-new-generation attitudes to religion, is it? is there something old there as well??! dai-jaan was hysterical about being killed. nihaal's mom has secrets about who nihaal is? hmmm.
* little thing: okay, there are bicycles flying in the wind's strength. a jeep even..! and yet, that dupatta is fixed to the ground, flying like a signal calling to laluchacha. (this was the beginning of the end of the silence from the twins.... ) and it calls to heer as well!
(for a moment, i was terrified that heer would see it and say "say! isn't that the dupatta that i had given you a long time ago from that girl who tried to kill herself and her lover in the barn? you kept it??")
* big thing: how they showed laluchacha's essential core of civility and decency was so lovely. he's still hating heer when he finds his dupatta. he tries to push her away "get away from me. get away from here!". the same all the way to the little hole that she finds and pushes him to.
but then, they see that the wind is getting stronger - the little boy, and then a goat, fly by!! (🤣, sorry, but i've been thinking of laluchacha as a goat for the last three days, and this cracked me up. the twins had completely given up on me by this point..)
and that's when laluchacha's decency comes up loud and clear: "come in with me. you also come in with me!" and this was before he noticed her chain. laluchacha - you could rock big time all the time. why didn't you?? why do you have to cry at all the wasted opportunities? why did you have to pile up so much regret?? 😭
* heer thing: the hysterical strength she used to force laluchacha to come with her -- she was one of the few who looked totally panicked today. 👏 and then, the sadness in her face when she saw that he knew who she was. poor little heer. it was like something she had protected so staunchly had been lost.
but, in all that segment, the thing that stood out clearly and loudly in my mind was her reason to save laluchacha -- "meri bauji ki dosti ki kasam". that touched my heart so clearly that i was afraid the twins heard it and would laugh at me. she was not doing it for prem! well, he is still a reason for saving laluchacha - after all, she does call laluchacha "bauji" now. but heer did this for her father's love!
i've said it before, saying it again: i adore this show for keeping the characters true. this was the best sense of trueness they've shown about heer - second only to her saving prem from jail. i loved her for it.
* wind thing: okay, i have it on authority that winds -- no matter how strong is it's source -- cannot lift things in the setting of a crowded indian village/town/dargah/city. apparently, the force of the winds are constantly being broken on various barriers -- like walls, trees, etc. tornados can happen in open spaces -- like deserts, or flat plains like arkansas or texas. not possible in the dargah.
as soon as things were being lifted in the wind, i was watching the show with much derisive noises and dialogues about the complete stoooopidity of what the winds were doing. thank goodness, i could infer most of the story by just fiercely concentrating on the screen.
(tell me something: why do boys bother sitting with you if they don't care about the show, and are going to talk to distract you any way? i want to know!)
* little thing: i must say that heer flying off in the wind put a frown on my face -- she can't have been blown off very far? and then, i remembered that prem had been knocked unconscious and was lying in the open ground, waiting to be blown off too?
and then, i wondered if the winds were kind enough to have blown both of them off somewhere together. where they would become conscious together and find they were next to each other. and i thought then that strange winds with inexplicable powers of lifting things could've been a divine intervention. a way of making all prayers come true. they make laluchacha's prayer of getting a gift true -- he knows heer's a maan. and he has meher maan, if not heer maan with him. they make heer's prayer of healing relationships true by letting laluchacha see the pendant (before she flew away on the same winds of healing and grants). they can jolly well make prem's prayer that prem and heer "will be", that they will never separate come true also, no? 😊
* big thing: the heer-meher secret is out! even though, my general principle is boo to flashbacks, this was an interesting set. it allowed us to see laluchacha's set of "big things": heer has explicitly hidden from him. 😕 dirtchachi has explicitly lied! 😡 prem has always been true to him. 😕 he has been rotten as heck to heer. 😕😕
now heer has flown away (literally! 😆). we have yet to find out if prem will be discovered, but i think he's going to be unconscious and out of action - so "flown away" will work for prem. the only thing laluchacha can act upon is ... (drumroll!) ... dirtchachi! oh. i. am. so. going. to. enjoy. this.
i want revenge. i am as non-violent as all heck. but i want revenge. said this before, saying it again. i want all her riches and finery taken away. i want her to live. i want her to be banished to a hole in the sewage gutter to live. where she will feed on garbage. and every day. every hour. every minute. every second. i want her to regret she has ever been mean to heer and meher. i do.
but i suspect she's going to find mr. rampal sooner or later. and she will not be in the sewage gutter for very long. but i do wish she is there for sometime at least. i am going to sit back and enjoy this.
* big things: guessing out aloud. we are in for a week? a month? of vengence? what i really want to know (i do!) is: is prem going to be in it or not.
i'd rather not. i think (no matter what the smokescreen of ag being put out of the show is supposed to make us think) that hc and ag are still in as prem and heer. the story needs prem and heer as one. and it's not quite possible to think of prem-heer as anyone other than hc-ag. it would be kinda suicidal for any other pair. so i can imagine another prem-heer pair -- ie, non-ag-non-hc both. and that should take some time putting together. until then, we have:
- vengence on dirtchachi (hurray, hurray, fiercely hurray!)
- preet-ashlesha-meher
- nihaal's secret out
- nihaal-mom-daijaan
to work with. lots of stuff until they either get new-prem-heer or they get all the episodes where hc and ag get to act together in the mahabharat. (okay, that second part about ag being in the mahabharat is complete fiction coming out of my head --- puhleeeease don't make any posts about it!! 😆😆😆)
any which way, this story looks like it's going to be marching forward. the question is: will we ever get our prem and heer back? that's something to wait and watch about. and i mean, from some authentic sources. not two-bit or non-two-bit newsrags/televison channels! 😳
* highlight of the episode: today, it was all lines that rocked: "bauji! heer?? heer!!!!!". "tu bhi andar aaaja. tu bhi andar aaaja!!!" "meri mujhe bauji ki dosti ki kasam, mein apko marney nehi doongi bauji".
and of course, meher slaps ashlesha! no matter what my mom's going to do to me for that bit of violence-love, i'm fiercely glad she did. wanna more slaps of that sort. kinda. maybe. don't tell mom, 'kay?
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