Blast from the Past Thread #24 ** Golgappa Times ** p 113, ep 246 - Page 10

@Indi

Javeria and all Blasters! Happy Women's Day to you!! Stay strong and beautiful!!

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hi kate,

thanks so much... you know that kali story i grew up hearing... i don't think the creatives had that in mind, but somehow it came to me... everything shown seemed to be connected in some way, happy, funny, sensual or divine to the man woman thing. could be just my imagination.

drool? me? never... 😆 😆 😆

hey thanks for liking my edits... 😳

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 231

love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
and therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind
~~~ william shakespeare, a midsummer night's dream ~~~

an episode that starts with shyam is bound to not make me too happy. yet, when i look at what i read in it, he does seem to be a good representative of the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection... cupid.

structure wise, everything seemed to be focussed on getting the couple to shift to gh. khushi was back to her let me kill you with love strategy, asr snarled and looked hot and was deliciously rude. all that class talk had to happen i guess, and right in the middle of it of course amma had to call so that khushi makes the connection and takes the classy one for a look see of the not so wealthy middle class world he supposedly abhors and ridicules. That 'supposedly' is perfect. I don't think Arnav really had a problem with it all. In fact when he was behaving the way he was about the AC and lack of liquid soap I am still trying to figure out if it is just the writing or nervousness because it's not impossible but still doesn't seem acompletely Arnav to me.. would he act this way in GH or would he not?

i say supposedly because the least classy of them all mami ji lives with him and gets an inordinate amount of love and respect despite her bizarre ways and tongue... a rather lovely nonjudgmental love there, because he seems to value the core of a person, the essential being, that may not even be easily apparent and missed by the less perceptive.

but with khushi, he must snarl, he must be really really mean, go straight for the jugular. oh i love that. says, she gets under his skin and how... he looks for the choicest words to get to her, make her mad, get angry, and he never ever wonders why he does that. Special brand of hot anger reserved for her. and definitely no limits no bars.

a girl who according to him is a home breaker, who loves another... he can't just throw her out of his life. he who hates galat and wants to be sahi and never anything else, when he sees the most galat thing ever on the terrace he can't bring himself to cut a tie his faraq has started making...

his many layers come into play. with one he hates her, even despises. with the other he can't help but love her, adore her actually. kaash main tumse nafrat kar pata.

and she, she who has every reason to absolutely hate him. look at how he has demeaned her, dragged her to a temple and set up a "contract" marriage, whatever that is, hasn't given her a single chance to place her point of view, hasn't asked her for one even... if she hated him would that be abnormal?

yet, she frets when he is hurt, stays up nights when he is unwell, asks him what he meant by main hamsha hamesha tumse..., gets mad at him when he doesn't answer... and never ever asks herself why it's important to know that or why she does what she does.

the laws of desire, attraction, erotic love, affection are not so easy to understand, for this one needs at the very least a god.

and so comes shyam with orange juice. making us think instantly of a lopsided smile growing and a girl in tears saying "woh santre ka juice nahin mila na, iss liye." if you ask me, that day, cupid's arrow had found its mark so sharp and right, someone never quite recovered... sweet. I was reading your amazing post on the first maha episode where ASR found Khushi inside his closet peering out with one eye and you wrote that maybe at that moment he fell for her. Finally the orange juice must definitely have clinched the deal. sabse important deal.. There was never a question of going back now..

the drums beat, speaking of foul play, felony. khushi is approaching... and shyam has seen the wallet, lying open on the table. a very careless tycoon is in the bathroom.

an uncomfortable scene ensues. shyam crosses the line again and again, and khushi is hardly as vocal as you'd expect her to be... at least in this she is consistent. maybe they tried to indicate the sort of pressure relationships bring to bear on a situation. he is anjali's husband, asr's brother in law, the son in law of the family in a culture where sons in law are given a very high and special status. she being at one time just a girl who comes home to teach someone and even now, the bahu of the family, can't really treat him the way she may even wish to... Very deep observation. this gives me food for thought.

however, finally she does tell him off with a stern, "humen chhoone ki koshish bhi mat kijiye..." don't even try to touch me.

and soon after, she tells herself not to think of the man, just bury the thoughts and forget them... this as aarwen pointed out, may be a trait of khushi's. when things are particularly unpleasant, painful... she tries to look away from them. her constant jabber, her eating, both may be signs of that. and her stars may have come about as a result of that as well. the loss of her parents was too too traumatic for an eight year old, she needed something to hang onto, something to just take it all away... and maybe of this need came that beautiful vishwas. a trait can express in many ways, sometimes positively, sometimes just as a weird quirk, even rather nastily at times. yeaa you actually mention me

anyway, this whole drama is about a key. the key to asr's locker that shyam wants to swipe. the first time i saw, of course i had hopes it will lead to some story, now we know otherwise.

but maybe the key has another purpose? reminds me of a meeting in a darga, mannat, even mystery and unlocking... maybe they are looking for the key to each other's hearts, feelings...

the episode is dotted with things that are like little signals and signs, orange juice is such an asr khushi thing... key, from the third episode it means something.

wallet. a place where you keep precious things. what a lot of time the two are shown squabbling over it. and then a funny crazy dhadkane moment.

"what the hell, mera wallet!" now why do i like this man to sound this exasperated and short all the time.

"mera wallet tumhare paas kya kar raha hai..." he snaps what's my wallet doing with you to her very wife like helpfulness with it. and it was interesting the way she ran to make sure his wallet was dry, his money fine, now that was not just to show him... so shyam the cupid did his job quite well.

asr is particular, finicky... lovely. and maybe true to type.

"meri cheezon ko haath mat lagaya karo" don't touch my things... divine love talk is on. you interfere with my frequency, my signal, you unnerve me with your very presence, if you "haath lagao" me or mine, i might melt, so please... hands off! i got to stay mad at you. i hate you, after all. divine love talk 🤣

"aap chahe toh paise gin sakte hain..." you can count the money if you like, she says, the way he goes on about anyone touching his wallet, i don't blame her. but he's taken aback. he did not mean that... no not at all... he meant the other thing he he.

she is as sweet as she'd promised to be, he acerbic, irritable, gorgeous. uff

he looks at her in that slightly lost, genuinely surprised then moving to contrite way... "no no i didn't mean that..." so natural and sweet, how does this girl remain sane after that. she doesn't, thank g.

"main kuch aur dekh raha tha..." i was checking something else, as he says that she looks at him bemused, getting just a little bit lost... but then quickly she comes back to her scheming khushi self.

i love these little escapes into that feeling they can't contain, can't control. me too ..always..

she insists on helping him with his jacket. with an angry look he decides to give in, she prattles on, distracting him... and a hot smart one from asr:

"tumhari kya schedule hai aur tumhari governor se meeting kab hai usme mujhe koi interest nahin hai.!" what your schedule is and when you are to meet teh goivernor is of no interest to me. he tries to put her in her place, but she is irrepressible...

"suniye toh... hamare governor toh aap hai..." listen, you are my governor... with a cheesy look. oh irritattting. he needs to go now.

but she does another natak and lies down in his path. excessive khushiness, more than ott is being reached. yet it reminds me of a story of love from childhood. kali was mad at the world and running around killing all, decimating the earth, everyone ran to shiv and said, do something, get your wife to calm down. shiv lay down on road, knwoing she'd be passing that way. kali came raging down the opath and steped on his chest by mistake, she did not see him. but the moment she realised, she stopped, her tongue out in a sign of oops what have i done. yeah, she was touching her patidev's chest with her foot. sacrilege. and in that pause, her gussa came down. when we bongs do kali puja, that pose is what the idol depicts. to me it has also always meant extreme love... both his and hers. kali is the emblem of shakti, poer, she is also the goddess of time and change... shiva is her eternal consort, the destroyer and transformer of our worlds in the trimurti... together they are a couple suggesting many things at many levels. a sense of dynamism, of timelessness, of essential bonds, and truth. Interesting. And in that case the red dress she wears also adds to the image right?

with that one completely crazy move of khushi's, and even as i was thinking, what the... what have they written and what is she doing, i thought of all that... slight goosebumps.

a hanky is lovingly proffered, angrily taken. beautifully written

a handkerchief with a lipstick mark and a scent.

very tacky, very silly... and i really can't blame asr for flying into a rage. whenever the guy has a meeting his biwi does something strange, this is a very kkg thing, the amount of times she has barged into his meetings...

this time, such an intimate innuendo. the lipstick is obvious, but the hanky and the ittr make me smile and again wander into the labyrinth of love... you hit the nail on the head with this line. I think this was my essential problem with the prank that it made fun of something so personal. in some ways its like the scene where she wears western dresses for Arnavji and they end up showing other people in the room. The scene needed just 2 people to be right and anymore just made it wrong.

handkerchief always brings to mind othello. some say, that killing a beloved wife because you believed such a flimsy so called proof is ridiculous, and maybe it is... maybe even shakespeare knew that hanky was a thin excuse but it is today a part of a potent tale of love and my subconscious automatically takes note.

seems in portugal girls sew handkerchiefs of love for men they like, i know in the old days in bengal, girls would sew the husband's initials onto these patches of fabric, a very wife thing to do... seen in many movies, i am almost sure what charulata sews here is a hanky for her hubs. I did not know this.

and ittr... scent. oh what could be more signal giving between a man and woman. musk dear flitting through my head and all the other thoughts of what perfume does to turn on the lovin'.

sweetly enough, though she has done this to get after him, she is very offended at his calling her trick and perfume "cheap". what, cheap? nooo, she has chosen one of the best ittr from chandni chowk... telltale i thought. you want to somewhere always get the best for him, even if it's to make him go nuts. she does it to make him angry and when he is, she resents it. Crazy are the ways of love..

as i look at all the cues of love or should i say lovin' scattered through the episode... orange juice, key, wife on floor crossing pati parameshwar's path, hanky, ittr... it's like some sign language is going on between the writers and the viewers' subconscious mind. at the rational plane, nothing really makes much sense, only that moves toward gh are afoot, but at a stage when it is not possible to show the two in deep romance, subliminal messages of love keep coming. we are kept focussed and tuned, while creatives grapple with trp issues and what's to be shown after marriage, and how to handle barun's leave, and other such mundane matters.

in the middle of that the revelation that bubbly is an orphan. a couple of scenes with the kid i could bear to watch. they were perhaps trying to build a story with her, but nothing came of it. never quite understood ipk's thing for orphans... jung and freud should watch the show, lots of collective unconscious and archetypes there i think and of course dreams that are analyzed but never enough. I was wondering in that scene too why all the orphans in IPK? For bubbly to be an orphan wasn't really needed I guess unless Payal and Akash adopted her. Please forgive my sanaka moment!

todally beyond all analysis. me serious.

how can a guy, in the middle of a most not spectacular scene look like that and say something so gorgeously. angry, irritated, incredulous, hot, very hot, dangerously hot, barun really got asr well 😳. hahaha

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

We are on 42nd street [Times Square] , no I mean 24th street 😆 No I mean Thread...

I couldn't resist while coming from a meeting at 42nd street and at the Subway that's how I pictured him and after search made this edit.😊

Amazing Lines of Durga all across made this thread breezy .Kate added visual and meaning to that gentle and caring breeze and indi's story was the moisture in that breeze ...like sprinkling water right at your face.Horizon ,yet to read...

Thank You for the team especially our Supi through planning and all Whats app to provide th opportunity to join this team.I think our Thread is the most beautiful on this planet known as IF.

Ami's drool are like chat patta sexy pakpdas .Yummy Yummy !

Durga your comparison with Hahk is awesome and Indi'd edits are making it more fab.

Wiwy's gif is just too awww...and telling a different story this time.Poor Arnav in his khata meetha sasural...

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Meaning of 24...combo of 2 and 4😊

24 represents to carry on with passion and enthusiasm. Believe in yourself and your inner talents and abilities in order to find success and achieve your desires and aspirations. Trust that achieving your goals is within sight.The Angel Number 24 is a message to listen to your intuition and inner wisdom and trust that the angels are ensuring that your needs are met as you toil towards success and achievement.

Congratulations to ALL🥳

Arshi, once again loved this edit.

Originally posted by: aarwen

Indi di just for that last paragraph in orange I have decided to like this episode. That is what your words do to me samjhi aap? You turned into Faiqa in this episode conjuring out all the hidden symbolisms. Made me see love where I thought only silliness existed. Thank you for that. In fact it makes me realise that sometimes we just tend to let down our guard and enjoy some fooling around with the ones we love. Doesn't make the interaction any less.

My favourite parts in pink above and comments in green. Oh and thank you thank you for actually mentioning me in your post (again hehehe) 😳 !

hi aarwen,

thanks so much for that thorough read. i have no idea if what i say about messaging with many love related objects and gestures is correct. but when i started looking at this rather crazy episode, it felt like it... i said to myself, all said and done a group of fairly smart professionals have made these 20 odd minutes of drama, must have some meaning, somewhere.

ha ha me desperate.

but i am not at all there on symbolism and stuff...

yes, in that lying on the floor scene, red dress seemed right, as you say... i was thinking that, plus, he has a special thing for her when she is all lal lal, doesn't he. must say, sanaya, always does look very different and pretty in that deep red. but honestly, i have no idea if the creatives were in some way referring to mythological stories in that, reminded me of one, very powerfully, so shared. it was really my experience of that moment becoming more, without any reference, that whole thing is just plain bizarre...

i like your thought on the hanky ittr intimacy. yes, outsiders in it are definitely what we called in school, de trop. clumsy scene concept. he might have been equally irritated while sitting in his office, working, and the smell suddenly seeping through.

you were reading mahaepi? awww. i do often feel that it was at khushi's sanka moments, that he actually fell for her. again and again. and when she looked hot, he just exploded within, out of control. yes, he loved her giving simple nature, and all that was kkg. just sanka and sex appeal wouldn't do it. but sanka unlocked his heart big time. which is perfect in terms of character design if you ask me... gives that sanka a relevant place in the story.
i have not yet written 75, when orange juice smile happens... i want to really be in tue with my thoughts for that one. hopefully next week. now that orange juice is all over the plece.

i also think, his gussa, did funny things to her. she was never scared of it. maybe she felt an excitement, maybe she knew it was so him, she just loved it... i know i am saying crazy things... but lovers are not always attracted by obvious "good" things, sometimes a bit of bad is very ahem too... what say. his gussa was backed by this totally caring soul, and the man who took charge of things. she liked all that, the whole deal as it were, i think. plus in the hindu mind gussa somewhere gets associated with bholenath doesn't it? in fact, among teh great rishis, there was vishwamitra whole anger was trademark and sort of glorified... gussa goes with power, refulgence somewhere, doesn't it... and there's always that thing about those who yell and scream being perhaps more honest and straight forward. of course, in all of this i am not going to the sort of anger which needs psychiatric intervention 😆. just wondering why we all trusted a man who yelled so much and called it stuff like he he exquisite anger.

of course, i mentioned you when talking khushi's trait of looking away, madam, you mentioned it and got me thinking again. so thank you.

yeah, as you say, if we just enjoy this episode as a bit of extreme teasing of a loved one without caring for limits and think chalta hai... we may even enjoy it.

okay, just for that you serious, we should remember to watch it from time to time, even if on fast forward. gems embedded hai re everywhere.

payal akash adopting bubbly? hmm, you may be right, some thought may have been given to it. handled well, could have been riveting stuff, that obsession with a much older male cousin... yeah maybe a need for father...

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

We are on 42nd street [Times Square] , no I mean 24th street 😆 No I mean Thread...

I couldn't resist while coming from a meeting at 42nd street and at the Subway that's how I pictured him and after search made this edit.😊

Amazing Lines of Durga all across made this thread breezy .Kate added visual and meaning to that gentle and caring breeze and indi's story was the moisture in that breeze ...like sprinkling water right at your face.Horizon ,yet to read...

Thank You for the team especially our Supi through planning and all Whats app to provide th opportunity to join this team.I think our Thread is the most beautiful on this planet known as IF.

Ami's drool are like chat patta sexy pakpdas .Yummy Yummy !

Durga your comparison with Hahk is awesome and Indi'd edits are making it more fab.

Wiwy's gif is just too awww...and telling a different story this time.Poor Arnav in his khata meetha sasural...

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Meaning of 24...combo of 2 and 4😊

24 represents to carry on with passion and enthusiasm. Believe in yourself and your inner talents and abilities in order to find success and achieve your desires and aspirations. Trust that achieving your goals is within sight.The Angel Number 24 is a message to listen to your intuition and inner wisdom and trust that the angels are ensuring that your needs are met as you toil towards success and achievement.

Congratulations to ALL🥳

faiqa,
how come i missed this.
that man on that corner is fabulous... a dream... some day...
i agree on planet IF we are the most sanka, the most gussa and the most beautiful.
love your take 24. and i also really to love the way we all work together... joining in from everywhere. technology can be so meaningful at times and rewarding.

@indi 231
Loved you pointing out the interesting ASR maami bond. There was a special charm about the polarity of their class yet similarity of their basic personal traits.