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Posted: 9 years ago
hi all,

was reading the chat above.

anjali was actually a character that intrigued me, and i think daljeet's acting got me past the itch to slap her whenever she did that sweet loving "nyaka" sis thing... daljeet was really good. she took anjali through her several traits with grace and ease. the besotted blind in love wife (he was staying away nights for so long, she never suspected a thing, even canny mami commented). the completely dependent and loving sister. the pampered granddaughter... and yet with a steely determination in her... i remember a day when mami was freaking out over akash carrying payal and anjali walked in and managed the scene. in fact she was a bit stern with mami. anjali often managed things.

she would manage, lovingly manipulate, her brother so well too... she always knew she had power over him.

and yes a part of her was terribly shaken and fear ridden ever since that night in their lives... she constantly was into her poojas i felt to get a hold of that shaken part of hers... that's why the pooja path mattered to an excessive degree, even nani couldn't take it.

she was meticulous about things... that whole thing about how to set the table, how to cut salad, etc., she was a girl born well who showed signs of her background and upbringing in many many ways. she was an intelligent girl who spoke in crisp english and thankfully that did not make her a bad girl 😳.

when she started sneaking out to see shyam, i actually was quite happy... complexity... i kept thinking we'd see complexity here... i also was sure that it would be she who would in the end bring shyam to his denouement. maybe with a little help from khushi, since shyam had so wronged khushi too, but she would be pivotal... i am silly, i thought writers were writing.

yes, anjali was a pivotal character... her relationship with asr is key i feel... but she was just messed up and left there.

asr had not only stopped when payal had mentioned shyam the night he brough khsuhi back, he knew khushi's fiance's name was shyam... in the absolutely stunning 125, right at the end she answered her phone in front of him and said, "ji, shyam ji..." so what happened to the sharp shatir one later... no recall? not even once?

the whole fam knew her fiance's name was shyam... yet it occurred to no one...

so many hints were dropped, and scenes about anjali finding shyam and khushi together... never to be acted on later.

babu ji remained where he was though there were scenes where we heard he was getting better. so what was the big hoohaa about him seeing shyam and knowing the truth? just for hospital hug?

and shyam... that subtle interesting pleasant looking man with a funny desire and a lack of conscience, almost scary in its intensity and curiously out of place with the rest of him, that we started with... what happened to him? he became boss and started rocking... then he said he is bura... that's all. so why was he in lucknow on that day he first met khushi... even then he was hiding his whereabouts from his wife...

i am frazzled beyond world after writing about the last few episodes. i am completely shocked at the lack of any respect for one's own work that many showed here. and really, was it necessary. i sense a lot of discord among makers when i see or write... leaves me untethered...

ultimately all the beautiful characters were wrecked... even asr was drastically toned down... his actor tried valiantly to keep him asr, despite long hair and oily skin... only nani ji, i think she remained more or less who i knew her to be. i would have liked to have seen her stern side a bit somewhere having seen that in the beginning and liking that element.

ipk was the kind of story which was really about its people and not so much about what happened out there... and they had indeed created some very special characters, each one... i mean even the prakash brothers have a place in our chats... if they had only felt there characters in their hearts and been guided by them, i have a feeling they would have not gone so haywire.

i understand the trp worries.

ipk was doing very well outside india but slipping in the domestic numbers. my thought on this: must every show be only for domestic market trp? in that case why this foray to get overseas audiences at all? and having got such a winner, wasn't it a bit silly to just let it go because 8pm slot needed more trp? would it not have been better to shift it to another time slot but try and stay with the tale which was getting humongous attention abroad, and i know of many many people who loved it in india too? anyway i am not a television executive... i would not know.

but i do write.

and i know there was no need to lose the whole thing so badly.

no, khushi does not like crackers... who wrote the diwali i will never forget and who wrote the diwali i can barely remember other than that faux pas.

sorry to go on. i am completely frazzled these days...

thank g i never was a tv serial watcher and am making sure this never happens again. though if a certain actor... 😆

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just to make sure i was not talking nonsense went and saw most of 125... every look, every grain of voice had my heart pounding... and what was beautiful was that this was not just about oooh love and hayee chemistry... there were real feelings there, you could feel the intense pain and sense of hell in both asr and khushi, while others giggled and laughed also with the right note of their emotions. asr was not just a good looking dude with this hotness... nor khushi this crazy coot sanka girl... they were always, i again realised, two people whose emotions were as deep as anyone's... they were real people and this was a serious terrible situation... and they tried their best to cope with it...

i got completely drawn into their emotions... in every scene, even when he was not there and la and anjali teased her about her fiance...

oh the couple of minutes when he is ruining his garden and she comes... the "toh"... the "dekha na aap ko chot lag gayi..." the helplessness as you watch someone else take care of the one you love and no longer are allowed to... the tearing pain to know that someone you have no idea what you feel for yet you do is now someone else's fiance and yet you want them so badly so badly that you need to hurt them for doing what they have done, tumhe kya faraq padta hai... how much he wanted her to give the faraq even if he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge he gave a damn, she made all the difference...

my heart actually thuds funnily when i remember certain things and yes this time i noticed my shoulders went all warm and weird... hmm.

i guess that's why i could never walk away, this is something i will never ever feel embarrassed about for giving myself and my time to.
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Originally posted by: DurgaS

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Episode 251
 
 
Mat Jaaiye
 
 
Khushi:
 
Ilzaam lagaakar aap toh chal diye
Ek baar sun toh lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Iss nazar se dekhein humey nahin kiya koi kaam aisa
Seh nahi sakte ke aap samjhe humey gairon jaisa
Aakhri hi sahi safaai ka mauka dijiye
Zara sun to lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Farq padta hai kyunki baat hai aapki
Yun chale gaye toh saansein na hongi baaki
Haath chudakar iss tarah na jaaiye
Baat maan lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Arnav:
 
Tay kar chuka hoon ke chala jaaoonga door
Dil ke aage nahin ho sakta majboor
Magar har kadam par rokti tumhari yaadein
Mushkil kar diya jaana, kehna tumhara, mat jaaiye
 
 
Translation:
 
Khushi:
 
You put a blame and are walking off
Please listen for once, don't go  
 
I haven't done anything that you look at me with such detest
Can't bear that you treat me like the others
At least for a last time, give me a chance to clarify
Atleast listen to me, don't go
 
It does matter to me, because it's about you
If you go like this, my breaths won't last
Don't go like this taking off my hand
Accept my request, don't go
 
Arnav:
 
I've decided to go away far
Can't become vulnerable in front of the heart
But at every step your memories stop me
Going away has become difficult by your telling, don't go
 


you made me cry again.
Episode-251 is just a painful episode!
Very emotional poem, you expressed the right feelings of Arnav and Khushi.
Theses lines are my favorite

Farq padta hai kyunki baat hai aapki
Yun chale gaye toh saansein na hongi baaki
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Originally posted by: DurgaS

Disclaimer: Please do not copy my work anywhere. If you do, please give credit.

 
Episode 251
 
 
Mat Jaaiye
 
 
Khushi:
 
Ilzaam lagaakar aap toh chal diye
Ek baar sun toh lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Iss nazar se dekhein humey nahin kiya koi kaam aisa
Seh nahi sakte ke aap samjhe humey gairon jaisa
Aakhri hi sahi safaai ka mauka dijiye
Zara sun to lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Farq padta hai kyunki baat hai aapki
Yun chale gaye toh saansein na hongi baaki
Haath chudakar iss tarah na jaaiye
Baat maan lijiye, mat jaaiye
 
Arnav:
 
Tay kar chuka hoon ke chala jaaoonga door
Dil ke aage nahin ho sakta majboor
Magar har kadam par rokti tumhari yaadein
Mushkil kar diya jaana, kehna tumhara, mat jaaiye
 
 
Translation:
 
Khushi:
 
You put a blame and are walking off
Please listen for once, don't go  
 
I haven't done anything that you look at me with such detest
Can't bear that you treat me like the others
At least for a last time, give me a chance to clarify
Atleast listen to me, don't go
 
It does matter to me, because it's about you
If you go like this, my breaths won't last
Don't go like this taking off my hand
Accept my request, don't go
 
Arnav:
 
I've decided to go away far
Can't become vulnerable in front of the heart
But at every step your memories stop me
Going away has become difficult by your telling, don't go
 


Nice poem Durga👏


Magar har kadam par rokti tumhari yaadein
Mushkil kar diya jaana, kehna tumhara, mat jaaiye


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Originally posted by: indi52

episode 267


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i have never seen such heady love making on the screen. actually anywhere.
same here.

there were flaws, but what i left with was so intoxicating and beautiful, i overlooked the glitches.

when two people love each other, the sensual domain is theirs to own. theirs to express their emotion through, enjoy it, seep right in. from completely carnal sex to sublime union, the entire spectrum is theirs to have and explore. in fact, between lovers the physical intimacy and contact their relationship nurtures, is often a means of communication... with each other... sometimes even the eternal.
beautifully said.

the intensity of one's emotion drives this exploration and gives it variegated colour. one can write a book or a library on this... but how does one create it before a camera? between people who are not really lovers.
Barun and Sanaya together feels so real.

there are so many preconceived notions about what is sexy what is not, how lovers should or shouldn't make love, and in our image inundated world, stereotypes are thick and heavy. say love making and a bunch of cliched images flash.

nothing seems fresh, nothing touches. certainly nothing ignites... that's been the case with me.

but while seeing 267 when i forgot everything and just watched trying to hold onto my breath... i realised i was seeing something which is all of those. and definitely much more.

for me this episode is about director, barun, and sainyaa... that aaraam. i wish khushi had been thought through a bit more.

and while i loved the choice of song, there were parts where i felt nothing but the visual was required. it created all the other layers and you could almost hear and feel the picture. to find out if i was correct, made a vm with my most favorite parts, and no goons. please do see, i will be back tomorrow morning with the rest.

update





"fireflies," he said.

"jugnu!" she concurred delighted.


light played on her face, on his... his eyes were all you could see and in them, another light... that of his devotion to her. his incandescent love that even the darkest night could not snuff out.

the firefly... only one suddenly, i have seen a version where there were three... left its little pitcher and flew away, its phosphorescence lighting up the trail it flew and out of the hut it went, leaving darkness behind. but not quite. what had been lit remained so.

he looked at her worried, almost pained by the thought of her feeling afraid. but she said, she was no longer afraid.

were the fireflies really a metophor, i wondered. they had lain lit but carefully shut in a rounded little pitcher, a secret chamber as it were, its shape reminiscent of the womb, the kumbh from which nectar flowed... till she opened the lid and they flew right out.

desire. were they telling the story of desire that had lain bright and refulgent in two hearts, never set free and allowed to fly... but tonight they would?
what  a perception! wonderful!

the day had been spent running, running to escape from danger that wouldn't be thwarted. two lovers, hand in hand, thrown into a strange flight and did they finally reach a place where at last the real fears we have can be shed?

as if on cue, she said, she was no longer afraid... no longer afraid of what? the darkness without or her apprehensions within?

from the moment the hut was sighted, we seemed to shift to an alterante reality. the hard harsh world of the day melting into a magic hut somewhere far away, yet where no one really knows. it appeared in the middle of a wooded area, replete with hay on the floor, lantern on a pole, shamrock on the wall, and the raiment of a nubile virgin... white chiffon touched with sparkling badla, but along with it, the touch of the temptress in a red revealing blouse with a tie to hold it in place. 👏👏👏

in this fairytale cocoon one thing was throbbingly real. a man's feeling for a woman. a complete feeling that had range depth veracity.

close your eyes and count till ten, said a gentle, father like protector husband to a scared childlike wife. all arnav singh raizada cared about was her safety and comfort... something terribly beautiful about a man simply accepting his role and defining it his way.

captive or not, tired or not, worn out or not... khushi is always his responsibility... he owns this duty, it is a precious asset almost. even when he has disbelieved her he has protected her...  
yes he is, since their first meeting he has been protecting her, except the day when he dropped her form his office cabin. He knew there were boxes there, but still what he did was really bad.

for her too, only he was of importance, nothing else really. she saw the cut on his cheek and reached out to soothe. i could see the hand was not correct, nor the hair... it was not sanaya who dabbed at barun's cheek. but just as i had done the first time i saw this episode i carefully shifted focus and concentrated on what mattered, did not allow the presence of not well chosen doubles to mar my enjoyment of the beautiful portrayal before me.
it annoyed me too. cause Sanaya's hands are too beautiful and that chubby cheek ASR's side face bothered me too, as our man's  profile is too perfect.


in the dimmed light, the intimacy of a secluded hut, desires began to murmur once fear had abated. this was the first time they were meeting after what took so long to say was said, and heard, and held dear in their hearts.

he sat on the hay while she changed; his shirt he had taken off for it must have been grimy and filthy after the ordeal of the past days and he just wore his not too pristine undershirt as he waited for her.

the gesture itself curiously intimate, that of removing the outerwear and being completely at home in a vest before a woman... quite husband like.

he murmured vaguely about what intimated her to his plight... a question he had asked before. arnav singh raizada was speaking not in clipped sentences but with a slightly lost curious lilt to his voice. maybe he wanted to know if she could feel him as intensely as he could sense her... 
His voice was so tender.

she answered in little mumbles about woh, that... what he had said...

yeah that... woh... did asr just mumble back?

oh they both were feeling the fireflies' call...

he had pulled a makeshift red curtain on a line for her, to give her privacy.


and then inadvertantly, as things often happen, his eyes fell on a shadow... of her donning her clothes, he could see the silhouette move alluringly, her hands were behind her back, she was tying the dori of her blouse clearly...

one long look, and arnav singh raizada could no longer mask the naked passion stirring in his gut, released... refusing to be put back into a quiet dark place, instead rising and seeking to be free.
there was so much desire in that look, that can kill any girl instantly. at least kills me every time I watch.

a simple lantern juxtaposed against a lean expressive face with glittering jewel like eyes and a poetry started getting written about longing, sensual yearning, love and beyond.

as he watched her, then got up to lower the flame of the lantern so that even he may not in any way disrespect her form, her being, every frame seemed like a still life, but dynamic, quivering with desire... the wellspring of which was not mere flesh. of course, the flesh sought its pleasure but what compelled it was a sublime emotion.

this was really not about sex. and certainly not about a generic man woman thing. this was arnav singh's specific particular desire for khushi kumari. for no one else has he felt such things... not in this way or so i felt... to no one else has he wanted to give so much of himself.

quietly he stares at shadows, his eyes saying a million things, most important, he is struggling with a growing arousal... he looks away, he swallows and tries to calm himself

and then just as he is about to succeed in quelling the overwhelming feelings, she draws aside the red curtain... it had to be red of course, right from that first day when he had reacted to her beauty without meaning to... it was always red. isn't it the colour of blood? of passion? of heat? of sindoor?


and before his eyes stands a virginal maiden in white, little silver sparkles across her flowing garment, her hair is open and down to her hips, diaphanous sheer is her saree, hugging her sensuous curves, a dash of red on her body, and a strange wariness in her eyes... that question about how she knew, that reminder of his phone call, and in her perhaps a surging too.

as i watched her, i could see she knew what he was thinking of... perhaps she longed too... but oh i did so wish someone had thought about what khushi would feel at such a moment with a bit more depth...


once he saw her, he could deny it no more. astounding expressions on barun's face, his eyes, the language of his entire body. she stood there transfixed, then his head tilted to one side as if he couldn't believe what it was his eyes beheld.

the breath by breath understanding and delineation of sexual desire burgeoning was exhilarating and gratifying really. the director had seen this whole thing in his mind with such clarity... it was as if he painted a canvas, stroke upon stroke.

asr looked at khushi for a timeless moment and then you saw a decision come into his eyes... that is when he moved... flowed really..
how graceful and ballet like were the next few minutes... he came to her, the motion had been slowed, the lighting was perfect, she stood there shy, uncertain, a little out of her depth. the two of them stood apart, a ray of light falling between them, an improvised clothesline with a sense of limit separated them, the lakshman rekha as it were. she watched transfixed, he approached, he seemed mesmerised... as he had been that day of the first rabba vey, as he had been on diwali night... but this time he knew why he was here and it no longer threw him that such an overwhelming need propelled him.


when he reached the rope... an inflection point. he lifted his hand and pushed the rope up, ducking under it, eyes on her he came to her side as it were. in his gaze was a determination now. he was here. he had decided to hear the call of the fireflies.

she backed away then, the look in his slightly glazed yet focussed brown eyes sent tremors through her it seemed. maybe it was the magnitude of his desire that shook her... had she ever felt such guiltless vast passion directed at her... caused in fact by her?


did it scare her a little? though it sparked a desire too in good measure.

he came closer still, now with a faintly predatory air, seeking her, and her alone. she walked back straight into the wall... so reminiscent of diwali this whole moment... he leaned over as he had done then, his eyes muddling and wanting the mayhem of love... this time he is sure. there will be no denial afterwards.

she watched as feelings ran amok and tried to escape the onslaught, but he would not let her... a swift and graceful lunge to the right blocking her path.

he bent down to kiss her, she attempted escape again...

but his downcast head managed to communicate unyielding resolution, a swift hand caught her wrist, obstructing flight... no, jonaki, tonight you won't fly away... bangles moved and danced, a touch of red by a carefully crafting director... in it: frenzy, fear, and maybe a note of wanton love.

asr pulled her back and came over close, she looked on helpless now, her eyes large, irises a little glassy... caught between the scary tumult of sensations in her and in him... perhaps still just a bit afraid.

i noted that both were dressed in white and red. he wore his basic white vest and that devastatingly exciting cut on left cheek, with a streak of blood.

red and white... were these colours too telling stories about the two and this evening like no other evening?


he did kiss her shoulder and then knowing the fight had left her, that she wanted him as much as he her, he bent and did what he had done so many times before... so after the signature advance retreat, now it was time to pick her up in his arms.

only this time he would lay her gently, tenderly on a bed of hay and make love to her, his wife.

while outside men with guns looked for them, inside the hut, lovers prepared to surrender, for something had found its mark. and that is when the song rose... rustic gritty alleviating... saiyaan.

kailash kher and a sufi interpretation of love, words that speak of the nature of love the lover seeks... and what that love does. enchanting melody. words that can make you blush or die with pleasure... no need for guns.


tu jo chhoonley pyaar se aaram se mar jaaoon.

if you should touch me with love, i will die of the comfort, the pleasure.


isn't that arnav singh's longing there? for years there has been no aaraam in his life, no comfort, no pleasure really... now she... all he needs is to be touched by her... that is all.

aaraam, a difficult to translate word i feel... nuances of the purely physical and also emotion in it.

saiyaan... saiyaan... lover... oh my lover.

she lay on the hay as he reached down to claim her to be claimed by her.


just as he was about to kiss her lips at last, she moved with alacrity, away... no... she was shy... not ready... and out flowed a beautiful long slim arm, minutely and perfectly etched with muscles... sinuous, strong, rising from a beautiful shoulder...

he stopped her... then ever so slowly his hand moved, his fingers trailed the skin on her back and went to her dori... fingers began to untie the knot. she was carried away on the sensations awakened... his eyes looked intoxicated...

in the intensity if this night, in its pure and complete call, i suddenly found a reflection of another terrifically concentrated night... after the terrace... on a quiet road, the scream of a man betrayed, a man who loves and wants to be loved. the helplessness of that night seemed to come and find bliss here and merged with it, losing itself, letting it flow away, becoming strong again... that chot of his got its aaraam. that night he had screamed, tonight he said barely anything and whatever he did was in the opposite decibel direction... whispers... yet his eyes spoke, his body sang, his hands screamed...

and of course, the goons found them just then.

there is a beauty in these scenes that my words will never be able to capture. and barun... this really was his episode. how terribly detailed and precise are his expressions... his body language is really rare... he is predator and protector... there is a male aggressiveness and a ballet like grace in his movements... something hums and murmurs all the time... it envelops him.. it's in his look, his voice, all around... and really i have never seen male physique that looks as though someone had painted it, no sculpted it... giving it the most fluid angles and lines, lifting a muscle here, drawing a sinew there, detailing with infinite care. collar bones, shoulders, the clavicle, the ridges and grooves... how can such things look so beautiful...


pulchritude, my mind said. this is what that word means. this type of beauty.

the moment he knew the outside world had intruded... asr, shatir, problem solving, in command, and no nonsense returned... he spoke in his clear sentences, a mix of hindi and english, an economy of words...

first thought... her safety. unlogo ko mujhse matlab hai... if i go out, they won't come in... ok?

no! she won't let him go. neither can bear the thought of the other being hurt.

they argued... he spoke of risk, she said let's jump out through the window... he through clenched teeth said, just lemme go, khushi...

i wondered how long i could remain sane.

and then some muddle headed writing bludgeoned the night on the head.

but there had been such beauty here by then, nothing could dull that.

right in the beginning before everything started, he had taken a second, stolen it from the hour in fact to look at her as she counted till ten with her eyes closed as he had asked her to...

the tenderness that invaded his eyes at that point... infinite love there... it was perhaps that look which made the one in his eyes when he crossed the clothesline... that stalking devouring hunger... look perfectly wonderful... not lascivious and if so, in the best possible way.



heerey moti main na chahoon, main toh chahoon sangam tera...

diamonds and pearls i don't desire... i desire union with you.


even before the song said it, barun sobti spoke it with his eyes, his bent of head, his gliding, slow walk, his air of being unstoppable... 

barun sobti was doing double shifts at this point... shooting for mamr at the same time. i have a feeling he was enjoying his role a lot... and that somehow got reflected in his kidnap days acting in ipk. absolutely inspired is all i can say... i yearn to see acting of this nature. and i hope that some day soon mamr releases... because he so wanted to do it.




did you see the look in his eyes
infinite

planets perhaps shifted
when he lunged

was there ever in truth a line to be
crossed

if there was, a crossing would be
done

love dictated, desired, demanded
that

the lover and the beloved stand
forever

in a hut in the gloam between here and
somewhere else

beauty and truth their indelible tie
illumine


 



soon after watching this episode when it first aired, i wrote this:
tonight was bs's night wasn't it.

also:
par mera asr aaj perfect tha, smoulder in his eyes, desire on his lips, love in his heart, passion in every pore. and banian on his breathtaking torso 😉 aur kuch hi din baad woh lautega, with all those things you speak of. but after tonight, there's no guarantee i'll live that long. he's the real dangerous one not that bichara sanskaari goonda. tan dan dan...



not finished yet. will be back.
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just to make sure i was not talking nonsense went and saw most of 125... every look, every grain of voice had my heart pounding... and what was beautiful was that this was not just about oooh love and hayee chemistry... there were real feelings there, you could feel the intense pain and sense of hell in both asr and khushi, while others giggled and laughed also with the right note of their emotions. asr was not just a good looking dude with this hotness... nor khushi this crazy coot sanka girl... they were always, i again realised, two people whose emotions were as deep as anyone's... they were real people and this was a serious terrible situation... and they tried their best to cope with it...

i got completely drawn into their emotions... in every scene, even when he was not there and la and anjali teased her about her fiance...

oh the couple of minutes when he is ruining his garden and she comes... the "toh"... the "dekha na aap ko chot lag gayi..." the helplessness as you watch someone else take care of the one you love and no longer are allowed to... the tearing pain to know that someone you have no idea what you feel for yet you do is now someone else's fiance and yet you want them so badly so badly that you need to hurt them for doing what they have done, tumhe kya faraq padta hai... how much he wanted her to give the faraq even if he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge he gave a damn, she made all the difference...

my heart actually thuds funnily when i remember certain things and yes this time i noticed my shoulders went all warm and weird... hmm.

i guess that's why i could never walk away, this is something i will never ever feel embarrassed about for giving myself and my time to.

Indi di, absolutely loved reading these two posts of yours. To have non serial watchers like us congregate like this, they surely did lot of things right. We felt their attraction and the utter helplessness in the face of that, the pain that it brought with it. Yet, how could they let it all go like that. Like you I don't understand this whole trp shenanigans, probably because I don't watch much tv.
Anjali, she was interesting and pivotal all right. And she did notice things didn't she? That conversation with her brother about khushiji's "bechaini", especially that feeling that things didn't feel alright when she saw her talking to her fianc. She didn't talk about that to naniji or lavanya, interesting that! Did she feel her brother would've noticed something (she did ask if he had noticed)? In reply she got that soliloquy from her brother! And there was no pondering on that. Ha, what interesting possibilities!
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the bechaini question by an astute sister and oh that soliloquy by a man who doesn't know this is love but it holds him in its relentless embrace anyway. and makes him go a little crazy. i need to see that... writing a chapter of ncofl now, was taking a 5 min breather... straight after the chapter, it's the non serial watcher back to serial thanks, kizh...

thanks for reading my posts... lot of hurting churning on. but yeah, no ordinary serial... must get beyond the bilge.

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: sohara

episode-263

 

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Khushi and mami see the video footage where some men are shown clearly, took Arnav out from the airport. They can't see further as there is no more footage was recorded after that. While searching more tapes they hear the guard's foot steps. so they hide. But Khushi comes again and takes the tape with her. As usual she trips and drops the tape on the ground. The guard, who is looking around, comes right behind her. The tape is laying down right in front of his feet. Fortunately he can't see both khushi and the tape and goes out from the room.

mami is waiting outside for khushi with baited breath; where is phatti saree, if she got caught or not. khushi comes right then with the tape and they could manage to escape.

 

mami's feet are aching after doing so many stunts. But Khushi's mind is pervaded by arnav's thought only. She looks at the tape and tells mami about the ransom. She is sure that Arnav has been kidnapped. So the kidnapper definitely will ask for ransom. mami says handsome instead of ransom. Oh yeah they didn't want ransom, but handsome for sure.

mami brings all of her jewelries, so that she can sell all and give the ransom money. She can't expect any money from Khsuhi, as she thinks she must've spent all her money making jalebis. haha I don't remember this line

mami's gesture sure proved, how much she loves Arnav. She once gave all her jewelry to him to do business. And later when Arnav became a successful businessman, he tried to cover her with jewelry, as much as she wanted.

 khushi asks mami, why she needs to sell her jewelries where the kidnapper didn't ask for any money. Those 4 men sure abducted him and took him out from the airport. that means he is in India. She is ambiguous, why they didn't ask for any ransom yet. khushi thinks to watch the tape more assiduously to find the clue about those 4 men.

 

in the semi dark room of the deserted warehouse, Arnav is still tied up on the chair with ropes. He looks groggy and emaciated. His eyes are turbid and shutting down. Suddenly he lifts his head from his frazzled state; Khushi is sitting kneeling right in front of him. She looks resplendent in her green suit, her long hair flows down her back in dark waves of ebony. He utters Khushi gently, can't believe his eyes. How mellifluous her name sounds from his mouth! His eyes lit with a glimmer of smile. but the smile doesn't quite dispel the shadows of pain in his eyes. He feels jovial with the cascade of emotions pumping through him while being peacefully aware of her nearness as a gentle calmness seeps into his heart. He gazes down at her with his breath rag and his eyes alit with a soft glow. His tied hand lifts a bit, tries to outstretch to hold her. Tears brim in her eyes to see him in such decadent condition. Her lovely eyes are trying to read his somber expression and flickering with pain. She looks at the hand of her strong and confident man, what is tied with ropes. He looks crestfallen and giddy also. Arnav asks her,

"khushi, sach mein tum ho!" he smiles 

"mujhe laga koi sapna hai"

khushi leans towards him and her hand reaches out to care his face lovingly.  His face angles, to feel her hand..

"yeh sapna i to hai arnavji."...and she evanesces.

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His hand remains outstretched to retain her, but no avail. He looks around with despondence, can't find her any where. A strong pensive expression lurks in the depths of his eyes. He clasps his fist. His adam apple bubbles up and down as he swallows in an attempt to thwart a rising wave of emotions.  He can't keep his turbid eyes open. he opens his fist, where he is muffling her pnk pompom. A silly little pom pom, which is her signature style, is his strength now. His mind is whirling in a vortex of incisive thought. He recollects how he stole that while snatching the ticket from her hand. She pleaded him not to go, but he didn't listen to her. Self recrimination that flays him and rips it to smithereens. he wishes if he would've listened to her plea! Repercussion takes him to the indelible memories what is tethered in his heart. 

 

The loving and caring Khushi...When he fainted for low sugar, she stayed up whole night to take care of him. How worried she was and how lovingly she took care of him!

 

Naughty and bubbly Khushi...he went to Gupta house how she did pranks with him in the GH yard.

 

Shattered khushi...he didn't trust her when she said she never had an illegitimate relationship with Shyam. how loathsomely he threw their pic on the ground!

 

Pain and agony suffuse his visage.

So many memories of her pervade his thought. Before leaving for London, how harshly he behaved with her, dragged her roughly towards the bed. still, she didn't relinquished but beseeched him incessantly not to leave her.

Her crestfallen face, her teary eyes are piercing his heart with million middles. He made her cry even in their last meeting. He is swallowing hard to control his anguish. His face grapples with contrition. His heart squeezes with sudden realization as his face blanched and his eyes turn murky with pure, unadulterated grief. Darkness encompasses him again and the air around him shudders with pure and impenetrable grief. His mind unclear and groggy as pain continues to cleanse his inside.

Barun was outstanding. He just said a short line, but his expressions said so much. He was even looking sexy in his disheveled state.

 

Akash and Payal are finally look like a perfect couple. She is taking care of her hubby darling like a perfect wife and even tricks him for movie. Akash also assents to take his beautiful wife for a movie date.

mami's investigation starts with the dhobi. it seems, mami is not taking Arnav's kidnapping seriously. Otherwise, how an adult woman like her thought a poor dhobi can kidnap a cogent man like ASR! 😕 When khushi asks her what she is doing, she chides her not to interruptions in invhastigason. mami thinks as the kidnappers didn't ask for ransom, they have some other motives. So anybody can be the kidnapper. They should keep their eyes open. While she was giving her opinion on the kidnappers, Khushi's eyes go to Shyam. Her suspicion goes straight to him. she later comes to his room furtively and checks his phone. She is thinking why she didn't suspect that Shyam could be the kidnapper! She sees a message in his phone that he withdrew 500,000 rupees from the bank. Her ambiguity increases more; what he did with that much of money! shyam comes out of the bathroom right then. She hardly could manage to get out. But before leaving the room she again tripped with a table and made noise. shyam becomes alert who came to his room! laxmi helps Khushi this time, she reaches there right then and Khushi pushes her inside the room. shyam thought it was laxmi. khushi was about to leave when she hears him rebuking somebody to call him. khushi tries to eavesdrop his conversation, he is telling the person that that guy shouldn't be slipped from their hand. The sly guy senses somebody is around, so he comes out to look. Fortunately khushi could manage to hide. shyam shuts the door and Khsuhi still listens that he is telling to capture the man and bring him 8 @ night. but he doesn't mention where, just tells him to that place.

Khushi is cogitating with whom Shyam going for the rendezvous or why did he say to confine him; what place he is going!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OjwwUXV6g[/YOUTUBE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OjwwUXV6g

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Nice take Sohara. You captured Arnav's anguish very well. I can't even imagine how must he feel remembering his last few days with Khushi. How much he must have hurt her and made her cry and now he may not have a chance to ever meet her and set it right. Such a terrible helpless feeling it must be. Also lovely how you noted the different facets of Khushi that he remembered.. caring, bubbly then shattered..

That dhobi scene with mamiji I could not stand. good you pointed out how silly it was.
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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 270


an episode carried by two actors mainly, utkarsha naik and sanaya irani, as it's the day to play detective and find arnav ji anyhow, somehow. might have been interesting, but for the decision to go funny, almost comic, while on a desperate search to find the man who makes khushi's heart beat faster. nice way to put it Indi di.. the whole thing had too much of a playing detective feel to it.. nancy drew, miss marple were more believable than this duo by the way..

no, not just that. with whom her heartbeat is one.

hamari dhadkaney ek ho jati hai.

when you are close to me, our heartbeats become one, a man with flowing tenderness and love had said at a poolside to a girl who wanted to know, why? why does this happen? when you're near me my heartbeats quicken?

today that man is in the hands of vile revolver toting men and the girl searches frantically for him.

where exactly do writers think, comedy fits in in the middle of it?

sometimes i really wonder about caring for what you do... not only because you are paid to do it, but because you believe you have the talent to do it, you want to, you almost need to. writing somewhere is a bit of compulsion... i write enough and more to have started to understand that. its actually true for anything.. pride in one's work whatever it might be.

i can never ever understand why writers lost it because one actor would not be around for a bit over a month... though actually he was available to shoot often... and it was quite possible to stay sane and centred through this not too long a span of time.

after the spectacular 266 and 267, what makes a writer come to 269 or 270 or 271... i just don't get. maybe they thought we can let the brains rest we gave them enough to be happy about for this week. lets not pamper the audience too much.. poor writers with short memory span and frequent bouts of forgetiya syndrome forgot they had already set the bar too high for us..

sanaya irani is a powerful actress.

the love story is absolutely established.

the viewer is engrossed in it. there are beautiful scenes that may be brought on through flashbacks and other means. or, i am sure there are many rushes, especially of the two hugs and the hut sequence that can be edited differently and used. what's more, barun sobti will come in for a shoot every now and then so you can have fresh shots...

surely one can stay cogent while telling the tale of asr's kidnap and not turn to disjointed story, strange comedy, and a tinny feel to it all. instead of fretting about what will happen if the audience misses barun, had they taken this opportunity to give the whole kidnap tale meaning i have  a feeling this turning to ridiculous comedy might not have happened. Indi di I have a feeling keeping it sad for all the while might have felt more dragging, but even the quality of comedy I feel dropped drastically. I was seeing a few episodes with lavanya and Arhar ki daal became ASR ki daal and sounded quite delightful. But mamiji talking about manchurian and Khushi managin to reverse pick pocketer was simply weird.

in fact, now that i think, it was the ideal time to really develop why the kidnap, why the will was important, what the whole thing was about...

and what happened to the directors? that opening sequence of someone trying to drop something on mami ji, or the chase in the toy shop... why so fake? when the same guys are doing the beautifully shot hugs and hut?

also, no matter what, asr's wife and aunt cannot be shown haring around delhi in autos... if they can't use the raizada cars for the sake of anonymity or whatever, both have the wherewithal to hire a car.

after a lot of rushing and hiding and fretting, we came to rocky's kitchen and he pulled a little stunt.

again, something just was not scary about the whole thing.


in fact, while the cloak and dagger stuff was going on at the toy shop, i noticed the teddy type goon had a lot of profile shots... maybe the director was enamoured of  profiles for a particular reason. 😆 I also took a few screen shots of this particular goon. I might ahve to keep my eyes open he mus be a happy smiling halwai with a gamcha over his head in some other show.

my one happy moment in 270, mami saying, "exshkooz me, khisko!" nice dialogue. truly bizarre.


Had more fun reading than the fake episode obviously Indi di.. there was some random Indian show coming on television yesterday and I saw a few minutes and trust me.. in front of that even this episode is a classic.. hahaha.. am smug and have a superior air about our choice in TV show now.. and also for a brief moment looked at these people at IPK with a more indulgent air..
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Posted: 9 years ago
Episode 271


Last episode I had sadistically hoped that Rocky figure out Khushi and mamiji are hidden right there because he was standing so close and the show wanted us to believe their whispers and churiyon ki khanak would not be heard outside. Still when Rocky with the psychotic glare and gun in hand caught Khushi I felt bad for my traitorous thoughts of wanting this to happen. As I repeatedly like to mention, am watching all this for the first time, or because it was boring my mind has elected to embrace selective amnesia and has forgotten all this from a prior watch. So I also thought if Rocky gets her now she might be locked in with ASR , since the kidnappers are dumb enough to do exactly such a thing, and that might also lead to some nice sequences. Incisive and sanka ideas combined they would be unstoppable by these mere hired second grade kidnappers.
 
What happened next was quite fun to watch. Like a Bollywood movie which is only meant to entertain and has to be taken at its face value without much thought.. Will quote a line from a recent movie.." main bas dil mein aata hun, saajh mein nahi.."   Mami went Salman khan like and threw chilli powder on poor Rocky. ASR had pummeled him to pulp last time he met Khushi and not he is hit by a steel   kalchul by mamiji. This guy sure is having a bad time these days. Ofcourse he has learnt to say "dammit" from his prisoner it seems. May have been taking style notes from the inherently stylish ASR. And something very sweet about mamiji turning kali maa for Arnav bitwa. Kicks and a little gaali galouch also Manorma ishtyle ma. So there is anger and a deep sense of worry for bitwa somewhere inside the garish comic exterior.

 
However what I didn't like was Khushi acting all abla nari damsel in distress like. Surely she could have used the situation to her advantage. Am not sure how, but am sure she would have known, after all Khushi Kumari Gupta had the ingenuity to add misri in the petrol tank. She also had the courage to face the steely eyed arrogant and devastatingly handsome mean stranger. "Ganga Jamuna daily soap bahut jiade hi hui gaya.. ike stop karike pari.." .. Neatly summed up mamiji. In fact she is exactly like babua, not wanting too much vociferous gratitude from phatee saree.
 
Boss is definitely Shyam from the silhouette. What I wonder is not the why and hows of the kidnapping or the will, but what prompted the man to take such a drastic step. Sure ASR had made his reach to money more difficult, but men like Shyam with their parasitic tendency  veer towards weaseling their way in and keeping people happy to slowly suck blood. They don't go about plotting kidnapping and murder.  How he kept everyone in Shantivan and GH happy seems true to character of such a man. A mask of goodness so that he can go off doing his own thing and his wife will not think of suspecting the ideal husband he pretends to be. He would not have the guts to try something this risky. Foremost for such men is their own survival and comfort. Mind games.. sure. Boss and guns and goons.. Daiyya re..
 
What I wanted to delay is finally on screen now. ASR in a filthy vest. Hands bound behind. Eyes in a blindfold. Jerky awkward movements of a man not able to see. And though there is vitality I feel a sense of helplessness. Energy is his forte.. Not necessarily physical, but in his thoughts, the way he does business, handles stuff.. Everything shouted of power and strength and control. Being restrained must be hell for him. Barun makes me almost want to revert my eyes from the screen, it feels so unnerving seeing ASR this way.
 
Khushi who already suspected Shyam is unable to recognize his profile. Boss does some filmy hand movements. Just pointing his finger and they know what he is saying apparently.
 
And then unexpectedly, after four episodes, finally the stirring of my heart.. Did you notice? Barun doesn't even have his famed eyes open and towards us. Only a voiceover, he is not saying his dialogues out loud like every other actor mostly does. Only the straining muscles in his neck. The jaws and adams apple working ferociously. And a truthful disregard to trying to look good, just convey the agony with full sincerity to the viewer. She can't be here. Can't be in danger for his sake again.
 
He knows she is here.. The neck angles out.. Reaching towards her.. And she feels it too. Has to.
 

I try to make sense of the characters' actions so the banging on the door does not sit too well with me. I don't think ASR would senselessly loose energy even though he might have wanted to rattle the kidnappers and show them he cannot be tied down. Formal black shoes, black trousers and a grimy banyan.. A man unable to use his eyes or hands fighting three men surrounding him at the same time.. And yet it all felt harrowingly real.. could be a gladiator in an arena in some distant world.. Too real.. I can't even like it because it makes me realize he is in captivity.. He is kidnapped. This isn't his usual corporate playground, uncouth ruthless unfeeling men surround him. Unfairness has a whole different meaning here. His body too lean.. It feels too brutal. It feels too cruel. I can't watch.
 
And then she sees him in a terrible condition, being carried away. The melancholic wail of rabba ve is befitting here. Did I moments ago think this was all a TV show. Hardly.. This is tragedy. What must have Khushi gone through seeing her man reduced to such a state? Everything inside me recoiled seeing him this way.  Mami keeps a sane head. Shows strength of her character. And Khushi leaving behind logic and her running after the van simply shows love. .. The three piece suit, the air of ownership, the flair, the panache that ASR personified as he yelled and got things done.. Boo hoo.. This is unbearable really..
 


Should we be looking for clues? Then I think they are holding Arnav in some antique shop's warehouse or maybe it is the production house storehouse for sets. There is an old settee where ASR lies and a rocking chair where boss gets to act like a menacing villian. The lighting and shots of Barun somehow reminded me of Amitabh Bachchan in quite a few movies where he would be caught by the villain.
 
And why this dubious rocking Shyam with those funny hand gestures? And above all why the senseless extreme violence? Would ASR have lunged at a man when so many people were around to definitely overpower him? Wouldn't it have been smarter to wait and see how the scene plays out? To try and draw out the identity of this fabled 'boss' using brains instead of brawn? And I won't even go into why when Shyam is right in front of ASR, in fact so close that ASR has his hands firmly on the mystery man's collar, yet ASR still doesn't know who he is.
 
Finally I warn all those goondas..in fact consider this a threat.. if you dare hit ASR again like that all of us with mirchi powder, haldi, namak, belnas, kalchuls and whatever we have in our kitchens will descend upon you and haunt you till your death..  

Please please don't show him this way.
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