Blast from the Past Thread #25 Extn ** Khushi, I... ** P 119, Ep 274 - Page 108

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 271

it is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior's approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. that makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. that is decency.
~~~chogyam trungpa~~~


there was something obscene and real about rocky, the character and also his actor. a thoughtless brutality in him. the idea of flinging chilli powder into his eyes was not a bad one i thought, though the scene felt a bit flat.

what i did enjoy though, was manorama's anger. her need to come flying back to give him a few thwacks with a ladle or whatever. how dare he touch her arnav bitwa. i have been thinking these past few days that the other really good actor in ipk was utkarsha naik... she got her character and knew instinctively how to give mami ji dimension without messing with the exaggerated caricature sketch... something really thrilling about good acting, for me at least. can even make me completely forget bad or mediocre writing. that sense of connection, it brings me in front of the screen...

manorama comes, unlike the raizadas, from a tougher world, survival is key here, you must learn the art... she is a feisty nasty survivor... very difficult to take down really. and just as asr has a funny soft corner for this strange crass woman, so does she for her formidable nephew in law, never mind that he is more successful than her akash bitwa... in fact that success itself she perhaps is even more attracted to and awed by. lovely relationship there between manorama and arnav bitwa.

khushi clings to mami ji after mami saves her, "shukriya, mami ji" she knows rocky was quite capable of pulling that trigger. manorama has just saved her life. a bond is being established between the two bahus of the raizadas... and when i saw it the first time since i had no idea of what was to come, i thoroughly enjoyed this growth of a new friendship between two unlikely candidates. felt real and yes, very ipk. remember that little dhak dhak between bedi ji and bua ji? i even enjoyed manorama struggling to remain crusty and calling her phattee sari... she likes being her weird self and does not want to seem

kidnapper said, "dammit"?!!!

what, he watches ipk, is it?

next thing i know there is shyam in silhouette... he looked so familiar, but as i have mentioned elsewhere, i kept thinking he is the stooge, the real baddie was another one... perhaps a sheeshmahal man.

having decoded more than what mr holmes would have from a restaurant bill, the detectives arrive at yet another warehouse sort of place.

and then suddenly, bits of filthy vest and a man with hands tied behind his back, black pants...

blindfold.

asr is in a godown like space, teetering, lost...trying to feel the room, read it despite that blindfold.

he falls against a high stool, he kicks it... there's still plenty fight in him.

what have they done to him...asr... i am horrified really, it was so painful to watch these scenes... i wanted to laugh it off and say, "yaar, this is a silly serial, relax..." i could not. not even on my nth view.

the raw, screaming shots, the harsh heartless air, a lean man, wiry and determined with a cruel blindfold and hands flicked behind him, bound.seemed the director had suddenly found focus and joy again.

he is trying to assess the space. he is trying to kick open a door... "yaaa!" he yells as he summons all his strength to tell his foe he is not down. not yet. never.

suddenly... "boss agaye", the boss is here, off screen.

shyam arrives, shots in silhouette all through. he sits on a rocking chair. why this added drama? there is talk of the two women and how the girl just wouldn't let go.

asr hears this on the other side of the door. he feels things, and in that state barun emotes asr's need, his desperate fear that khushi might be in danger...

a quiet voice in him, a voice that so wants to see khushi safe, so wants to never let any harm come to her... this is the man who dragged her up the temple steps, this is the man who threw himself in the way of danger for her... everything really for her...

"nahin khushi, tumhe yahan nahin ana chahiye, i really i really hope tum yahan nahin pahunchi ho..." no khushi you should not come here... i really really hope you haven't reached here... lovely take... the mind is still asr... cool, edge of anger... just love.

"main nahin chahta tum wapas kissi musibat mein phas jaao... no khushi no," i don't want you to get into trouble again.

he is fearful for her... he can't stop worrying.

and as the thoughts come, a sensation... that gust of wind...

she feels it too sitting somewhere outside...

the sensing... corny yes, but he convinces me, so does she...

"mami ji, humara dil kah raha ki arnav ji yahin kahin hain..." mami ji, my heart says arnav ji is somewhere here. and rabba vey fills the air. was it a ridiculous rabba vey? i don't know. i liked it... i think they can sense each other... people who care deeply can. and there was something poignant and beautiful really in the connection they felt, in a man with his eyes closed but his heart all seeing, a girl with fear choking her but her heart strong and in love.

why is shyam pointing at people and getting all melodramatic? suddenly he is hyped up and like a villain from amasala movie, the "boss"... what he woud be the next shakal, mugambo, or what gabbar... abhaas actually mentioned joker once i think. shyam wishes.

in the mean time, the man is going nuts kicking the door. he wants to get these guys riled... i love this reading of asr. he is not one to sit quietly, fearing detection, death... he rages, he defies, he demands acknowledgement, he plans, he fights back.

"bilkul teda hai yeh," absolutely not straight is he, complains rocky. yes. teda... that's what he is.

she wears a teda choti showing her tedaness... and he is teda incarnate... so rocky, try as you might that "dammit" won't make you him. you are too straight and predictable.

four vicious large men walk in to take on the thin, fearless one. they draw him into a fight... the egregious uncouthness of the whole thing. his hands are tied, he can't see. and they surround him, baiting.

asr moves beautifully, sensing, slicing the air with his hands and legs, scoring... a ballet like feel to the sequence. a harsh ballet though.. again i think of jason bourne and his memories of fighting blindfolded... che sah, the words that whisper in him... a blurred memory, like an echo around these scenes...

we have seen many sides of asr... the tycoon, the arrogant ruthless businessman, the loving brother, the hurting son, the rebel, the heartless one, the man in command, the irate husband, the atheist, the intelligent manipulator, the mate, the lover... it was now another side coming into focus... the warrior.

physically and in the mind, he is a warrior. and among the most magnificent of them.

i found the treatment almost like big screen movies and that vest was so so filthy and the man absolutely into the role... magnificent, i couldn't help but think... and i really felt terrible watching him suffer, then elated when he scored... the asr music played of course and i did sort of smile.

but finally it was time to get down to business, the quarry had been played with enough. it was time for chloroform and knockout...

then three men carried the beautiful warrior out and a rabba ve had to raise its wail as he is taken away. and like the payal... the blindfold fell..

watching him being taken away, his wife almost lost her mind... a terrible moment. it was also a beautiful one... she loved him, keeping sane in that state was not possible, they were taking her arnav ji away, so even though her mind noted the rgect warnings from mami ji, her instincts would not be curbed, she rushed after the disappearing van yelling at the top of her voice, "arnav ji! arnav ji..." her life was in that can, nothing else mattered.

move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.
~~~ sun tzu, the art of war~~~

when he came to, he was sprawled on a sofa. again instinct, he balled his fist, ready to fight... he was in danger he seemed to know... nice direction, that fist. he woke up, looked around, mind ticking, he stood up and searched, a crack in the door showed him a posse of men outide... what eh couldn't see was shyam in black in an elaborate set up designed to hide him giving instructions with his hands... not speaking. so he does fear saaley saab... he knows asr is quite capable of figuring out who he is... you know shyam, you are right to fear his mind... it's the writers that decided otherwise... and so despite coming that close to you, he did not recognise you.

the first time i saw 271 i loved the dramatic fight... not the one at the end, the blindfolded one... but later when i realised kidnap had no meaning, somehow all this violence seemed meaningless and self indulgent. and no, it did not bring in trp.

i like it when it goes all dark in ipk, darkness is a repeated motif here... often the most important truths come to light in the dark or soon after the it is dispelled. a sense of dhoop chaon, chiaroscuro with marked contrast between light and shade in it.

Originally posted by: indi52

episode 272

it wasn't easy getting here to write my thoughts. despite the rather stirring scenes that opened the episode, the emptiness echoing in me seems to override everything.

this time round i know where all this is headed. which is actually... nowhere. this is extreme timepass while everyone waits for barun to be able to give more time. that was really the pity of the whole thing... if that wild violence and beating up of a man led to a story told well, we might have hit classic drama... i recall seeing the untouchables while in my twenties... blood erupting across the screen, spraying on walls, bodies letting go of life and slumpin, gory, terrible. i remember the godfather and its violence. i must have been 15 or 16 when i saw it... but all of that made perfect sense. stayed logged in the memory cells as, ah that was some movie. so good.

here... it all came to naught. pity is really that. because the actor and the henchman were actually pretty neat. better than many, these henchies, geography teacher like rotund boy included.

then there was the elaborate "reveal" of the boss. ah it is shyam. oh it is shyam. really, it is shyam?

much melodrama to get him out of the dark into light as we are brought into it too. first the hand and bracelet of course... oh, i know that... the felt the first time i'd seeen this i think i'd had a sinking feeling of disappointment. making a villain is no easy task...especially the filmi type villainiya shyam finally was moulded to.

yaadon ki baraat. dharmendra in black. ajit is white. i know and everyone else around that ajit is shakal... the man a boy had seen killing his parents. today the boy is all grown up but he remembers the man wore shoes of different sizes. then at the right moment, the man we all loved to mimic... ajit... his legs go up onto the desk at and the different sizes are instantly noticed by the hero... the truth hits dharmendra hard.

it was quite a scene really... smooth, filmy, unreal yet exciting, and this despite not having several six pack torsos onscreen. in fact, i think the hero wore a wig, the villain certainly did. while amjad's brother imtiaz khan looked slithery in orange...

if you'd like to see the scene, it's here on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/65162961

that shoe reveal is in my memory for years and i think the concept was perhaps gypped from an angreji phillum. somehow the blue turquoise bracelet, also kept alive from the first day we met shyam, just doesn't do it. nor does the rather apt dhaiya ho, also with us since day one of shyam. and that i think is mainly to do with the writing, also directing from a distance and acting that is losing touch.

so yeah, seven odd unnecessary minutes. all of it could have been done in a couple. and who reads a will standing out on the road then loudly wonders about how to kill off someone. surely this is not the clever dude, man in black kidnapper? and what's that rocking chair doing there? now which movie was that filched from? psycho? was there a little joke there and a deep prayer to the movie greats to save this shyam this sham this show?

also what happened to the clause about accidental death then? thank g not too many lawyers were ipk fans. one profession and idea too often profaned here. i will never forget asr saying khushi is his legally wedded wife and that meaning nothing to no one. also if legally wedded, would have been nice if they established it somewhere before the show ended.

anyway... asr's beautiful arms, wanting to reach, to do damage, to unmask the offender, very touching. noticed the whole episode was shown through a lot of hand and arm shots... then there were the feet of khushi... and a head coming to close to the boss's feet.

there were two things that sort of did make an impression. one was the little drama three women in brown suits put up for a girl who missed her suited booted man. little did these ladies realise that now she yearns for him in his vest... she sees him crossing the boundary and walking toward her with only desire, pretty naked, in his eyes... or she sees herself running to him in a filthy godown, throwing herself on his blue shirt chest... yeah he had left in a suit, but alas...

very loving scene by three good actresses. and this family love, which managed to stay not nauseating despite it being a hindi soap, where for quite a while effort was made to build individual characters, not even very predictable ones, and the vibe the actors shared was so good, often gave ipk a great place to escape to when everything was off.

along with khushi i lost myself in the sweetness of it. sometimes fam does do weird stuff to make a loved one happy. here they were really bizarre in brown, but oh i did think of the hot one, especially on the morning he walked down the gh verandah looking at her. maybe that was the intention back of director's mind.

and did you notice, anjali spoke of rain? last year's rain. oooph. she remembered two scenes, the khushi sneezing one did not look right... and pity, khushi did not have a flashback of a man rushing out of nowhere and catching her and spinning away taking her to safety. holding her... it seemed for an eternity... like he'd never let her go.

but even without the flashback, the heart swelled and sighed. ah rain. really, chhotey shuts all windows and sleeps with ac on at high? why is he so d real... why?

the other scene was the patch up with dm. i am not much for mixing religion with entertainment. and so often is it used to make you buy some idea or manipulate you. but the concept of ishta devata, your personal god, or rather your personal take on the eternal is i think quite prevalant in hindu thought. i know too little to comment. but i have had mine, and i still do... and this is a private and personal matter.

to that extent, the way khushi's relationship with dm was handled, i really enjoyed it. yeah, there was a bit of the unreal chunari floating thing, but that is fine with me, a bit of flight is always okay in creative things... and really i too have looked for signs, so if khushi reads them... who am i to make fun of her.

but mainly it was her relationship with dm that i really enjoyed and thought was central to khsuhi's personality... helped us see and read her and connect with her too. an orphan girl always chirpy, trying to make things better. that was her strong and revealed side. but surely therew as vulnerability inside? a feelinng that no one was really her '"own"? a fear even and trepidation? surely she quaked and felt tremors inside, just sometimes?

this is an orphan girl's very deep relatiosnhip, made of her own free will, the only the only relationship perhaps, beside with asr, where she has and happily exercises "haque". her right.

right from day one it is there... she is not scared of dm, never fears dm will desert her. she owns and loves and possesess dm. she feeds her what she wants to, chats with her about everything, requests her to show signs, loves her and wants her love. reaches always for her blessings. and then when her whole world crumbles and she has no one to turn to, she goes to her... dm with her unmoving idol, unblinking eyes...

and she fights with dm.

all her anger, all her frustration... all her hurt... every bit of helplessness... and pain sadness confusion fury, with all of it, she goes to the one over whom she has eternal right.

her god.

her dm.

and raves and rants.

and says, go, won't talk to you... katti.

but now, now that such difficulty is upon her... now that the man who tormented her and whose tormenting she d rather live with than the love of another... now that he is in such terrible trouble... and her heart is breaking, her mind ripping at the memory of the state she saw him.. again.. she can go to no one...

but she can go to the one.

the one who is always hers.

whom she can rave and rant at and love and cajole and who will be there no matter what.

her devi maiyya.

khushi's going to see her, straight after the overwhelming moments with her family wearing suits and her heart immersed in missing him, wanting to get him out of the hell he is in, was significant and poignant.

i liked the way the director showed her hesitation with the halting feet. and i did like the way khushi slipped back into her chatty conversing style with dm... and though she did not do too much of drama, she told dm how badly she needed her man. that the same one who had taken her away from dm, brings her back.. don't let him suffer. let me.

for whatever reason... i do think some people actually talk like that and are as desperate to make the one they love feel okay, make them safe.

sanaya was for a few moments again the khushi i knew. i had really liked her raging at devi maiyya the night of suffocating terror and hurt. khushi had to show her feelings on something... someone... and she had not been turned into achhi bahu yet, so she could do the anger so beautifully. so need to sweeten the whole thing. thank dm.

and today too she slipped back into her relationship with the ease only the deepest of relationships allow... that say, no need to explain, i need you too... and yes, i like the thought that the divine needs to be told your thoughts, your mind... omniscient is the divine but i as human have been given the ability to have free will, that can be exercised only if i can state what it is that i want in the first place.

and when the chunari came via the purohit i was happy for khushi. she needed something today.

something.

and that only her divine one could give.

it was like a master within had reach out and given direction.

perhaps there is a master like that within all of us. and i hope we all find that one within.

can i please hit shyam sham shambles on his snout and please what's with the hairstyle. uff such a waste of an opportunity to create a full masala villain. every hero needs one really. asr deserved better. and that down there was a ridiculous scene... even when i realised director wants me to connect it to the blood that had fallen on shyam's shoe, didn't make me feel better... at all.

Originally posted by: Horizon

Warrior indeed he felt like there. But some how it was still hard to watch him in that state. Didn't watch parts of it even now.

How shyam turned this hard core criminal all of a sudden is mind boggling. I am sure that must be really expensive to hire the likes of rocky for 2/3 weeks.. and then Anjali wouldn't even get a hint of doubt at his expenses. It is not really hard to induce some real story into the kidnap and a meaning to it. And to top it I could never understand why asr wouldn't see/ know who kidnapped him?? there is absolutely no rationale for that He already saw the ugly side of his BIL, so might as well be another one. you are absolutely right, the way it was made look meaningless, all those fights seemed waste.

that blindfold one is too gut churning, becos he almost always symbolized sheer energy.. and to see him almost life less was to disturbing..

Originally posted by: Horizon

Loved reading that about Khushi- DM. Her relationship with dm essentially defined khushi. her peerless confidant. her mitra.. that she can share everything with

And that shoe revelation was a iconic on screen I guess, as I heard, not much of a 70s movie watcher.. and here it was utter deflating to see shyam in that rocking chair.

and the n loopholes in the will.. the tragedy is the kidnap track for the first time brought into focus many aspects like the will, some revengers from the past, shyam's revelation to Anjali.. all of them could have made a great narration, but finally none to be justified.

Originally posted by: aarwen

Feels good to read your take Indi di. Wanted to fast forward the episode, but still want to talk about it with you all.. hai re nand kisore.. what you wrote about Khushi and her relationship with devi maiyya.. very touching.. I absolutely agree.. ASR deserved all sorts of things, some materialistic and some in thoughts of the people around him.. And never showing the 'legal' side of this marriage.. the man who liked to play 'business business'.. whose wife wrote him IOU's.. he not draw out a legal document.. I refuse to believe.

More talking above.

Originally posted by: sohara

👏👏👏

it was absolutely wonderful.

In my word fantabulous.

I said so many things above.(in purple).

All the lines in blue are my favorite.

The poem is too deep, perfectly depicted Barun's brilliant acting.

Originally posted by: aarwen

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.

you wanted Khushi to get caught to confine her with Arnav. Then you had to kidnap Barun first from the set of MAMR. But what they would do with hello hi bye bye ?There wouldn't be any hut moment in front of her I guess.😆

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.

You seemed grew a soft corner for Rocky like pagal larkiyas of forum.😆

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.

I just couldn't bear him in this state.

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.

I wonder why mami and Khushi couldn't recognize him by looking at his back. Even how ASR couldn't? there was light in the room, when they confronted. if you know a person really well, you can easily recognize him in a semi dark room. Gosh anything is possible in this hindi soaps.

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.

hyuk, hyuk, lagraha hai aap bohot karreb se dekhte hai! Aapki husband ko pata hai!😆

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.

Did you notice, in this scene, ASR was hitting the men, But the three men were doing nothing, just trying to tame him.

It was a disturbing scene for me too watch, specially when they covered his face with the black veil.

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..

Too unbearable and Sanaya was outstanding to emote her pain.

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.

Good observation.

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.😆

I already mentioned above.

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..

I'm ready with machine guns and tanks.😆

Please please don't show him this way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😆

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