Episode 348:
When a certain level of intimacy was shared between asr and khushi in that farmhouse, i was one of those those days who believed they didn't go the whole nine yards! Upside down i debated for days/ weeks why i didn't think their relationship was not consummated that day, my main reasons being Khushi's easy brushing aside of what happened between her and arnavji the previous evening and flip and focus onto the event happening that day when she woke up and the rather casual phone conversation with asr after a few moments. I did think heaven would be shown falling on earth following when these two come together! How silly i was.. totally amateurish with daily soaps, now I would know in a blink for it to be a consummation sequence.
But few things absolutely didn't change on how I felt for their emotional connect that day.. it was much more profound, even metaphysical at many levels...thanks to the writers/ directors for those immensely beautiful 5/6 min to have connected many layers of this love story very aesthetically...The restrained romantic he is.. he created a moment .. and she just pervaded in it along with him. Months ago he asked her if their respective mothers were happy overseeing them from above, that day they both happily conversing in heavens didn't precisely crystallize in his head yet perhaps... the thought could be in incipient stage ever since he heard of her being an orphan.. but today he could visualize that with his khushi by his side...a love story that has always meandered through troubled waters.. there was a dire need for these two to have a heart to heart talk. if not har baar.. at least this ek bar... sealing it for ever..I absolutely agree with you that they really needed to talk. We hardly saw them conversed and so many of their conversation was incomplete also. So many things they needed to say. I wish if Khushi could say arnav that she sold her mom's bangles to unite him with Lavnya or Arnav would've tol her what he couldn't say on the heer-ranjha act.
A specific moment of this was very delicately woven, heart stoppingly intimate, when the remote accidentally went off and the lights were turned off, Khushi wanted to leave, a bit uncomfortable at the proximity perhaps, he held her hand, kissed it gently looking into her eyes made his intentions clear. It reminded of the many times he wanted to stop her from leaving... a mat jao...an unfamiliar, unacknowledged dependency earlier on in that store room when she screamed she was leaving to Lucknow, or after Diwali when he looked on helplessly from that pool side, or a drunken admission on Holi , or a verbal open request when anjali wanted Shyam back ... his need for her, most of it was emotional...she is perhaps the only one/ thing he ever wanted all for himself...I just loved your thought. whenever she wanted to leave he always tried to retain her. cause without her he couldn't breath.But did she want to leave? i thought she sat up to get the remote to turn on the projector. But Arnav stopped her to turn it on. cause he wanted to be intimate with her and how could he do that in front of their parents!
Did these two ever get a chance to serve to their own emotional, physical urges? Today, they did deserve a moment just for themselves.. under the stars...
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