Epi 307:
of happyjis and kirana stores...

"Hi".. mountains could melt..to see asr in his glass door cabin after what we looked like eons was a sheer delight to the eyes. He was putting his best cards on display.. after all she is THE deal of his life! Funny, resolute, smart, crisp, "mazaa tho mujhe aa raha hai.. I can't deny".. with a little shrug in the shoulder, glint of mischief in the eyes, no obvious malice intended... "haha.. happy singh".. " kaka"kirana store" ...his face, lips .. curtailing his laughter with great difficulty..its almost a sin for such devilishly good looking man to be humorous too... can't blame Khushi for not being able to bring on her full gusto self... any weapon seemed doomed to be ineffective today!
I remember the time I fell in irrevocable love with asr ... not when he descended from that chopper.. but when he broke up with Lavanya or rather the way he broke up with Lavanya. Heart tuggingly sincere, genuine...the minute he realized he was playing with this girl's heart in name of his own defenses.. it was no game anymore. He hugged her .. with a deep regret and apology in it. This man in front of me was no perfection.. yet he listened to his heart and head at the same time... made some candid confessions, that, if he stood in front of a mirror that time.. it would have exactly reflected what we see him as. It is said mirrors do not lie... and he was as pure that moment!
Why did his rather haughty self in that cabin remind of his break up with his girlfriend earlier? Becos to me both instances reflected his earnest sincerity! How many times just in the last couple of days he reminded and reassured her that she is his "wife" ..and that she has all the haq in the world with him. As much as he doesn't believe in the material rituals...and in the process of a so called wedding.. he has thoroughly married the integral essence of a wife, his wife!
But Khushi wouldn't take his help.. understandably she is hurt too deep...
"Kabhi socha hai tum me kitna ego bhara hai".. (have you ever thought how much ego you are filled with) he asked forthrightly. He understands and respects her ego. He never called her names.. even when he was throwing daggers at her very early on, he despised she being called chamkili..."uska ek naam hai.. Khushi Kumari Gupta" (she has a name, KKG) he would assert. Her self-respect amazed him, challenged him...when she wouldn't budge to resign even after many of his rather bizarre demands.
Since then,
She is still the same.. the girl with bundles of love ..and brimming self- respect. But this time, her ego making her over sensitive to his rather impulsive and coarse remarks about their contract...and she wouldn't budge...
But he had come a long way, he is patient, her stern disposition doesn't infuriate him anymore. He respects that... admires that.. to a large extent finds it adorable too. He found it admirable back then too, while his own inner battles disguised that. Now... he had none... his only battle being .. to win his Khushi back!
Talk about being transformed by love... by the state of "being in love". It's the most peerless and precious state it is said..and he is one thoroughly catharsized...when he realized the girl in front of him is indispensable for his existence!
He is fully enjoying the sight in front of him... not her plight but of annoyed and in- action Khushi. He would have wanted to fill her in his arms, not to let go again, damn with the contract, damn with the demand of rent... they are all null and void, inconsequential, extraneous...would she listen to him after his lapse of words? He knew she wouldn't, so has to resort to his own plan. He made it pretty brisk too by cutting her job down to one day. Khushi is irate...did n't like it one bit.. yet couldn't help melting away at his retro dace! His proposal perhaps was not so decent.. but all is fair in love and war. As she despondently counted the remaining number of days she would be wife to her arnavji..all he is trying win is this war of love.. for him, for her.. for them!
PS: Although the glaring mismatching ears, hands and feet were obvious, that office cabin in epi 307 was the only time when body doubles didn't take the fun away for me. It was brilliantly enacted, cleverly directed. Barun showed the frustrated yet delighted husband in asr, his difficulty containing his laughter, his deceptively cool questioning of her. oh the humor was so well done.. and sanaya was a totally annoyed and adamant patni of this overbearing laad governor..
Edited by Horizon - 9 years ago
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