Blast from the Past Thread #30 **The Finale... Arnav Khushi Hamesha**

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aarwen

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Posted: 9 years ago

#221

Originally posted by: kizh72
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These lot of episodes are the ones which I've watched the least. Alien abduction is right, they, I mean the aliens, haven't progressed enough to get the sanka right, they only managed to get the hang of acchi bahu😆
Not like 124 or 130 which makes you want to weep even after the nth watch.

haahaha kizh.. of all the things the aliens could get right..

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#222

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you mean the one who er did things other than touch his face? and i don't mean the kiss only. 😆 okay, the light eyed kid who called him hone wale jija ji (am i right?) i don;t mind being her.. or the little sirdar fellow with his attitude, but save me from these horrors.

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#223

Originally posted by: aarwen

Okay in this one the best (err worst) part is the red dhaga.. what the? maybe nani and buaji and happy singhji cornered babua..

Hugs Indi di.. I didn't like the derby salmanji thing either.. the way she is acting around him..its weird.. I miss that sweetness that would come whenever she interacted with him.. or even in the acerbic clashes.. even when she pretty badly hated him they were in no way not bound by this visceral force.. and gradually ASR's role will also stagnate to the bemused pati enamoured by patni.. ASR was fully capable of making her feel all sorts of things.. not get reduced to being the only one who did feel anything remotely physical..

And well said about Daljeet managing that tragic air.. I found my edit that reminded me of meera..

it was really about the viscera always. dil was just a pseudonym. and when the viscera was sacrificed to sugary unreal sweetness that spews from a blunted, bland pen; when its force was tamed, everything became generic and tv... like some other so called love story.

it's too big a blow to the very rhythm, the cadence of asr and khushi to not have a terrible impact.

and so... it did. these episodes can only sadden but they must be done, because perhaps that same yanking destabilizing visceral thing got me here... 😃

you didn't like the red thread? it seared, it made me go loopy... i forgot all the nani di possibilities as i got pulled into red, brown, and black shirtsleeves.

gosh, the chappie's expressions.

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#224

Originally posted by: aarwen

very sweetly written Indi di.. and wisely articulated thoughts on relationships, love and haq..

since you skipped the parts where she is actually wearing those weird costumes and getting compliments from 'fashion clients'.. the bizarre "middil cilassness" of this classic love story in such moments, didn't spoil the take.. and so maybe I could focus on the nice things.. thank you

remember during the biwi tv episode he had told her.. actually arnav is just fine.. today he again asks for that.. and the way Barun acts, with asr's character.. he steps out right from those crazilly good classic romance novels.. and then takes a few further steps to leave those heroes pale in the shadows..

thank you, rhea, hope not sounding too wise, mami being my eternal heroine and quest. 😆

ha ha i just will not write about things that are patently not ipk. what was that ghastly stupid crass cosplay anyway. stooping to new lows must have been the challenge they gave each other those days... otherwise who could even begin to think that up.

yes, he did say, "actually arnav is just fine" in that indescribably urbane way of his... of asr's. light, smart, sharp, bang.

those "few further steps" you speak of... for me it's really about that. he could have been just a mills and boon hero and been deadly, he could have been a classic romance novel hero and had me swooning, but he pushes it further and finds a man that perhaps no one quite knew lay there behind all those lines and looks and stuff... that man is priceless. makes barun an important actor. to me.

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kizh72

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Posted: 9 years ago

#225

I missed lot of the chatting here 😆 Was getting my heart broken elsewhere 😆

Viscera, it was always that. That thing between them. I watched 130 the other day, weeped as always, but to see them stand on two sides of a glass door, hardly a romantic scene, but that thing...

After second shaadi it was gone with the wind, hello hi bye bye 😆

P.S: I can some what stand that kid in the temple, and the kanya (or khoofiya pooja) pooja ladkis (hone wale hai kya, hayee 😆)

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#226

^^^

hi kizh,

the thing... so missing now. yes, where was the need to feel anything with two tv actors on either side of a glass door in a tacky serial.

sometimes just the thought of a moment messes with the breathing pattern. kya kar rahi ho tum... my stomach flips every time i even think the words.

as i write these episodes i feel the shock again, the sadness, the anger, but mostly i am mystified. why? why was it necessary to bring it to this.

i believe the ladka's serial is delayed... some things never change.

where were you getting your heart broken then? 😆

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Horizon

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Posted: 9 years ago

#227

I was thinking about akash- the frustration in indi'a write up about his rendering bhai free advices on relationships prior to that jalebi making...

Not just here, but any of Akash's venting with bhai in this subject, be it post Cafe, or on the pool side just before Payal-akash wedding where asr supposed to have realized his pyar just then, it always seemed to me as if the poor younger brother is grabbing the chance to talk about girls, pyar and his own travails with them with bhai.. who is otherwise abhorrent to such..:).

He understood bhai's "sakthness" so well.. so very accepting to it.. yet never interfering..(ofcourse bhai never lets anyone...😊) reminds Ram and Bharat in a weird way ..

I miss the brotherhood... the love story...and that tiny ant crawling on RM walls...

Rhea, loved that Meera like edit..

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Horizon

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Posted: 9 years ago

#228

Some of these epis I haven't even watched once. The story started tapering couple months ago.by now, every one is working mechanically, Totally heartless product and it shows up. Not even a pale reflection of 130 can't even compare.

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#229

disjointed not disarmed
episodes 367/368

totally disarmed.

sorry, thodlly disarrrmed.

nice stubble in the suv with blindfolded wife.

a beautiful lover and a rather lovely object of love. a lot of kkg there today. madam in abhimaan.

two cribs. bd's twice the size of actors, even their wigs. voice, in a couple of places could have sworn that wasn't barun's.

no, his mushy gush didn't feel like capitualtion, just sweet sweet love. and he got her to promise, cops next time please.

okay, i guess it's time to eat my words. and please don't bother to serve it to me in chef cap and apron. wrote that soon after seeing episode 367 the very first time. though even then i'd thought during the garden scene which i don't like at all any more, what's wrong with his voice? is it barun at all?

thankfully, i did complain about the body doubles even if with an apostrophe that wasn't needed.

the most shattering thing about 367 and 368 was, no dhakdhaks. not even once. so much happened, there were all these scenes with khushi and asr... but i felt nothing. even when barun said that todally dizzaarmed thing... even when they acted cute over breakfast, even when he smiled in bemused wonder at her antics... nothing nowhere never.

this i think hasn't ever happened before.

when sheetal came, even if i didn't like the way the story was set up, nor the way the new actress looked, talked, felt, i had still hoped something wonderful might happen.

this could be chudail. this could be the catalyst that was needed to bring khushi's possessiveness, her need for laad governor careening out. as she explored her feelings, as she showed her baal noch loongi huq, we might reach another level in asr khushi's love story.

i had really hoped for that and so missed the glaring faults in the episodes then. this time, i didn't. screenplay was utterly disjointed. why things were happening no one knew, you hopped from one scene to another, no link between them. acting was forced all around.

barun looked tired and uninvolved and smiled too much and too sweetly... and since when does asr smile at children?

huh?

how?

come?

and what's that language? big guy? did i just hear asr say that to a kid with a gentle voice and slanted grin? nahiiin. asr, tum theek ho?

and where does it say that once you fall in love with someone and marry them, you become another human being almost vis a vis that person? every story has its own cadence, its feel... two people in fact possibly maintain their connection, that charge between them, by keeping what ignited it alive.

i don't recognise asr khushi in these little vignettes of them any more. it's a matter of devising something, anything... to bring in a rabba vey. that gets trp someone has said. that is signature. that is brand.

but it's all becoming heartless and mechanical. sometimes downright silly. who gags and binds his wife then throws her into a car and drives over to a garden to bow his head before her and tell she's a better person than he is? the shatir man?

maybe that's why he assigned the whole thing to a body double.

watching asr smiling for no reason at the not so funny khushi doing another so called cute scene on how she beat up the kidnappers was problematic enough. then came the shot from behind him... and it was not him at all. it was disturbing.

how can professional creatives, directors, editors, cinematographers be so careless with how they use doubles?

khushi's double walked around with a massive wig and her completely unsanaya like limbs and movements, it was bizarre... you knew it wasn't sanaya yet you were supposed to believe that's khushi.

right through the two episodes doubles messed with watching, concentrating, even getting into the story if there was one.

to get aarav into rm along with sheetal the most improbable story was fetched and thrown at us. little kids wouldn't buy such tales...

when i watch the last fifty odd episodes of ipk, it's always difficult. something feels badly shaken and taken off its very foundation. it angers and frustrates me at times. sometimes i fast forward. but what it all really makes me feel is mystified.

why?

why did the entire story and the telling of it have to go this way?

what made it necessary to lose ipk?

don't tell me it's because the story had ended... because i know that's nonsense. the whole of sheesh mahal and its secrets was always there... just that no one went to its door.

instead sheetal aarav entered the scene...

... why? i suppose i should just be grateful it was not the other serial device, "the leap." imagine asr khushi with nineteen year old daughter in love with a most unsuitable boy...

okay, bring on the sheetals, i am ready.

and, sorry, asr would have not just chided khushi but been completely gussa and raving about her driving around like a lunatic. the man went ballistic when there was a shard of glass embedded in her wrist. does anyone remember.

also, how can you reduce khushi, your main female lead, to this unreal cardboard character? she is funky and sharp and conscientious and loving and grounded, not silly and prone to doing foolish things with no clue of what's really up. asr is not madly in love with her because she prances about acting cute (aaargh)... i wish the writers had binge watched the early episodes like us, they'd have not been able to write all this stuff then.

anyway, so let's go into track sheetal. haha i was delighted to see sheetal managed only to get the double to chat with her. not this hot brown fellow.