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

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Maria

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Posted: 9 years ago

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hello I just peep in to let you know that the preparation of IPKKND 5th anniversary is going on...

plz join if u can 😳

http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4614367

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Originally posted by: kizh72
aapki acting chubti hai.
Yejj yejj bahuth chubti hai, hello hi bye bye 😆
Among all the unexplained mysteries like the bermuda triangle, pileej include bhy these two were not cast again together inspite of that rather unusual vibe 😆

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the bermuda was only a triangle, here it's a 360 degree mystery, spanning each and every angle... bhy the unusual vibe was never called upon to do some chubti hai stuff. one minute, did you say triangle? 😆 hai re nand kissore.

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

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the show goes on
episodes 391/392

they got him to get angry. she was made to pick up her sandals and run. they had dressing room shots and the music from the fashion show in the first episode... and other familiar tracks.

there were even some carefully choreographed shots of the family, and my sweet nani ji said, "all the best!" in a cool accent unlike her bahuriya... clearly the nani of our angreji amriki accent boy asr...

and yet.

and yet.

nothing really fell into place...nothing gelled... or told a story of asr and khushi. not even that coming close and lifting up in arms that at its best is an ode to love.

for the heart is flown, the head is not in its place. dil and dimaag, we had them both and now they elude the story teller's pen, the cinematographer's lens, the director's "cut it!"

the same people who adeptly created the sense of a trendy fashion show under the stars in episode one... even though they neither had a really upscale collection nor exactly ramp models and certainly not the sort of money they had hoped for... now came up with this extraordinarily cardboardish so called mrs india set up.

nothing feels even faintly believable. yes, the viewer must suspend disbelief to enjoy a movie or a show... but to what extent. and for what.

the viewer really does it because something in the viewer is touched, allured, wanting to make the adjustment, leap into the story.

none of that here.

looks like someone is sitting with a list of ipk things to be shown in these last days, and ticking them off one by one.

even his anger didn't get me in a tizzy. sigh.

and of course, he had to be the sponsor. ipk was never predictable, always a spark of canniness in it, intelligence... now disappeared like lakshmi ji. then just like the day they had met, she fell... but this time not into his arms.

she sat there awkwardly staring at him, the whole room acting weird. people really don't behave like that. and what was that about khushi's falling being "improper"? strange dialogues.

i missed a young man walking out onto a ramp in black and utter cool, with two women in red, leggy and modelish, a tad haughty, flanking him, striking a pose..

i missed a girl in green looking fragile, scared, yet strangely untouched and lovely, wondering what she was doing on a ramp, her high heels making her stumble.

there was a heady feeling in the air, a mystery in the night. now we are in a strange oblong room with an even stranger ramp, and the two are at either end of it... an element of slap stick in everything. any deeper emotion or good acting so out of place here, and who is the art director these days... what's with that colour sense.

just mulling, since when is our angry young albeit a bit tired asr so restrained in his behaviour. he sees khushi, she trips, falls, he just decides not to leap to her rescue, he doesn't even say he knows her, she's his wife... arnav singh raizada?

poor fellow, sar pe 102 ka bukhar i bet.

i feel like yelling and saying, bring me back my asr khushi, my ipk... even my nk. c'mon, the guy does nothing but hang around with the women and pass not so funny comments and play khushi ji's best friend?

it's a pity, the extreme games off screen at this time interfered with what was getting on screen. but i must say, the actors tried to make the show all that it had always been, even when the script was patently weak. for that i am grateful.

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#324

salad days
episodes 393/394

curiously empty episodes both. like on a crash diet. not even salad on the menu, for certainly no crunch in them. things keep happening as if just to fill the time. there's an air of bewilderment almost on the frame. characters appear out of nowhere and in this terribly short time remaining... only four more episodes... they seek to be etched and accepted.

there's sam in red pants. there's i forget his name in black pants and mean look, the baddie whom khushi will tackle. there are of course the mean girls. and their unfathomable ways and very bad acting skills with awful dialogues thrown in. this is all about the bad bad fashion world which khushi who is so achhi will not be able to handle. needless to say, she of course will. the premise of this track is surely la la land.

when asr asked khushi had he not walked in when he had, how'd she have handled the swimsuit round problem, she blithely said, of course she'd have found a way. reminded me of our politicians. we are so busy negating the relevance of knowledge, why can't a tv show pay tribute to this very thing.

fact is, what asr said is right... the world he works in is not known for its sweetness and navigating it is tricky as hell. you need to have some feel for it, some knowledge. just because you are such a lovely girl, you won't start winning contests.

both nani and di gushed, what's really good about khushi is that she can win people's hearts. neither said anything about her personality, her abilities... we women, if we mean to be achhi, we better learn nothing is about us, it's only about pleasing people and winning their hearts...

why am i even trying to make sense of things? did you see kamlesh khabri... in his third avatar? i love it, if asr has a double and khushi too - oh she was so visible in that pita sandwich scene - then kk ji has a triple. always ahead, our news hound.

i did like asr's easy smooth flirting with the wife in front of everyone... do you like jalebis? and that look.

their altercation on the road and khushi's handling of weird man were not that funny, but she did look cooky and he oh well, i can't breathe at times.

"haan dekha maine... for my sake, please come and sit in the car.." yeah, i saw... for my sake, please get in the car. okay, that was finny. and barun did a deadly delivery. reminded me also that he handled mami with a "haan, mere liye" the time she was all set to leave home but he convinced her she ought to go get some sleep.

finally we came to the scene which is possibly one of their last scenes together... by the poolside. the rabba ve... also known as yoga ve. i watched him watching her. he always liked that, didn't he? she brought something into his life that he had never expected, he had never known. just looking at her filled him with feelings that made everything seem worth it perhaps. his eyes always sought her... sometimes without him even knowing. and once they found her, they were always reluctant to move away.

you sensed he had an overwhelming, powerful feeling for her. one he perhaps couldn't come to terms with for a long time, buy once he did, there was no shying away from it. he perhaps even now didn't quite understand what it was or why it was so, but he knew it was there. and that's all that mattered.

in a script most strange and unconvincing, for just a few minutes asr made me believe he was looking at his nutty crazy wife whom he loved beyond reason beyond everything. she was all set to take part in a tough contest, and she'd have to face many things she wasn't ready for... she would also have to diet and do yoga. and he is overcome with a wild tenderness for her, even though he doesn't agree perhaps with her decision. he is also worried for her and wants to protect her. and at this moment as he stands gazing at her rapt while she looks a little lost trying her yoga moves, all he knows is he loves her.

as he leapt to save her, as their hands touched, as she started and then settled against him, as he nuzzled her gently as if to say he wants to make love to her, as her face contorted just a bit as if in a rise of desire... a beautiful love story reminded me why i am here at all, despite the bad episodes.

i wish they didn't do the customary fall and catch. there was no need for that here. just as there was no need for the song at this poolside that diwali night.

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Horizon

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Posted: 9 years ago

#325

394 already.. is it indi?

Beautiful that last edit ... the folded palms with these two on either side.. seems symbolic ..

as if that was meant to thank these two, applauding them,congratulating them, celebrating them... for carving something enduring, time less...

some are just stuck in time..

somethings never change...

Thank ...you!!

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#326

^^^

hi indu,

yeah... 394. sigh.

oh i love that thought on the last edit. perhaps subconsciously it was all of that. though i didn't really think anything. i liked that folded hands shot, something in that.. and i wanted to see them through it... the hands being the main story.

some things never change as you say... some of us remain nutty. hahhaa.

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kizh72

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Posted: 9 years ago

#327

394? Only 4 left, I'm thinking you'll do a combined one, I don't see anything special in those for you to do separate. Thank you for doing this, you know it has played a huge part in my ipk journey. I have a feeling there are a few early episodes where you have done combined ones, maybe you can do separate ones for those, I think some in the 145-155 range😆

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#328

^^^

hi kizh...

thanks for bothering with my rambles. yeah in one or two max, these four shall be fried in hot oil and quietened with a furious gritted teeth shut up. really, do they deserve such bliss.

okay... i will go back to the top and finish 4-7 and then shall take a look at the sacred 140s as suggested by ever observant you 😆. every now and then saansey will ruko at the thought that i am not writing about a tacky hindi serial and i'll appear on the thread with a few thousand words and some pics... no matter how much i try to stretch it, i think, by the end of this year all my ipk writing will be done.

was quite something this mad flight. thanks for coming along.

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Maria

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Posted: 9 years ago

#329

Even if I was a silent reader through the whole journey almost Thank you Indi for always giving your 100000% in your writing , I just love how you play with words, you're truely unbelievable!

I'll go through all the threads once again... you're just amazing baby... and you're making me feel nostalgic AGAIN!

Hey the journey is not over YET! IPKKND EJ is still to come naa? 😳😆

Indi and others 2 sections are left in IPK prep thread:

Who wants to write on IPK EJ & Payash? 😃

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indi52

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Posted: 9 years ago

#330

a woman in his life
episode 395

for some strange reason khushi reminded me of audrey hepburn in my fair lady... she had come down the stairs in her delicate floaty gown looking a little lost that night of the ball. she didn't have long dangly earrings, but there was a bit of eliza in this moment.

henry higgins. arrogant, chaotic, sharp. a man who'd "never let a woman in his life." shades of asr there. and that whole transformation of khushi thing. i wondered if a bit of the fabulous romance been "borrowed" here.

certainly, the first rabba vey was being tagged here. anyone who watches the show will be able to see the similarities. camera movement, screenplay, expressions... in so many ways a reminder of episode 22. we're reaching the end, time to tie up the story neatly, with references to the early moments.

there really was nothing remarkable about 395. but i did feel a funny twinge as i saw the two of them face to face in the dark in that improbable stapling khushi's torn gown scene. this was possibly one of the last times we'd see them together in the same shot.

there are a couple more. but that's all.

how perfectly the two vibe, even when nothing makes sense.

and everyone made sure nothing did make any sense whatsoever. they dropped all finesse too. twenty minutes of pretty bad writing unfolded. i watched. a sadness in me. have i ever seen a man look at a woman with that thing in his eyes?

and they weren't possibly even shooting together at that moment. some day, they might act together again. i'll wait... hopefully, natasha amrita jay sam bhaiya ria and the rest will not be following them into that show.