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Jalebi Jane

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Posted: 9 years ago

I've decided to give myself the experience of watching IPKKND again, as a proper serial, from beginning to end. Watching it as it was designed to be watched. One episode daily.

This thread will follow that journey. I hope you join me.

JalebiJane

INDEX:

EPI 001: Meet Khushi+Arnav

EPI 002: Dori Scene

EPI 003: At The Durgah

EPI 004: Khushi on TV

EPI 005: Meet Shyam

EPI 006: Arrival In Delhi

EPI 007: Meet the Raizadas

EPI 008: Khushi at Shantivan

EPI 009: Mami, the Saboteur

EPI 010: Job For Khushi

EPI 011: Appointment Letter

EPI 012: Meet La-1-Ya

EPI 013: Nani Jasoos

EPI 014: Arnav Soaked

EPI 015: ASR=Arnav Singh Raizada

EPI 016: Enter Maidaan

EPI 017: Art of War

EPI 018: Measurements

EPI019: Aur Kuch, Sir?

EPI020: Khushi 2/Arnav 0

EPI021: Lisa's Coat

EPI022: Red Saree

EPI023: Parking

EPI024: Rain Hug

EPI025: Type All Night

EPI026: Guesthouse (Maha)

EPI026: He Finds Her

EPI028: Khushi Faints

EPI029: Khushi On My Mind

EPI030: Mujhe Farak Nahi Padha

EPI031: Thoughtful Akaash

EPI032: Controversial Khaana

EPI033: Resignation

EPI034: Shuklaji's Stand

EPI035: Rani Sahiba

EPI036: Mast-e-Calendar

EPI037: Pre-Teej Collision

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secretidentity

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Posted: 9 years ago

I too discovered the serial months after it began, but even though I tried I could never watch it from the beginning as sane people should. I binged and skipped and made up my own fantasies along the way. Khushi gave me an alternative I adored to the shenanigans of the real soap. I've read and admired the story many a time, can you guess who I could be? ;)

P.S I hope you enjoy the journey as it was intended xx

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Jalebi Jane

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Posted: 9 years ago

IPKKND Nostalgia: Episode 001

Meet Arnav & Khushi

This is such a well-written episode. In fact, I would call it a flawless introduction. If this was a novel, it would be a perfect first chapter. It plunges us immediately into the action. With admirable economy, it manages in thirty minutes to introduce us to almost all the significant characters, their relationship to each other, and the major themes.

1. The production values are incredible. I wish the budgets would have allowed them to maintain this level of quality throughout the serial. These early sets and costume reflect the actual universe of these characters. Arnav is the tycoon; he looks the part.

2. I love how Khushi is introduced. We immediately get a glimpse of that attribute of hers which we will see again and again throughout the serial: This heroine has spunk and is solution-oriented. When Payal asks her, "are you scared?" Khushi nods her head. Yet she sets out on her mission. Khushi is not fearless; she feels fear but is not paralyzed by it. This also sets up the pattern that she is devoted to Payal and is the more decisive and capable of the two. The episode also introduces Khushi's special relationship with Devi Maiyya.

3. What I especially loved was how the writers reveal her quick, inventive mind. Waiting at the red light, she makes up a white lie to account for her dress to the onlookers. And of course, I love that wonderful fairytale moment when the boy enquires about her Prince and she looks towards the sky. The shot includes Arnav's helicopter.

4. Arnav's introduction is spectacular. In a few short minutes and without much dialogue, the writers give us the Raizada/Malik history, and thus help us as viewers to begin to understand why he is as he is. And later in the exchange between Arnav and Anjali this is expanded. As an aside, I always wondered why the writers made the decision to give Anjali a disability.

5. I had forgotten this moment until I rewatched it today: On the runway when Arnav opens his eyes the camera cuts to Khushi closing hers. As though something passes between them. I found that effective. It links them and hints at the telepathy we will see in the serial.

JalebiJane (previously Inked/still Maya)

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Jalebi Jane

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: secretidentity
I too discovered the serial months after it began, but even though I tried I could never watch it from the beginning as sane people should. I binged and skipped and made up my own fantasies along the way. Khushi gave me an alternative I adored to the shenanigans of the real soap. I've read and admired the story many a time, can you guess who I could be? ;)

P.S I hope you enjoy the journey as it was intended xx

I really cannot say! Who are you? More clues, please :-)

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farheen75

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Posted: 9 years ago

After writing such an amazing story of khushi, I will look forward to your take on each episode of IPK.

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farheen75

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Posted: 9 years ago

The answer to your 4th question is the disability made anjilli a vulnerable woman blindly grateful to her hubby to be married to her and it also explains Arnav's insane care towards her. It was solely bcz of the disability that he never allowed his sister to leave shantivan

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Jalebi Jane

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: farheen75
The answer to your 4th question is the disability made anjilli a vulnerable woman blindly grateful to her hubby to be married to her and it also explains Arnav's insane care towards her. It was solely bcz of the disability that he never allowed his sister to leave shantivan

I agree. Even the most confident amongst us will question whether our disability influences how people interact with us.

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farheen75

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: Inked

Great answer. I agree. Even the most confident amongst us will at times wonder if our disability influences how people interact and respond to us.

It definitely does. We feel more sympathetic towards people with disability than towards normal people, but in anjilli's case, it made her pathetic and undignified. She was happy to back stab the brother who worshiped the ground she walked on, who never gave two hoots about his wife and her feelings when Shyam slandered her. In your story as well, I used to skip anjilli and yash's scene bcz of the strong dislike I had for her character.

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secretidentity

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Posted: 9 years ago

Originally posted by: farheen75

It definitely does. We feel more sympathetic towards people with disability than towards normal people, but in anjilli's case, it made her pathetic and undignified. She was happy to back stab the brother who worshiped the ground she walked on, who never gave two hoots about his wife and her feelings when Shyam slandered her. In your story as well, I used to skip anjilli and yash's scene bcz of the strong dislike I had for her character.

I always thought her character was mollycoddled to the point where she forgets who she is or who she could be without all of this sympathy. We all like to feel special and loved. To be the centre someone's universe. How lucky then that she has both her brother and husbands devoted love? That she is the apple of her family's eye?

Her character could have had a backbone but she didn't. Not everyone does and so she became someone many of us disliked, because her disenchantment from the fairytale irritated us. It shattered her.

On a side note - your Anjali is one of the few I've always liked. Her journey from woman to heroine was subtle but beautiful x

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Jalebi Jane

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Originally posted by: farheen75
It definitely does. We feel more sympathetic towards people with disability than towards normal people, but in anjilli's case, it made her pathetic and undignified. She was happy to back stab the brother who worshiped the ground she walked on, who never gave two hoots about his wife and her feelings when Shyam slandered her. In your story as well, I used to skip anjilli and yash's scene bcz of the strong dislike I had for her character.

As a student writer, I have learnt that when when my characters behave well all the time, there is no drama. Hence no story. Flawed characters are interesting. And even more interesting is when a paragon like Anjali turns wicked.

JalebiJane (previously Inked/still Maya)

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