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Originally posted by: beagleboy

Dearest Alishah,

It cannot be true that you don't know about being in love, because you do. Being in love is no different from loving someone, the feelings are just inclined differently to include an attraction that extends to the physical.

There is much said about love by authors, poets and film makers. Love is an unquenchable thirst, the more you drink the more thirsty you get. You really cannot have enough of it. When you fall in love, or when you love, it completes you and makes you happy and sad all at once. It takes you to great heights and pushes you down these tall heights too.

But what is love?

Love to me is an amalgamation of minds, not just the heart - A harmony of thoughts and values. You can only be in love with a person you respect. And you can only respect a person whose ideals and values you respect. The physical attraction and passion comes later.

In Vividha and Atharv's case, Atharv fell in love with Vividha because he respected her. The only time he was willing to let her go was when she lost a little of that respect. Equally, Vividha fell in love with Atharv because she respected him. Ofcourse, they were also insanely physically attracted to each other, but without the respect it would have come to naught. The attraction would not have blossomed into love.

Often, movies and shows give young girls the wrong idea that you can fall in love with persons of a different mind set. If you are educated and have the ideals and values of an educated woman,it is not possible to fall in love with someone uneducated, because you will not share the same goals and ideals or values in life. There will always be a mental divide which will ruin the relationship once the physical distance and other socio economic differences creep in. I hear of girls who have eloped with drivers, local thugs and I feel really sad for them and for what lies ahead in their lives. Irresponsible cinema and TV is to blame.

Vivdha and Atharv are both educated and both of them share the same ideals and goals. Both are strong and opposed to injustice. And so with a little drama and a lot of intimacy, they make a strong pair. When a parent is wrong, and opposed to a relationship for irrational reasons, a child will have to rebel. However, at times, Parents are right. Kailash was wrong because he was blinded by ego, status and hatred. The people in the V mansion are wrong now because they are giving precedence to false notions of marriage, thus ruining 3 lives. So, I think it is only right Atharv and Vividha stand up for what they have jointly believed to be right - freedom of choice and the pursuit of what is right (because it is right and not what the society believes to be right).

Their love story is beautifully portrayed and I hope it continues to be portrayed in this manner.

Originally posted by: *Reemz*

Where were you all this time? Even you beagleboy and aditi you guys are only posting now? Why? This forum needs more writers like you lot.

Vividha & Atharv are what you call a true insanely passionate couple. This whole empowerment angle really added a whole new angle to a boy meet girl love story. A girl who had no real direction, a hidden strength met a boy with such strong ideals. She made him happy, soothed that emptiness he felt since forever and he gave her the push to stand up for what she believes in. I just find that aspect so beautiful! Every time Vividha stands her ground, I just have to give credit to Atharv for getting that out of her. Atharv's smiles and happiness are because of Vividha's presence which filled his incomplete life.

Like they say themselves, they both gave each other a meaning to the others life. They respect each other so much, they're a couple who actually TALK, they're a couple who are so passionately attracted to each other - something which existed since the first moment they had their almost crash in front of the tabela...what a magnetic moment that was!

They're a COUPLE madly in love, an extension of each other because they both discovered sides they didn't know existed within them.

Originally posted by: CaputDraconis

Great post! Even I've never been in love and I totally don't buy the crap they dish out on TV/movies in the name of eternal love. I think Vitharv's journey towards discovering each other is a writing victory of sorts because I'm someone who's always decried the soulmate trope as portrayed in movies as hogwash. But this show has managed to delineate a cliched trope and given it a realistic spin. The metamorphosis of Vividha from a shy young girl blinded by her father's classist ideals in the garb of an over protective parent to someone who can fight against the archaic traditions is spectacularly portrayed. Basically, Atharv managed to sense Vividha's inner potential and strength of character which she herself was alien to given the social conditioning, and hence pursued her to free her from the shackles of of a conniving, control-freak of a father. It's a truly beautiful portrayal of the meeting of the minds deftly handled by the writers as well as the actors which has given unparalleled gravitas to this oft-repeated girl-meets-boy-falls-in-love trope. The cornerstone of any relationship especially that of love must be of mutual trust/admiration beyond the basal and ephemeral physical attraction. Only that sort of a relationship can be everlasting IMO.