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So, I am the latest addition to the widely growing bevy of AvNeil shippers. 😳
I haven't watched the show from the beginning, but I do have a grip on the storyline, thanks to my extra-ordinary binge-watching trait when it comes to a show I like 😆
And while the story from the beginning itself has been something not so conventional like any other show on television, I'm glad to say that even now the story has held its ground and in all possibilities is also trying to stand out of the hustling bustling crowd of the same old television soap opera stories.
Now, coming to the topic: AvNeil.
These two.. I don't know what to say about them.
Their story is something I haven't really seen unfold between any other onscreen television couple. And this is alongside the fact that there's only so little makers can do with a love story on Indian TV, courtesy, restrictions, the kind of audience (TRP audience) India has, etc.
YET, there's always, always SO MUCH to look for, when it comes to AvNeil.
A story where the guy is not the typical business tycoon like every other show, BUT a COP, who has his own set of principles that he abides by, Always.
The guy holds his ground as he says, a small apartment is what he can afford, because that's what his earning as an honest ACP can render him. He doesn't care to even mention that if he wished, he could enjoy the wealth like a brat, given the fact that he's the sole heir of the Khanna Empire, but he chose to make a path of his own rather than relishing the riches.
The guy is smitten by our beloved Avni from day one, going beyond perimeters to do things for her, never wishing for anything in return, but won't voice his feelings for her, lest she doesn't reciprocate the same.
But more than that, he's this selfless man, who knows the pain of losing someone, in his case, his first love Juhi, and hence, even thinking on the lines of losing his love once again, this time Avni, scares him to the hilt, and that's also one of the reasons he doesn't want to confess his feelings to her, fearing that her rejection might push him to the corner of feeling the pain of losing his love all over again.
The guy is also the first in the lot to NOT question his wife, when everyone stood against her, and when any other person too would have lost their rationale on seeing someone you love in a compromising position with another man. Instead, he did something that put him in bad light, only to open the eyes of everyone to see that it is not ALWAYS the woman to be blamed, to be tested, but a man as well!
And there's this same guy, who has slowly but steadily managed to join the broken pieces, broken bones of this tormented soul called AVNI.
A girl who lost her childhood, a girl who never had a family, a girl who never had a normal life, a girl who saw only gory and gore in her growing years, and was then clouded with the essence of only and only revenge, so much that she didn't even care to see how she dresses up, follow fashion trends, think about love, marriage, etc. FINALLY met this guy, this terrific guy, called NEIL KHANNA, who albeit slowly but eventually managed to bring out that child in her, the ever talkative, enthusiastic, energetic AVNI, who was lost until now, somewhere in the chaos of revenge and despair.
Someone said it right. Someday, someone would hug you so tight that all your broken pieces will stick together once again.
And for Avni, that someone is Neil.
And for Neil, that someone is Avni. Avni, who though not intentionally, gave him a new purpose in life. And that purpose was not just about solving a case, but about helping a victim get her revenge, and her justice, where she had lost everything in her life at the tender age of 11. Falling in love was not in the queue, but the universe has a strange way of conspiring, and perhaps, this is how it did for Neil Khanna, who thought he could never love again, never feel again, after Juhi was gone. But little did he know, that even if the most beautiful flowers had a lot of thorns, darkness always has to end up with the breaking dawn.
So, what is it about AvNeil, that makes us dream, feel, love, and adore them so much?
Is it that they are two extremely good looking individuals who just set our screens on fire?
Is it that the push and pull between them is so intense that there's bound to be sparkling chemistry?
Or is it the simplicity of their love story that makes our hearts flutter?
Well, I guess it is all of it, and more.
Because this is the first love story making everybody go ga-ga, despite the absence of television's most conventional Angry young man, despite the absence of a hate-love story, despite the absence of a forced marriage, or revenge among leads.
And THAT goes on to show, that it is purely the chemistry and the story between these two that make AvNeil pleasantly different and beautiful than the rest of the onscreen pairs on Indian TV currently.
I know that was way too long, but I look forward to your opinions on what makes AvNeil so special and different from the rest. 😳
Best,
Simi
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