Originally posted by: fan_fiction123
First of all thank you so much for updating with big one even you are not well 😇🙏🏻❤️
Most welcome And thank you for this beautiful review!! About length, I don’t have any pre decided length. I have only 1 thing in mind - where I want this chapter to end and what all needs to be covered in it.
As a result, the last 2 chapters turned out to be much longer than my already v v long - a word of caution- don’t expect such long chapters always😉
Chapter 25.. It feels incredibly earned. 😃Nothing dramatically huge happens, and yet emotionally it feels massive because of the way you have described every pause, gesture, and dialog. 🤗 The reconciliation is written with a lot of restraint, no grand speeches or dramatic confessions here 😇
Let me confess something- dramatic writing comes to me easily! As I am sure you must have noticed it in some chapters that required drama. This restrained writing I’m doing here is a challenge to myself as I knew this concept I had in mind when I started writing required exactly this kind of writing.
I’m so glad i am succeeding. At the cost of sounding immodest, I am surprising myself!
Glad the reconciliation (or should I say the first step of reconciliation) came out well🤗
The balcony scene is especially beautiful. The line “Not facing her. Beside her.” quietly captures the entire emotional tone of their relationship now. They are not returning to what they once were. They are carefully finding a new way toward each other like Gayatri chachi requested them to towards the end. I also loved how the story refuses the idea of things becoming “pahle jaisa.” 👏🏻👏🏻
Hey that balcony scenes has many of my fave words/aspects -
1. The one you said - not facing but besides- exactly as you said - it defines TuHir now.
2. She, who has always been very clear about everything- especially her relationships - saying to him - she’s not clear about their relationship now and where she wants to take it .. not because of things that happened but because SHE is not the same now
3. The hand hold - the way it happened!
Pahle jaisa - 2 reasons for it to not be pahle Jaisa-
1.as Mihir tells the family. They are very different people now
2. Pahle jaise - clearly had some fault lines - which gradually made it weak and Noina could take advantage
Tulsi telling Mihir, “Tum hamesha se mera guroor rahe ho,” has my heart ❤️😇
So over the moon that you liked this - she couldn’t honestly say I forgive you or you were not to be blamed! She said the only thing she could truthfully say to make him move forward without the suffocating guilt he has been carrying.
The family discovery sequence is one of the strongest parts of the chapter. Every single child of theirs reacting in their own way. Hats off😍 I have always loved Shobha’s bonding with Tulsi, Mihir and Gautam in the show too. Loved it that here also she is the first one to find out 🤗
Thank you dear. I’m glad it came out well. I too love Shobha on the show and her bond with all the OGs - TuHir, Gautam and Karan Nandini
being upset that Dadu and Baa “started Holi without us” makes it so real 😅 Garima revealing the “secret” that Nanu loves Nani.. and they simply accepting came of so well. The children unknowingly become the emotional truth-tellers of the chapter.
Keeping kids real takes a lot of efforts- Timsy line even I liked - it was a last minute addition while I was finishing/polishing the chapter. Garus secret - kids literally can’t keep secrets, can they?
The most favorite part in this chapter Daksha chachi’s conversation with Tulsi. It added so much depth because she’s the only one asking whether Tulsi is truly choosing this for herself. Her telling Tulsi not to leave the house again if things go wrong is such a powerful moment because it reframes Tulsi’s place in the family and shantiniketan. 😇
yes that’s the spine of this chapter in a way!
Can’t imagine she is the same S1 chugalkhor Daksha chachi 😅😜
Can I be frank? I have based her character in my story on just 1 episode of the show - remember her multiple slaps to Mihir? When tulsi was leaving SN just before the leap, that episode.
The holi celebration, gulal sequence, Mihir’s reaction to Jalebi sent by Suchitra. Everything is so subtle but deep at the same time.
Subtle and deep - thank you so much ❤️
Mihir easily managing to find Gautam’s address cements why he was not able “find” tulsi in 6 years 😊 Overall this chapter makes us understands that for Mihir and Tulsi, love is no longer about dramatic declarations. It’s about choosing each other quietly, every day in every small thing.
Correct! That’s what their new relationship will be like !
he didn’t need to find - he knew it almost certainly! You will know in next chapter how he found Gautam’s address. 😂
Excited for Bangalore trip 😃
It’s still 2 or 3 chapters away!
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