KDMHMD: A Story

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No, its not always about Premeer…! 😛

This story is about me and why I fell in love with KDMHMD. Please feel free to comment…

I'd like to thank all the people on this forum for being as wonderful as you all have been. I'd like to make a special mention –

Raksha – You were the first person to respond to my first ever post, gave me the courage to write again. Thank you. 😊

Estee – I am a huuuuuge fan of your "Little things, big things". All the references in my post below should tell you something. Thank you😛

It is always natural that when there is an intense rush of feeling, we tend to go back to the beginning. It started off with third segment of Thursday's episode that left me speechless with the intensity and after reading Estee's "Little things, Big things"…the feelings overflowed. I started thinking back to when it all began for me…..

Serials never really interested me. No siree….not for me. I was above all that…the endless plotting and scheming. I was happy curled up with a book…who wanted to watch a bunch of people all decked up all the time and tears galore! Heck! And if I did need that kind of visual stimulation, give me a movie any day. 3 hours later all was well and I could go back to my life, thank you.

I would come across KDMHMD while flicking through channels wondering what to watch. There have been a few times that I watched a the show and in my defense, this is how it seemed to me…some people gathered for a party and a woman taking a tall guy outside….some chick in a pink salwar suit looking down from the terrace and wondering what her jiju was doing outside…my mind went into over drive (it happens when the cynic in me takes over) and I started figuring out that the saas was taking revenge on her bahu…lots of money involved…bah.

The next time it was another guy in a sherwani, getting ready to be married, standing outside a door saying "Aaj ke baad, hamare zindagi ki ek nai kahani hogi. Bas ek hi baat bhulani hogi…mohobbat"…again, I thought ooh so he loves someone, he's going to marry someone else…scene was set for some years of story with infedility…more crying. God…when will these people ever learn.

Then there was this skinny girl telling the girl from the terrace to wear the clothes that she had bought and went off on a rant about how their friends would be ashamed, and her Prem bhaiya having left all that money for a woman. She had Vamp written all over her and I wanted to smack her….smug in my belief as to why I was right not to watch this. The promo of the lead couple, wearing black and white on a dark road crying did not do anything to help either. I was, after all, right.

And then one day, the endless flicking through brought me back to KDMHMD. The scene was set for a wedding. There was a pretty woman, bride's mom, and I was thinking, what's with the flowers, woman. Her expressions amused me so I watched. Some barely registered moments later, like the groom was un-tying the knots and the ones that followed, the old guy slapped Daljeet. I was like whoa… cringing within. Dude, there are people at the wedding…why would you slap her? I was really embarrassed for everyone, including myself. He went on about all the things she had done and Daljeet just stood there and took it. They showed the male lead standing behind a plump woman and I admired her necklace. I focused on him for a couple seconds and thought, so he's done crying and back with his mommy, is he? Puhleeze! So, why wasn't he stopping the old man?

I was intrigued. Ok…a little more than intrigued. So I made sure I was…er…flicking through the same channel at the same time the next day. This time, Daljeet was in full rant mode…the cringe factor was there, but I was like, what the heck, in for a penny, in for a pound. After all, the old guy started it…didn't he? I liked the way Daljeet's husband handled her…saying "Rab ke liye, bas kar. Ab ek aasoon nahin" or something to that effect that totally shut her up. The old guy was like, "Hogaya?" and I was indignant. The poor woman had been sobbing her heart out, old man!!

The cops came and the girl in a red salwar suit begged her chachu to send the cops away. Daljeet and her husband left…the bride stood silent throughout and I was like…girl, she's this is your mother and father!!

So, I came back again the next day, now wanting to know what happens next. Saw the whole dance and songs sequence and that that skinny girl slapping the long haired guy. He was ugly…sorry, but there was no nice way to put it. His eyes….ugh! I thought that Prem and Heer looked ok, liked Prem's expressions. The romantic in me raised its head and sniffed the air…could it be? But the cynic was in control…no way!!

So, it was Friday and I thought… no serial today. I checked myself, no… I am not getting into this habit of coming home from work to watch some serial. But it was Friday and we had nothing planned. So I took my computer to the guest bedroom and told myself (my cynical side that is…hence forth referred to as C-me) that this was purely for research purpose. I wanted to know what had happened in the past for the story to come to this point, a woman being slapped at a wedding, whatever her crime may be. So, there I began watching…from the beginning.

It started of simple. DDLJ is and will always be my favorite movie…so the sarson ke khet had special significance. Even C-me had nothing to say. The story unfolded… a man waiting for a friend…a mother waiting for her daughter's marriage…Heer waiting for Prem…all very normal. C-me was sulking. For the first time the romantic in me (R-me) was awake and eager. And it went on all weekend, watching the episodes back to back. Prem was showed…didn't do much for me. I did no actually like him (not like Estee's hate for Prem) C-me said he is Mr. Goody-two-shoes, mutely accepting his dad's decision. C-me would have asked to meet her first before making that decision…I mean it was his life too! (PLEASE DON'T THROW SADE ANDE AND TAMATAR…I've had enough eggs since Thursday….*wink*). I liked Preet, he had his heart in the right place…distrust the dad and love his PB…that was really cute. Harman…was ok, but did not have Preet's charm…very wooden acting, C-me said.

So, the Juneja's are in India and all hells' broken loose. Through a series of twists and turns, Prem and Heer miss seeing each other. C-me was sniggering throughout the train station episode. Puhleeze! Who does things like that in this zamana? And what's with the dupatta? R-me sighed…this is destiny, nothing more, nothing less. The girls make it to Daljeet's house and I must say, it was some brilliant plotting by DJ to make sure the identities of the girls remain hidden. I wish the leads are sometimes blessed with this kind of intelligence…but that is another story for another time. C-me was ROFL…Prem being passed around like a buck …first it was Heer, because of Lallu's promise and now it was Ash, because of Ballu's letter. R-me felt sorry for Prem as he was pulled in two different directions.

Prem bumped into Heer and she saw him for the first time. All that pale blue light on that prominent jaw line (I blatantly plagiarized that from one of Estee's posts)…ooh! R-me sat up with interest. There was the mandir scene…I felt Prem's desperation as he wanted to see who this girl was….and then she was in his room stealing the ring. R-me was singing when he looked at her for the first time! I had moved away from mere curiosity at this point and was rejoicing that, here at last was a budding romance, simple yet so intense. And then Prem clasped Heer's hand, as if he'd never let her go, and dragged her to slap the one guy who hurt her. Heer's expression of the stirrings of awe was priceless. That was it for me…Prem did not come all macho and do the beating for himself. He wanted Heer to have that satisfaction and that to me showed his respect for her. It showed he's more of a man than all the goon-bashing kind. I was lost from then on and there was no turning back.

I am happy to say that the show did not meet my expectations. KDMHMD surpassed my expectations…especially with the way all the characters have been handled. To give C-me some due, there are some things that the creatives and directors need to pay attention to. But I rarely let C-me watch the show. It is R-me all the way through…and the Premeer scenes….gosh….one has surpassed the other…ending with the dynamite that they left for us on Thursday. Let me assure you that nothing but that kind of brilliance would have made me write this! Prem and Heer are perfect!

The two sentences in the song Teri Ore, said it all…

"Ek thi Heer, aur tha ek Ranjha, kehte hain mere gaon mein

Saccha ho dil to, sau mushkile ho, jhukta naseeba paon mein"

Sorry it was such a long post! Thanks for reading!!

I really really hate Prem and Heer…where do I sign?

wow 👏

wow, I thought I was the only one this weekend who started watching this drama. My story was exactly the same, except for me Prem made me fall in love with this show. I watch Dil Mil Gaye and KDMHMD comes at the same time on Star Plus, but I haven't been really watching DMG because the lead actress was changed, so I always changed channels at that time and since I had heard so much about KDMHMD, I watched it few times and I thought Prem is gorgeous, I didn't and still don't find heer good looking compared to Prem. I think Prem's good looks, personality and just the way he carries himself is to die for, anyway, this weekend I took my laptop and thought of watching it from 1st episode (I use to watch the beginning of DMG almost every weekend, cuz I love the main lead b4 karan-shilpa), but it's good thing I thought of watching this show, wow, I was bowled over, I fell in love with the story. When I compare this show with DMG, I find that nowadays DMG has nothing compared to this show. NOw I am hooked on to this show and my laptop is the only thing that I will be spending my weekends with watching KDMHMD. Although I still have to get use to this jodi, I think Harsh is too good looking for Aditi, I don't find her beautiful, maybe because I have seen her on SBS and one of the award functions and don't think she is all that, they should have chosen more beautiful girl for Harsh, but I may change my mind, it's takes time to get use to someone and this was only my first weekend that I started watching this show, But my only reason to start watching the show is because of Prem, he's drop dead gorgeous. I thought Karan Grover is the hottest guy on Television right now, other than Iqbal Khan, but watch out boys, cuz another hunk is here to give you tough competition.