Hey tin,
Awesome post!!! I have always been able to identify with you as reader and as a writer. All your stories have been closer to life and believable. I could see a sublime beauty in all of them. Something very subtle has kept me hooked on to your stories. Recently I finished reading 'The Emperor and the Girl'. At first I thought what would you write, but I loved how you steered the story ahead, especially how you handled Jai (Akbar) and bani's unnamed relation and the character of Jodha bai… Hats off!!!!!
Something similar is happening to me as well, I don't know, I just can't get over these two immortal characters, I tried to write a story for 'Kitna mohobat hain', but I just couldn't write Arjun and Aroohi…it was always jai and bani…
"It was an amazing journey, from my first ff 'mai aapke bina ji nehi sakti to Emperor and the girl....I have undertook all sort of emotions, sometimes I cried and laughed as I wrote them. Sometimes I found them too emotional taxing, namely 'Contract Heir' and 'Emperor and the girl'...I left the chair so many times, sometimes I could visualize each scene in front of me and sometimes I simply could not, wanted to tear my hair in frustration at times, hated when I was disturbed from my thoughts. During this period I too have undergone some uncertainties in life, many times lost hope in the whole processes but JB got me going, I lost myself in JB so that other thoughts don't cross my mind, I tried to keep my mind busy, when not writing then thinking, I am thankful to JB for making the trying years of my life livable and enjoyable. "
Very truly written, probably as a writer when we write about the same characters in different shades for years, we tend mother those characters, they become a part of us and then it becomes difficult to dethatch…and most importantly RK and Prachi have breathed life into those characters, that it is just not possible to let go off them…somewhere at the back of our minds we are still holding onto to Jai and Bani, which according to me are the most real and lovable characters created on Indian television. I don't think something stupendous as them can come back again. But I hope to see something like that or even better which will catch my fascination…
Lovely post Tin. Please do keep writing…
God bless
Dhani