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I have not gushed about an episode since...I don't know, I think since the break up of La and ASR. It's been a long time. I am reading around and am kind of surprised that this episode is hailed so tepidly. I will tell you the reason why I loved this epi. Yes, i realize that there was no overt sexual kaboom as with diwali, but there was something much much better, it was acceptance. And maybe because I am an old fart by forum standards, that meant so much more to me than the missed kiss.
I am going to take a second and say Barun Sobti - I love you and your Arnav Singh Raizada. Your performance in this episode - tingliciously dangtastic. The man curls your toes dressed in a long sleeve shirt. That is talent.
Khushi is alone on the stage and ASR is watching her disquiet. Her shoulders are hunching over, she is defeated. I thought it was absolutely spectacular that the impetus that gets ASR rushing over to help her is a guest's comment...'Looks like the Gupta's are going to lose.' How well he understands her. She does not have money, she does not have material things, but that which she holds dear is her pride above all else - and he is not going to watch it get squashed. How well does he know her when he is on stage that the first thing he does is goad her - saying what? you're not going to finish your last "performance". A challenge gets her ire up every time.
I thought it was strange how he said your akhri performance - not dance. I almost thought it had a double meaning - as in to say, Khushi, the pretending that you don't know what is going on is going to stop now. As usual, I probably read to much into these things.
The teri meri dance was really good. It was sultry, it was sensual - everything that they have been in the past even through their fights. But it wasn't until the rabba ve that I got really emotional. The rabba ve was acceptance of everything that they have been through, how far they have come and how they are ready to move on. The flashbacks were awesome. The first time they met, the walking away, the dropping...now they go towards each other, they support each other, there is trust. And despite all the cruelties, Khushi is shown to think of Arnav of the fairy lights, of hugging the man she reached out to in hospital and ultimately the man by the pool. The only difference is - that man isn't running anymore, he is standing there in front of her asking her to use her dimaag because he is ready.
I thought Khushi later on with her 'farak nahin padta' was great. She is trying to use her old defense mechanisms even though she knows the game has totally changed. That's why her face drops when she sees ASR standing at the door. He is the only one that asks her to prove what comes out of her mouth and he is going to do just that. Farak nahin padta, well your dhak dhak says otherwise.
p.s. - somebody please shoot Shyam. enough with the keystone cops murder plot. And does anyone else think that besides shyam and mami, nani thinks something is up??? Forget about Anjali, she searching for smurfs.
p.s.s. - if the story is good, the slipshod editing can be forgiven. it's when the story sucks that the editing makes it even worse. that's why those rhona dhona types have spotless production - because the story isn't worth a Lakshmi terd.
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