Ah! The last final steps before moving one step up.
Performances
Some Brilliant work by both Barun and Sanaya in the scene where Khushi talks about her wedding
Sanaya: the expressions conveyed a lot more than words - stupendous!
Barun: no dialogues, only emoting - incredible!
Progress Points
1. Arnav-Khushi GH visit close to ending, coz now Shyam has seen the file
2. Arnav's awareness of Khushi's pain: wedding night memory re-lived; pressure building between Arnav and Khushi after this
3. Last wedding night, MU occurred; this wedding night, Arnav might tell Khushi. Let's see
Favorite Scene
Khushi having to rely on her dreams, not having any memory worth sharing
Yes, Arnav, that is the advice I'd give you. These are last few moments you have with a wife who bestows all her attention on you, even if it is aimed at bothering you and even though you pretend to hate it.
Remember is all you will be able to do at next step, before you reach the next-er step. And I hope you do remember. Please remember - her tears, her confusion, her pain, her abandonment, her alienation, her humiliation, her loneliness, her anger, her helplessness, her shattered dreams, her dead hopes...
And yet, her heart that beats for you, her soul that understands your every need before it is spoken, her faithfulness for you in fighting off the frauds, her concern for your health, her worry and anxiety for you, her sleepless night, her excessive love, her handmade food for you, her bringing the coat for you, her caring for things that matter to you - like your plants, her heart aching for her prince.
Remember, that though she was as hopeless and as helpless as none knew better than you, remember, her crazy ways, her talking in her sleep, her naughty smiles, her pranks and her tricks, her weird silly song.
Khushi, he's asked you to not forget. Even though you have rarely heeded his advice, a while back on the ladder you did see sense in his counsel. This gives me hope that it may be towards the end, but it may come. You know well that he hides his feelings and is not too good at dealing with heart matters. But you understand his heartbeat.
Please Don't forget his very evident feelings for you before the wedding night, his pain on the wedding night, his unbearable agony when he saw you shivering in the cold that though he felt justified in hurting you - he could not stand it, his worry when you left GH without information, his concern for you in his eyes when he brought you out of the mandir in his arms, his hurt that unintentionally you gave him, his 'husband' mode when another man tried to touch you, his fierce support for you among people, his words flowing from his heart that you knew was not Ranjha, but Arnav.
Don't forget his giving in to your childish demands and your child-like pranks, his letting you take his bed while he slept on the poolside and then on the couch, his provoking you to anger just to be able to talk with you, his writing letters to you when you refused to talk with him.
Don't forget his agreeing to visit your house, his many adjustments, his care and respect for your family, his spoken and unspoken apologies, his helping you when you were stuck, his affection for you when no one needed to be impressed.
Don't forget that you hid the truth from him just so that he wouldn't be hurt; but yet when he was hurt, he turned on you unintentionally mistaken. Don't forget this beast is your prince, whom you know well.
In a moment full of joy, how stealthily sorrow crept in.
A girl who dreamt of being a bride but could not, was helping another be one. Few months back it was another girl whom she trained to be a wife, and then it was a wife whose marriage she tried to save, and then it was her sister whose wedding she averted from being called off.
She did become a bride but in a way that crushed every dream she ever saw, every wish, every desire. Her dream that once looked so real has become a longing buried in her heart.
A friend asked her about how beautiful she looked when she got married, and Khushi had no memories that she could share. Her friends insisted. Khushi could only rely on her dreams:
* A lehenga - not all red, but with some green, just as she likes
* Earrings that tinkled even with the slightest breeze
* Bangles in her hands, and so many that her wrists weren't visible
* Tika that was beautiful as the moon
* Her chunri covering her head the way she likes it
Her heart instead aches with the memory of the wedding where mangalsutra was bound on her, not tied, and sindoor was forced on her forehead, not applied with loving hands.
Arnav, her husband, looked on and heard. For the first time, perhaps, he's realized what he's broken. Though, perhaps, his heart also aches that when Khushi dreamt these dreams, he was not the man in them whom she was becoming a bride for.
Why do I feel that these dreams will come true? One day when Arnav will know the truth and Khushi will know the truth and they will have come to terms with their undying love, these dreams will not remain forgotten and buried. They will come to life and breathe.
1. It is the day of the wedding. Arnav has managed another deal with Khushi.
LOVED Khushi not letting Arnav go and pleading with him like a wife would to fix the stuff - giving him options of what he could have in return. Arnav, how could you refuse her gentle nudges?
LOVED Arnav striking his favorite bet: What do I get? You'll do what I ask you to do?
Khushi, my dear girl, you didn't twice before accepting? Don't you remember what happened last time he made that bet? Or do you think Arnav won't ask that or do that in public - coz, we're sure as the Sun is in the east, that if he can marry you in secret, carry you in public, he sure can kiss you too.
I fix 'em, we go back to RM tomorrow! Don't forget, because I will remember.
LOVED Khushi accepting the deal just to get Arnav to be a mechanic for a day!
Arnav, when will you start dealing with a woman the way a woman should be dealt with? Why does it always have to be a deal with you? Men aren't from Mars... they are from a tiny planetoid further beyond the solar system where the sunlight never lights up their boring, unromantic selves.
Though, yet this is slightly better than your usual means. I mean, if you wanted to return to RM, there was no way anyone could stop you. You only had to announce and your word is law. In fact, with Khushi your threatening avatar works very well. But you had to get a deal on with her.
Reminds us of the time few months back when there was a deal of a dance and a kiss; So much more romantic than broken machines and the end of a GH vacation.
2. The poor rich man sat and fixed broken stuff of his community-in-law. The wife looks on with glee. Until Bua ji comes to rescue her darling SIL.
For the first time, I wanted to look at Arnav and throw one of his pet words at him: Unbelievable!
3. LOVED Khushi's controlled hilarity when her Hubby got compliments for fixing stuff.
LOVED Arnav and Khushi sharing their feelings: exasperated vs. elated
Arnav: I hope you know I'm doing this for you, woman!
Khushi: Hubby, you're SO doing them in any case!
Arnav: *exasperated* The stuff I do for her!
Khushi: *elated* The stuff I do to him!
4. LOVED how Arnav's regained his lost pride when Bua ji exclaimed that he's the owner of several phaictory.
He sure looked relieved that someone this household knew him for what he was. I s'pose the poor man would have faced an identity crisis if he'd fixed a few more broken-in-laws.
5. LOVED that when Bua ji asked Arnav why he didn't refuse, he simply looked up at Khushi. There stands the maker of all my pickles ... erm, I mean, the root of all my troubles!
6. LOVED the satisfaction on Arnav's face when Khushi got her comeuppance from Bua ji.
7. And Arnav fell in another mess - and mess, literally, legally, properly a mess. ewww!
8. LOVED how Khushi laughed and declared that he was now properly acquainted with the community. He'd now done everything that people living there did.
9. Ah! Arnav's second public shower!
Arnav, look at it this way, buddy! You looked for a shower in GH bathroom and didn't find one. They improvised one for you, only it was outside the bathroom. But what the hey! People loved you so much, the Damaad!
As usual, at first you get irritated, and then the irritation washes away and the real Arnav shows up totally enjoying every crazy thing his Khushi does to him.
Arnav: I hope you know that only you can do this to me, woman. I'd allow no one else.
Khushi: You're SO getting watered, Hubby. The heat has dried up your humor genes.
Arnav: *exasperated* This is hardly humorous. This is FUN. *smirks*
Khushi: *elated* This is FUN because it is humorous.
Fandom: Dono hain alag disha, kabhi kya milne payenge, nahi kisi ko hai pata
Others
1. LOVED the comfort level Bua ji and Arnav share.
How come Bua ji shares a fantastic comfort level with all Khushi-suitors? Arnav, NK, Shyam (before he shed his skin to show that he was a snake)
Anyhow, hope this bond, this fraternity bears some fruit in the clearing up of the mess.
2. LOVED how Bua ji shoo-ed away the community-in-law.
Yeah, he's a gem, not a mechanic.
3. LOVED Bua ji siding with Arnav and reprimanding Khushi
4. LOVED Arnav-Bua ji itty-bitty misunderstanding over Arnav not leaving work unfinished - while on his BT - and Bua ji trying to dissuade him from fixing any more gadgets.
4. Payal called to ask the well-being of Arnav ji! Wow! Sometimes this girl does use her brains!
5. Mami Jaan: Nuff said!
6. On the other hand, Mama Ji *thumbs up* well done!
7. Creep? Are you still camping in Arnav's wardrobe? Come out, come out, Arnav's coming back tomorrow!
1. Bua ji: *to Arnav* I never knew! You're hard of hearing in one ear!
Arnav: *thinks* Unbelievable! Bua ji that comment was SO Khushi. Please just be yourself. One Khushi is enough for me.
2. Mama Ji: *screams after seeing Mami Jaan* Oh! Sounds like Manorama!
Precap
Washed out!!
Udne Ki Aasha
