Absolutely rocking episode, Girls. A reunion of the lovers done under the benevolent eye of DM with Arnie's absolute determination to get the woman he loves back to his world and Khushi's absolute surrender to the man she loves. We asked for a madhur Milan and man, did they give us one?
A man near panic, trying to find Khushi in the ravine, calling out her name as if that alone would bring her to him..the utter disbelief that she could be gone' the pausing for a breath before spotting her tangled in a tree and the refrain "Sab thik hai. Everything is alright". Does it matter if it was supposed to be for Khushi or to console himself that his love, his life is fine? No, because by this time, you are floating in the emotions that Arnie boy is feeling and you are telling yourself that everything will be alright. Sab thik hai.
And when was the last time IPKKND got you doing that? Made you identify so much with a character that you could feel his or her emotions as if they are your own, had you rooting for them. When was the last time IPKKND had you speechless???
He gets her up to the road again and realizes she is not holding on to him. His Khushi, who had always held on to him whether conscious or unconscious when he carried her, trusted him to take care of her. And he always had. From the day she fell off the ramp at sheesh mahal to the day he married her, he has protected her, held her before she fell and today, he was too far away to get to her as she fell, fell trying to save him and now that he has found her back, her hand no longer holds on to him.
Then comes the desperation, the determination get to her. It's alright, Khushi. Say something Khushi. Everything is alright. Even I am alright. We are safe now. Say something dammit...
And the blood on his hands, khushi's blood. Anger and helplessness. Khushi, Khushi, talk to me dammit... This is not funny. The command, the anger, the frustration...
And when that does not work, the pleading...Please kuch bolo. Please say something dammit.
He realizes she is not breathing and starts CPR, commanding her to breathe, pleading her to breathe. Breathe Khushi. Breathe. The absolute determination to get her breathing again alternated by the two times she had talked about her death...
Phir aapke zindagi ka sabsa achcha aur hamare zindagi ka sabse bura din hoga. Hum mar jaayenge.
Samajeye hum bhi taaren ban gaye...raat mein daanye se teesra jo sabse zyaada chamak raha hai...woh hum hain...
Heer Ranjha and Khushi's will'.
And that is when the belief kicks in, he is indeed a believer now.
Kyunki jab hum saath hote hain, to tumhari dhadkan meri dhadkan se mil jaati hai. Hamari dhadkan ek ho jaati hai.
And while most of us mere humans need defibrillators to jump start our hearts, all our larger than life Arnie needs to jump start his love's heart is his own heartbeat. 😃 (OK, so this one was a bit over the top, but only after about 30 minutes after the show...so thik hai... bade bade shahar and chotti, chotti baatein 😆).
The joy, the absolute joy of having Khushi back, the hugs the cupping of faces, the true blue rabba ve, then he picks up Khushi who promptly holds on the vest and the smile from Arnie. She is back where she belongs. With him. And as he walks away with her, we see the temple in the background, DM's benevolent eye had been with them, as it always was and always will be. 👏👏
Am out and about, hence the short post that doesn't do justice to the scene.Sorry about that. But I leave you with this song that just fits these two today.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s[/YOUTUBE]
I can feel you breathe, it's washing over me
And suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby, all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch, slow and steady rush
And baby, isn't that the way
That love's supposed to be
I can feel you breathe, just breathe
I can feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way
Did we need anything else? Apparently, the CVs thought so. Am not going into this scene because well, it hasn't played out. We will talk once it has.
Notes:
1) Shyam has Anjali firmly back into her bubble with his fake accident story.
2) Poor Anjali has had one shock too many today. The Shyam reveal, the Payal reaction, the injured Shyam, the injured Khushi, Shyam's concern for Khushi, an injured chotte and the kidnapping bomb. And guess what??? She is still standing strong.
3) Absolutely loved the sequence where Shyam tries to deflect the Arnie questioning. Maami firmly refuses to bite and that has Anjali falling in line demanding to know the truth before letting him go. Shyam's hold on the family which upheld his every word is weakening.
4) Umm .. Barun, since when did you need to move your eyeballs around like a goddamned Kathakali dancer to show your Shaatir dimaag at work??? *Dodging brickbats, yeah, yeah, golden boy is back at RM and I'm sweating the details*
5) CVs, there was a story you heralded, back in February, in the episode that Arnie bought bangles for Khushi. Get back to that story, whichever way it takes. Because that story is really the strength that you should be selling. Every thing else will automatically fall into place.
pic credit: radev2010