IP Adda - Nov 28' 2012

KUSHI AND ARNAV BATHROOM SCENE CREDIT TO UPLOADER

KUSHI AND ARNAV ANGRY SCENE CREDIT TO UPHOLDER

KUSHI'S DANCING IN PAYAL'S ENGAGEMENT CREDIT TO THE UPHOLDER

DIWALI DIYA SCENE CREDIT TO THE UPHOLER

Please be adviced of the mammoth lenght... dripping scarcasm... lazer sharp opinion... open drool and last but not least a heavy heart...

Ok so the day hasn't dawned on us yet... but it will shortly when what has become the obsessive part of my life doesn't exist anymore so in my usual scheme of things I have a couple of observations... and (not being cocky at all but humbled by the time people spend reading, liking and responding) I know that my opinion resounds though this forum, I have been told I'm very insightful... I am not when I'm writing about IPKKND, I am just expressing myself what I feel when I watch the show...

Ok I must admit that my mom would continously tell me about this show... but I would see the first break montage of Khushi in yellow and Arnav looking over his shoulder and think this is so not for me... I am now not a "desi" girl anymore...those were my youthful days I am far past... but then I happened upon the diwali episode...can I just say the rest is history... 3 days later I was caught up...

So bad was my obsession that I started looking for articles online about the stars needless to say I had fallen oh so badly for a certain ASR... but what took me by surprise was the fact that Sanaya matched Barun inch for inch... I don't know when it happened but suddenly I was loving Khushi far more than I was lusting after Arnav... I loved her quiet strength... her crazy ideas... and the deep rooted integrity and Sanaya (I have never used this phrase before but hey we will in a cosmopolitan world ) mashallah... her beauty is only surpassed by her talent... ( I swear I swing only one way)...

Almost all heroines stand up for their rights and the rights of all the world against the hero what made Khushi so different was the fact that she was resourceful. OK for nostalgia's sake I'm going to list the scenes that started changing my mind abouth Khushi.

1) Getting that guy to measure the other men

2) Recording Arnav's notes on her phone

3) Telling Anjali "Sir girne wali thi" when she came to return the typewriter

then there were the scenes that just made me fall in love with her

1) Hiding in the cupboard

2) the apology when she threw hot tea on Arnav (both him and I couldn't help but smile)

3)the walk in the forest

4)her crazy explanations after the Kanya puja to Arnav

5) The time when she said to Arnav "hamari bati nahi jal rahi hai"

6) Sleep talking during Holi

7) and when she said " iss masoom cheri ki pechi ek khukar laad governor chupa hai" ( died laughing)

But here I will stop and also say there were times when I absolutely hated Khushi... I guess there were too many people to please after everyone started to notice IPKKND, because yes there were certain elements of the character were unlike the Star Plus bahu's ( who I must say haven't changed much since a certain Tulsi Virani, saying something about nayi soch now aren't we)

But there were a lot of mishaps with the character of Khushi along the way... to me when Khushi started becoming a preacher instead of a flawed human being that is when I started to get annoyed... after all you (CV's) made me fall in love with her now you are changing her to fit a more "bahu" image what bullshit... want an example... Dadi tried her best to stop Khushi's marriage and Khushi then says no I want you to stay... is this the same girl who stood up for against dowry for her sister... but won't stand up against being iltreated because that is against "the indian culture"???? Really I expected so much more from Khushi... but where Khushi played the seesaw of "ideal Indian Bahu" and "modern thinking independant women" ...

ASR was refreshing in his modis operandi... I know what I want and I will have it... I am the king in this domain and everyone must heed to my wants... Got it...

Ok so I started watching after the diwali episode needless to say I had it bad... going to be begining ASR was delicious in the love to hate way... but look at the brillance of the CV's when they gave us his rich, arrogant tycoon right away they showed us how vulnerable he is and his archiles heel his sister ( I'll get to Anjali later). Ok so everyone and their sisters have flawed hero's so why was ASR so successful... it was the struggle the internal struggle that he faced... he knew that vulnerability was not encouraged in the world so he hid it, but in the process he became stone cold to everyone... he couldn't decipher who was geniuenly good and who was putting up an act... Remember when Anjali asked him "jo tumhari dil meh hai woh tumari cheheri peh kyun nahi hai?" And then ASR saw Khushi in the red sari for the first time and like a moth to the flame was drawn in... he couldn't help it his heart had let her in and he didn't know why and he DID NOT WANT TO BE VULNERABLE especially not with someone like her... he always questioned his agressive ways when he did something to hurt her... he thought about what he had done when Anjali spoke about love and when he apologized to Lavanya but all the while he was thinking about Khushi... He loved to give her pain... but then he couldn't stand to see her suffering... This became especially hard when he married Khushi forceably... Can I just say that portion of the show brought such intensity that there were times I just couldnt' go on watching it... the overwhelming hate laced in the sweet unfulfilled love just broke my heart... those days I cried and loved IPKKND so much more.

Here I have to come out and say... the first absense of Barun was handled impeccabily!!! I swear if not for this social media age I would have be besides myself with this plot... it was very very good, the crazy desire of these two people who supposedly hate eachother but can't stand to live without each other was amazing... the first real hug did not dissappoint but the highlight in this whole part of the show was ofcourse when Khushi changes the kerosene into water and Arnav says "Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada" yes he knew she was here waiting for him... loved it!

But where there was the good there was the very very bad... for example

that fancy dress competition man I was made as hell... I mean my own fancy dress competitions in the early 90's was better... but they pulled me right back with the Heer and Ranja sequence... there were so many examples of this one day everyone on every thread here on IP would scream bloody murder and then next day they would have grown women swooning over a dialogue ... a look ... a scene such is the chemistry of Sanaya and Barun...

Ok since it is the last day I'm going to confess something... I thought to myself... how can they have ethan sizzling chemistry and nothing is going on with them... at that time there were innumerable articles written about Barun's ring and he stopped wearing it also then the teri meri sequence (#1 ) happened and BAM!!! my imagination when wild I swear my heart was doing the dhak dhak's right with Khushi's and the ring came back on Barun's finger... I guess his wife must have wanted to let people know yes he is hot and not available! Total speculation guys ..Total!

But post the entrance of Dadi the show seemed to take the speed of the TGV towards a possible ending... I was not a fan of everything being tied up in a nice neat knot...especially Arnav's feelings for the other woman in his mothers life... yes I absolutely wanted them to get married quite frankly my heart would not able to take another rejection never mind Khushi... but I would have liked Arnav shown struggling to be the bigger and better man...

With regards to Shyam... I liked how Abhaas played the character... but I would have liked some depth to it... because at the end of the day everyone is not pure evil... there should have been an explaination to why he was the way he was... why was he so crazy after money... why and how did he marry Anjali and how he won over Arnav and the family I screamed and shouted for this, I got it on the day they outsed Shyam but I would have like more.

And then there was Anjali... by the way in my books the decision to cast Daljeet as Anjali trumped even the decision of Sanaya and Barun as Arnav and Khushi!!! Why do I say this, because Anjali is the character who after all the things she had to face embraced the fantasy because it was easy than the ugliness of reality that she had to face... But to Anjali it was not fantasy at all it was reality, she so desperately wanted to believe that her life had changed for the better that she forgive big transgressions because she was not strong enough to face the reality. Arnav knew this all along hence his biggest fear was to lose her... But Anjali also had a spine and strenght but along with that she was truly living her dream... But the dream turned into a nightmare... I wish Oh how I wish that they let us see just how much she crumbled! how much she struggled how she fell and picked herself after the Shyam debacle!!! I wish that instead of Arnav and Khushi adopting Aarav... Anjali came forward and did it... would that not be nayi soch... I mean after all she lived her life for others so now she would truly have her child...

My expecations after Arnav and Khushi's marriage was indeed a slow down of the story... but I sorely hoped ( should have invested my energies elsewhere) that the CV's wouldn't take the well worn path and really do something different... because Arnav and Khushi had struggled to be together but living together isn't always easy especially for people as different as Arnav and Khushi... I wished that Khushi would realize that her small town nature was actually harming Arnav's image, and just like Arnav had to step down from his high horse Khushi had to step up to the plate... Until they found a new story line...

But I did not expect them to go from wedding to married and skip the newly wed phase completely... really for a guy who just got his wife Arnav ( most western thinking man on Indian television) wanted to have kids... hmmm who is your audience here????

I did not like the whole Aarav plot but I thought it would be good to showcase how trust is a two way street and once again bring to the forefront the fact that Khushi always does things by herself, it is her biggest flaw but where I expected complexity I got sweetned candy floss... and a load of every other day nonsense...

I don't blame Barun for leaving, after all he could feel the character of ASR going done a Mihir path and IPKKND become the shining example of the K series ( you know Kyuni, Kahaani, Kasauti etc etc.) I truly expected there to be more, I'm sure so did he and if he is getting other offers then why stay in a second rate show instead of finding brighter greener pastures???

With regards to Star Plus... well according to me they are channel who wants to dictate what "nayi soch" should be... yes there was a demographic segmentation issue... (for those who don't speak marketing demographic segmentation means how the people who are the consume your product or in this instance watch your show)... SP is used to ruling the waves and the TRP charts with their dramas but the tides are changing... the audience is maturing... and IPKKND wasn't cutting it at all... except that it was with a completely different segment with SP had no idea how to target... here was a bunch of women living outside of India who were not only watching the show but spending hours writing about it and discussing it with others ...Now that is talking about captivating an audience...you know what that is called in the business world a blue ocean... uncharted territory ... and so IPKKND was given free reign only because SP still had to decide on how they were going to satisfy this audience and monitize this opportunity! Frankly SP has been more than nice to the PH the level of incomplacency shown in a prime time show astounded me... I mean my friend who is an amateur short film maker has less gaping editing errors that IPKKND and then lets not talk about the body doubles shall we... Sometimes I felt that IPKKND was treated like cinderellla before she became a princess ... I mean other shows have they cast prance around in designer garbs and we have Khushi walking around in outfits made from curtains... now that is called taking inspiration from the classics ... I'm talking about sound of music... So if Barun called the quits on the show ... SP lost its only USP for keeping the show alive ... I don't blame them for cancelling the show... at all... it makes business sense...absolutely...

I personally was curious to see what the new guy would be like... I think Sanaya would have amazing chemistry with any one and it was more the fact the Rabba Vey played in the back ground that did it for me... basically I start reliving every A&K moment when I hear it play...

The other cast members:

NK: First I thought really this dude is supposed to be an NRI but boy oh boy did you grow on me... now there was a guy who took the few lines he had made it his own and then kept us begging for more... I loved that you could just as easily play the serious card during the Shyam scenes... very very well done

Nani: Watch Nani enter the stage today... you will see the stature of a proud grandmother... and when she first finds out about Shyam a broken women... Nani was amazing very much the matriach... but when she didn't have to be the strict and stern women she was just a mother loved how she could be all these people in one

Mami: I don't have to say anything here... this character was up to the task of entertaining us and entertain us she did!!! dialogues... acting ... dressing ... Mami rocked

Akash: Most underused character of the show... can I just say the few and far between moments of the bromance I absoluetly adorned ... like when he tells Arnav in a marriage things happen ... only to be short down by arnav... I wish they had developed this character more...

Payal: Another epicly underdeveloped character... I loved that when Khushi was threatned Payal the tigeress roared... some of the most beautiful sister bonding moments of the show... not overly self sacrificing but just right

Shyam: I love to hate you man... when you looked at Khushi my skin crawled... when you schemed I couldn't look at you ... and when you fooled Anajali I hated you... well done

Shashi: the best father daughter relationship I have seen on tv... wonderfully logical too bad you were paralized so quickly

Garima: some very fine acting especially when you started to accept Arnav...

Buaji: I didn't like this character yet when I finally understood that Buaji is most like Khushi hence she always yelled a Khushi the most ... how could I not like her

Lavanya: when she left the show she left with a very sweet taste in my mouth... she basically forced Arnav to open the door to his feelings... when she said Arnav its Lavanya (when he apologized to Khushi instead)

And finally I am at the end of all what I wanted to say...

so Ipkknd gave us some epic weeks long saga...

the week before Diwali last year

and then the week of Diwali

The week of first Sangeet

The week of Holi

The week of A & K's wedding celebrations

these weeks I promise to watch whenever I miss the show... and now for a few of my favorite moments...

For some reason I absoluetly love the pain Khushi went through and Sanaya was brillant in all the scenes...

The I hate you scene ... the you made my life hell anyways scene... the Rajkumar and Shaitan is one and the same scene... such beautiful intensity... so much more than just looking in one another's eyes...

But to me it was always about the small gestures...

after falling into the rangoli Arnav stops Khushi hand from touching her face... because he knows that is exactly what she is going to do... Arnav telling Khushi it is so much easier to talk to you when you are sleeping...

Ok I'm going to stop because if not I'll be here all night...

My advice to the CV's (one last time I guess)

Well think about the plot that you are serving us... for example someone gets kidnapped from inside the airport????? did you guys try to walk into an airport with cheese in your hand bag after 9/11 how is someone going to kidnap a growth man with out some kind of ammunition... and this has been done time and again... for example now ASR is the sponsor that would mean non of his family can participate... why couldn't he be a friend of the sponsor???

Also don't tease the audience... I mean all those missed kisses and kisses on the cheek... ok I won't say much I am a big sucker for romantic moments that came about...

And last and not in any way the least... please don't tailor your characters to the wants of the actors playing them (daljeet and the pregnancy) the channell or even us the crazy viewers...

because at the end of the day it is your story I wish you didn't dilute it so much towards teh end...

Many thanks to the ladies of this thread who have supported my writing ( have you read this entire post if you have God Bless) I learnt so much from you guys... thanks for the encouragement and support and that my friends was my

Final two cents

S

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