Blast from the past thread#2! Episode 31- page 128 - Page 133

Originally posted by: indi52

hi arshi,

very nice 34/35. loved reds, clapped at purples, swooned at pink. i was thrilled to see a couple of places you and i read the same. reflections, di being his source of happiness, and both shyam and asr talk of living their life their way, but what a difference in their ways.

about him thinking of khushi when he says, he will go to her and live with her, interesting, though i didn't pick on it. but his eyes were focusing on some other plane, you could be right. see you soon. it's teri meri week. yay.

Originally posted by: indi52

"hum theek nahin hain."
finally, she answered his question.
for me, this poignant moment connecting last episode and this, was the story of the day. the next step in their exploration of each other.

episode 34

"the face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. it is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment"
~~~ james arthur baldwin~~~

a pensive mood permeated the frame right from the first moment. he's leaning close into his plant and pruning. a lost look in his eyes. suddenly flashes of light and a cascade of memories. her voice. scathing, sharp, indicting him, rising passionately in her anger in answer to his "tum... theek ho?" now her diatribe reverberated within him. i wish to have nothing to do with a person like you. bhad mein gaye aap aur bhad mein gaye aap ki naukri. my name on that paper has more meaning than any penalty amount... her insults found their mark. a spark of return anger in his eyes. he picked up the pot he was tending with such care and dashed it on the ground. it shattered.


di walked in and said, ah so there is something in common between you and khushi. gussa. he remained silent. today even his plants failed to bring him comfort, peace, stability. storm in his eyes. as di carried on asking things he didn't want to probe into, his ire rose. perhaps a safer emotion than that inexplicable disquiet. di said she understood he was very upset about the guest house incident. for the second time she mentioned, khushi could have lost her life. writers used asr's elder sister well to allow us a peak into him. but the matter that really bothered him, no one, not asr, not di, not perhaps even writers 😆 had any inkling of. yet.

when she said he actually wanted to explain and apologise to khushi, asr couldn't take it any more. like the pearl string, he snapped.
"enough, di!
maine kabhi kissi ko safai dena zaroori nahin samjha. mujhe uss khushi se kuch nahi kehna. mere liye koi maine nahin rakhti."
uss khushi. that khushi. oh he was really mad at her.

but di persisted and asked what we've been itching to.
"achha? toh phir hum jabhi khushi ki baat kartein hain tum aise bhadak kyon jaatey ho."


and there was khushi, confused, looking for the key to this utterly perplexing puzzle. "yeh humey kya ho raha hai?" why was she not leaping with joy at having given asr a piece of her mind? she had had her say, gone to his house and told him all she wanted to, thrown his job, his contract on his face, and walked off hugging her anger close. then why, why this unhappiness? "toh hume achha lagna chahiye na?phir humey kharab kyon lag raha hai?" even food, her favourite chaat at that, couldn't bring her khushi smile back. buaji, payal, and shyam (who was positively swooning in affection) tried their level best to cheer her up.

they knew it would be a rough day, this resignation thing, and like a caring family, had prepared distraction and lightness to get her up and about. alas, golgappa also couldn't make her forget this confused sad theek nahin hai feeling.


then two things happened at once. jiji asked khushi for a phone, and rahim chacha walked in carrying arnav baba's clothes from the laundry. almost like objects with minds of their own, a few pearls from a broken string and a key, mannat ki chabi, found their way to asr and khushi. and as if on cue rabba vey trilled in wrapping around the whole segment, as a man and a woman stood lost in thoughts of a person they didn't want to think about. they stood quiet and scanning memories in the mind in their own separate spaces, but never really apart.


an intimate, almost set aside sequence with a curious intimacy all its own. camera close, touching skin, lingering, wondering, tying stories together. she held the key and stared at it long. his fingers closed over the pearls.


"khushi"
"arnav singh raizada."


nani worried about chhotey, lest he should destroy his life like his father had before him. no amount of coaxing by anjali eased her mind. what was this mystery that shrouded the past of asr? an ominous sense in the air.

shyam was in love. he so wanted to make khushi happy. she could see that yet, nothing about him ever touched her. if anything, she was perplexed, a bit turned off every time he tried to get close. the writers though decided to have a bit of fun and so gave shyam two wonderful dialogues about love. "baat hafto ki ho, ya saalon ki, pyaar toh pyaar hota hai." and what if it was about eternity? hamesha? but shyam's pyaar did not know that span of time. like shyam, it was limited.

his "dhai akshar ka ehsaas" was playing games with khushi. she was in such a tizzy that she'd do the very thing she had felt she really never wanted to. "uss aranv singh raizada ka khayal baar baar mere man mein aa raha hai... man kar raha hai ki dubara usse miloon."

what, khushi?
tuhi bata mere maula, tu hi bata mere rabba.

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

Originally posted by ..Anita..

I changed my username!!!

loved episode 34!!!

even gardening cannot calm ASR, he is in so much distress that he caused harm to khushi and was not even able to speak...he does not that this restlessness and is dying to release it, i guess that is why he broke that pot...Anjali understands arnav so well and knows why he is angry, i love the bond they share...My favorite part of the scene was that Anjali said that him and khushi have their anger in common, in my opinion it is their egos

Khushi is still in distress, she is wondering if she did the right thing or not because something in her heart is making her distressed...when payal said that she prays to DM that she never meets that man again...you can tell khushi is a little sad by that...deep down she wants to see him again because unknowingly he made a place in her heart

and Alas they find memorabilia from their first two meetings...Arnav has the pearls from her blouse and Khushi has the Mannat Key...They have a Rabba Vey moment while staring at those things and have flashbacks...i love this scene, it shows that it is hard for them to forget each other...Arnav held the pearls like it is something fragile and looks at them with great care because it is khushi's. Towards the end Arnav said KHUSHI and Khushi finished by saying ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA, too me it was forshadowing they will be together because when you combine what they said it becomes Khushi Arnav Singh Raizada, hinting she will be his wife ( or i looked too deep into that scene), i mean Arnav could have easily said Khushi Kumari Gupta angrily like he always does

Oh i liked Anjali's sari...she had the best clothes in the show

@Anita

Loved in Blues couldn't say and express it better way the way you did👏

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

Hey Indi

I just finished most of you guys.Blue I love and Purple just adored.You mention in some points we are same thinkers and on the other day Cynthia and Ami also said the same.I think(MY POV) may be those scenes are straight forwards and simply true facts so we can't go wrong with these or cannot take these in any other direction or may be just my thinking but as I read too much today PHEW over here a lot of us are thinking the same but there are certain angles (which you are master of these) are shot very differently as mine and others and vice versa that make us different and unique. You are good at exploring the depth of characters .I mean it and admired too and you know that.I always wait anxiously for yours the only thing in my life is lack of time.I wish I had more to explore with you ,chat with you but Alas.May be someday😊

Originally posted by: Katelyn

You are welcome! 😃 Yeah, it's a beautiful cover done by Sam Tsui and the vm is fabulous!

Originally posted by: indi52

thanks, ami,

busy weekend? hope it's fun busy though. thanks so much for your beautiful comment. about that question, well we were discussing this just a couple of days ago. ripping a part of her garment, so damn out of control. but was it out of character?

my thought: he was in an intensely vulnerable state of mind actually the first time we met him. he was coming back to lucknow to take back what was his. but in the way of the jungle, where might is right. for he had been given no choice. his right as son was taken away by a feckless father. his right to his home, usurped by an opportunist uncle. 11 years of suffering the consequences and doing all to overcome them. turning into a man behind a thick impenetrable wall. being courageous, himmat dihai maine, and becoming an adult practically overnight shouldering all responsibilities of sister, home, later grandmother and family. yet, inside there was always that boy with a scream truncated. today he'd heard it standing right before where it had left his being the first time, that terrible day.

he comes and buys the place. controlled, cool, focusing on revenge. nothing else.

and all that vulnerability sits inside, no release for it. his sister speaks of his being tied to the past and the effect it has on him. on cue he says of course it doesn't bother him, this was a business decision.

at the fashion show, we see him closing his eyes, as though fatigued deeply. possibly he is. imagine the pent up feelings of sheesh mahal. and the churning of it all this day. it's an important event for him, yet he is cutting out of it.

then she arrives and falls into his arms. a jerk back to the present. those lips so close. who is this? what is happening. his show is ruined. anger steps in, possibly the only response in this situation. and his familiar defence.

the whole thing of who sent you here gets going. all the happenings of the day still buried deep.

then their interaction, her mention of jiji's wedding, it will break, his scathing insult: let it, girls like you, what difference does it make, one goes, you'll find the next. and her hurt upset retort: kya bakwaas kar rahen hai aap? aap kuch bhi bole jaa rahen hain, and who are you, after me for so long, what if someone spoke like this of your family, what if it were your sister, what if people spoke of her like this... boliye! hai koi jawab?"

at the mention of his sister, whose wedding had fallen apart, on the same day his mother had killed herself, all memories rushing back, end of day, he's tired, angry, dimaag not in full operation, he's beginning to come apart, but he stands there just staring, fire growing in eyes.


she says: badtamizi bhi ki bhi had hoti hai, hat jaiye hamare raastey se. humey jaaney dijiye.

and she begins to walk away.

think he snapped at that "badtameezi."

it happened once much later too. he'd walked right away from his father and his "galat" position in life, refusing to be tainted by it in the slightest. being "sahi" is paramount. he possibly had a fear that there may be something of his dad in him asserted by genes and he struggled to free himself. badtameez was not what he wanted to be associated with. ever. especially in relation to women.

yet, such is character, he had that anger, a trait reminiscent of his father if we take naniji's words into account. his nostrils had just flared a bit. he was at the edge. all the feelings of the whole day. not letting emotion get the better of him. now this.

with that peremptory get out of my way as she walks away, he loses it, pulls her back: badtamizi toh maine abhi shure bhi nahin ki hai.

all control so strictly imposed lost.
and he transgressed. with another snapping.

tumhe jawab chahiye na? ye loh.

after that, he stood. staring with unseeing eyes. when she loosened her hair and covered her exposed back, looked for a second as though something registered. and he just stood, lost in a world that no one was given access to. she walked away. this time he didn't resist.


he certainly was not himself at the moment. now the more i see it the more i sense this. all the anguish of sheesh mahal. his mother's death, betrayal, suicide, hell, all the pain was in his mind today. she became unfortunately the one that got him to touch it all today, with that question about his sister.

i don't know if what i say is valid. these are just interpretations. 😳

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

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