Now for the fun part! We thought that as a way to commemorate our time together on this thread, we would put together some memories of our quirky, profound and fun discussions about the shows... all those little things that made DC family special and which were made special by the DC family!
The Lost Marbles Club
By Kirthi
They say a world is shaped by two things: stories told and memories they leave behind. And this show, this story of two beautiful people wounded by life coming together and learning to trust each other and be each other's strength is the memory that this story will leave behind. But there are other memories too that made this journey so beautiful for each and every one of us and that was this thread- the DC thread or the Dragon Club a name that we all collectively coined.
We laughed together, we cried together, we were each other's strength, we argued, we made up, we drooled together, we hyperventilated together… gosh the list goes on….One of the most special moments were when we realized that Yash and Aarti will make us lose our marbles over them and that was pretty much in the first month of the show. And Voila- the Lost Marbles Club came into existence. Age was no bar. Gender was no bar. We all drooled over Yash's fringes, his long sexy fingers, his gorgeous very feminine eyelashes. We all drooled endlessly over Aarti's shiny long hair, her sunshine smile, her amazingly expressive eyes. We went to heaven when Yash in his hallucinated state for the first time threaded his fingers through Aarti's long hair. Never did we then imagine that it would become Yash's favorite past time. 😆We literally fell off our chairs or beds or where it was that we were seated when we got to see Yash in his glorious bare chested avatar. Ohhh! But it was Aarti's back, her wet hair and Yash's absolutely lost stares that had us in the Marble club going bonkers.
Memories…. will it ever be the same? Yes, I believe so. When we go back and watch all these episodes I am sure it will be exactly like how it was when we saw these scenes together for the first time. Our marbles will still be lost… Three cheers for the The Lost Marble Club! What a journey it was for us and what a journey it will continue to be for Yash and Aarti.
Here are some snippets of us lost in the Lost Marbles Club:
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Hun you definitely aren't the only one hopelessly obsessed with them! There is a reason that there is this invisible club within the DC called the Lost Marbles club that has been created especially for people like us, Indu and Kirthi are also proud members
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@Maham: Oh gosh, can I be part of the Lost Marbles Club as well, I think I have lost my marbles long ago! I share your sentiments! It's not like PV is the first ever Indian show that I'm watching but like what many have pointed out, the Mittals have a totally different approach to the cliched routes/stories which gives their stories a fresh outlook!
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But there must be some character trait like honesty, strength, courage, simplicity and emotional depth. There soul mate connection def has play. Since your automatically drawn to the because you feel like you known them for lifetimes.(yes my marbles are gone)
As for losing marbles, welcome to the 'lost marbles club'. I am told it is a very special club.
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@Kirthi: The telepathy that we seem to share as Gold members of the Lost Marbles Club has come into play yet again!
I HAVE to make a post about Gurmeet-Kratika today. Yash and Aarti just sat at the water's edge for a few moments, but every other second I was literally thinking, "Ohh my God!" every time Kratika was shown and then "Aww!" when Gurmeet was shown...I'm in quite a state today!
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Message to members of The Lost Marbles Club: Red has been running after each and every marble, and is keeping them safe. This is why most of her posts are so sane, most of the time.
With the extra marbles she has collected, she has founded a band: The Poppin' Poppinjays. The band has two founder members, and they bring in specialty members as and when they feel the need from pool of prospective candidates.
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However, it will be remiss of me if I did not mention the amazing performances given by Gurmeet and Kratika. Today they brought the screen alive with a plethora of emotions...the pathos, angst, pain, guilt, tortuous sarcasm, and passionate love...emotions that made Yash and Aarti breathe in their skins. Take a bow you two!!!
Lastly,...a shout out to Kirthi, Red, Maham, and my Lost Marble Club friends...The fringe cometh back and maketh our hearts filippeth again...
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The pre-cap just blew me away, so much so that I had to start my take with the pre cap on my mind. So many of us have endlessly talked about these two being soul mates. I thought it was the rants of us members who belonged to the Lost Marbles Club. But nooo, the CVs absolutely meant to portray exactly what we were thinking. Not sure if I should bow down to the CVs or pat ourselves on the back.
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The Famous Thundercloud
By Angel

This rain cloud appeared around April 2012.
But then it got so interesting in the show of how the 5 elements got incorporated in the show!
Below is thread and what I wrote
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/punar-vivah/2931767/13-4-dragon-club-yash-ki-izzat-khatre-mein
Compatibality Chart for AarYa
Aarti must be a Virgo and Yash must be a Scorpio.
Now I am going to have fun running their compatible chart when I watch future episodes.
So in that vein.
So therefore it is a Water-Earth combination.
But Also as Angake and redeye provided
Aarti as the Earth, grounded, nurturing, can be barely alive in extreme conditions nature throws at her (say for example a drought or volcanic explosion or such) but can also turn into a life giving nurturing ground when the right (like rain after a drought) conditions exist.
Yash is like an aimless cloud floating around. But has the capacity to shower rain down on a barren Earth. So at the moment the water element has turned to air it needs to turn back into water to nature mother earth.
EARTH-AIR: Depending on it's mood (and therefore it's temperature) Air can either provide Earth with loving warmth or give her an icy chill and cold shoulder. It can sometimes be a struggle for Earth to get Air to come down to her level and see the world for what it is--a beautiful reality, rather than a concept to be analyzed.
There is a sequence to this - Earth-Air Now, Air-Fire in the middle relationship period and finally settle down to Earth and Water - Earth (Aarti) soaks up Water (Yash)
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"AKJ"
By Samana
AKJ refers to Arpita ki Jagah which we theorised in various fun ways, remember?
" Yash doesn't want to give this "Arpita ki jagah". The way they repeat it a gazillion times, it seems like it is some sort of an object, like Arpita's potted plant. Pankaj says.. you have to give Arpita's potted plant to Aarti. Yash says...I can never give Arpita's potted plan to anyone and no one can take away Arpita's potted plant from me. And Vidhi says...Aarti, you have got to take Arpita's potted plant. And Aarti says...I will do all it takes to take Arpita's potted plant. I am zoning out here."
-Redeye, 8/6/2012
This is dedicated to Red who germinated the idea for this fascinating visual from inside Yash's head.
And a brief explanation of each diagram with relation to the plot points to which it refers:
1. The beginning. AKJ is PKJ because Arpita defined PKJ by being Yash's first wife. There is no room for Aarti in the equation.
2. PKJ gets dislodged from AKJ the minute Aarti starts to support Yash, take care of him and need him as a husband and father. PKJ expands just a little and gives Aarti her own tiny space in Yash's mind.
3. Aarti forcefully reduces PKJ to fit within AKJ, but because she can only ever have a partial picture of what Arpita was to Yash as a wife, PKJ ends up even smaller than AKJ. Also, by reducing herself, she intrudes on and occupies AKJ.
4. Yash realigns AKJ and PKJ in his huge outburst and the rebellious insistence on doing Arpita's shraadh as usual. He once again leaves no space for Aarti in his mind.
5. By protecting the shraadh and redefining the relationship with him at the temple, Aarti fulfills needs that Yash didn't know he had. She supports him in gaining closure for his painful grief, and immediately, PKJ expands, though it remains aligned with AKJ, because Aarti is doing things as Yash's wife that Arpita's memory cannot.
6. The last figure shows the set track that this relationship is on right now. PKJ continues to expand, with Aarti working with Yash and proving her talent, her invaluable support in the Neelam episode, Aarti saving Yash's life, and her efforts with Palak, while AKJ remains constant. At this point the total area of AKJ still exceeds the area of PKJ minus AKJ (diagram not to scale, so don't get your calculator out, just take my word for it.) but soon they will be equal, and then there will come a time when PKJ exceeds AKJ, and that is when Yash is going to realise he is in love with Aarti.
I am seeing "Arpita ki jagah" not so much as a potted plant now, but as a weapon, I like to visualise it as a scythe*, 😉 with which Arpita used to cut the grass. But since her death Yash has preserved the scythe in a glass case, in order to retain her precious finger prints on it. If he gave it to Aarti, she would get her fingerprints all over it, which he is scared will erase Arpita's. So the Scindias have let the grass grow uncontrolled and Bua takes advantage of the tall grass and the fact that the Scindias can't see each other clearly through all of it, to play on their doubts and spread false negativity, as well as to make sure the scythe is never taken out of that glass case (if she didn't get one than neither will any other widow, mere bhagwan ki kasam!).
Vidhi is encouraging Aarti to take that scythe and cut down the tall grass! 👍🏼 It may make Yash angry at first but in the end, he will only see that Aarti is indeed worthy of weilding the mighty scythe and that Arpita's fingerprints will never be erased, only accompanied by Aarti's!
...I've lost it! 🤣
*Appendix
ARPITA KI JAGAH =
Samana 9/6/2012
Edited by Samanalyse - 12 years ago