Render me speechless again, eh Fahad Ali?
Brilliant & Perfect doesn't even cover Fahad's outstanding performance in one of the best epis of S2, & THE best since the Good Samaritan challenge was first announced.
Yaar, kahan se shuru karun, kahan khatam. I so very badly want to fangirl on Fahad exclusively, but I am struggling here for words. He shone bright from his first minute into the epi & till the very end. Hence...a post only for everything that was Fahad/KD today.
The disbelief changing to anger & then to hurt & betrayal to blind rage to slight guilt & despair...such a wonderful transistion of emotions <3 KD could barely believe it that HIS Kiya was the one who had done something which everyone close to him knew would cause him hurt. And that changed to as I said...rage.
I have a chemistry tuition teacher, who for want of a better word, is an a**. A few days back, unable to lash back at him, I kept my anger against him bottled up for two hours. When he went, I came back to room, threw my blanket, pillows, stuffed toys...everything on my bed down on the ground & was almost breathing fire. It was only when I felt a stinging in my knuckles after having punched the wall (yes...NOT one of my proudest moments 😳) that I realised wjat the pyjama I was doing. You know how they talk about the haze that anger creates, which blocks out everything around you. Yeah...it happens.
And it happened today on the show. Look at KD's face when he is tearing the posters in the corridor. He doesn't have his angry young man standard look or a heartbroken one. Its this kind of scarily poker face, half crazed expression. I WOULD know, I replayed those 2 seconds god only knows how many times. I am just floored, absolutely floored by this actor today. Oh yes, my Fahad shone brighter than ever today.
It was only & only this rage which made him raise his fist to RV's face. Honestly...I have a feeling he probably didn't even recognise who was trying to stop him...his friend, his Buddy, RANVEER. Blindly flailing around, tearing down posters, he only registered something trying to stop him, & he raised his fist to eliminate that something which stood in his way. All the fire which he felt inside him reflected on his face. Again...simply floored by the way Fahad handled the scene, the expressions, the shaking hands, the realisation of what he was doing, who he was about to hit & who had done wrong to him. Regret, heartbreak, anger...everything was spot on <3
And then I saw a different emotion in the washroom & with Kiya...despair. Despair at being viewed as a needy person by his GF, despair at her lack of trust in him, despair at the fact that he wasn't considered GOOD ENOUGH. I was almost literally chanting "KD, KD", during the KiSha confrontation. Totally & completely root for him on this. When I was made VP of my school's Literary Club, at one point I couldn't help but keep wondering, "Is it because my mom is a n Eng teacher.". I can on a personal level connect to KD's insecurities, much bigger, much more deeply rooted since a long time. When he spoke today, I could see a 5 yr old, a 10 yr old, a 16yr old & a 19 yr old KD, probably struggling with trying to do something big & meaningful with limited means. The fact that even his GF thought that he couldn't do so, really broke something in him. And that carefully controlled, yet uncontrolled intensity, that vulnerability beneath the tough 'ego driven' exterior...I truly feel like I got the original KD back again.
I love you Fahad. I love you KD. Bas. Isse zyada I don't have words to do you both justice. That and I am endlessly proud to be your fan. 😆 😕
