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episodes 204/205


episode 204


"woh bua ji holi hai na, iss liye...", bua ji, because it's holi, that's why.

the first hints of colour are in... they were splashed on the opening titles, speaking of things to come. khushi's multi hued saree may have been inspired by the next bit of the story too, just kidding.

khushi walks into gh drenched, and when bua ji has too many questions to ask, she charges in saying she needs to change as she might catch a cold.

her challenge with asr is on. either she gets back home in the next two hours or two calamities will strike:

payal's marriage will be over,

and asr will have to change his name.

the second one is bothering the h out of me... you can't change my asr's name!

okay, all this nonsensical stuff from writer basically means indi was not too keen on this episode.

the week had to lead up to holi it was clear. writers had primarily one agenda on the khushi asr front for nearly five episodes. she'd insist he tell her how she'd hurt him, why he'd married her. he'd refuse. she'd leave to force him. he would do all he could to bring her back.

the excitement was obviously to come from their hate love, their need for each other, especially his for her. and he would go to ridiculous lengths to make her come back to him.

might have been a riot. and 203 certainly was, along with lots of heat and sex that left both drenched. nice touch all that water chucking especially coming straight before holi, like a precursor to the real play of and immersion in colours... all the hues of love.

but to stretch that story across three episodes may have been trying. or the writers were having a bad day or whatever... nothing quite gelled or grabbed my attention.

if anything, the constant harping about the time and then the highly flimsy ploy of making it look as though akash were signing divorce papers... was irritating.

too thin, the writing. the actors tried their best, but it was not just bland stuff, it was fairly brainless stuff they had to communicate. neither sanaya nor barun were convinced, that was pretty obvious.

there was a poignant moment though when she fought with dm and said, don't think i am talking to you just because lakshmi ji isn't here. she was talking to her goddess of course, and poor girl, now she spent her time jabbering her heart out to a goat. oh well. this is khushi.

interesting light touches of her trademark sanka.

he is being really mean... he means to get her back

"main jo kahta hoon, hamesha wohi hota hai, kkgsr." whatever i say that's exactly what happens, he claims, you know that soon that will not happen. the mighty will fall. a bit obvious huh?

he tells her she has "do choices... payal ki shadi ya usski barbadi..." two choices, payal's marriage or it's miscarriage... i translate in this hindi film style because that's what it was... cheesy, filmi dialogue from the curt, clipped, what the asr.

i found it upsetting. that is not how our man talks. why were all the writers in such a bad place suddenly?

maybe the idea was to keep it "light". he is a good guy, he wouldn't really harm payal and akash and this is mainly to convince his bollywood behenji biwi?

okay, argument understood, but dialogue still not liked. so so not asr.

at the restaurant later... lotus, was it? i refuse to believe there was any significance to that in such an indifferently written episode... anyway, there akash provides the key to a basic asr trait, " kyun ki bhai kehte hain ki emotions aur feelings aapko kamzor kar deti hain..." because bro says emotions and feelings make you weak.

promptly the sardonic man looking at khushi triumphantly and quips, "you're absolutely right, akash... main sirf yeh kehtai nahin, issme believe bhi karta hoon," i not only say this, i believe in it too.

yet, interestingly, swayed by his feelings and nothing else he is setting up this elaborate ploy to get her back. cute. but me not excited.

"khushi, deals aur profit se important koi nahin hota... " khushi, nothing is more important than deals and profit. well, she's his biggest deal and he sees great profit for himself in it perhaps?

"tumhare pas sirf adha ghanta hai..." you have only half an hours...

"i want you home..." i wanchyou home... er i want to die.

husky voice, with a push of pure grain in it. it's for moments like these i sit through 22 minutes of whatever.

"d'you understand?" he finishes... in just that little sentence a yearning and a need that leaves you shaken. that make syouy want to call your significant other and say, "i want you right now."

this acting, this astute assessing of a feeling a man has for a woman and delineating it to perfection... i miss like h. every d day.

"so kkkgsr, tum ghar khud jaogi ya main drop kar doon?" so will you go home by yourself or should i drop you?

bullies her, pushes her, makes her cry... just to bring her back. distressing episode... saved only by moments of a feeling.

"hi payal, khushi aa gayi kya?" hi payal, has khushi come back, he asks, a little tense as he walks into shantivan. maybe he is just a little bit worried that she'll resist this time.


episode 205


10... 9... he's counting down the seconds as khushi is frantic to reach home before he gets payal to sign the divorce papers. since when is khushi this gullible?

did he think for a second she wouldn't come? did he feel his heart freeze at the thought?

she careens up the steps of shantivan, breathless... his last play with the papers... not in a good mood our friend, how dare she leave him... his deal and profit...

when she hurtles in and assures payal those are just office papers ending with an unnecessarily cutesy "hai na, arnav ji?" the way he looks at her says something amid the farce.

a little note in his eyes... she's back. he's won. but there's more, there's always more when he looks at her, as though his heart needs to say things that his head will not permit, but the heart has ways of speaking, and the head is helpless before that.

"ya!" he replies. curt, the way he is. nice.

conversation goes hysterically to "badam ka halwa khane... hai na, arnav ji?" to eat badam halwa, isn't that right, arnav ji?

why this ott? thisso called humour?

manorama mami declares this is "phatti saree seejan twoo..." and di again reminds us it's holi... not too far away, tomorrow. then we get down to some serious destruction of payal as a character. i can't recognise this girl in hindi soap saree and hair style, bumbling around with embroidery and a desperation to please mother in law.

but i am running away from all of this to the only scene that had any connection to the lovers i have been chasing a second time round. a beauty in the scene along with that sweet heady nuttiness of kkg, and asr just not able to resist that... even if she is a home breaker, even if she told his brother in law, why don't you leave your wife, "chhor kyun nahin dete anjali ji ko?!!!"

he provokes her for no reason in the bedroom.

"maine kaha tha na khsuhi, tum mere paas wapis aaogi."

i'd told you, khushi, you'll come back to me.

i am passing out. come back to me. mere paas. again the heart is talking, the head just thinks it is. this is not about winning. this is about breathing. when your breath is one with hers how can you live without her? you are just pretending madly that it is all for di and you hate her, because after all "chhap gaya hai dimag pe" the scene of her in shyam's arms. you are hurt, you are shattered, you want to hurt and shatter. but together, with each other, you can't live away from her.

how does an actor communicate all this with just the delivery of one sentence, a little look in his eyes and a charge in his voice.

"aur mujhe apna naam nahin badlana padega...
so.. i am still asr"

i didn't have to change my name. naam... does that equate with respect for this arrogant, fairly egotistic man. a name he chose for himself, which he defended with his actions, all above board, in his understanding... sahi, all based on his reckoning that his actions make his life not the wishes and whims of some god somewhere. this name, that is not his father's given one, but one chosen from his mother's names... this one is important, essential to his identity, one that he creates and takes onus for himself. whether we agree with his arrogant mien or not, he is willing to do what it takes and uphold his beliefs, his way. his name.

"hum mantey hain ki aap ki jeet hui aur hamari haar," she accepts he's won, she's lost. why does khushi see things in term of winning and losing, har-jeet i wonder. she seems to love the idea of competition... dance, now this. he only loves to win, thinks that's his right almost. some pair these two loonies.

she snatches away what she presumes are papers for payal and akash's divorce. he tells her to return them, sternly, she starts getting hit by her sanka again. this time it certainly is the relief of knowing payal is safe. original khushi reasserts herself. she isn't returning it in this life time.

"khushi, i'm warning you!"

"aap hamesha baat ko bigadte hain aur phir banate hain," you always ruin things first then set them right... another key character trait almost of asr. but to truly create something, destruction is necessary, isn't it? we are also seeing the breaking down of his fort faraq nahin padta, his shell, his entire defence, so that something new may awaken and make his life better, a chance of creation in it, not just staying hemmed in, inert.

"kyunki main hamesha wahi karta hoon jo mujhe theek lagta hai..." because i always do precisely that which feels right to me.

he is explaining himself to his sanka wife, he who never ever explains himself to anyone. only di maybe once in a way.

interesting he didn't say, i do what i please... instead, i do what feels right.

theek... sahi.

arnav singh raizada has an essential need to be "sahi" not "galat" like his father. his character is pitted against the father character (luke and darth??). he sets right... his father does wrong. he needs to be right, it's way beyond just a moral yearning, it's essential to his existence. yet, he goes and does what he does with khushi. reminds me of greek tragedy. the mortal helpless before the games of gods. even the slightest strain of hubris will be punished. maybe there was hubris in him, built up over the years of resisting fears and rebuilding life, of rejecting all that was, maybe he made the mistake of not even trying to understand why his father was the way he was, maybe he was too harsh.

i'll never know, but this character that is willing to weather the storms all by himself, will be tried. and how.

"sabko dabake rakhna chate hain," you want to keep everyone under you.

"sab kuch mere control mein hai... aur rahega... hamesha" everything is in my control and will stay that way... always.

oh the need for control in a life that saw complete chaos and swore it would never reign again. yet there was that terrace that night. is everything really in your control?

khushi charges around on her loopy hoi hoi hoi music... with the papers, he's livid.

"nahin, aapko agar yeh kagzaad chahiye toh tairke aana padega," if you want these papers you'll have to swim across and get it, says sanka.

season is changing, lightness and fun it brings, and somehow this time it doesn't feel forced. he's got her back and is feeling more relaxed. she's sure her sis is fine, also he needs her like mad. a feeling inside, a longing is asserting itself. the next day she'll admit that whenever he comes close, her heartbeat goes nuts. it's going crazy now, and the only way to handle it is use of extreme lunacy.

"main chal ke bhi aa sakta hoon..." i can walk across.
he will tell her the next day, even his heart beats faster when she's near... their heartbeats become one. must be happening right now too as he looks at her in her element.

lovely moment.

"hum kood jaaenge babu ji ki kasam hum kud jaayenge," i'll dive into the pool, i swear by babu ji i will.

"3 foot gehra pool hai, khushi," it's three feet deep, the pool, khushi. oh the look on his face.

you won't drown... but he does catch her hand and they do remember and nothing is as it seems to be...

because something else is always at work.

and rabba vey comes in with memories for both...

a kiss by the poolside when he'd been this close...

she'd slipped a hand into his on a night when questions came much later, a desire reigned in the glow of a thousand lights.

he'd touched her tremble, her bated breath as fairy lights beckoned him to get embroiled.

he'd undressed her that very first time, the flick of a wrist, a hair clip off and hair cascading to cover her to reveal her to...

you're mine... mere paas.

i'm yours...

some things are left unsaid.

an endless moment didn't look at time... words of heer ranjha came by... "jisko jee jaan se chahte hain, jab usse nazron ke saamne paate hain, tab aankhen bolti hain, zuban nahin"

when the one you love with your heart and soul is before you, the eyes speak, not the tongue.

the moments floated away, then she looked perturbed, lost, she stepped back.

someone had to.

his gaze lowered, again he'd have to hide his feelings... mainly from himself.

she's happy the papers are destroyed...

sab kuch mere control mein tha... hai... aur hamesha rahega, khushi.



Edited by indi52 - 11 years ago
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: indi52

episodes 204/205


episode 204


"woh bua ji holi hai na, iss liye...", bua ji, because it's holi, that's why.

the first hints of colour are in... they were splashed on the opening titles, speaking of things to come. khushi's multi hued saree may have been inspired by the next bit of the story too, just kidding.
good observation. It was certainly a hint of the upcoming festival of colors.

khushi walks into gh drenched, and when bua ji has too many questions to ask, she charges in saying she needs to change as she might catch a cold.

her challenge with asr is on. either she gets back home in the next two hours or two calamities will strike:

payal's marriage will be over,

and asr will have to change his name.

the second one is bothering the h out of me... you can't change my asr's name!

okay, all this nonsensical stuff from writer basically means indi was not too keen on this episode.
it was more a filler episode.

the week had to lead up to holi it was clear. writers had primarily one agenda on the khushi asr front for nearly five episodes. she'd insist he tell her how she'd hurt him, why he'd married her. he'd refuse. she'd leave to force him. he would do all he could to bring her back.

the excitement was obviously to come from their hate love, their need for each other, especially his for her. and he would go to ridiculous lengths to make her come back to him

might have been a riot. and 203 certainly was, along with lots of heat and sex that left both drenched. nice touch all that water chucking especially coming straight before holi, like a precursor to the real play of and immersion in colours... all the hues of love.👏

but to stretch that story across three episodes may have been trying. or the writers were having a bad day or whatever... nothing quite gelled or grabbed my attention.

if anything, the constant harping about the time and then the highly flimsy ploy of making it look as though akash were signing divorce papers... was irritating.

too thin, the writing. the actors tried their best, but it was not just bland stuff, it was fairly brainless stuff they had to communicate. neither sanaya nor barun were convinced, that was pretty obvious.
can't agree more.
I heard that Barun and sanaya both were unhappy with the script after the remarriage. And Barun had some issues with CVs too in this matter. That is one of the reason of his quitimg. don't know how true it is!

there was a poignant moment though when she fought with dm and said, don't think i am talking to you just because lakshmi ji isn't here. she was talking to her goddess of course, and poor girl, now she spent her time jabbering her heart out to a goat. oh well. this is khushi.
i'll say this is the nature of human being. no human can lead his life without expressing his/her inner emotions. Did you see the movie castaway? Tom Hanks was the lead. when his plain crashed in a deserted island, he had nobody to talk with. so he painted human face on a ball and made it his friend. he used to talk to him and he became very upset when he had to leave it.

interesting light touches of her trademark sanka.

he is being really mean... he means to get her back

"main jo kahta hoon, hamesha wohi hota hai, kkgsr." whatever i say that's exactly what happens, he claims, you know that soon that will not happen. the mighty will fall. a bit obvious huh?

he tells her she has "do choices... payal ki shadi ya usski barbadi..." two choices, payal's marriage or it's miscarriage... i translate in this hindi film style because that's what it was... cheesy, filmi dialogue from the curt, clipped, what the asr.

i found it upsetting. that is not how our man talks. why were all the writers in such a bad place suddenly?
so true.

maybe the idea was to keep it "light". he is a good guy, he wouldn't really harm payal and akash and this is mainly to convince his bollywood behenji biwi? 😆

okay, argument understood, but dialogue still not liked. so so not asr.

at the restaurant later... lotus, was it? i refuse to believe there was any significance to that in such an indifferently written episode... anyway, there akash provides the key to a basic asr trait, " kyun ki bhai kehte hain ki emotions aur feelings aapko kamzor kar deti hain..." because bro says emotions and feelings make you weak.

promptly the sardonic man looking at khushi triumphantly and quips, "you're absolutely right, akash... main sirf yeh kehtai nahin, issme believe bhi karta hoon," i not only say this, i believe in it too.

yet, interestingly, swayed by his feelings and nothing else he is setting up this elaborate ploy to get her back. cute. but me not excited.

"khushi, deals aur profit se important koi nahin hota... " khushi, nothing is more important than deals and profit. well, she's his biggest deal and he sees great profit for himself in it perhaps?

"tumhare pas sirf adha ghanta hai..." you have only half an hours...

"i want you home..." i wanchyou home... er i want to die.

husky voice, with a push of pure grain in it. it's for moments like these i sit through 22 minutes of whatever.😃

"d'you understand?" he finishes... in just that little sentence a yearning and a need that leaves you shaken. that make syouy want to call your significant other and say, "i want you right now."

this acting, this astute assessing of a feeling a man has for a woman and delineating it to perfection... i miss like h. every d day.
Oh yeah terribly. And i wish he gets some good role like ASR to prove his talent.

"so kkkgsr, tum ghar khud jaogi ya main drop kar doon?" so will you go home by yourself or should i drop you?

bullies her, pushes her, makes her cry... just to bring her back. distressing episode... saved only by moments of a feeling.

"hi payal, khushi aa gayi kya?" hi payal, has khushi come back, he asks, a little tense as he walks into shantivan. maybe he is just a little bit worried that she'll resist this time.


episode 205


10... 9... he's counting down the seconds as khushi is frantic to reach home before he gets payal to sign the divorce papers. since when is khushi this gullible?

did he think for a second she wouldn't come? did he feel his heart freeze at the thought?
but I think, he was confident that she will come. He came to know by now, that she can do anything for her sister's happiness.

she careens up the steps of shantivan, breathless... his last play with the papers... not in a good mood our friend, how dare she leave him... his deal and profit...

when she hurtles in and assures payal those are just office papers ending with an unnecessarily cutesy "hai na, arnav ji?" the way he looks at her says something amid the farce.

a little note in his eyes... she's back. he's won. but there's more, there's always more when he looks at her, as though his heart needs to say things that his head will not permit, but the heart has ways of speaking, and the head is helpless before that.
very well said.
No worries, khushi will compel him to speak from his heart soon.

"ya!" he replies. curt, the way he is. nice.

conversation goes hysterically to "badam ka halwa khane... hai na, arnav ji?" to eat badam halwa, isn't that right, arnav ji?

why this ott? thisso called humour?

manorama mami declares this is "phatti saree seejan twoo..." and di again reminds us it's holi... not too far away, tomorrow. then we get down to some serious destruction of payal as a character. i can't recognise this girl in hindi soap saree and hair style, bumbling around with embroidery and a desperation to please mother in law. 😆

but i am running away from all of this to the only scene that had any connection to the lovers i have been chasing a second time round. a beauty in the scene along with that sweet heady nuttiness of kkg, and asr just not able to resist that... even if she is a home breaker, even if she told his brother in law, why don't you leave your wife, "chhor kyun nahin dete anjali ji ko?!!!"

he provokes her for no reason in the bedroom.

"maine kaha tha na khsuhi, tum mere paas wapis aaogi."

i'd told you, khushi, you'll come back to me.

i am passing out. come back to me. mere paas. again the heart is talking, the head just thinks it is. this is not about winning. this is about breathing. when your breath is one with hers how can you live without her? you are just pretending madly that it is all for di and you hate her, because after all "chhap gaya hai dimag pe" the scene of her in shyam's arms. you are hurt, you are shattered, you want to hurt and shatter. but together, with each other, you can't live away from her.👏

how does an actor communicate all this with just the delivery of one sentence, a little look in his eyes and a charge in his voice.

"aur mujhe apna naam nahin badlana padega...
so.. i am still asr"

i didn't ahve to change my name. naam... does that equate with respect for this arrogant, fairly egotistic man. a name he chose for himself, which he defended with his actions, all above board, in his understanding... sahi, all based on his reckoning that his actions make his life not the wishes and whims of some god somewhere. this name, that is not his father's given one, but one chosen from his mother's names... this one is important, essential to his identity, one that he creates and takes onus for himself. whether we agree with his arrogant mien or not, he is willing to do what it takes and uphold his beliefs, his way. his name.
Amazing interpretation.

"hum mantey hain ki aap ki jeet hui aur hamari haar," she accepts he's won, she's lost. why does khushi see things in term of winning and losing, har-jeet i wonder. she seems to love the idea of competition... dance, now this. he only loves to win, thinks that's his right almost. some pair these two loonies.

she snatches away what she presumes are papers for payal and akash's divorce. he tells her to return them, sternly, she starts getting hit by her sanka again. this time it certainly is the relief of knowing payal is safe. original khushi reasserts herself. she isn't returning it in this life time.

"khushi, i'm warning you!"

"aap hamesha baat ko bigadte hain aur phir banate hain," you always ruin things first then set them right... another key character trait almost of asr. but to truly create something, destruction is necessary, isn't it? we are also seeing the breaking down of his fort faraq nahin padta, his shell, his entire defence, so that something new may awaken and make his life better, a chance of creation in it, not just staying hemmed in, inert.

"kyunki main hamesha wahi karta hoon jo mujhe theek lagta hai..." because i always do precisely that which feels right to me.

he is explaining himself to his sanka wife, he who never ever explains himself to anyone. only di maybe once in a way.

interesting he didn't say, i do what i please... instead, i do what feels right.

theek... sahi.

arnav singh raizada has an essential need to be "sahi" not "galat" like his father. his character is pitted against the father character (luke and darth??). he sets right... his father does wrong. he needs to be right, it's way beyond just a moral yearning, it's essential to his existence. yet, he goes and does what he does with khushi. reminds me of greek tragedy. the mortal helpless before the games of gods. even the slightest strain of hubris will be punished. maybe there was hubris in him, built up over the years of resisting fears and rebuilding life, of rejecting all that was, maybe he made the mistake of not even trying to understand why his father was the way he was, maybe he was too harsh.👏👏👏

i'll never know, but this character that is willing to weather the storms all by himself, will be tried. and how.

"sabko dabake rakhna chate hain," you want to keep everyone under you.

"sab kuch mere control mein hai... aur rahega... hamesha" everything is in my control and will stay that way... always.

oh the need for control in a life that saw complete chaos and swore it would never reign again. yet there was that terrace that night. is everything really in your control?

khushi charges around on her loopy hoi hoi hoi music... with the papers, he's livid.

"nahin, aapko agar yeh kagzaad chahiye toh tairke aana padega," if you want these papers you'll have to swim across and get it, says sanka.
that was really funny!

season is changing, lightness and fun it brings, and somehow this time it doesn't feel forced. he's got her back and is feeling more relaxed. she's sure her sis is fine, also he needs her like mad. a feeling inside, a longing is asserting itself. the next day she'll admit that whenever he comes close, her heartbeat goes nuts. it's going crazy now, and the only way to handle it is use of extreme lunacy.

"main chal ke bhi aa sakta hoon..." i can walk across.
he will tell her the next day, even his heart beats faster when she's near... their heartbeats become one. must be happening right now too as he looks at her in her element.

lovely moment.

"hum kood jaaenge babu ji ki kasam hum kud jaayenge," i'll dive into the pool, i swear by babu ji i will.😆

"3 foot gehra pool hai, khushi," it's three feet deep, the pool, khushi. oh the look on his face.

you won't drown... but he does catch her hand and they do remember and nothing is as it seems to be...

because something else is always at work.

and rabba vey comes in with memories for both...

a kiss by the poolside when he'd been this close...

she'd slipped a hand into his on a night when questions came much later, a desire reigned in the glow of a thousand lights.

he'd touched her tremble, her bated breath as fairy lights beckoned him to get embroiled.

he'd undressed her that very first time, the flick of a wrist, a hair clip off and hair cascading to cover her to reveal her to...


you're mine... mere paas.

i'm yours...

somethings are left unsaid.

an endless moment didn't look at time... words of heer ranjha came by... "jisko jee jaan se chahte hain, jab usse nazron ke saamne paate hain, tab aankhen bolti hain, zuban nahin"
what a sublime description of their inner feelings!
their eyes are always supremely superfluous.

when the one you love with your heart and soul is before you, the eyes speak, not the tongue.

the moments floated away, then she looked perturbed, lost, she stepped back.

someone had to.

his gaze lowered, again he'd have to hide his feelings... mainly from himself.

she's happy the papers are destroyed...

sab kuch mere control mein tha... hai... aur hamesha rahega, khushi.



captivating!
loved your brilliant take as usual.
204 was a bit filler episode, but I loved 205. Specially their scene by the poolside.Your amazing take made it more enjoyable.
I loved all the lines, marked in bold.

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Originally posted by: indi52

episodes 204/205


episode 204


"woh bua ji holi hai na, iss liye...", bua ji, because it's holi, that's why.

the first hints of colour are in... they were splashed on the opening titles, speaking of things to come. khushi's multi hued saree may have been inspired by the next bit of the story too, just kidding.

khushi walks into gh drenched, and when bua ji has too many questions to ask, she charges in saying she needs to change as she might catch a cold.

her challenge with asr is on. either she gets back home in the next two hours or two calamities will strike:

payal's marriage will be over,

and asr will have to change his name.

the second one is bothering the h out of me... you can't change my asr's name!

okay, all this nonsensical stuff from writer basically means indi was not too keen on this episode.

the week had to lead up to holi it was clear. writers had primarily one agenda on the khushi asr front for nearly five episodes. she'd insist he tell her how she'd hurt him, why he'd married her. he'd refuse. she'd leave to force him. he would do all he could to bring her back.

the excitement was obviously to come from their hate love, their need for each other, especially his for her. and he would go to ridiculous lengths to make her come back to him.

might have been a riot. and 203 certainly was, along with lots of heat and sex that left both drenched. nice touch all that water chucking especially coming straight before holi, like a precursor to the real play of and immersion in colours... all the hues of love.

but to stretch that story across three episodes may have been trying. or the writers were having a bad day or whatever... nothing quite gelled or grabbed my attention.

if anything, the constant harping about the time and then the highly flimsy ploy of making it look as though akash were signing divorce papers... was irritating.

too thin, the writing. the actors tried their best, but it was not just bland stuff, it was fairly brainless stuff they had to communicate. neither sanaya nor barun were convinced, that was pretty obvious.

there was a poignant moment though when she fought with dm and said, don't think i am talking to you just because lakshmi ji isn't here. she was talking to her goddess of course, and poor girl, now she spent her time jabbering her heart out to a goat. oh well. this is khushi.

interesting light touches of her trademark sanka.

he is being really mean... he means to get her back

"main jo kahta hoon, hamesha wohi hota hai, kkgsr." whatever i say that's exactly what happens, he claims, you know that soon that will not happen. the mighty will fall. a bit obvious huh?

he tells her she has "do choices... payal ki shadi ya usski barbadi..." two choices, payal's marriage or it's miscarriage... i translate in this hindi film style because that's what it was... cheesy, filmi dialogue from the curt, clipped, what the asr.

i found it upsetting. that is not how our man talks. why were all the writers in such a bad place suddenly?

maybe the idea was to keep it "light". he is a good guy, he wouldn't really harm payal and akash and this is mainly to convince his bollywood behenji biwi?

okay, argument understood, but dialogue still not liked. so so not asr.

at the restaurant later... lotus, was it? i refuse to believe there was any significance to that in such an indifferently written episode... anyway, there akash provides the key to a basic asr trait, " kyun ki bhai kehte hain ki emotions aur feelings aapko kamzor kar deti hain..." because bro says emotions and feelings make you weak.

promptly the sardonic man looking at khushi triumphantly and quips, "you're absolutely right, akash... main sirf yeh kehtai nahin, issme believe bhi karta hoon," i not only say this, i believe in it too.

yet, interestingly, swayed by his feelings and nothing else he is setting up this elaborate ploy to get her back. cute. but me not excited.

"khushi, deals aur profit se important koi nahin hota... " khushi, nothing is more important than deals and profit. well, she's his biggest deal and he sees great profit for himself in it perhaps?

"tumhare pas sirf adha ghanta hai..." you have only half an hours...

"i want you home..." i wanchyou home... er i want to die.

husky voice, with a push of pure grain in it. it's for moments like these i sit through 22 minutes of whatever.

"d'you understand?" he finishes... in just that little sentence a yearning and a need that leaves you shaken. that make syouy want to call your significant other and say, "i want you right now."

this acting, this astute assessing of a feeling a man has for a woman and delineating it to perfection... i miss like h. every d day.

"so kkkgsr, tum ghar khud jaogi ya main drop kar doon?" so will you go home by yourself or should i drop you?

bullies her, pushes her, makes her cry... just to bring her back. distressing episode... saved only by moments of a feeling.

"hi payal, khushi aa gayi kya?" hi payal, has khushi come back, he asks, a little tense as he walks into shantivan. maybe he is just a little bit worried that she'll resist this time.


episode 205


10... 9... he's counting down the seconds as khushi is frantic to reach home before he gets payal to sign the divorce papers. since when is khushi this gullible?

did he think for a second she wouldn't come? did he feel his heart freeze at the thought?

she careens up the steps of shantivan, breathless... his last play with the papers... not in a good mood our friend, how dare she leave him... his deal and profit...

when she hurtles in and assures payal those are just office papers ending with an unnecessarily cutesy "hai na, arnav ji?" the way he looks at her says something amid the farce.

a little note in his eyes... she's back. he's won. but there's more, there's always more when he looks at her, as though his heart needs to say things that his head will not permit, but the heart has ways of speaking, and the head is helpless before that.

"ya!" he replies. curt, the way he is. nice.

conversation goes hysterically to "badam ka halwa khane... hai na, arnav ji?" to eat badam halwa, isn't that right, arnav ji?

why this ott? thisso called humour?

manorama mami declares this is "phatti saree seejan twoo..." and di again reminds us it's holi... not too far away, tomorrow. then we get down to some serious destruction of payal as a character. i can't recognise this girl in hindi soap saree and hair style, bumbling around with embroidery and a desperation to please mother in law.

but i am running away from all of this to the only scene that had any connection to the lovers i have been chasing a second time round. a beauty in the scene along with that sweet heady nuttiness of kkg, and asr just not able to resist that... even if she is a home breaker, even if she told his brother in law, why don't you leave your wife, "chhor kyun nahin dete anjali ji ko?!!!"

he provokes her for no reason in the bedroom.

"maine kaha tha na khsuhi, tum mere paas wapis aaogi."

i'd told you, khushi, you'll come back to me.

i am passing out. come back to me. mere paas. again the heart is talking, the head just thinks it is. this is not about winning. this is about breathing. when your breath is one with hers how can you live without her? you are just pretending madly that it is all for di and you hate her, because after all "chhap gaya hai dimag pe" the scene of her in shyam's arms. you are hurt, you are shattered, you want to hurt and shatter. but together, with each other, you can't live away from her.

how does an actor communicate all this with just the delivery of one sentence, a little look in his eyes and a charge in his voice.

"aur mujhe apna naam nahin badlana padega...
so.. i am still asr"

i didn't have to change my name. naam... does that equate with respect for this arrogant, fairly egotistic man. a name he chose for himself, which he defended with his actions, all above board, in his understanding... sahi, all based on his reckoning that his actions make his life not the wishes and whims of some god somewhere. this name, that is not his father's given one, but one chosen from his mother's names... this one is important, essential to his identity, one that he creates and takes onus for himself. whether we agree with his arrogant mien or not, he is willing to do what it takes and uphold his beliefs, his way. his name.

"hum mantey hain ki aap ki jeet hui aur hamari haar," she accepts he's won, she's lost. why does khushi see things in term of winning and losing, har-jeet i wonder. she seems to love the idea of competition... dance, now this. he only loves to win, thinks that's his right almost. some pair these two loonies.

she snatches away what she presumes are papers for payal and akash's divorce. he tells her to return them, sternly, she starts getting hit by her sanka again. this time it certainly is the relief of knowing payal is safe. original khushi reasserts herself. she isn't returning it in this life time.

"khushi, i'm warning you!"

"aap hamesha baat ko bigadte hain aur phir banate hain," you always ruin things first then set them right... another key character trait almost of asr. but to truly create something, destruction is necessary, isn't it? we are also seeing the breaking down of his fort faraq nahin padta, his shell, his entire defence, so that something new may awaken and make his life better, a chance of creation in it, not just staying hemmed in, inert.

"kyunki main hamesha wahi karta hoon jo mujhe theek lagta hai..." because i always do precisely that which feels right to me.

he is explaining himself to his sanka wife, he who never ever explains himself to anyone. only di maybe once in a way.

interesting he didn't say, i do what i please... instead, i do what feels right.

theek... sahi.

arnav singh raizada has an essential need to be "sahi" not "galat" like his father. his character is pitted against the father character (luke and darth??). he sets right... his father does wrong. he needs to be right, it's way beyond just a moral yearning, it's essential to his existence. yet, he goes and does what he does with khushi. reminds me of greek tragedy. the mortal helpless before the games of gods. even the slightest strain of hubris will be punished. maybe there was hubris in him, built up over the years of resisting fears and rebuilding life, of rejecting all that was, maybe he made the mistake of not even trying to understand why his father was the way he was, maybe he was too harsh.

i'll never know, but this character that is willing to weather the storms all by himself, will be tried. and how.

"sabko dabake rakhna chate hain," you want to keep everyone under you.

"sab kuch mere control mein hai... aur rahega... hamesha" everything is in my control and will stay that way... always.

oh the need for control in a life that saw complete chaos and swore it would never reign again. yet there was that terrace that night. is everything really in your control?

khushi charges around on her loopy hoi hoi hoi music... with the papers, he's livid.

"nahin, aapko agar yeh kagzaad chahiye toh tairke aana padega," if you want these papers you'll have to swim across and get it, says sanka.

season is changing, lightness and fun it brings, and somehow this time it doesn't feel forced. he's got her back and is feeling more relaxed. she's sure her sis is fine, also he needs her like mad. a feeling inside, a longing is asserting itself. the next day she'll admit that whenever he comes close, her heartbeat goes nuts. it's going crazy now, and the only way to handle it is use of extreme lunacy.

"main chal ke bhi aa sakta hoon..." i can walk across.
he will tell her the next day, even his heart beats faster when she's near... their heartbeats become one. must be happening right now too as he looks at her in her element.

lovely moment.

"hum kood jaaenge babu ji ki kasam hum kud jaayenge," i'll dive into the pool, i swear by babu ji i will.

"3 foot gehra pool hai, khushi," it's three feet deep, the pool, khushi. oh the look on his face.

you won't drown... but he does catch her hand and they do remember and nothing is as it seems to be...

because something else is always at work.

and rabba vey comes in with memories for both...

a kiss by the poolside when he'd been this close...

she'd slipped a hand into his on a night when questions came much later, a desire reigned in the glow of a thousand lights.

he'd touched her tremble, her bated breath as fairy lights beckoned him to get embroiled.

he'd undressed her that very first time, the flick of a wrist, a hair clip off and hair cascading to cover her to reveal her to...

you're mine... mere paas.

i'm yours...

some things are left unsaid.

an endless moment didn't look at time... words of heer ranjha came by... "jisko jee jaan se chahte hain, jab usse nazron ke saamne paate hain, tab aankhen bolti hain, zuban nahin"

when the one you love with your heart and soul is before you, the eyes speak, not the tongue.

the moments floated away, then she looked perturbed, lost, she stepped back.

someone had to.

his gaze lowered, again he'd have to hide his feelings... mainly from himself.

she's happy the papers are destroyed...

sab kuch mere control mein tha... hai... aur hamesha rahega, khushi.





Lovely take on both episode. My favorite is episode 205.
The result of "MERE SAATH, MERE PASS' game announced. Khushi is still KHUSHI KUMARI GUPTA and Arnav remain ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA.
Whenever Arnav said " MERE NAMM ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA NAHI" In a deal, the opponent always loose. Everything is always and remain under control of ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA.
I love the part you wrote after RABBA VEY. Poolside played a very significant role in their lovestory.
After distressful and depressed episode RABBA VEY song was like breath in fresh air again.

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javeria,

thanks so much... yeah that name of his was super important to him. sexy the way he'd announce it...
actually, i can't think of too many actors who could make such inane things sound so hot. that rabba vey did save the day... 😆 good to see you.

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episode 206



holi morning is here.

khushi in her true crazy self, sanka, is talking in her sleep. i am looking at the girl sleeping by the poolside, blissfully unhampered by her predicament, planning fun merrily even in her sleep. so very endearing.

and if i may say, so damn needed.

as our world standardizes and loses flavour and colour, as all of us are so busy being "right", being perceived as being correct all the time. as how we are seen becomes more important than who and how we are... as we lose touch with ourselves, i know i sound doomy and gloomy, but posturing and being perceived a way rather than being who we really are is entering our genes sometimes i fear...

the image above all else.

in this world, i think we really need a khushi. so very human. she would have charmed a whole cave, men would refuse to go hunting and gathering i bet.

a little nutty. not always right. fighter, spirited, heart in the right place. head sharp enough but always somewhat floaty, kyunki tumhara dimaag jo pehle se hi itna kharab hai... because your brain which is damaged already, can't let it get damaged any more. only she could have gotten a man to feel so giddily and utterly tender and loving, even when he thought she was christine keeler's guru, home wrecker, lying conniving bad five letter word.

but that screw loose brain of hers and that never wrong heart of hers, that had him feeling stuff no one could make him feel.

essential to khushi this crazy clean quotient. essential it is to asr falling for her too. this used to touch him. this was believable... every time. that a hardened man would suddenly respond to this character... there was spike in her. needed if one is to cleave that thick faraq nahin padta fortress and break down barriers of mistrust and cynicism. her aap shut ups, her crazy oh i didn't get orange juice that's why, her sitting quiet in a ditch counting the minutes, her popping out of cupboards, her chakki pisseeeng. all made a mark. and her innocence, her cleanness of heart. he could never fight that. her clear eyed fact facing, her gutsiness.

if she were just a sweet "good" girl he might have felt protective toward her but he wouldn't have fallen for her, gorgeous head over sexy heels. lagi shart?

as the scene unfolds i am thinking, she tries to find her own way through things. even hell. in minutes from now: hamare saath jo bhi ho raha hai, whatever is happening with me right, today they will get resolved. an upbeat, let me take you on life attitude. i like.

and she is instinctive. not always thinking with her grey matter, but thinking with her heart and gut. this is valuable. we are losing this all around us. too much of so called rational thinking, too little of dil.

i can't explain how much it hurt when it was decided it was okay to let this lovely character go and become "good".

"uthja khushi aaj holi hai... kitna kuchh karna hai," get up khushi today is holi... there's so much to do.

she talks away.

he awakens.

"thandai... tel lagana hai..." must make thandai... have to put oil...

"rang? sabke liye rang bhi toh kharidne hai..." colour? must buy colour for everyone. she laughs.


"what the..." he is grouchy. they both are in such an impossible situation. maybe sleep is the only time when there's respite from a most painful reality.

"amma babu ji ke liye hara," green for amma and babu ji, declares holi girl.

he's listening..

"bua ji ke liye sandhi... jiji ke liye neela, devi maiyya ke liye laal," buaji has a colour (i don't know what that word means), payal will get blue and dm gets red. ah so she is thinking of dm, though she as we know is not talking to her. yeah, what the, just because you're god, don't think i have to be nice to you... in fact i hate you. you have done this to me. so asr hates kkg who hates dm. something so natural in that anger against her goddess whom she loves and trusts with everything.

in the bedroom, he is getting lost in this thing as he realises what's happening.

"aur hamara? hmm..." and mine? hmm.

he begins to smile. hansa toh phansa, i think... smile and you're caught.

"hamara rang hoga.. peela!" my colour will be yellow.

he's melted.

holi hai! she wakes up laughing, happy, all woes forgotten.

a very husky "paagal" as sanka realises where she is...

he must have been so happy to see her as she really is after so so long. he goes back to bed.

creatives always used the festivals well. never too heavy handed, somewhere using the essence of each occasion to take the story further. forgiving and forgetting is a part of holi. also if i am not mistaken. with the burning of holika it's as if the past mistakes are driven away, making way for the new, the future. plus of course this is the beginning of spring. winter's chill clears and makes way for sunshine. for birth and rebirth.

"kyunki bura na maano holi hai" don't mind, it's holi! khushi yells out the familiar holi call.

"shut up, khushi!"

back to nasty... for effect, bas.

"unbelievable!"

"kisse baat kar rahi ho tum?" who are you talking to?

"khud se, aur kisse!" to myself, who else.

i feel for asr. khadoos humourless man, always carrying the burden of the world on his perfect shoulders... poor baby. what does he know of sublime sanak.

"paagal ho gayi ho kya?" have you gone mad?

she smiles, "bachpan se," from childhood.

weird almost besotted grimace, "right."

"aap ko pata nahin tha?" you didn't know? she pushes. she wants something from him alright... because she knows her heart trips madly when he's around even though he has been so utterly mean and awful.

he is dying to laugh. how can you hate such a lunatic?

"aap ke liye rang chunne mein bilkul bhi waqt nahin laga, aap ko pata hai kaunsa? kala." took no time to choose a colour for you, she teases, black.

he is ready to hit her.

she runs off on a giggle, he gets up on a snarl, but his eyes, they just want her. so much.


a most poignant moment comes later, when he lowers himself to her level as she searches for her coins under the bed. and then just has to reach out and protect her head when she is about to bang it on the edge of the bed. to perfect this scene, there's humour, gussa, and all those things they say with their eyes which you can feel even when you aren't watching, just remembering them.

isn't that how love should be?

she breaks her gullak, piggy bank, after apologising to it, of course. she was collecting money for a gotewala saree when she turned 25? aw, buy the girl one of those right now, i say.

she drops some coins on the floor.

crawls and checks under the bed.

he walks in on cue, lost in a file. steps on piggy bank bits.

picks up piece... what?

sees her, head thrust under bed.

sits down by her... staring... what now. there's this gentle quizzical air about him. something so delicate in this frame.

she comes up jubilant with a coin, sees him and her smile freezes. a touch of comedy all through, but a deep tenderness in all of it too.

"toh tum mujhse chhup rahi thi..." so you were hiding from me. he is obviously flummoxed by this ostrich behaviour.

"haan?"

indeed.

"kyunki tum shayad haar gayi," maybe because you lost so you are embarrassed.

nothing like that, she explains about the coins and dives back under the bed to retrieve coins.

his hand stretches out to shield her from getting hurt.

she looks back at his hand, heart stopping pause.

"tum koi kaam theek se nahin kar sakti kya? sar par chot lag jaati toh?" can't you do anything right? if you'd hurt your head?

he has to yell. concern, love, his own awkwardness at all his crazy feelings.

she's surprised... as she comes up, rabba vey fades in.

he looks at her, she is helpless in the surge of an unknown feeling that has just walked in uninvited.






he turns away, withdraws his hand, seeks his anger, his "couldn't care less", "faraq nahin padta".

she fixes her dupatta, looking down, a bit lost... touching her confusion, her yearning for what she thought might happen between them. he looks at her.


then she asks a khushi like question, there's no one here other than us, then why did you do that?

he cuts in, a rough edge to his voice, a need to shut her up, because the real answer he just can't give, "kyunki tumhara dimaag jo pehle se hi itna kharaab hai, usse aur kharab nahin hone de sakte."

sounded like i adore you, i want you so bad, i can't let you be alone any more.

and her gaze and words seemed to say, if you like me so much why are you avoiding me.

one could only sigh and just keep staring at the two. so much tenderness and longing, all communicated through the eyes, and little notes in the voice.

then came the lovely encounter over 300 rupees.

"aap ke bhasha mein kya kahte hain... loan," what do you cal it in your language... loan. said she, all perky and i can crack this problem like.

"oh, loan," the look on his face.

her "busines business khelna" and little promissory note, followed by his resigned, "thank you," were just too good.

"ladki mujhe pagal kar degi," the girl will drive me mad he muttered, sounded as though he invited the predicament with open arms.

where did they find this tenderness?

that was his colour today surely.


where are these guys.

nani ji is upset. her holi box with pichkari waits. no doubt khushi who talks to goats seriously will find a way to appease her.


episode opened on snake and the one he has charmed... anjali. every word of hers riled him. he was going to do something about khushi ji. and finally he walked in wearing white, kaala of heart, red on his hand.

apparently he will be the first to put colour on khushi. she froze, then found a way to vanish in the nick of time. but not before two very angry eyes had seen the whole thing. eyes that turn to puddles when she does crazy things. eyes she can't look into and not feel her heart race. but for now, his gaze is fixed on a cretin. gussa reddens the air. let's play holi.

Edited by indi52 - 11 years ago
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@Indi, Loved your 204-206. Love Holi episodes. Sanka Khushi just loved her antics. Holi reminds me little bit like the excitement of when we were kids getting all dressed up for Halloween. We just couldn't wait to go trick or treating. I see the little child in Khushi can't wait to play colors! I was hysterical when she told him his color was black!😆

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