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Horizon

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Posted: 12 years ago

#31

Telepathy or what dear Indi. You watching 111 today, where as its raining Diwali epis here on both the channels it is aired to a fan's heart's content!

Wonderful post. Not sure if I should comment. Yes Barun was exceptional during those days. Not just here, but pick any part during those 3-4 months, and it could easily be a part of text book for acting. But the layered man ASR WAS inspirational for some one with an innate skill. He WAS created with lot of love, care and attention to the finest detail. Do want to credit both the inspirer and the inspired. But, but for Barun, would I have still been in deep love with this man with all his follies and vulnerabilities even today?? May be not!

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#32

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha
Indi 😊
Kya bollon iski acting keh bare main...Does it look like he is acting Dammit...look at the bottom...nahhh

When he is looking at her...the intensity and heat is coming and touching my ears on this side of the screen and his pain is making me hold my heart as this is so damn real...Yes he is real .That's what makes him different.Looks aren't everything...

I want him explore the end of the world and bring out the best as I really do wanna see him at the top in my life. He has all the combo of heroes since 60 till now but majority I see 80 and 90 which is my fav era and he is so damn good at those moments . Fits perfectly in it .
Awww...indi now I have to go watch him over and over in ASR avatar...till he comes out with something new...❤️

Thnx for the brilliant post as always👏

yes, the end of the world, well said, and all that is in it... i do want to see him explore all that for me. selfish maybe, but ha ha i want. an actor sometimes introduces ourselves to us, or a character we'd have never fathomed.

to me, a mafia guy is always what marlon brando and al pacino said they were. and a hot tycoon with a broken world and crazy kinda heart is always asr, of course, a bahu of a zamindar family in a big mansion which whispers secrets in it corridors is forever meena kumari (my heart leaps when i think she's part bengali). a true actor is a precious thing.

really.

growing up i never realised the value of an actor. now i think i am beginning to.

thanks, faiqa... i know how much a lover of the art of ipk you are... and your running back to watch ipk after reading this means a lot. thanks also for always reading my endless posts. 🤗 and always giving your time, your thoughts.

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indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#33

Originally posted by: Sanaya.Barun

Awwh I So wish they come back to give us the "Perfection" again! I still have hopes! Maybe 2-3 years later..

or, maybe before. hyuk.

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#34

Originally posted by: _BacknForth_
I am a great admirer of the way you write, indi. 😃
I've come across some of your episodes' analysis too, and loved them!
Cheers 😃

_backnforth_, 😳

that si so sweet of you to say. thank you so so much. glad you could read this, and all the best. 😃

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#35

Originally posted by: Arnav1Khushi
I adore this scene. Barun was bang on. You can go on n on with praises. This man never ceases to amaze me

hi arnav1khsuhi,

never is right. i was watching the scene by chance as someone had pointed out something i wanted to check... and there was this minutely chiseled moment. i have looked at this scene many times and felt many things, but this time something more got added top that. thanks for reading.

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indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#36

Originally posted by: Horizon
Telepathy or what dear Indi. You watching 111 today, where as its raining Diwali epis here on both the channels it is aired to a fan's heart's content!

Wonderful post. Not sure if I should comment. Yes Barun was exceptional during those days. Not just here, but pick any part during those 3-4 months, and it could easily be a part of text book for acting. But the layered man ASR WAS inspirational for some one with an innate skill. He WAS created with lot of love, care and attention to the finest detail. Do want to credit both the inspirer and the inspired. But, but for Barun, would I have still been in deep love with this man with all his follies and vulnerabilities even today?? May be not!

hi horizon,

nah this time not telepathy alas. someone on another thread wondered if the man in orange and white shirt in the jadoo hai nasha hai episodes was chacha ji from the deep cache of ipk extras. looking for him i went to the wrong episode, that being 110. but really it was the perfect episode to see this craft again.

of course, it's never just one person... takes a team to create the character. and barun himself has said ah, er, um, maybe i am a director's actor. but that depth of talent, intelligence, and feelings, and instinct, without it no matter how ell a character is conceived, written or directed... you can't have to quote you... chalta phirta asr.

this ability leaves me breathless.

i was just telling faiqa, i am now beginning to realise the value of an actor really. they help us discover ourselves, they introduce our world to us. when an actor takes his or her role to its sweet spot, something illuminating happens and of course thrilling.

for me a mafia man is always marlon brando and al pacino.

a bahu of a big khandaan in a haveli with corridors whispering secrets is forever meena kumari.

an older man helpless in the thrall of a 13 year old girl, has to be jeremy irons... he managed not to creep me out but enter the character nabokov tried to express.

of course, a british spy is always in a perfect suit and his name is connery, sean connery... or... and this case this rare handover happened... craig daniel craig.

and a hot tycoon with a bruised world, a sharp cool mind, and a crazy loving heart is, sexy beyond breath is mr barun sobti, as they say. hamesha.

thanks for reading and what's this about not commenting.

i do think ipk deserves a thread on just acting notes. by practically all the cast.

and i have to thank barun for making me understand the value of an actor. no wonder acting is such an old ancient profession.

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Ipoona

@Ipoona

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Posted: 12 years ago

#37

Indi,

I know you are a woman after my heart ... So I will say this cautiously ... I am right there with you sister ... And were there just you and me and him ... You would have a tough battle on your hands 😃. Fortunately or unfortunately, it will never come to this ... So let me wax some some more about this man called Barun Sobti ... But before that, a little something about my affair with this man ...

I, until Feb of 2012 was, am almost ashamed to say, a snob. My TV viewing was limited to western news media and some old British romances .. My Hindi movie collection is dated .. And limited to the mountain romances of the sixties ... I am not ashamed to say, you will be hard pressed to find a more romantic person than me ...

One cold February morning in 2012, I called my friend and said ... I am in love ... I had seen some romantic movie of James Franco, to which my friend replied, so was she. I was superiorly convinced my man would win hands down ... We met a few days later to exchange notes and do a show and tell ... She conceded gracefully that James Franco was indeed stiff competition but that we should reserve judgment until I had seen her man and proceeded to show me this thing called Iss Pyar ko kya naam doon ... Me truly reluctant to watch this so called really really nice Hindi soap ... With this truly gorgeous guy ... But I am a good friend so I let her humor me 😉

But the laugh, I guess, was on me ... It is two years later, and i am unable, unwilling to let go ... I am in too deep ...

To say that I was floored would be an understatement ... And let me qualify this. I am a snob. I like very few actors ... I like very few movies ... I am not easily swayed ... I fell like a ton of bricks, fathoms deep and every cliche ever know to humanity. It is almost 2 years and my obsession shows no sign of abating ... I am fortunate that my husband is a confident man and tolerates my obsession with good humor and even likes our man. He knows of my concern for his success and inquires occasionally.

Now this powerhouse called Barun Sobti ... Why totally astounds me is that until about four five years ago he was a operations guy ... Some Joe Shmoe just like the rest of us. No national school of drama or any other training that I am aware of. How is that he knows how to do this ... How did he not know since he was two that this was his calling ... How does he say Aur mein? And my heart turns to pudding ... I am writing for Reliving IPK with your very own Arshihamesha and just saw the scene of Khushi's engagement. I have rewound his pacing in his room scene at least 50 times in the last 2 hours ... Either something is wrong with me ... Or our man is that good ... I think I may be an extreme case ... But all said and done, he continues to amaze me ... And I do test him ... I pit him with other actors ... Maybe I am biased, but where I stand ... I am allowed to be. He does it without effort, as if to the manor born ... And we all know he wasn't ... He's the kid that shows up from nowhere ... With nothing to show for and then just steals the show ... I am rooting for him all the way ... Not only coz he is the best ...but also coz he is a rank outsider ... A nobody in an industry that thrives on nepotism ...

Thank you, Indi, for making this post ... It was a true pleasure to read and write about our man ...He has said at the time he was leaving ... Let's see how many fans I have left once I leave the show ... Well Barun Sobti , it is all credit to you that your fans are so fervent, so die hard ... Count me in for the next few decades ...

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Jayanthi

@hemanthkrishna

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Posted: 12 years ago

#38

Wow what an Amazing post dear. 👍🏼
Loved it.

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zaibun un nisa

@saima4744

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Posted: 12 years ago

#39

👏👏👏👏👏.

drooling post.

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indi52

@indi52

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Posted: 12 years ago

#40

^^^

ipoona,

thank you for that one there.

beauty.

oh and we are kind of twinnish in that barun love.

don't know if i am a snob or not, but i am certainly jaded. nothing much gets trough. i have turned my nose up at many a much =feted movie and found it impossible to read the much talked about books.

so yes, a hindi show on tv is not exactly my thing. but the years away from india have made me miss home to the extent that the tv would be turned on and the cacophony that is hindi soap be heard and gazed upon with incredulous eyes for a while after returning home every day.

it was in such a state that i saw the boy in shraddha, and thought, huh, something about him. i used to find it difficult to look away, no matter how senseless the story, or how not quite the polished actor he... this animal magnetism for the want of a better word, my vocab not being as fabulous as i'd want it to be, this thing in him registered first. then some episodes of baat, again a recognition, but i am a die hard not serial watcher, so never got hooked, but if it was on, never turned it off either.

when ipk was in promo stage i remember thinking, huh it's that boy... oh so now he is young arrogant mills and boon man, bet he'll make a mess of it. never watched. see, that jaded me, that resistent to things.

then came one november night... diwali by chance, and i was pulled right in by the undertow. there was no time to think. none to breathe. sleep was lost. bus stops missed.

true, life has been extraordinarily kind in finding my a confident man as my forever man. he genuinely likes barun's acting and personality. sometimes a worried look in his eyes as i edit lost to the world... once i remember, he looked over my shoulder, and said, "oh, the other man."

speaking of whom... just like you i think about him not being a trained actor, no fancy acting school, no rich kid travel abroad upbringing, no nothing... a telephone operator who learned accents and tried to earn a living, a kid like many others in all our bpos, now themselves a a little cultural phenomenon;

one who was never too good in studies and perhaps heard enough number of times that he'll never be good at anything... where did that boy find all this in him.

it's a blessing. it awes me, the splendour of it. he makes me realise the importance of an actor in our lives...

ipoona, thanks so much for writing that lovely piece, i'll give a link to it on my main post.

the honesty of his acting somehow cut through all the bull s of our lives. oh i do hope he gets to do what he was born to do. act. bas.

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