Dil ki baat: Asad's POV Pt 4-pg 16 (Feb 3) - Page 9

thanks koolkatz😊

thanks dear...i love your siggy..it's cute😊

Loved how you started this update. It amazed me how perfectly his co-ordinated, orderly thoughts gelled with the epic disarray he encountered in the kitchen. Your words and the mental pictures it conjured up in my mind flowed so smoothly. I read the first para once and went back and read it again. That's how flawlessly coherent it was 👏

I love the comic touches. Strike that. I adore them. It makes Khan sahab come across as a closet softee, who is in some way very frustrated that Zoya bibi is making him write checklists in his mind. I always suspected Asad had a wry, very incisive sense of humor and I'm glad that your interpretation is bringing that to the fore. Also Asad's regard for Zoya-Dilshad's equation was very well done too. These aspects are far too nuanced, in my opinion to have come through in the show but, your writing makes it explicitly clear that Asad isn't beyond seeing goodness even in messiness. And that Dilshad is his compass. His Ammi is both his backbone and his cornerstone and if Dilshad blesses Zoya, his heart too ends up unwittingly giving her brownie points for that gesture.

I am steadily becoming a fan of your writing style, the coherent & concise way you put across the situations we have previously visualised, yet you make it your own. I love the way you naturally insert the Dargah reminiscences. That image of Zoya has been ingrained indelibly into Asad's mind and conscience and bechara's dilemma is that he is unable to reconcile that heartstopping image with the tufaan currently sweeping across his house and his life.

He would have preferred that ethereal vision to the actual person, and off-the-cuff that might be hard to digest, but unlike the show, you close the loopholes and let your readers know why exactly that is - his betrayal by Rashid and the fact that he is looking for his Ammi in his future wife. As always, your sentences are replete with irony and rich in interpretations. I also appreciate that your writing is not rigid and leaves some room for flexibility on the part of the reader, that is, your interpretations allows for other interpretations as well, to be conducted simultaneously while reading. At least that is what I do! I read your updates then I go and view the episodes in question again and I gain a new appreciation for it =)

I am running out of superlatives, that is how great this is going. Eagerly awaiting Part Four! 😳