Dearest Nainu 🤗Firstly, please let me repeat the apology I made in our recent PM exchange. I arrive huffing and puffing and very late to this party! As you know I was there at platform 9 3/4s at the beginning when the train set off- I posted my comments for the beginning and then I had to get off at the next stop for a while! I then did sneak back on but I just haven't been able to keep up with comments on individual chapters. I hope you will understand and forgive me. But I have read!!! When we last "spoke" I was on 11 and as of now am totally caught up all the way to 14. I went back and re-read the previous chapters I had already read too 😃. So here is a generalised comments on the full thing so far but hope it will still count for expressing my appreciation.
As I had said at the start- what a superb concept 👏👏 An eternal love story, one that cannot be stopped by life or more importantly death, in fact it transcends death and if unrealised here and now, it will wait its time until another time and another set of bodies but the same souls will call it to life again! Exactly how I see stupendous epic love like what we visualise for SwaSan and here this is brought to life. I totally loved the way you showed how the world in the guise of religion, society etc cheated Zaara and Paratham of their true and irrevocable love, so of course when one died, the other would follow at some point and they would both HAVE to come back, reincarnated. Then the added flair of then Rashid, now Lakshya, who also died with his own love unrealised and those 3 very different but powerful in their own way, wishes.
Then we get the current version of those manifestations and what a tale. All throughout I felt like it was a movie- I was reminded of sitting in a movie theatre and the whole thing was very redolent in many ways of something that Dharma Productions would enact- the grand concept indeed of a Veer Zaara with the star crossed lovers plight shown beautifully and then the other very sweetly romantic elements woven in gave me multiple feels from other grand works.
There is our intense and at first "khadoos" hero who melts as soon as he sees the love of his life. The lovely and innocent but yet rather stubborn and plucky heroine. Their souls recognise each other at once! How could they not. Their chemistry is sizzling and scorches the pages/ screen! Their immediate absorption right from that first meeting in that beautiful Haveli all the way to the current point at 14 where both are now bound in marriage despite it all- so etched out. The angle of Lakshya as the best friend Swara just feels compelled to marry, thanks to that long ago wish by the dying Rashid and not able to understand why despite her heart so clearly pulling her towards only Sanskaar she is constantly forced to insist she MUST marry Lakshya . And Sanskaar's pain at all this . He falls so hard and fast but of course he does! And whilst she doesn't understand/ know the extent, she is much the same. They both literally magnetise towards each other.
There are too many individual scenes to detail here but all over you bring it to life. I like how you fit in the costumes each time, the hairstyles, the whole thing showing things so clearly- coming back to my analogy with a film. Or I should have said a script- much like how I expect a TV show to be written- to detail the little things that would make the scene come alive. The whole of their coming together and then being pulled apart is so poignant but then fate wallops them big time, this time finally in the right way. Thank God Rashid made his wish in the way he did and did not take it that one step further! Then the big twist 😲
So Sanskaar is actually his cousin and the last minute groom swap! Whoa. I did think Lakshya was an idiot there btw- what sort of idiot thinks it's fine to do that in that manner but whatever- that's our Lakshya ji for you! And I am so relieved and happy that Kavita here stayed dignified and proved her worth by being a joining force and not a villain. Ragini is rather a fluttery presence on the edges but I am totally fine and dandy with that 😉 Even the others like Uttara- nicely brought in and cute!
So anyway, I have babbled so much now- sorry! But hope this makes up a little for not having commented so far. I just didn't want you to think I wasn't reading, I was/ have but time constraints for various reasons make it impossible at the moment to keep up with regular comments etc. I'll wait for more Chapters and be back to bore more!!
Loads of love,
Shru xoxo
Anupamaa
