Originally posted by: Sakura24
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hey Viji...
I am ecstatic about three things,
Firstly the mere fact that you wrote something like this is so good. Secondly you dedicated it to me! God, when your favorite write dedicates one of their most amazing works to you that feeling is out of the world, thirdly I am the first to comment!😃 Wow, just had a very late night and here is the pay off for all my hard work!...Viji this truly is a gem!
Coming to the writing, you know my love for Mahabarat analogies, I was just stunned at the way you drew a connection between Yudhishtira, staking his all, to Durga Prasad losing the wealth to Ragini, the concept here is perfect.
In fact when I watched those episodes the same thought struck me, as to how the family remained mute viewers not much unlike the royal court of Kavravas when this great injustice took place. Of how blind Durga Prasad has become in his deep love for his family that he just handed the entire fate of his clan to a evil hand, just like that! I can seriously see A yudhishtir bond by his word in him, more than the wise old Bhisma I used to envision.
Then our common interest, the brother of the king and the father of the king but never the king himself or the kingmaker, Ram. The subtle way you put forward his view is mind blowing, simply amazing. I really admire your way of exploring a character right from where their foundations were laid. It is such a vast approach in knowing a persons set of thoughts.
You build up the perfect image of a Laxman only named Ram, here. A younger brother who looks up to his eldest, with a god-like, devotion and the clash between that brother and the father who holds his son in very admiring eyes was pitch perfect here!
The way swara moved through out the piece, her bond with Ram, then her bond...or rather strained bond with Sanskar was aptly put. I really liked Ram's one thought here, that she always puts his son first where he and his wife had failed miserably. It was a nice punch amides all the witty arrows you managed to shoot. Ram holding his DIL in a position of respect is so Ram-ish, he knows to respect more than love.
Ragini here is more reptilian than she was in any of your fics before. I guess this is where our second interest comes😉 I adore that slithery, hissing and spitting image of hers, the perfect, sly villain she is! But what I adore the most is the way she knows how to pick up her battles wisely, the way she stepped back when she realized she is reaching a dead end by that path. It is a quality I admire in villains, their presence of mind.
Lakshya...oh, your hatred for him mirrored once more here. Neither you nor I can ever tolerate him a complete changed mature man can we? In our writing he always appear to be a toddler in a body of a giant, always trying to get his favorite toy one way or the other.
I kept the sweetest to taste in the end. Ah, Sanskar! Your Sanskar is always a man of many shades, in fact he is a total spectrum! The pain, the fear of getting his heart broken again blinding him against Swara's continuous declarations of love was perfectly portrayed here. My heart wrenched at some places for both of them, but mostly I felt a bitter sweet pain while reading Sanskar's thoughts.
Then the battle. You know how much I adore verbal, intellectual battles than of those with physical damages involved. So you picked up the partnership firm? Your logic here is pure gold my dear, I've never felt so thrilled in my entire life that I was almost smirking as I read it. What captured me here was one single word spoken in the almighty voice of Sanskar Ram Prasad Maheshwari, 'Enough!' truly this man does radiate power that one can hardly breath in his presence!
The subtle ending to the MU was so heart warming, Swara's clear indication of filling her maang in front of him was just the right touch there. I really adore that last smile shared through the mirror, so softly romantic.
All in all, this has made its place in my heart, I can't love you anymore than I already do for writing this...but I wish I could!
Stay blessed, keep writing!😊