Res! And that too with great annoyance that I'm already on page 3 😆
My treat for after office- love you sis xoxo Unres:
My dearest sister from another mother 🤗
First, can I multiply that hug as many times as you can take without shoving me away?😆 This beautiful (nothing new there) piece was literally my lifeline all through the madness of my day yesterday. I read it, and it kept a happy bubble around me despite some stressful moments all through the day and despite having slept after 3.30 am and having had approx 4 hours kip, I am happy as I re-read this multiple times and also read Saku's lovely Spring spin offs so all is well! For the dedication ❤️- and this is going to sound very strange but on this one, if my name hadn't appeared, I would have demanded it did! 😲 No, no, I am not becoming a demanding harpy but seriously, the P&P connection here!!! As everyone who has ever had real interaction with me re writing and reading knows, I possibly hold a record for loving that book and a work like this so perfectly aligning that, I would want to claim some connect to, however tangential 😃.
Sorry to ramble even more so as usual but of course the title captured me and then the reference to the Plato's Symposium, given my love for Greek mythology buried the hook very firmly in. And the crowning glory- as soon as I read the slightly modified version of THAT quote, I was literally gaining ear to ear!! My PA just looked and decided not to even ask 😆. Took me straight back to the mammoth discussions you, me, Geetu and some others had re my insistence that Sanskaar is most Darcy-like in the ways that matter! I was so so pleased! And of course as you had written it, I rubbed my hands in glee as I knew that this would be special and it was! By the time, I got my Lizzie Bennet, I could have danced around the office.
I know we were dealing here with Tosca but when it is so sweetly poignant, it reminds me of "Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. (Victor Hugo)". So it was here. I fell in love all over again, crashed to despair and torment at the parting and then was uplifted into SwaSan heaven at the reunion, all in the space of this one masterful OS. In my very humble opinion, this is probably one of your most stellar OS pieces, but I am happy to admit bias due to the major P&P "feels" I had throughout.
A few special mentions in an already notable OS:
Lovely use once more of memorable dialogues form the show, you re-use so deftly and with the changed emphasis you give, they really pack the punch. Especially the Benares reference and the reminder to that Diwali scene, which you already know from "Trial by Fire" is one of my favourites for the sheer romance it implies.
Adored the slightly modified version of Sharmishta's role/ words here in making Swara truly see what her heart already knew but she was being so dense about. Especially loved her directly explaining the dichotomy the show's Swara has always had about her feelings for Lakshya and Sanskaar's for Kavita.
Uttara and her cute teasing 😳. Me and you have always loved the potential for that bond and finally even in the show we at least get that with a fun Uttara making the most to make her bhabhi blush and also pull her desperate brother's leg.
And then of course that journey culminating in Ekstaz- a word that actually doesn't even need translation no? Such a lovely sound it has in a language that can sometimes be harsh on some connotations (my best friend at uni has a First Class degree in Russian incidentally and spent a year living there- totally irrelevant fact share!). Their joy and the passion, but infused with the blended humour that is your trademark for SwaSan romance - all so perfect and well, just krasivaya really!
Oh last but not least, glad a certain someone did not have to be dealt with in this. Hate that character to the core and I flinch each time I have to think of "tackling" her 😉.
Love you Viji 🤗
Edited by tootiefrootie11 - 9 years ago
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