Res Nalini:)
Drowning in work today and lots of other thing but will comment at some point in the weekend:) Mmmwah for this X Unres:
Dearest Nalini
I am really embarrassed about the time it has taken me to unres this! As you guessed in your other reply there were battled and wedding that isn't yet happening that are giving me headaches but also work and family and just generally a sense of ennui due to the show being in such a sorry state at present! Apologies and here is my take on yet another stirring Memoir, i.e. No 3 in the collection! Also as usual IF reminded me why I get so frustrated with it- I typed a mega essay and in the main para it deleted more than half of it when i tried to swap the order around . I've tried to retype from memory but if I miss some of it off and the post doesn't read that well- sorry! 😕
So we start with the present and a Mr and Mrs Maheshwari so adorable even when old! Their teasing banter about their age and the sweetness of that whole scene belies their age in a way nothing else could. At heart they are still the SwaSan they always were and will be- the age affects the body but not the mind and soul 😳.
And I so love how the album is literally a visual representation of their walk through their eventful but very meaningful life 👏👏. You called it a treasure chest which it is and I almost feel privileged to be taken along too! So thank you as the chronicler for that!
We then get that lovely scene of their sheer longing and passion for each other before the wedding and their stolen moments which was all so romantic and yet sexy I was 😳😳, and reading with a huge smile too! I absolutely loved that touch of Sanskaar being so overcome by her bare back during the day that he has to actually bribe his sister to make her cover up with the ingenious method of letting down her hair- this whole thought is so ☺️☺️☺️. I actually find touches like that more powerful sometimes than an obvious kissing or physically expressive scene. But here the scene that immediately followed was equally errrmm stirring! ☺️ Those kissed and the way Sanskaar cannot literally keep his hands off his to be bride, and her shyness but her answering passion too as well as the "bargain" struck for a kiss and Sanskaar's enforcement of that- 😳
And then back to the present 😭😭- I can't write too long about this as it hurts too much! Literally the stuff of Sanskaar's nightmares and ours too! No matter how inevitable you know something is, when it was so beautiful and brought with it such memories it literally hurts with a pain you cannot describe. I feel you really bring that out with your writing on this amazingly conceptualised series and I know how difficult it is to express such angst without making it seem morbid- so you deserve a bow for that! 👏⭐️
And I want to say a huge thanks for ending this really charged one on the note you did- the flashback again and to such an anticipated and wonderful moment- the upcoming wedding and the start of that part of an unforgettable life!
Lovely work again Nalini and look forward to more! Have you planned how many there will be or are you going to play it by ear?
Loads of love,
Shru xoxo
Edited by tootiefrootie11 - 9 years ago