Originally posted by: bila_a
Wow, wonderful post, it's so great to see such a well thought out analysis. You have no idea how long I have waited for a good hindi serial that portrays love story's well. I'll be the first one to admit I used love watching those chocolatey hot and heavy youth oriented love stories. I'm sure you know which shows, until one day I got tired of it, I got tired of the constant angry man which are always portrayed much the same, I got tired of the horrible amount of man handling/ abuse and blatant invasion of a women's Personal space, it wasn't romantic but that's how they intended to show it,as hot romance, like that's the only way to make the couple realize their love or give them ehsaas. Don't get me started on like what you, serendipity and Rogers have said, about the whole eye locks, trip and fall, dupatta a scenes happening when the couples aren't even in love, happening every 5 seconds, it just takes me out of it now, and like you guys have said, it such a shallow basis for love to start from, it's boring and it happens so fast and it doesn't have substance.
Now getting back, YHM is nothing like that, they've been together for 5 months and no love has happened but you know what has happened great character development at a gradual pace that makes sense, how Ishu and Raman have changed, how they've changed in the way they act with one another, towards each other. Because like you said and like one of the commentators have said these two have experienced love before and it broke them and damaged them, and this process doesn't happen with trips and falls scene but through time. It's a long process especially for damaged souls, I love the fact they are slowly understanding each other, accepting each other, becoming used to each other, valuing personality then beauty even though they themselves don't realize that.
I love seeing the small details of their journey. It makes the love story so raw and real as if you are standing right next to them going through this journey with them, it gives it such rich substance and more interesting to watch. I have to hand it to the crew and cvs for such a well exucuted story and development as well as the tracks. The consistencies of the tracks and how they don't appear out of no where in each episode, it's all set up before hand and it makes sense. One thing I don't lke anymore is seeing hot romance when the two people haven't fallen in love, it just seems like it's done for shock value and the hotness, what I loved about the phone convo is it bring a whole other level of intimacy, and I love seeing that, I would take that any day, cause one thing this show knows how to do is show intimacy in different way and it's beautiful and comforting and makes our heart race and calm down,
Also karan and divyakya are amazing, the different nuances and mannerism they bring to the character makes this show for me, it's so natural and raw and feels so good to whatch them, it doesn't feel wooden or cringy. Also also karans improv, gotta love him, they are so subtle and they bring another layer to the romance scenes.
Phew that's pretty long, but your post brought out my utter love for this show, it's so unique in the way it handle it's characters and love. And you know one thing, the Ehsaas track seemed to have started way back and it's an long ongoing track under all the chaos, Ehsaas can't happen so fast, over one night or one fall. And that's what I love about this show as well. Wonderful post
Hi Bila thank you so much for this wonderful, wonderful comment and for appreciating the post I made, also I am sorry for the late response 😳
@bold - I am with you on the waiting part, a show like YHM has come like a breath of fresh air in the love story genre. Yes there have been shows other then the ones which were discussed where love was made out to be so shallow, but they were mostly saas-bahu dramas not really something people want no Ekta has given us an overdose of that for decades... and so for a show to be a love story - about a couple at loggerheads falling in love but not because of the sexual tension/physical attraction but because of their growing understanding is something so amazing. And yes, I so loathe the heroes who manhandle their heroines, think pushing them around makes them manly, Raman has been rude to a fault with Ishita always, has not respected her but its not chauvinism that makes him so but a bitter experience - and so far he has never ever physically invaded her space to get her to back down - even if he did try to slap her once and pushed her when his family got the idea she is pregnant, he is not exactly a gentleman but he isnt an MCP either- he is a real man - grey - not black or just white. 😳
@red - yep their baggages make it hard for them to open up - the only thing is their approaches towards the same thing are different. He has become bitter but she hasnt allowed the bitterness one man - one relationship caused in her life to plague others around her. And while they are noticing each other physically as healthy adults - they arent behaving like rabbits in heat here 😆 they are getting to know each other as you mentioned, I love the non-verbal interactions they have, there is such an ease to it now between them... they arent exactly in sync yet but there is a wavelength they have found between them that allows them to communicate without words too 😳
@purple - yep, YHM isnt being treated like a teenybopper love story but a love story of two sorted and damaged adults -whose individual imperfections make them come together - but combined they work wonders - its like they fill in the spaces for each other, one has what the other lacks and so the pace works wonderfully. I love the phone call too... it was intimate in such a non-physical way that it touched me... it was REAL., even if we saw Raman taunt Shagun once or twice in that scene, mostly it was IshRa and what I loved the most was- his voice soothed her enough, calmed her nerves to the extent she fell asleep. And it seemed like he was prolonging the call to get a rise out of her, like he said to Mihir he felt her to be unlike herself... he understood she is disturbed and while he couldnt get it out of her...he tried to help her the best he could 😳
@orange - I second that - DivAn are so apt as IshRa, they are so good individually and as a couple, no wonder this show is topping the charts
@maroon - WORD on that - Ehsaas, the track is living upto its name - the literal meaning of it - feeling... not attraction, but feeling for someone 😳
thanks once again for this amazing reply 😃