23rd Sept
Anjali-Khushi tore at my heartstrings ... and Khushi-Babuji even more ...
I was angry with Arnav today in the first scene ... I forgave him for lashing out at Khushi earlier, because he was expressing his own pain, but in the temple, he went too far again ... really hurting her deeply, when she was already so hurt and upset. It was like kicking a small defenceless puppy ...
Khushi has never had the freedom to express her grief over her parents ... being in such a loving foster family, expressing grief must seem to her to be the height of ingratitude, that even surrounded by so much love as she is, she can still miss her own parents. And Anjali could see her grief (though I'm not sure how Anjali knows she is an orphan) and relate to it, so Khushi finally had the freedom to say yes, she misses her parents too ... had the freedom to cry for them ... every time I watch the scene, it makes me cry. Both Daljit and Sanaya were brilliant ... Anjali could comfort Khushi because of their shared pain, and Khushi looked like the little lost girl she must have been when her parents died.
And I was glad Arnav overheard ... fiercely glad. I didn't feel sorry for his remorse, I felt it served him right ... he has to feel remorse for his words, for he was thoughtlessly and needlessly cruel earlier. And this is the loss that has shaped his life and his current persona ... he has to see that the same loss has shaped another person so differently. And that his way of controlling his grief, which hurts everyone around him, and even innocent bystanders like Khushi, is not the best way ... he has justified his behaviour because of his loss, but now how to justify that behaviour, when the same loss has been handled so differently by the girl he pretends to hate?!
And the last scene, when Khushi returns home to find her Babuji sick again made me tear up ... her own loss brought home to her again, and now faced with the possibility of another loss, of the second anchor in her life ... the way she clutched at her babuji was heartrending, especially after what she has gone through just a short while ago.
Shyam (Abhaas) was good as usual ... turning greyer and greyer ... how I hope that Khushi insists on talking to the doctor herself, especially as Shyam has gone off belatedly to RM ... and does start to wonder why he didn't tell the family about Babuji's medicine. And more development, Anjali is getting pissed off with Shyam, so he will get more desperate to get Khushi into his life and out of RM as soon as possible. So teh Shyam exposure has to come soon.
Anjali-Khushi tore at my heartstrings ... and Khushi-Babuji even more ...
I was angry with Arnav today in the first scene ... I forgave him for lashing out at Khushi earlier, because he was expressing his own pain, but in the temple, he went too far again ... really hurting her deeply, when she was already so hurt and upset. It was like kicking a small defenceless puppy ...
Khushi has never had the freedom to express her grief over her parents ... being in such a loving foster family, expressing grief must seem to her to be the height of ingratitude, that even surrounded by so much love as she is, she can still miss her own parents. And Anjali could see her grief (though I'm not sure how Anjali knows she is an orphan) and relate to it, so Khushi finally had the freedom to say yes, she misses her parents too ... had the freedom to cry for them ... every time I watch the scene, it makes me cry. Both Daljit and Sanaya were brilliant ... Anjali could comfort Khushi because of their shared pain, and Khushi looked like the little lost girl she must have been when her parents died.
And I was glad Arnav overheard ... fiercely glad. I didn't feel sorry for his remorse, I felt it served him right ... he has to feel remorse for his words, for he was thoughtlessly and needlessly cruel earlier. And this is the loss that has shaped his life and his current persona ... he has to see that the same loss has shaped another person so differently. And that his way of controlling his grief, which hurts everyone around him, and even innocent bystanders like Khushi, is not the best way ... he has justified his behaviour because of his loss, but now how to justify that behaviour, when the same loss has been handled so differently by the girl he pretends to hate?!
And the last scene, when Khushi returns home to find her Babuji sick again made me tear up ... her own loss brought home to her again, and now faced with the possibility of another loss, of the second anchor in her life ... the way she clutched at her babuji was heartrending, especially after what she has gone through just a short while ago.
Shyam (Abhaas) was good as usual ... turning greyer and greyer ... how I hope that Khushi insists on talking to the doctor herself, especially as Shyam has gone off belatedly to RM ... and does start to wonder why he didn't tell the family about Babuji's medicine. And more development, Anjali is getting pissed off with Shyam, so he will get more desperate to get Khushi into his life and out of RM as soon as possible. So teh Shyam exposure has to come soon.
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