Greetings PS, I just checked the hyper attunement gifset and that was absolutely wonderful - it was one of my personal favorite things in the show because of how beautifully it was done - so thanks for giffing it! Toh, one sawaal if you'd like to answer, do you have any favorites from there? Or just feel free to give any two cents about it - whatever you want. Hope you've been doing well :) Take care. AJ.
Thank you very much! Itâs one of my favourites too (okay look, I know I say that about everything but a girl can have loads of favourites!). Iâm very proud of it. And I too love this aspect of the serial :) :)
My gif sets are usually my favourite instances of a certain aspect or trope of the serial, rather than attempts at showing every single instance, so in a way this is already a curated list. But letâs go through them one by one:
The original subtitle of this gifset was âIt began with sneezing and ended with telepathyâ (you can still see it in the URL because Tumblr likes to keep track of all our crimes). So the first gif was always going to be this: sneezing together after their car park adventure. I just find this moment adorable.
This, I could write essays on: the first instance of The Awareness. And for me, the most powerful thing is that Arnav knows Khushi is there. He doesnât question the feeling -- this man who no longer believes in religion, who doesnât believe love is for him -- he just stands up and mouths her name and goes looking for her.
When I watch these episodes, I always wonder just how close Arnav was to getting on a helicopter and flying to Lucknow (... and hence Tere Bin). And that moment of disbelieving hope when he feels her is amazing -- Sobti was excellent! -- before he shrugs it off and continues with the preparations.
I firmly believe Arnav is feeling Khushiâs distress in this scene. The way her agony is spliced with his, the way he paces and stares at the cut on his hand, such angst, many wow. Itâs like he has all this pain and he doesnât know where itâs coming from, he just knows itâs connected to Khushi.
Arnav and Khushi know about their connection. They donât like admitting it at this stage but they know. This is the first time theyâre forced to acknowledge it and itâs brilliant, from the way he looks at her to her admission that she just knew and her pun about gale pad gaye. Why are they allowed to be this cute?
This is probably the most powerful, and most contentious, example. Khushi was caught completely off guard by Arnavâs trip to London. He didnât deign to inform her, and his family assumed she knew about it (until it was clear that she didnât). She goes into a bit of a loop where she keeps repeating that he shouldnât have left, why didnât he listen, why didnât he stay, etc etc. Thereâs a restlessness in her. Normally one would expect Khushi to just wait for him to come back but she seems to realise that sheâs lost her chance. In my opinion, sheâs telepathically feeling his panic and resignation. Heâs been kidnapped, and though she cannot explain why sheâs this restless and panicky, she seems to be able to feel his distress as if itâs her own in the same way he felt her emotions when she was getting engaged to Shyam.
Thereâs not much I can say that would improve upon this post :)
We talk so much about whether Arnavâs redemption was enough, whether his apology was good enough, and yet in my opinion this sequence is perfect. It canât be reduced to Arnav giving her gifts. He gives her things she loves, things that once upon a time were indicators of her lower class, the channa and jalebi and Salman Khan poster that he used to look down on. Actions come so much easier to Arnav than words, and this is where he says âI love you the way you are, Khushiâ (something he will verbalise on their date during remarriage but this is where it happens). And the necklace, something he instinctively (telepathically!) knew she wanted and needed, a reinstatement of the innocence he tore off her on the night they met and again on the night they eloped. This is the request for forgiveness, the apology, the acknowledgement that he hurt her a thousand times and that heâs sorry heâs sorry heâs sorry. And I will forever be bitter that the creative team didnât allow the audience to absorb the impact of what heâd done.
This is just adorable, Khushi in Laxmi Nagar ordering a scowly photo of him to smile and Arnav smiling as he looks up at the moon. The moon has always connected them so itâs no surprise that he obeyed!
This one always makes me laugh. Khushi falls in the Shantivan kitchen and Arnav instantly calls. I think the way she looks at her phone, sighs in exasperation when she sees his name and practically barks âKya hai?â [What?!] is peak comedy.
And a scene I didnât include except for the subtitle (ping @maansiloves) -- the way NK asks Arnav how he knew Khushi-ji had arrived, and she replies âBas pata chal jata haiâ without hesitation. Theyâre no longer afraid of the connection and what it means, theyâve given into it entirely, and I think this moment is the sweetest.
This was a lot of fun, thank you so much for asking such an amazing question!! I super appreciate the opportunity for free-form answers and babble :D
Take loads of care â€ïž
