3rd Year Anniversary
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?
What should I name this love?
June 6, 2011- (November 30, 2012)- June 6, 2014
The Journey From Hate to Love
by cinthiann1758
I
celebrate the day that this wonderful serial was placed on the air on
Star Plus, Monday to Friday with occasional Maha episodes (that I longed
for) on a Saturday, which played on my computer and television multiple
times a day.
I
long for the reliving of those moments of waiting, butterflies in my
stomach, palms sweating and the feeling of anticipation, sitting on the
edge of my bed to see my ASR turn into my Arnav and wondering what will my Khushi Kumari Gupta do next?
(Didn't we all feel they belonged to us?)
I use to talk to ASR and even myself while watching,
"How dare he?" and "Did he just do that?"
and then just melt when he looked a certain way. I laughed so hard at Khushi's antics and mannerisms.
I
got lost in his chocolate puppy dog eyes, which could express every
emotion with a blink, a stare, a wink and you could always tell his fury
by his eyes.
It
was the emotion of love, unfolding and deep hurt which built walls that
would crumble before our very eyes that I came to know and love, seeing
it in his eyes, slowly but steadily through his mesmerizing gazes at
his beauty, Khushi and her possessive flying dupattas. I couldn't wait
for his stone cold heart to crumble and melt into the warm and loving
embrace of the young, zany, middle class girl who really didn't know
about love herself.
They
had a common link, orphaned at a young age from parental tragedies and
both were raised in loving homes in Lucknow, only causing both to be
stronger individuals. They were complete opposites as well, ASR didn't
care about anyone or anything, power and money and he himself were his
gods while KKG was powered by her devotion to Devi Maiiya, sanskars and
tradition.
Their
paths crossed with Devi Maiyya intervening many a time. Starting from
Khushi being at the wrong place at the right time where she met the
infamous and furious ASR, falling into his arms and ruining his show
right before his eyes and as those eyes gazed at the dazzler in his arms
and her pink luscious lips... to her dupatta flowing freely over his
face caressing him lovingly... to her holding the key to his wish... to
her scooter running into his car even though they moved to a different
state... to Khushi being hired by his company and her unintentionally
ruining a fur coat for a VIP model and that's when he noticed, really
noticed the beauty in red.
How
could she make him feel this way...stirring things inside of him he
didn't really care to understand, he chose not to understand or want.
Walls went up, anger took over and revenge settled into his heart. He
would not feel this way and this was his punishment to her; so he sent
her out in the rain to park cars and made her work extra long hours
knowing she had to go home for her sister's birthday and then banished
her to the guest house all deteriorated and decrepit, ready to fall in a
instant only to realize she was stuck there and off he went to her
rescue late at night where he was confronted by a lioness and the battle
really started.
Anger took over and as much as he pushed her away she came in front of him.
Devi Maiyya had other plans for them.
So
I sat at the edge of my bed waiting and watching, biting my nails,
palms sweating and heart racing in anticipation for those plans to
unfold. I waited and watched, as our couple hated each other, argued,
fell upon each other, and continued to come together over and over again
and again I waited and watched Devi Maiyya's plans unfold.
Watching
Lavanya become his live-in girlfriend was not easy. She was the
arrogant ringleader at work who hated Khushi but Khushi was there to
rescue and help her out at the Raizada Mansion making her fit into the
role of bahu of the Raizada household. Anjali and Naniji loved Khushi
from the beginning since her sari selling days and were her greatest
champions and Devi Maiiya's matchmakers on earth. We see Khushi's magic
change a girl like Lavanya into a proper bahu for that same Raizada
household only for Khushi to find herself attracted to the man she
longed to hate and avoid at every turn. She didn't understand what was
happening to her but something was pulling her to him, stirring deep
inside to her soul...a lifemate perhaps?
I
hated Shyam with my whole being even from the earliest I can remember.
He just made my skin crawl and I must say Abbhas did an excellent job
portraying his character. The plot thickened with Shyam weaseling
himself in as a paying guest at the Gupta house. He followed them there
from Lucknow where he first saw and saved Khushi from some very sleazy
goons and they didn't forget the favor. So the innocent Guptas made a
place for him in their home and he was a perfect candidate for marriage
with the Sanka
Devi,
Khushi. Babuji's illness was brought about by the evil Shyam for his
scheme to marry Khushi. In their helplessness it would be good to have
another man around the house and someone who could take care of at least
one of the marriageable aged sisters.
I
was still at the edge of my bed, sitting on pins and needles as I
watched Khushi hatch a plan to sabotage a business trip so Lavanya and
ASR could be alone but needless to say our Devi Maiyya gave Lavanya a
zit and alas the vain woman couldn't go but Khushi wound up in ASR's
trunk unconscious due to a knock on her noggin' and there she went
instead of La.
What ensued changed everything.
A
trust built in a very strange way between them. He was angry at
first...of course he would be after all she put sugar in the gas tank.
So they walked through the woods and she had to trust him. He lost her
for a while for she was forbidden to speak and she fell in a sinkhole
and he panicked a little until he found her. Her clothes were stolen
and she was left with bridal attire so when they stopped at a roadside
stand they were assumed to be eloped lovers.
Oh
yes, she made him suffer. Dancing away, Khushi happily let go of her
inhibitions and her hips swayed and the beauty in all her glory
mesmerized him. He scooped her up, after all it was their "suhaag
raat", and brought her to their honeymoon suite where he dumped her on a
chair and furiously he left her there all night to sleep in the cold
dark living room as he slammed the bedroom door. Honeymoon over.
I
saw another side of ASR that episode because when he woke up and went
to check on the now unconscious Khushi, he swept her off the chair
brought her to the bed and cared for her so lovingly you would think she
was his wife. I saw a changing ASR and a little bit of the cold in his
heart was warming as he gave her medicine and held her glass for her to
drink. I sighed.
On
the way home Khushi was mistaken for that runaway bride who stole her
clothes and after seeing Khushi manhandled by a goon, Arnav in a fit of
rage beat the living daylights out of the goons until Khushi called out
his name and placed her calming hand on his shoulder to stop. I sighed
again.
What was going on? Was he changing? Iss Pyaar Ko Kya naam Doon?
Upon
the couples return Khushi finds out about Babuji's illness and he is in
the hospital. She goes with great despair. She can't lose her parent
again. I sat there crying feeling Khushi's pain and sadness.
I just knew she needed a hug, someone to support her and then there he was...
There
were so many times in this show where he supported her as she crept
into his heart. She allowed the cold walls of doubt, distrust, hate and
fear to melt away from his heart and she built in him trust, friendship
and support and a place where he had no fear to feel and he could feel
love was safe. His attraction to her kept growing but his denial was
great and he continued to push her away but again Devi Maiyya knew there
destiny. Through twists and turns, misunderstandings and deceptions the
plot thickened and our couple fell in love with fairy lights, lit diyas
and poolside as its backdrop. Enchanted by the other and mesmerizing
gazes across the room, something stirring, iss pyaar ko kya naam doon?
He followed his attraction, her eyes and lips beckoned him that night at
poolside, a gaze of permission perhaps but he couldn't control himself
any longer and he surrendered by attempting a kiss. A kiss that was so
breathtaking that had us on the edge of our seats again only to be
interrupted by reality's ringing of his phone. That night he returned
to her, her mother's precious payal that he had in his keeping- holding
close to him but all was destroyed with reality's ring and an engagement
announcement took place instead. He would hurt her and push her
further away. ASR announced his intent to marry La.
Through
twists and turns, again our IPK took us to the limits wanting to hate
La but we couldn't, wanting ASR to openly confess his love to Khushi and
he didn't, but we saw a self centered woman change into a caring
respectable human being and became mature as she realized that the man
she loved and wanted to marry loved someone else even though he never
would admit it. So La left us and I actually cried, did you?
IPK did that to me, to us, it let us love every character developed or undeveloped, even a goat named Laxmi.
Iss
Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Continued with more storylines and we were
still waiting with anticipation for this love bud to bloom into the
rose.
This
love remained unspoken and I delighted in all the crazy scenarios as
well (as the entry of NK, Khushi BFF) and then was destroyed finally by a
misconstrued incident by a devious, deceptive, lying and cheating
husband and BIL. Trust was broken and I cried so much, it was heart
wrenching to see their pain.
It's hard to even write about.
We
all know what happened next with the following tracks... the forced
marriage, Gupta House, the bridge and Revelation of Shyam Part 1,
Arnav's kidnapping, The revealing of "I love you, Khushi", the search is
on with detectives Mami and Khushi, Dadi's entry, Arnav's Safe, the
Revelation of Shyam Part 2, Anjali's Accident and Miscarriage and
Remarriage of A&K with Garima's Truth, The Revelation of Shyam Part 3
and then all the silly story lines after that I choose not to even
acknowledge but I still watched on the edge of my bed in anticipation.
Iss
Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? a Hindi serial, which although off the air,
still stays with us. We gather in threads on this Forum, pagal in love
with the show's story and the actors. We haven't forgotten, nor will
we.
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?
Has
been our journey from hate to love, from sadness to happiness and
because of this show we gather together united in love as sisters. We
transcend every nationality, creed and even age for we have a common
bond, a show with brilliant actors that taught us that hate can become
love,
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?
😉
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