#it always comes back to ek ladki let’s be real

[dadboddean]

getting straightbaited is something that can be so healing

[inspirationjyoti]

A happy housewife (homemaker).... Yes aapne sahi padha. This is what I am now. Aur ye mujhe ab, yaani shaadi ke 1.9 years ke baad realise hua. Vaise, to be frank, ghar ke bado ne decide ye kia tha ki main shaadi ke baad job nahi kar sakti. Lekin ab me sochti hu, ki job karni hi kyu hai. According to me, as a girl, there are two reasons for doing a job... Ya to paisa ya to respect. Lekin jab yehi do cheezein mujhe apne comfort zone me ghar baithe mil rahi hai toh what is the point of exhausting myself after a job or money.

Now you must be thinking ki someone like me, jisne hamesha apni studies pe focus kia hai, apni sisters aur friends ko independent banne ki, job karne ki advice di hai, vo aisi baatein kar rahi h.. ki padho aur housewife ban jao. Pakka dimaag kharab ho gya hoga.. But wait..wait... wait...

I am absolutely fit and fine.😃

Even now, I am not saying ki mat padho, ya mat independent bano. Nah.. this is not my thing. Ofcourse a girl should study to the farthest point jitna vo padhna chaahti hai aur jitna uski kismat allow karti hai, har ladki ko independent hona chaiye taaki vo society me respect ke saath reh sake. And specially in this kalyug vala scenario, jisme har dusra aadmi aurat ko apne se kam samajhta hai. Ye sab hum apne gharon me (exceptions are always there) notice karte h. I believe a girl should always be self- sufficient enough ki apne chhote chhote kaam...jaise bank account khulwana, online fee pay karna, public transport me travel karna etc. (a long list to go) khud kar sake.

Coming back, i was saying ki I am a happy homemaker.. yes... i did my best. Jitna mujhse ho sakta tha maine kiya. Jitna apni limits me rehkar me explore kar skti thi maine kia (praising myself a bit). In terms of education, i am proud to say ki apni bachelor's, masters sab acche se ki with an impressive grade. Uske baad, with my dedication I cleared JRF- NET as well as GATE with good ranks (top 50), sacchi, i am not lying.. I can even show you my score card (DM me ☺️). Itne hardwork ke baad, what I expected from my life was that I will live a life full of sukooooon. But lol, couldn't find that sukoon, not in being an online tutor (resigned from private company), not in offline tutoring ( quit tuitions conducted at my home), not in PhD (mostly logo ko lagta h ki maine shaadi ki vajah se chhodi). Is that something too much I expected from my life???

After 24.9 years of my student life, mere lucky stars aur parents ne decide kia ki I should get married. At that time, I was so stressed from my professional life ki mujhe apni life me ek major change chaiye tha, and I said yes for the marriage. And I think that 24-26 is an ideal age (after that wrinkles start appearing) for girls to get married.

And now...it's me jo keh rahi hai ki I am a happy homemaker. I believe that life me sabse jyada important hai ki hum khud apni life se kitna satisfied hai.. I know kuch soch rahe h ki me paagal hu, mujhe akal nai hai, maine apni padhai apna career chhod dia aur shaadi kar li.

Lekin sirf mujhe pata hai ki maine apne career k liye kitni mehnat ki hai, aur shayad jo mujhse close hai unhe pata hai. But I know... ki kismat se jyada aur waqt se pehle kisi ko kuch nahi milta. Toh me kyu apni lakeeron se ladu, insaan se to hum lad skte hai par apne khuda se nai lad skte.

Log kya kahege, career, job, money, in sabse upar kuch hai mere liye, aur vo hai mera sukoon. Ab jab apne pati ka haath pakad kar me raat ko soti hu na (getting a little personal), toh i just have one thing in mind... Thank you God .. I love my life..

Is there any career that can give me itna sukoon? May be there is.. but this is not the perfect time for me. So let me enjoy this phase of my real life happily and my god will decide what's the best for me.

Have a lot more to say.. but I will end up by saying....

My life is not perfect, but I am grateful.

Stay in touch ☺️. Stay happy.

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[tellywoodtrash]

immj2 27+28.11.20 lbs

27.11.20

lmao i was gonna get suuuuuuper mad at kabir for being in her room but then he’s like:

“hi.”

....................... and i instantly snorted happily. vishal is realllllllllly just so likable that i just can’t with him anymore. i love when adorable marshmallows like him and shrenu play evil. you just cannot fucking hate them!

blah blah humaara kamra, mera kamra nonsense.

shaadi ka joda gift. with that tackyyyyyyyyyyyyassss KABIR KI RIDDHIMA written on it. main marr jaooon par kabhi bhi aisa kuch na pehnoon, no matter how much i love the guy.

“kuch hi derr mein tum VANSH ki riddhima se, KABIR ki riddhima ho jaogi.” coz even in 2020, women are nothing but chattel to be passed on from one man to another.

riddhima is thinking fat chance, bitch.

telling him she’ll never wear red for him, coz “laal pyaar ka rang hota hai, aur main sirf ek insaan se pyaar karti hoon, aur woh hai vansh.”

“toh yeh bhi vansh ke paise se hi liya hai.” lmaooooooooo

ghani beizzati by saying she’s already bought a joda for herself, a white one. which honestly looks muchhhhhhhhhh nicer than the red one acc. to me but ok.

vansh checking his account balance and seeing that there’s charges for two wholeass designer jodas bought for a shaadi that’s not even gonna happen:

anyway kabir’s like ok who cares, colour doesn’t matter, shaadi toh tumhari honi hai mujhse blah blah.

kabir doesn’t like mandap setup. coz all white. and apparently aryan was in charge of it? coz he’s getting dragged by the collar for it.

good. i don’t feel any sympathy.

ishani is like dekh liya nateeeja iss loserrrrrrrr ki khushaamad karne ka? when has vansh ever treated you like this no matter how mad he’s gotten at you? he always protected you.

behen kyun bhains ke aage been bajaa rahi ho? yeh manhoos baaz nahi aana.

ishani flounced away and aryan’s now vowing revenge against kabir. abbe yaar, tera list toh kabhi khata hi nahi hota.

why the fuck are these ppl soooooooooo dressed up for a wedding they don’t even want to participate in? itna toh main apni genuine shaadi ke liye naa sajjjjjjoon.

suddenly ishani is allllll about bado ka sammaaan and parampara, pratishthaaaaa, anushaasan and all. lmao ok?????

tod di choodi uski kalaayi par. jaisa bhai, waisiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii hi behen.

shaadi mubarak indeed. lol.

riddhima’s calling vihaan and freakingout ki woh paise leke bhaag gaya. you are so fucking stupid sis, why would you give him that much fucking money BEFORE HE EVEN SHOWED THE FUCK UP??????????

“tum thodi weird nahi ho????” bhai obvious sawaal naa pooch.

anyway he’s like calm yo tits, untwist your panties, i’ll get there on time.

kabir instead of fixing his maatam waala mandap is back skulking around vihaan’s container box house. ladki ko shaadi karni bhi nahi hai and she’s sitting there ready from 3 hours before, aur yeh, jissko shaadi ki utaavli chadhi thi, is out doing randomassssss jasoosi, coz that’s the priority rn. sounds legit. 

VIHAAN THE DUMBASS TOOK OFF THE CCTV CAMERA AND PACKED IT. GOD YOU’RE ALLLLLLLLLLL FUCKING AQAL KE DUSHMAN IN THIS SHOW.

kabir sneaking in with gunnnnnnn.

how the fuck am i supposed to take him seriously with these bachchon waale sports shoes?!!?!?!? GIVE THE MAN HIS COMBAT BOOTS BACK SO HELP ME GODDDDDD

he’s peeking in the door and making some threatening statements about oh ho yeh hai tumhara plan, main sab khatammmmm kar doonga and all, but we never see wtf he’s looking at and this show is fulllllllllllll of red herrings, so........ idc.

riddhima putting on previous mangalsutra for this wedding and..... guts toh hai bandi main. badiii dheent hai.

mummy coming and saying blah blah usse utaar do this is your new mangalsutra and lmaoooooooooooooo

this is the tackiest fucking shit i’ve ever seen in my life. what’s with their obsession of putting their name on everything!?!!!?!!? what are you, an eight grader?!?!!?!?

anyway, bored with this ainvayi ki dhamki waala scene, fwding.

blah blah 2 ghante mein kaunsa chamatkaar hona hai and all......... WHY ARE YOU PPL SO DAMN OVERCONFIDENT????

meanwhile kabir is back and now harassing dadi. KISI KO TOH AKELA CHOD DE.  

actually, lmao, i’d love to see him go try this shit on ishani and angre. it would be fucking glooooooooooorious lololololol.

anyway, he wants dadi’s aashirwaad in the form of vansh’s saafa (pagdi/turban). ABBE YAAAAAAAAAAR. USKE UNDERWEAR DRAWER SE JAAKE USKI CHADDI BHI LEKE PEHEN. ITNAAAAAAAAA WANNABE VILLAIN MAINE AAJ TAK NAHI DEKHA. HADHHHHHHH HAI.

chikni chupdi baatein ki i’m just trying to be the son vansh was to this house. if i wear his saafa, it’s like uski aashirwaad aur duaein meri saath hongi.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PICTURE VANSH’S FACE IS LITERALLY LIKE

anyway dadi is like really really fucking hurt by this and my god i wanna fucking murder kabir.

she’s literally telling him to pick anything else, it’s vansh’s nishaani and he’s like aap sab ke paas koi na koi nishaani hai, mere paas apne bhai ki koiiiiiiiii nishaani nahi hai blah blah and oh my god, this is truly the most villainous thing kabir has done, being thisssssss fucking emotionally manipulative. the absolute fuckkkkkkkk.

ugh anyway long story short. baandh diya dadi ne ukso saafa. bloody nonsense.

poor dadi phoot phoot ki ro rahi hai ki she’s losing vansh bit by bit. awwwww man it’s genuinely heartbreaking.

riddhima has witnessed this and is about to fuckkkkkk shit up lolll. 

lmaoooooooooooo dayum.

wtf is your problem, i’m marrying you, why are you torturing the fam like this blah blah. kabir like physical, emotional, moral sabbbbbbbbbbb tarah se tod ke rakh doonga inn sabko and ugh god i just really fucking hate him.

but damn he just looks really good in this sherwani and hair all mussed up.

anyway he’s doing some real messed-up, genocidal dictator kinda talk and phew. is just askinggggggggg to be murdered.

and then lmao he abruptly switched to “bohut khoobsurat lag rahi ho tum; time kya ho raha hai???? ooooooh ek ghanta baaki hai.” and i legittttttt lol’d at the way he delivered it. I HATE VISHAL FOR NOT LETTING ME HATE KABIR IN PEACEEEEEEEEE.

riddhima panic-calling vihaan, wants to go check on him. mummy ne pakad liya, room mein badh kar diya coz K told her to handle riddhima’s bhagodi dulhan ways.

great. riddhima’s having a breakdown.

motivational call from the choti sarrdaarni. she kinda just looks like a tall baby shivangi joshi had with aditi dev sharma????

le, doosre show waale heroine ko bhi pata hai kabir kameena hai, iss show mein 3 episode pehle pata chala issko.

ok is the choti sarrdaarni delusional and having a make-believe phone call with the protagonist of her favt tv show IMMJ, coz she knows waaaaay more details than even the people in this house know about the plot and what went down. she’s talking about how vansh aakhri pal tak ladta raha and riddhima’s like huh, news to me, i just got there in time to see him spout some ghatiya shayari and then throw himself off a cliff.

anyway riddhima seems to have gotten strength from this deranged phone call, so............. good for her, i guess.

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28.11.20

next ep just abruptly started with kabir and mummy in riddhima’s room threatening her and i just.......... dude, whatever. i’m just gonna skim through this ep coz i know it’s just filler shit till literally the last 1 minute. 

OK HE’S MANHANDLING HER AGAIN AND FUCKKKKKKKKKKK

dang helly looked evennnnnnnn younger in the first eps. legit baby face. at least now they’ve aged her up a lil with the makeup and styling.

he’s saying don’t bother waiting, no one is gonna come. OH BOY. VIHAAN ARE YOU OK????? ARE YOU OK??????? ARE YOU OK VIHAAN?!?!?!?!?

cue riddhima’s panic attack.

lmao kabir telling mummy ki iss shaadi mein ab koi speedbreaker nahi hai lol. heavy foreshadowing that ab se everything that can go wrong is definitely gonna go wrong.

suddenly at the speed of light kabir is back at the container home in his sherwani and saafa and holding vihaan at gunpoint????

oh. sapna tha riddhima ka. ouff. this stupid show has tooooo fucking many dream sequences.

someone give this bitch a klonopin coz watching her is making my anxiety shoot up.

mummy comes into room 2 min later and sees riddhima sleeping ghoongattttt and all. SURE. NOT SUS AT ALL THAT A BRIDE DYING OF ANXIETY WOULD TAKE A NAP 30 MIN BEFORE THE CEREMONY IN FULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OUTFIT. TOTALLY A THING THAT HAPPENS.

DUDE SHE PULLED A NURSE WAALI HARKAT AGAIN. LMAOOOOOOOOO. KISKO SULAAAAAKE AAYI HAI TU, AAFAT?!?!?!!?

askdjasldkjlsakdjlaskjdlaskjdlaskjdlkas. ALSO THE FACT THAT MUMMY RECOGNIZED HER FROM HER PRESS ON NAILS. LMAOOOOOOOOOO I CAN’T EVEN WITH THIS SHOW.

LMAO RIDDHIMA YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

lol mummy has to call and give bad news to kabir. and i am sad we didn’t get to see his volcanic reaction, which no doubt would have been epicccccccccccc.

10 MINUTES TO THE CEREMONY. VR MANSION IS 20 MIN AWAY FROM THE CONTAINER HOUSE (AS STATED BY V BEFORE) AND THIS SIS IS...........

RE DEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

she finally got in and the whole place is empty. he practically lives in a storage unit, you telling me he went and moved his stuff to a whole different storage unit?????

new freakout within the pre-existing panic attack: kabir ne vihaan ko saaf kar diya ya vihaan paise leke bhaag gaya??

cut to fb: riddhima asking V all earnestly ki tum dhoka toh nahi doge na????

HIS ASS ACTUALLY SAID, LEMME TELL YOU A FACT ABOUT ME: I LOVE MY MOM. I SWEAR ON HER I WON’T BETRAY YOU. 

AND SHE STILL DIDN’T GET THAT HE’S VANSH. MY GODDDDDDDD.

she’s like nope vihaan gave mummy promise so he won’t give dhoka. ah yes, the most sacred and inviolable of promises.

toh bacha alternative ki kabir has vihaan. 4th simultaneous panic attack in a panic attack. someone sedate this bitch.

aaaaaaaaaand kabir has sent a video of a bomb in VR mansion below the mandap. great.

and now he’s calling to say ki get your ass back home or imma scramble these eggheads called the raisinghanias.

lmao the bomb is counting forwards instead of backwards????

mummy saying MY BETA SMAAAAAARTEST. haan, tha..... kisi zamaane mein. ab nihaayati bewakoof ho gaya hai.

lmao kabir accosted a passing by angre and is like you need to be loyal to me as you were to vansh and lol angre’s like saaf saaf shabdon mein, fuckkkkkkk off.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KABIR WENT TO HURL THE NAARIYAL AT ANGRE’S RETREATING HEAD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MAN HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE HIM HE’S SO FUCKING HILARIOUS

lmao he goes to phodofy naariyal and:

abhi bappa ko huullllllllll de raha hai. overconfidence ki hadh toh dekho.

riddhima is back and hunting for the bomb and kabir comes bouncing the fake bomb around and she’s legit like TUMNE MUJHSE JHOOOOOT BOLA?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? lol bitch, seriously???? because he’s been the paragon of truth and virtue up until this moment??????

“apna hulia sudhaar ke aao. 5 min mein mrs. kabir banne waali ho. thoda standard toh match karo.” lmaooooo the sasss and disdaaaaaain he said that withhhhhh. boy knows he’s looking damn good today.

anyway blah blah shaadi has started. dadi is sad af. to the point where ishani is looking really concerned. i really love this soft ishani.

“kaash samay ka paiyya ulta ghoom jaaye aur mera vansh wapis aa jaaye mere paas.”

dadi, shoulda asked for world peace instead. just the one wish you had and you wasted it on getting your hellion pota back. 

some more in-room threatening of riddhima by mummy. while riddhima is throwing out last minute prayers to bappa and vihaan ki bas just do something and stop this whole shitshow.

vihaan ka toh pata nahi, the shady fuck, but bappa like:

i gotchu girl.

bhaari bhaari flashback waali walk down the stairs.

HE EVEN SAID THE MAA LINE AS VIHAAN IN THE VANSH VOICE. SHE GOTTA BE SOOOOO FUCKING STUPID MY GODDDDDDD.

ouffffff so much time wasteeeeeeeeeee.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand....................

watch that he was wearing while falling off the cliff? ✅✅✅

wedding ring that was not found on the dead body????? ✅✅✅

“YEH SHAADI NAHI HO SAKTI” booooooooming across the whole damn neighbourhood in the fakest deep voice everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr???? ✅✅✅

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precap:

haan yeh sab toh theek hai.............. 😕😕😕

par asli sexxxxxxxxx waali chemistry idhar hai!!!!!!!! UNFFFFFF. 🤩🤩🤩

[delilahmidnight]

Finally rewatched Ek Ladki on Netflix n I have some more Thoughts (tm)

whenever either of the girls move you can always hear the jingle of churiyan or phirande n I love it 😍😍😍

when Kuhu surprises Sweety in the dressing room n hugs Sweety n she closes her eyes... 😍😍romance....

(Like seriously is that the tightest hug Sweety has ever given or gotten I think yes probably)

"mind-shattering"

the HEIGHT DIFFERENCE esp at the end when they're on stage about to be fake force-married n they're clinging onto each other 😭😭😭

n like I know ppl give Sweety shit for her "I wish we were normal" line but come on, the girl knows exactly one other person in the whole world like herself and she literally thinks she's gonna have to run away or kill herself bc she won't ever be happy otherwise, she's entitled to a little Lesbian Loneliness(tm)/Gay Depression (tm), give the kid a break

(n I'm mostly saying this bc I know exactly how she feels n it's been a cause of many of my friendships ending bc ppl couldn't stand to be around someone so depressed n I still get bouts of the Gay "Will I Ever Be Happy"s so like....lay off her or I'll skin you lmao)

N likewise lay off Kuhu bc she right, you can't just wallow in yr Gay Loneliness(tm) forever, you have to be brave enough to claim your own happiness and I know it's fucking hard but we have to at least try

Chhatro ji and Billo Aunty are the real heros in this story ngl, Chhatro knows there's smth going on as soon as Sahil says Kuhu is playing the other lover n everyone else is outraged but she has this look on her face n then she looks at Kuhu.....n she knows

and then she convinces Balbir with one line to try it, and again n again every time he has doubts it's Chhatro who pushes him to keep going

n also Billo Aunty for letting Sweety borrow her phone n also taking her to the gurdwara AND ALSO when she sees Balbir n Virji leaving the house pissed off she goes straight after them to make sure nothing bad happens

When baby Sweety's in the box.....big oof

WHEN BALBIR SEES HIS OWN LITTLE SWEETY IN THE BOX AND THEN BIG SWEETY N HE FIANLLY.....GETS IT

WHEN BALBIR SAYS I'D SACRIFICE THE WORLD FOR YOUR HAPPINESS N THEN HES JSSUT .....OVERCOME WITH EMOTION N HE HAS TO FCKING....BEND OVER N COVER HIS FACE TO CRY. THAT'S HOW YOU BE A DESI DAD

Like seriously my cousins have always said my dad looks like Anil Kapoor and it always annoyed him but in this movie he even acts like my dad n I wish my dad would watch this and see me

And the Biji reminds me so much of my Nani n her sisters, especially when Sahil comes to touch her feet while she's knitting in the Good Morning song 💗

So much of this movie is about being seen as a requisite to being loved like.....all the eyes Sweety draws in her diaries, how the only pictures of her looking at the camera are when she's with Kuhu, how Virji's eyes are always on her but he obviously doesn't really see her, like when it takes him minutes to notice Sweety standing in the door watching him bully that little boy, and when Kuhu comes back she sees her first thru the mirror and when she's talking about being normal she's reflected twice in the mirrors, one with Kuhu n one without, n in the poster for the show she's looking into a mirror but we're seeing her, n how her daddy finally sees her, and thats how he understands...põethíque cïněmâ

Basically I'll love this movie until I die because no piece of media has ever spoken to my soul the way this movie did thanks for coming to my TedTalk

[coughkaesque]

Hello ladies time for my annual post. @prehistories #taggedt me to post my current top ten songs. But like I'm a GEMINI I don't even know if I HAVE PREFERENCES. Am I real?? Are we HUMAN? Or are we DANCER? I decided to just play my Favorites playlist on Spotify on shuffle and pick the ten songs that come on that make me feel something profound, so pop in your preferred SSRI and let's go for a ride.

1. World At Large - Modest Mouse

"Well, uh-uh, baby, I ain't got no plan/ Well I'll float on, maybe, won't you understand?"

"I know that starting over's not what life's about/ But my thoughts were so loud I couldn't hear my mouth"

I'm experiencing something called "feelings"... U won't get it :///

2. Jameson - Zella Day

"I watched your fingers point at the blame/ It's the darkest of grey when you explain/ I'm not a follower, and I won't follow you down"

"I waited in the street outside/ Sat in my car til my tears dried/ I'm justifying people with pain/ Tonight"

... I'm a Virgo moon what do u WANT from me!!

3. Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde

"I'm a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm/ And the scars that mark my body, they're silver and gold/ My blood is a flood of rubies, previous stones/ It keeps my veins hot, the fire's found a home in me"

Wig.

4. Waiting Room - Sjowgren

"When you say it's all in vain/ All we really want is it to be okay with us/ I know we're gonna get it right/ Cuz I believe in everything"

"You gotta remember to take the high road/ Silver lining's not so thin, you know/ Sadness does you no good/ No good"

Just bounce on the bed, headbanging and shouting the song into your hairbrush microphone.

5. Good Morning - Ralph Castelli

"I've been gone for quite some time/ Now you can decide/ if I look any older/ If I stand any taller/ If I've seen the sun in weeks/ If my voice is deeper, see?/ I'm a different person/ Than I was before"

"It's a good morning just for/ All the finer things in life/ It's not so black and white/ It's a good morning, mister/ It's a good morning just for/ It's a perfect day to be alive/ It's a perfect day to be alive"

One night, I fell asleep wrapped up in my comforter and the next morning I woke up and felt like a bright and strong-winged moth emerging from some stale dusty cocoon; it was the perfect day to be alive.

6. From the Dining Table - Harry Styles

"Comfortable silence is so overrated/ Why won't you ever be the first one to break?/ Even my phone misses your call, by the way"

"Maybe one day you'll call me and tell me that you're sorry too/ But you, you never do"

Okay we're back to being depressed on main. Wouldn't it be ridiculous if the person who this is about read this?

7. Judy You Hung the Moon - Harbour

"And you don't see yourself the way that I see you/ If it's the last thing I do I'll find a way to make you see it too"

Those posts people made circa 2012 about being born in the wrong era and wishing they were born in the 50s seemed so corny until I heard this song. And now I want to put my hair in a high pony tail and curl the end into a tight ringlet, put on a full circle skirt and a cardigan and go swing dancing with my letterman jacket wearing jock s/o at the local malt shoppe. It's just such a sweet song about youthfulness and freedom.

8. Me and My Husband - Mitski

"I steal a few breaths from the world for a minute/ And then I'll be nothing forever/ And all of my memories/ And all of the things I have seen will be gone/ With my eyes, with my body"

When I first heard these lyrics it was like I realized something that was always beneath the surface and finally popped out like a bubble. There's such a vast and intricate labyrinth of thoughts in our minds and the whole thing will come crumbling down when we die, leaving no trace of it's existence, even though it's monumental and ever present for us.

9. Side A - Alohaha

This "song" is very much like a cassette tape, and Side A is comprised of 5 individual songs as such that flow thematically one to the other. The whole "song" is fifteen minutes long but it's so tranquil and hypnotic, you don't tire of it.

10. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha - Kumar Sanu

"Ek ladki ko dekha to aisa laga/Jaise khilta gulaab/ Jaise shaayar a khwaab/ Jaise ujli kiran/ Jaise van mein hiran/ Jaise chandni raat/ Jaise narami ki baat/ Jaise mandir mein ho ek jalta diya"

This is best I can do at transliterating Hindi into English alphabet. This passage loosely translates to: how I felt upon seeing this girl was like a rose blooming, like a poet contemplating, like a blazing ray of light, like a deer in the woods, like a moonlit night, like a soft-spoken word, like a single lit lamp in a temple.

I'll pass the torch on to @shibbymonstermariah, @vulvva, @melonlordtiberius, @officialburger, @rniko, and every Scorpio on the planet.

[tellywoodtrash]

ishqbaaz 26.07.17 lb

plain text version here. 

back to the girls kicking asssssssssss. woooooo hooooo! 

i especially love how anika seems to have a lot of pent up rage that she’s expending on these no-names. 🙃🙃🙃

why is poor rudra being the one targeted? shoot shivaay. he’s the annoying one. 🙄🙄🙄

LMFAO WHAT EVEN... I... 😯😯😯😧😧😧

after a long day of work, i just want a little of whatever gulneet are smoking while writing scenes like these. it would really me unwind. 😌😌😌

“humaare achche khaase show ki kya haalat kar rahe ho, gulneet????” 

OMFG I... i really can’t... I JUST HAVE NO WORDS. I JUST DON’T. 🤐🤐🤐

best part of this: kapde are coming righhhhhhhhhhhht off (who knew tearaway salwar kameezes exist, just like tearaway track suits?), and rudra, THE LOVE INTEREST, closes his eyes, but shivaay is just like: 

“khud ki biwi toh kuch dikhaati nahi. i’ll take what i can get, i guess. sorry, baby bro.” 

(om is me. wondering where to find some of gulneet’s maal. puff puff pass, plz.) 

oufff, i just have to fwd. i can not tolerate this garbage. i’m a rabid feminist and all, but this is fucking ridiculous ok? 😑😑😑

never thought i’d relate to pinky these days, but she’s the luckiest one to faint, than have to witness this. 😐😐😐

presenting - the incredible hulk singh oberoi. ain’t no one touching that baby on his watch. HULK SMASH HIM, SHIVAAY! 👿👿👿

baby be like “my tiny dad is angry. must be serious. 😕😕😕” 

oh my goddddddddddd the water was left on! RUDRA YOU FUCKING IDIOT. WHO DOES THAT???????????? 😧😧😧

mom’s hereeeeeeeee. 😊😊😊

bitch, if YOU of all ppl can get attached to the baby this soon, then she’s an infinitely more kind and empathetic human being. 😒😒😒

yep. time to fuck husband up for his awaiiii ki herobaazi. 😂😂😂

lol, he has the same complaints regarding her and her random dispensing of thappads. 🤣🤣🤣

alllllllll the faraqs. 😚😚😚

baby is getting kissed as a proxy. mom and dad very much want to kiss each other instead. 👪🏽👪🏽👪🏽

pffffffffffft. khanna ko finally hosh aaya. i’m not even going to talk about their security nonsense. 😒😒😒

... where is jhanvi supp to be? is this pune? why is she in the oberoi mansion bathroom then? 😐😐😐

daaaaaaaaaamn jhanvi, that highlight game. #glowAlert 😍😍😍

I FUCKING LOVE THIS TRACK OF SVETLANA BEING IN TEAM JHANVI OK. I LOVE SVETLANA. I LOVE HER SO MUCH. 😭😭😭😭

when svetlana inspires more love in me than one of your female leads *clears throat* you knowwwwww you gotta write that one character better. 😐😐😐

ouff, this MAAAAAAAAAAAA (lol @vishwaspur and her nicknames mannnnnnnn. they’re so addictive.) is so dead behind the eyes. i don’t like this actress at allllllllll. 😒😒😒

oufffff, what is this nonsense Bhavya Bhajan???? the most loved bahu here is Anika, and even she isn’t THAAAAAAAAAAT educated, so what even are you talking about, MAAAAAAAAAAA? 😑😑😑

oh thank god, omkara is here to set her straight. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

*crying* OMKIIIIIIIIII. MY OMKIIIIIIIIIII. 😭😭😭😭

... what does he mean DUSRE BAHUON. there’s just one other bahu. awaiiiii writers bhavya ko family mein ghusaane ki koshish. like what do these ppl even know about bhavya???? she’s been assigned to this family on official duty. she could have a boyfriend for all they know!!!!!!!!! matlab, kuch bhiiiiiiiiiiiii? 😒😒😒

also, pretty sure anika hasn’t gone to college. finished high school and that’s it. 😐😐😐

gauri be like “shit. there he goes being perfect again and making me fall in love. i really don’t need this bs right now.” 😫😫😫

... did nakuul get another haircut? and are his highlights gone now???? OMG DARE WE HOPE @theincorrigiblemagpie??? 😩😩😩

husband has all the feelz seeing wife + baby in his bed again. everything is right with the world again. for tonight. 😍😍😍

hee hee hee, omkara ne chori pakadddddddd li. 😆😆😆

oh no. don’t be building up anika - baby relationship like thisssss. this is hard enough as it issss. 😭😭😭

ouff shivaay, could you be more in love with her???????? honestly. might as well just tattoo it on your forehead. 🙄🙄🙄

omki be like “this stubborn idiot. time for me to open a can of truth on him.” 

ooooooooooh bringing back that controversial scene of DBO. 😯😯😯

“KYUNKI TU DUNIYA KA SABSE BADA BEWAKOOF HAI.” 

observation: rudra’s love for anika is the purest and most unconditional. he will pick her even over shivaay when the situation calls for it. but omkara is the one who understands how well she fits into shivaay’s life, and how integral she is to his happiness, and he will always fight for her rightful place by shivaay’s side. his loyalties lie firmly with shivaay, so he won’t pick anika OVER him, but he will always call shivaay out on his BS and make him realise anika’s true worth. 😌😌😌

“baat karne laayak kuch bacha nahi hai ab.”

oh my heart, shivaay’s heartbroken face and omki’s look. *cries for all eternity* 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

i swear to god, shivaay is the biggest fucking idiot of them all - why isn’t he using his brain to think even onceeee that om was the one who anika offended the MOST that day - and he’s here fighting tooth and nail FOR her and telling shivaay to get her back. NOT EVEN ONCE IS HE QUESTIONING WHY IS OM SUPPORTING ANIKA SO MUCH????? godddddddddd. 😫😫😫😫😣😣😣😣

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS RETURN OF THIS POEM! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

omki, you’re so wise and beautiful. i love you so much. you magnificent poetry spouting unicorn. 🦄🦄🦄

oh great. these two are having an angsty fight that i really don’t give a shit about. 🙄🙄🙄

“... lekin aap bhool rahi hai ki aap ek ladki hai...”

*record scratch noise* BITCH WHAT YOU SAY?????????? WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING???? YO MAN BHAVYA, DO ONE OF YOUR 360 ROUNDHOUSE KICKS AND KICK HIS TEETH IN. 😒😒😒

i really don’t get the TONE of this argument? how can you ANGRILY DEMAND that someone share their problems with you? like... 🤔🤔🤔

this whole argument is just weird. and i feel zero connect to it. like i feel a little bad for rudra, but... 😕😕😕

yo ppl, svetlana/jhanvi is my current hot otp of this show and nothinggggg can make me change my mind ok???? I FUCKING SHIP IT SO MUCH. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

IS JHANVI A FUCKING IDIOT??????????? DESPITE ALL THIS PROOF????????? 😧😧😧

TEAM UP, MY QUEENS???? TEAM THE F UP AND SCREW HIM OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😈😈😈

lol, this is just footage of surbhi playing with the baby. too adorable. 😘😘😘

ouffff whyyyyyyy do these ppl still have this jankyass basket??? 

LMAO OM THINKS THE BABY IS A TINY PHILOSOPHER. I KNW HE’D SPIN IT THAT WAY. I JUST KNEW IT. 😂😂😂😂

lol gauri’s face tho. like “sure bro. sure.”

pffffffffffft, harneet. i see what you did there. 😒😒😒

lmao anika and RiKara’s faces at shivaay’s bs: 

bade bhaiyya callling on bulbul for support. #myBrOTP 😊😊😊

hahaha “woh mujhse attached hai jaise scooter pe stepney”

shivaay muttering “yeh middle class examples, my godddd” lmaooooo 😂😂😂

ouff. these idiots. just let the baby say what she wantssssssssss. a baby’s first word doesn’t have to have a lot of MEANING. 🙄🙄🙄

great. you’ve done it. you’ve made her cry. DANCE NOW. DANCE!!!!!!!!!!

BABY’S PARENTS ARE HEREEEEEEEEEEEE. 😧😧😧

OUFF JHANVI, I HONESTLY DON’T GET WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. HOW CAN SOMEONE SO SMART BE SO FUCKING STUPID???? COULD YOU QUIT WITH THIS ABLA NAARI CRAP? 😣😣😣

“styling kaisi bhi ho, bharatiya naari rehti bharatiya naari hi hai. especially jab woh patni ho.”

lmfaoooooo, my girl svetlana spitting some omkara-grade truth. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

OH NO. TEJ IS IN ON THIS PLAN. WHYYYYYYYYYYY????????????? FUCKING HELL SVETLANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I AM SO FUCKING SAD AND BETRAYED THAT THEY FUCKED UP THIS TRACK LIKE THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I WANTED SVETLANA TO BE ON JHANVI’S SIDE FOR ONCE, AFTER REALISING BOTH OF THEM DESERVE BETTER THAN TEJ’S BS!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEEEE????? GET MY HOPES UP AND THEN DESTROY ME LIKE THIS??????????????? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

lmao how was that supposed to be any proof, when jhanvi didn’t even hear tej’s side of the conversation??? 🤔🤔🤔

waah. pari is from naam aur khoon waala khaandan. (tell me, have you EVER seen a poor “saxena” in a movie/serial? nope. saxena/oberoi/etc. are just automatically rich ppl names.) 

waaaah, this man is shivaay’s future in 20 years. shivaay looks rightfully alarmed. 😆😆😆

arundati, you’re a little bitch, you know that? who does shit like this???? 😒😒😒

snort, shivaay having to remind rudra that this is a serious moment and he should stfu. 😂😂😂

oh shut up mr. saxena. you’re an asshole. 😠😠😠

“can i have my baby back?” 

nice of her to phrase it so politely, as if she’s asking for a cup of sugar. 😕😕😕

shivaay ko itna sadma anika ke jaane pe bhi nahi hua tha. poor boy. *pats his floofy hair... which [squints] i can’t quite tell if is still coloured or not* 

"ragini? are you fine, BETA?”

ugh samarrrrrrrrrr, why are you so niceeeeeee? stop worming your way into my heartttttttttt. 😥😥😥

“aisa kyaaaaa hai us shivaay mein?”

samar, it’s been over a year, and even WE don’t know the answer yet. if we ever find out, you’ll be the first to know. 😗😗😗

BHAABI. samar was married to chawl girl! 😯😯😯

SAMAR IS BACK TO BEING RATIONAL AND SANE. 

“maine un logon ko dekha hai, aur jitna main samajh paaya hoon, shivaay aur anika achche log hai. don’t mess up their lives, please!” 

samar, dude. you’re tooooooo nice and sane for this show. too pure. too fucking pure. #protectSamar2k17 😪😪😪😪

SAMAR DUDE, GET THIS GIRL SOME DAMN HELPPPPPPP. PLEASE, FOR YOUR SAKE, MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. 😥😥😥

awwwww, return of the sahil/anika poemmmmmmmm. 😚😚😚

gauri finally got the name of the drug right! 🤓🤓🤓

could these people stop manhandling this poor babyyyyyy??? one of you hold her, and just everyone can talk to her. ouff. so uncomfortable this looks for the poor child. 😕😕😕

GOD BHAVYA. SHE’S 9 MONTHS OLD. LET HER PICK HER OWN CAREER. 😑😑😑

kunal + baby: MY KYPTONITE. 😣😣😣

lol rudra has the same dialogue for every time a child comes into the house: that he’s happy someone younger than him is here (he said the same when sahil started living here.) 

why he keeps forgetting that he has a younger sister PRINKU, is beyond me. 😕😕😕

awwwwwwwwwwww man. rudra’s cryyyyyying. my heart. 😥😥😥

i knew shivaay wouldn’t say anything. he has to keep his strong waala facade up in public. this stupid emotionally stunted boy of mine. 😔😔😔

SEE, THIS IS THE KINDA BS THAT MAKES ME ANGRY. GAURI SHOULD BE THE ONE EXPLAINING SHIVAAY’S BEHAVIOUR TO BHAVYA. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. THIS IS SOME REAL FUCKERY, AND I AM NOT BUYING IT FOR ONE HOT SECOND, GULNEET. YOU CAN JUST FUCK OUTTA HERE. 😤😤😤

oh my hearttttttttttttttttttttt. she doesn’t wanna let shivaay goooooooo. 😥😥😥

ugh mannnnnnnnnnnn, i didn’t even want this track, why am i having all the feels for shivaay and this damn baby?!!?! goddamn you nakuul and the cutest baby in the universe ever. damn your amazing faces to heck. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

yeah ok we get it, shivaay was very attached to the baby and he’s ready for fatherhood. SORT OUT HIS ISSUES WITH HIS DAMN WIFE THEN. DON’T YOU DARE BE BRINGING A BABY INTO THE CURRENT HOT MESS THAT IS HIS FUCKED UP PERSONAL LIFE RN. 😠😠😠

finally found her ducky! 😌😌😌

i love how they’re mansplaining the baby to her own mom, based on their experience of 3 days. 3 fucking days. 🙄🙄🙄

ok fwding this nonsense. i just can’t take it anymore. gimme the damn precap. it’s almost 3 am where i am and i need some fucking sleep. 😣😣😣

rudra weeping like a baby while dancing though. ouff. *resignedly hugs him while yawning* 

ooooooooooooh. artist omkara issues. very interestinggggg. i think i might like this track! 😌😌😌

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