Farewell IPKKND, Sorry, Sanaya

I am very sad today ... very, very sad. And ashamed as well.

The demand for a happy ending for fictional characters, has hurt real people ... their jobs, their livelihoods, and their real life friendships. Today when I saw Sanaya crying, shooting alone on the last day ...a day which should NOT have been the last day, but the first day of a second innings, I felt incredibly selfish for even for a moment feeling happy that the show has ended, just so that my fictional Arnav and Khushi could live happily ever after.

Sanaya and the rest of the cast were happy to continue working even with crappy scripts ... my response as a viewer should have been limited to switching off the TV if I did not want to watch. It should not have extended making unreasonable demands that eventually ended their jobs.

I know many of you felt that you wanted a happy ending to the Arnav Khushi love story - you all know I never did, I wanted the show to continue. Yesterday I tried to make peace with the show ending with that view - that I could live with my happy ending. Today I realise I cannot ... because seeing Sanaya alone in tears hurts me FAR MORE than seeing Khushi in tears onscreen would ever have done. And even in her own sadness, she remembered to worry about the crew who would be jobless at such short notice. Reminds me - if I needed any reminder - as to why I not only admire the actress, but also the person, Sanaya Irani.

I have very close friends visiting ... and even midst all the fun here, I cannot stop feeling bad for my sunshine girl and the others, Daljeet, NK, who made sure they were there for her at the end.

ALL my prayers go out to whoever is listening ... I want Sanaya and the other actors back on screen as soon as possible, and this time in a show which respects her talent. If I email Star Plus ... which I plan to do ... it will be to request them to bring Sanaya back on screen as soon as possible.

Sanaya, I have never loved and respected a screen actor as much as I do you. God bless you ... best wishes from the bottom of my heart.

Best wishes to the rest of the cast and crew of IPKKND as well.

Sanaya and the rest of the cast were happy to continue working even with crappy scripts ... my response as a viewer should have been limited to switching off the TV if I did not want to watch. It should not have extended making unreasonable demands that eventually ended their jobs.

Standing up for the "rights" of one person has meant the loss of the right to work on a show that the others wanted to.

Originally posted by: sanakadevi

Sanaya and the rest of the cast were happy to continue working even with crappy scripts ... my response as a viewer should have been limited to switching off the TV if I did not want to watch. It should not have extended making unreasonable demands that eventually ended their jobs.

This right here, you said it! If we didn't like it we should have stopped watching instead of making these demands. I feel so bad right now seeing Sanaya crying made me realise that what we did was extremely wrong. At the same time my respect for her has grown so much! I was also going on about sarun, sarun and sarun. But i mean if we had given it a chance things might have been different. If only i could rewind back in time 😭 I really wish as well that all the cast and crew get pulled back in some way or the other and we get to see daljeet, nk, Sanaya, and everyone else in other shows. It will be sad not seeing them together but they don't deserve us...actually this show doesnt deserve us as fans. We have done so much injustice to it.

Thank you for supporting me! I made this point many times in discussions with friends ... but the general feeling was that no, we deserve a good ending to the Arnav Khushi story. My mistake ... I did not oppose this feeling strongly enough. I knew it was a wrong argument ... but I couldn't quite put my finger on why it felt so wrong.

Today when I saw Sanaya crying, and through her tears wishing for the crew to get jobs soon, I realised why I had felt something so essentially WRONG with what everyone was demanding. And I think anyone with the slightest conscience would feel the same way.

I know that in all probability the show would have shut down in a couple of months anyway ... but maybe by some miracle if it didn't ... if the makers managed to revive it, we might have gotten another good story, another few months of entertainment. And if it didn't ... well, at the very least, that cast and crew would have had a decent notice period to start looking for other jobs. And I would not have the guilt today that I do feel ... the guilt that I did not raise my voice to oppose something I felt all along was wrong. I didn't demand for the show to be shut down ... very true. But neither did I oppose the demand loudly enough.

i became a sanaya fan from IPK.. havent seen her from other shows, but her poise and ease of getting under the skin of the character.. the simply amazing way she brought out the honesty in khushi.. her heartbreak, her love, her anger... sanaya truly lit up khushi from within... made every female audience identify with her at certain moments in the show.. provided the PERFECT contrast for arnav's anger and hate and love and frustration..

it is not a fluke that the show drove on sarun/arshi for 6 months (they were onscreen for 15/20 minutes everyday!. yes, sarun broke their backs working, but we havent heard even an uff from sanaya publicly.

and the recent SPL in Birmingham cemented it.. two dances while jetlagged and the meetings, fans, interviews, the travel, the practices.. wow. is she really human ?

yes, i love barun as ASR.. but i love him with sanaya as khushi.
true, arshi would not have happened without SI.

and today, seeing her breaking down about her teammates.. sigh. makes me wanna go up there and demand a reinstatement. makes me wanna hug a cuddly body and cry for hours.. makes me feel that i , as a fan, let her down.

I'm sorry, sanaya. may all happiness come to you, it is all you deserve.

Thank you for this post! The entire team did not anticipate this and I, personally was not up for closing down the show hence no support for that.

hey dont leave...

Diya, thanks for the post and good to know that u felt the same thing, yes. I very much thought that. Ipk deserved a second chance.

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