Khushi The Character Dedication

No debates on the last 2 points about Khusi with some one else & Sanaya - Khushi please its completely my POV.

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Khushi The Character & her various phases -

About Khushi I can go on & on & never end. (I just love her)

Khushi The fighter : The character of Khushi drew me to her because of her fighting spirit. I could feel myself in her - I could connect to her. I m just like her fighting & giving answers back. Her dress sense, the scooty driving - gosh I was pulled towards her completely. The way she wanted justice for her sis though she herself my fall in trouble. She is the reason I even started watching this show & the best part she is the one who is there till the end of the show. Khushi you always make me feel so proud for being a girl - even though her character does feel a lil unrealistic post kidnapping phase specially. This aspect in the show is literally lost. Anjali the (useless for me sis) will never reach this stage in her life. She made ASR question himself through this spirit of hers but at some point of time that spirit gave away sadly due the poor characterization of Khushi in the Show.

Khushi the Daughter : This aspect in the show is not really dealt at all only before the MU phase. Khushi has proved to be an excellent adopted daughter. She surpassed Anjali, Payal, ASR too in this field. She understand her parents before any one understand them or her. She knows what to do when though her methods may not be "IN". She did everything she could just to make her parents & RM elders happy. She even lets Buaji & Mami taunt her though it might be hurting her so much 😭

Khushi the sister :Even though Anjali is not her real sister she treats like her own blood. She infact treats Payal & Anjali like the same her own blood when either of them are biological to her. She sacrificed her her life for a contract just to save her Sister who is not biological to her. She let Shyam loiter in the house those she knows the consequences just for Anjali. She has surpassed Payal & Anjali in the role of sister completely. No one can do what Khushi has done come what may. Anjali though being elder turned out to be completely selfish & Payal too lost.

(i put Anjali offscreen as Daljeet because all the other pics are making me go 🤢 i guess im not over the DKS track guess)

Khushi the wife : It is next to impossible to get a wife like Khushi who is all time ready to forget her own endless pain & think what others are going through. Khushi has always put Anjali before Arnav & never interfered in their brother & sister relationship. She never asked for a upper hand in his life even though she definitely deserves equality in Arnav's life. She loves Arnav selflessly, she doesnt put any effort to do it, it comes naturally to her. Arnav is slowly changing from the ASR shell into Arnav all due to Khushi's love, affection & extremely pure & golden heart. The change is evident in him in past few episodes, buying her gifts, trying to do things she loves & thinks more about, hell bent on getting her back into his life, etc. She finds solace if he is doing fine. She can feel him in trouble where ever she or he is the kidnapping track is a huge proof to that. The telepathy was beautiful. Best past is she finds happiness in natural & simple aspects of life. She cant be pleasured through materialistic items. For Arnav this will be the easiest in the future to respond to. 

Khushi the woman : From the time she has fallen in love she has emerged even more understanding then ever. How much ever humiliation she has been put through the minute she realizes that Arnav is going through some pain she completely forgets hers & tries in her capacity to cheer him up. She has never complained about Mami's taunts to Arnav ever. She never blamed any one for anything. She has always tried to reduce the stress for Arnav in her capacity. She has never claimed her position of Badi Bahu in RM till date. She has taken the responsibility of Arnav without being given it by anyone. Infact she has taken the entire responsibility of RM without anyone giving it to her. She has surpassed almost of the ladies in the show when it comes to showing love towards loved ones. A complete role model to me in terms of keep on giving but no expecting. She will not let her family get hampered in public under any pretext, she doesnt need any justification from her loved ones to support them - thats the level of love, understanding, maturity she carries with her effort - lessly - unlike ASR / Anjali needs justifications & confirmations most of the time. She feels Arnav's pain just as her's.

Khushi the mom : She has to a large extent played mother's role to ASR after Anjali. She could able to enter a place & change Arnav. She played a mom to a child who is not even hers happens to be an affair with her husband which was proved false later on. But that did not deter her. Child is child thats it. She plays mom to everyone in RM. I always wished she has her own children but sigh the show & sigh the character assassination. 

(my POV no one will sit & debate this at all)

Khushi the Character : I felt her character got stuck in the RM world with the Bro - Sis rather MU king & fainting or Aap Bhi Na lady. She could lived a much better life if she was in GH & got married to some one else. NK was a good choice but he is in RM. She deserves a place where she is respected & not taunted just because she is an orphan even ASR & Anjali are often they are not taunted like this. Double standards persist through RM big time which is where Khushi cant be herself always letting her life become a roller coaster ride.

Sanaya Irani always puts such incredible life into Khushi that i tend to forget Khushi's lil errors & just stare at Sanaya. Khushi does so many things which makes me really proud even though knowing i will never do most of it.

Thank you Sanaya for making Khushi a connectable character though the CV"s did not let the character do deep to make ASR & Anjali seem more cool.

Love, Laughter, Kindness, Anger, Courage, Terror, Disgust, Surprise, Peace

The nava rasas.  Why am I talking about that.  Because, Sanaya to me is perfection personified in each of them.  Not just Sanaya.  Even the role – Kushi that she played.  We got to see Kushi in so many different layers portraying so many different emotions.  We identified with so many aspects of Kushi.  We followed her every action, reaction, emotion, feeling, so much so that, we felt the acidity and the dhak dhaks too.  Why?  Because Sanaya managed to enliven Kushi.  Through her talent and delivery of emotions and dialogues, she was able to reach out of the TV screen and touch us and enthrall us.

When I reflect upon IPK, sometimes I wonder, if I admire Kushi more, Sanaya more or Sanaya as Kushi more.  Then I decided, it was all the above and hence the Reel and Real line between Sanaya and Kushi has disappeared for me.
 
Love :
When it comes to Love.  Can you get any purer the Kushi.  Her love for the people around her was pure, selfless, endless.  She did not love just one person and did everything only for them.  She loved her adopted family, Nani, Anjali, La, Mami, Aarav, and everyone else.  She took upon herself and went through hell to keep her loved ones happy.  She even went through hell and back twice even for the man who created havoc in her life, the love of her life, ASR.  Love is supposed to be an indescribable feeling.  But Kushi's love was tangible, palpable and you could feel it even though her love was for other reel characters.  And Sanaya managed to make me feel that.

Laughter :
Be it being silly.  Be it being OTT.  Be it being plain funny.  Kushi made us laugh.  We laughed with her.  Sometimes we laughed at her.  There is no greater proof then when Kushi dresses up as Mami.  Many thespians in the field of acting claim, comedy is the hardest to enact and portray.  It is all about timing.  Even slight misstep in timing, comedy falls flat.  But, even during OTT scenes, including washing clothes by the swimming pool or the Swami act, the timing was accurate and hence it worked.  OTT scenes were not designed by Kushi or Sanaya.  But the creatives and the director.  The job of the actor was to do justice to the scene they were given.  Kushi never let her silliness come out cheap or vulgar. And the credit for that goes to Sanaya.

Kindness :
This is another area where Kushi trumps each and every character in this serial.  There is not a single soul other than Kushi in this serial, who showed kindness towards everyone.  Kushi was kind to Hariprakash and Happyji as well.  She was even kind to the guards who wanted to throw out to her.  She was kind to the canteen wala when she realized he would suffer because of her Dubba business.  She was kind to Shyam and remained polite to him during their engagement all though she was not in love with him.  Her kindness was infectious.  In the face of tragedy, personal torture, losing self-worth, humiliation, sadness, never once did Kushi forgot to be kind. Such kindness is usually unbelievable, in real life.  But Sanaya once again managed to make us feel that kindness.  Many a times I told myself, I need to be more selfless, more kind and more compassionate, when I saw Kushi being Kind. 

Anger :
Tigress.  Kushi.  Goose bumps.  Sanaya Irani.  Warehouse Incident, Road Incident (After Arnav tells her, her parents were better off dead), I hate you more incident, Re-Marriage Dadi incident.  Spitting fire.  Livid Eyes.  You could see the roar in her voice and in her eyes.  You wanted to slap someone.  When Kushi was angry, even the mighty ASR seemed to take a step back.  Sanaya portrayed anger so fluently and fluidly that, goose bumps were but inevitable.  The quiver in her voice that she is used to add during dialogue delivery when heavy emotions were involved, made the emotions reach out of the TV and grab our attention.  Sanaya's eyes spoke volumes but her voice modulations created a better impact.  Case in point.  When her voice was gone and she shot those scenes post forced marriage and a dubbing artist was used, it was clear, that, the voice lacked the same bite as the emotions on the face portrayed.  But all was not lost, because, Sanaya conveyed the strength of the words, through her emotions.

Courage:
Kushi was not afraid.  She was courageous.  She was courageous enough to stand up to La, ASR, Shyam, Kidnappers and even fate when Sheetal entered.  She never let fear dictate her actions, but fed of the fear to get into the correct reaction.  If Kushi had courage to face whatever life threw at her, I will say Sanaya had the courage to enact any scene that was given to her.  Wear any ugly dress that she was made to wear.  Horrendous hair pins and even worse hair pieces.  The conviction an actress has in a scene automatically translates into near perfection, and only someone like Sanaya could pull of what the CVs made Kushi to do.

Terror:
Kushi was rarely terrified of anything.  Except on few occasions.  Warehouse incident immediately springs to mind.  She was terrified when her dad was in the hospital.  Two different types of terror.  First, for owns life.  Second for a dear one's life.  Both portrayed brilliantly and effortlessly by Sanaya.  In the first incident, you rooted for her to be strong and escape and slap ASR.  In the second, when she runs and hugs ASR in the hospital terrified she might lose her dad, who in viewing world wouldn't have wanted to be in ASR shoed and hug her sorrows away.  I am glad, that Kushi was not put through the terror other SP Bahus had to undergo, but nonetheless, happy we got to see Sanaya ace this as well.

Disgust:
Shyam, Shyam and Shyam.  Every time Shyam touched Kushi, Kushi expressions were as if caterpillars were crawling over her.  She felt that, but did not let Shyam feel that, because she was engaged to him.  But we felt it.  We felt squirmy when he touched her.  The only way this was possible was when the emotions and expressions were subtle and the actor lets us feel and interpret the rest.  Another case in point Dadi.  When Dadi calls her mom a wh*re, the disgust in Kushi's eyes was evident.  But it had to be restrained as well.  After all Dadi is an elder and it is norm, you do not spew venom at elders out of disgust.  This is another area that I feel Sanaya is not noticed in.  The restraint she shows during emotional scenes.  Strong emotional scenes.  Such scenes are breeding ground to go overboard unless marked restraint is shown.  And Sanaya knows exactly when to pull it back and when to let it out.

Surprise:
All I will say is the adorable and pinch able O faces Kushi makes.  Need I say anymore.  And in the scene where she cannot do the O with her mouth, she does it with her eyes.  Remember the adorable kiss that Arnav plants on her cheek by the swimming pool.  And how wide her eyes open in surprise.  It is very hard to pull the innocent and surprised act but Kushi was innocent and Sanaya made it look like she really was a 18 year old innocent girl who is yet to see the world.

Peace:
I thought long and hard about this.  Peace.  Yes Peace.  Calmness.  Tranquility.  Her one touch soothed Arnav and he used to melt.  Her calmness in the face of danger let her rescue her husband twice from kidnapper.  Kushi strived to make peace and bring peace into the lives of Raizadas.  She played peace maker for La and Nani.  She played peace maker for La and ASR.  She played peacemaker between herself and all the people who doubted her.  In order to attain peace, love and harmony, Kushi had to do all the following.  OTT Comedy, Using Brains, Being Sexy, Breaking Down, Defending her loved ones, Standing as pillar of support for all the people she love, forgive, act like dolt, behave dumbly, forget to cook, seduce ASR, device plans, implement them, getting the right partner, wear garish clothes and look beautiful, wear beautiful clothes and look mesmerizing, be a doormat, be a tigress, be a stupid idiot.

I think these could be the reasons why Sanaya loved her role of Kushi.  Because Kushi was everything and anything for everybody and anybody. Through one actress who was capable of playing every emotion, to perfection, CVs gave us Kushi, a character who had Beauty, Brains, Oomph, Sex Appeal, Over The Top Behavior, Stupidity, Intelligence, Mass, Class, Heroine, Item Girl, 9 year old, 18 year old and 25 year old.

As Forrest Gump would say. Life is Like a Box Of Chocolates. You never knew which Kushi showed up in which episode.  But one thing was sure.  No matter which Kushi showed up, we were sure Sanaya brought perfection home every day and elevated, enhanced Kushi and enthralled us.

Sanaya, take a bow.  Because your Kushi was perfection personified, including her flaws, shortcomings and imperfections.  And that lady is what makes you UNFORGETTABLE.