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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hi JWB,

Hope you are well and thriving. The festive season is here and I am finally free to spend some time in one my favourite virtual spaces. Your blog as always is full of happy vibes. ❤️

For the picture ask, which moment in IPK gives you the happy vibes. I'm sure there are many, gimme the one that first came to your mind.

Season's greeting, love and luck

Bye

Hello hello dear,

Thank you <3 I'm feeling pretty good. Ah this is such a happy request!

This is my picture of happy vibes!

(the picture ask game) ;)

Best,

JWB

[featheredclover]

Seeing this trend floating around Tumblr, thought of doing an ipkknd version!

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[arshifiesta]

Farewell

So, we posted our last moodboard today for IPK's 13th Anniversary Fiesta! This is a a thank you note to hosts @hand-picked-star, @featheredclover, and @phuljari for your ideas, contributions, time and skills! It wouldn't be possible without group efforts <3

Here's the link to all moodboards in case anyone missed anything:

Moodboard 1

Moodboard 2

Moodboard 3

Moodboard 4

Moodboard 5

We're still keeping submissions open and will keep reblogging!

Also tagging other participants (check our pinned post for the masterlist): @msbhagirathi @jalebi-weds-bluetooth @arshiradio @titaliya @sankiraizada and our hosts ofc!

And lots of love to the people who engaged with the content and or followed this fiesta: @enchantingfunthing @nhhhh1111 @exosexosekai @arnieobsessed @charucoal @paintprotect @shiyaravi @chutkiandchotte @subtaegguk @gargi-197 @hi-this-is-permabanned @meghnak @engenesengenes333 @midnightsunshiine @barshifan @laad-governess @scorpio-smiles @sankititaliya @bengudill @sophiedawn7 @simplycurlz @sapnokiduniyaisalwaysbetter @niddz @maimed-devotion @muttonthings @persephone-with-a-cat @nunu-25 @apnabanalepiya @whateverworks21 @dancingintherains-world @bigfatreader @stutipoddar29-blog @edsermanan @arshisstuff @fancydreamphilosopher @atomicmentalitytriumph

There's still time to submit!!

Engagement is ofc appreciated and encouraged!! Show some love towards your favourite creator, don't forget that they put in their time and energy into making something you enjoy! Fandom currencies are like>reblogs>comments!! :)

[phati-sari]

Hi PS..

Hope you are well..

I just read Charade ..amidst all the dabfics I have been reading lately..I didn't realise that I hadn't read it earlier..and wow..was I gobsmacked...it hit me and touched me in beautiful places..it was beautifully written and while I love all your work this was really something else..it was simple but very layered...had all the makings of a great story..angst..drama..comedy..romance.. suspense and the fireworks..i loved it..it was epic and transcendent..

This was my favorite canon Arnav ..he retains all the angry man feels which make usbdrool but he is also sensitive in way the show Arnav wasn't..he is more evolved ...

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful version with us...

No asks...just an appreciation post...

Heyy @simplycurlz!

Aaaaahhh you read Charade! Thank you very muchly for the compliment oh my wow, I’m blushing! I’m really glad you liked it :) 

Hahaha, Arnav in Charade is (in my head) a blend of remarriage Arnav and Payash wedding Arnav: a mix of Boyfriend Singh Raizada and Husband!Arnav that I love love love writing.

Thank you so much for reading it! I’m super sorry it remains unfinished. I was excited about the way I’d planned the Shyam reveal. I don’t know what happened in the last year, it’s like all my confidence around it has disappeared. But I want to write it -- even if it’s not good -- because at least I’ll have learned something.

Take loads of care, and thank you once again! You’re so sweet and supportive, I don’t deserve you in my life but I’m grateful to have met you all the same ❤️❤️❤️

[jalebi-likes]

Tag Game #1

rules: spell out your url with song titles, then tag as many people as there are letters in your url

Thank you @leila1 for tagging me and the shorter url!!! 😂

J - Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai

A - Aap Jaisa Koi

L - Laal Ghagra

E - Ek Tukda Dhoop

B - Bandook Meri Leila ;)

I - I Want It That Way

L - Love Me Again

I - Iktara

K - Kya Maine Socha (One Love)

E - E Tumi Kamon Tumi

S - Stayin’ Alive

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hi JWB!!

How are you doing? I haven't been around much lately but everytime I catch up on stugf on Tumblr you are having some amazing discussions. You are simply awesome 🤩🤩👌👌♥️

Hope you are having a great and healthy year and wishing you a Happy Valentine's a day in advance because you bring so much love, light and happiness to my life.

I have been meaning to ask this for a long time. Have you seen "Asshiqana" its a series by Gul Khan on Hotstar. Its very soap operatic and is a love story set in backdrop of crime and conspiracy. Though it has many problematic tropes and sometimes too many twists and turns which require healthy suspension of disbelief the treatment of certain sequences is beautiful. The lead pair are beautiful and have great chemistry which makes it good to watch but the way the FL breaks stereotypes and calls out patriarchy is something I haven't seen in a long time. It does get preachy at times but overall its something that was needed. Could have been handled better but its start and I love it. The FL and the brother of the ML are two awesome characters. He worships his elder brother but what is beautiful is that he shows him the mirror each time and higliights his 1940 ki thinking brilliantly. Also while the ML is chauvinistic he knows it and slowly is coming to terms with falling for a girl who is against everything he believes in. So thats refreshing.

Anyhow, I just wanted to know what you think about it.

Cheers

Hey!

I'm doing better love <3 How're you? Haha thanks for the love. Thank you and happy belated Valentine's to you too <3 You're honestly super sweet.

I'm aware of Aashiquana. I am glad you are enjoying the show. One thing that I often dislike about 4Lions shows nowadays is that they talk about feminism while showing patriarchy. The female leads will have big "dialogues" but I determine liberalism by seeing what happens with the female lead herself. Is she subjected to sexism and patriarchy by the elders? Misogyny and misguided rage by the hero? Is her character always assassinated, do her career dreams ever come true?

Thus her shows end up being preachy and cringey instead of revolutionary.

I've captured little bits of it and it seems interesting. As you've mentioned above the heroine and the hero's brother look delightful. But the whole concept of a chauvinistic man becoming better because of the woman he loves is dated and far from reality.

If a chauvinistic man is 'better' to the woman he loves or that he needs a woman in his concern to be affected by patriarchy to understand how terrible chauvinism is, then that is not changing. And that is not improvement.

So I'm turned off Aashiquana for the male lead and his terrible Amma/grandmaa/bua (I have no idea who that woman is but she lives in 1930s).

Like I don't think I could've liked IPK if Dadi (Subhadra) was a character from the beginning. And Arnav wasn't ever a "women shouldn't do this". His issues with Khushi wasn't ever gender based. He was more like "let me live, let everyone live, and for fuck's sake stop obsessing with marriage cause it's no use ruining two lives"

Which he was right about...

And honestly I am tired of women playing roles where they've to 'correct' the men. It exhausted me in Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahaani (non 4 Lions show) and every other telly show.

Also wtf is the female leads names? What happened to Zoya, Anika, Gauri, Meera and all?

But I do like Aashiqana's heroines dialogues. Probably that's it. However, don't let my rant ruin your viewing experience - if you're enjoying it, please keep enjoying it!

Love,

Jalebi

[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Hi

My deepest condolences on your loss. Sending lots of love and strength to you and your family.

Your obituary touched many cords of my heart having face something similar recently and the one thing that helped me was to talk about their beautiful moments with people who knew them like me and to not regret their passing but celebrate their life.

Hope this helps.

Thank you love. I'm so glad whatever I wrote touched somewhere. I'm trying to celebrate her as much as possible *hug*

Thank you so much for your good wishes. I cannot appreciate it enough.

[featheredclover]

Carmine Veils

Chapter Ten

Read from the beginning

Also on Wattpad

Chapter Nine >>

Strands of her hair broke free as the wind rushed past her and her galloping horse. 

A flash of black whizzed past her. 

Her grip tightened on the reins , picking up pace.

The jungle, a witness to the race between two worthy warriors, stood silent.

———

Panting, Khushi slowed down near the pond where the black horse lay at rest.

“ You lost”

Mumbling she alighted and led her horse to the water.

“ Someday….”

“Someday ?” Arnav laughed. “ In a hundred years you mean?”

“ I mean soon, China-man!” she gruntled.

He cringed.

“It’s bad enough that Payal calls me that.”

Khushi laughed. 

“Well you don’t spare her darling Akash on the training grounds , do you?”

He flashed her a boyish grin, as he pet his horse.

Her heart skipped a beat and she looked away, distracting herself with the entangled rope.

“Speechless, Rajkumari?”

She jumped at the whisper near her ear.

“ You are a true spy” she marvelled as she grabbed his collar and pulled him down.

Murmuring his approval, he crushed her to himself as he deepened the kiss.

———

The sun blazed as they lay under the cover of a mango tree.

“So much has happened…” Khushi began.

“What?” Arnav said, distracted from his task of braiding strands of her hair.

“Since our wedding Arnav!”

Their courtship and wedding had happened so quickly, they hadn’t even found a moment’s rest. 

She had never seen her father so happy. Arnav never said anything, but she knew even his Ma was seeing such joy after decades. So, they let them plan the wedding with as much pomp and dance as they wanted to.

“ Ma is so happy, “ he said softly.

Khushi sat up, taking him in her arms. 

“Of course she is “she said with a kiss on his shoulder.

“ Though she keeps reminding me she’ll be happier with a grandchild in her lap” 

“Arnav!” She pushed him away.

He slid her back to him effortlessly, as he laughed.

Kissing her knuckles, he said,

“ A few more years. Just you and me.”

She smiled, settling into the cocoon of his arms again.

The dragonflies buzzed around in the heat and the leaves rustled, lending a soft breeze to the couple.

——————

She stood up lazily, stretching her stiff limbs.

“Tired, Khushi?”

She nodded without looking away from the rope she was untying.

“I can help with that”

She finally looked at him to see the twinkle in his eyes.

The sun’s last rays fell upon them, as he swung her into his arms and set her on his horse, ignoring her gasp.

Taking the reins of her horse, he aligned them together, before climbing behind her.

Khushi blushed a pale pink as his arm manoeuvred around her waist to ride both the horses together.

“ Okay?” 

His husky whisper made her shiver.

“Yes” she managed to reply.

She glanced at him, to see his gaze already on her.

Their lips met softly. A kiss which spoke of love. A love which survived carmine veils and swords. A love which would last for an eternity and more.

They rode away from the darkness, into the light. Two lovers, one heart.

What shall I name this love?

The End

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#STANDWITHUKRAINE if it's not much can you please share this in your timeline as our country is being heavily destroyed by russians right now, my father and my friend's father stayed behind to fight and we don't know what will happen to them kindly tag 5 people to rebblog this apologies for the disturbance.

Don’t apologize sweetheart you’re having a really hard time over there and I know I can’t do much to help on the other side of the world so I’ll help in this extremely small way to do something. Stay safe love I’ll keep you in my thoughts <3

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

So here's the audio interview with Barun Sobti *YAY*

Feel free to give it a listen and here's the full version of the interview as well. You can catch the interview on Spotify as well as read it on the website.

Enjoy peeps and drop your thoughts in Youtube/Tumblr/Wherever-you-want!

Love,

Jalebi

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

So did I get the opportunity to co interview Barun Sobti at Dramas & Dreams?

Yes

Was it the fu—ing best moment of my life?

Yes

Can you read the interview now?

Yes

(Hit the link above)

Will you be able to hear it as well?

Yes… soon

By the way, Barun showed up in a black shirt, wonderfully gelled hair, dry humor and sharp wit for the interview.

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

IPKKND ft. Jalebi

Warning: In this Jalebi edition I will write a slight canon divergence for me based on existing material 😊 it’s not a diss to the original! It’s just little/big changes (taking reality into consideration) - a what if based on what we HAVE. Hope you enjoy

#2 The Reveal

Original

Khushi, after watching Arnav suddenly be kind to her and watching a news bulletin that talks about a man marrying another so as to his astrological ill fate falls on the new wife instead of the one he intends to love and marry, assumes an atheist Arnav would precisely do the same - hence why he married her.

To marry his true love Lavanya and have his birth chart misfortune befall Khushi instead. Thus Arnav is planning to kill her and Khushi decides to kill herself before he does it first. And this is all played for “silly” comedy.

Arnav saves her from killing herself and tells her the truth. Khushi later pretends nothing happened and chirps around until Arnav confronts her again and she gets angry on him and he disbelieves her story.

Jalebi edition:

Post Holi Arnav and Khushi are very raw and vulnerable. Khushi understands the tension between Shyam and Arnav and is very restless about it. Why would Arnav keep glaring at his beloved jijaji? What wrong could have happened? Oh no, did he know the truth? How could he have known?

Shyam gets further desperate in getting his hands on the papers, and Khushi notices further the tension between the men. She decides to ask Arnav about it but is interrupted with Arnav fake romancing her as they had Anjali witnessing them. Khushi feels all their intimate moments were a play!

Angry, Khushi demands why much she pretend to be a happy wife? She accuses him of hurting her but he accuses her of hurting him more.

Shocked at that, Khushi fears the worst. One, he must’ve known about Shyam. Two, during Holi she must’ve blurted the truth to Shyam.

With Shyam getting more insulting, Khushi straight up heads to Shyam and demands he tells the truths to Arnav. Shyam tries to use to opportunity to get her to sign some papers by Arnav, but Khushi refuses. Angry, Shyam decides to play dirty.

He mocks Khushi that she must be knowing why Arnav married her. Khushi is stunned and Shyam, honestly, tells everything. That Arnav saw what happened on the terrace, misunderstood it, threatened and blackmailed Shyam, and the point of marriage was to use Khushi against Shyam.

Shyam is happy seeing confusion in Khushi’s face but Khushi calls him a liar and storms off, not believing a single word she said. She wonders if he indeed marry her for this and that she could take him to visit her family but in anger if he reveals the contract marriage they’d be hurt further.

Exhausted, she asks Arnav why he married her, Arnav tells her and Khushi can’t believe it. She asks him not to lie but he emphasizes he isn’t!

Khushi is shattered and chooses to kill herself but Arnav saves her, traumatized, and begs Khushi to explain the situation to him instead of…

Khushi yells at him, the sheer audacity to ask for an explanation when he left no room for questions.

Khushi tells the truth and accuses him of coming to the conclusion he perhaps always wanted to reach.

About her, her character.

(images sourced from the lovely Indi)

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

IPKKND ft. Jalebi

Warning: In this Jalebi edition I will write a slight canon divergence for me based on existing material 😊 it’s not a diss to the original! It’s just little/big changes (taking reality into consideration) - a what if based on what we HAVE. Hope you enjoy!

#1 Anjali, Arnav & Sheesh Mahal

Original version:

Anjali shows up to Arnav’s fashion show ramp unannounced and they have a deep discussion which Arnav cuts off and introduces Anjali Jha to the audience. They have the discussion on stage with millions of eyes on them and he hides his mic and eventually removes it to talk to his sister.

Jalebi edition:

I like to imagine Arnav and Anjali having this conversation backstage, away from reporters and prying eyes. it is also more plausible that Anjali got direct access to meet her brother backstage than interrupt a carefully planned fashion show.

And when she tries to dissuade him against sticking to the past, and he says he has moved on (with the background score announcing that ladies and gentlemen, here’s the Arnav Singh Raizada) and he leaves her abruptly to go on stage with his mask of coldness on.

Although he does turn back at one point and see his sister by the aisle of the stage, formally introduces her to everyone, and a tinge of hesitation in his eyes because the past still does haunt him.

However I do miss the introduction of Anjali and her disability here, but there’s enough reference in the show. And the fact that the very first dialogue we hear then is her questioning his actions, strongly displays Anjali’s character.

The end :)

Hope you guys liked this!

Much love,

- JWB

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[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

IPKKND PODCAST EPISODE 22 ft. @tellywoodtrash

In this episode we talk about Arnav, Khushi, dust and fairy lights! There’s just so much good going on here that I can’t wait to release the next episode which is solely Diwali!

Leave your comments in the notes or comment section on YT!

Love,

- S

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