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In trying to think of a character, I was sidetracked by an icon over on DW and realized that I do have quite a lot of love for the most cinnamony cinnamon roll who ever cinnamoned: Surinder 'Suri' Sahni from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
Suri is a quiet, awkward power company employee who attends a wedding, only to find himself the one getting married. After explaining to his best friend (Bobby) that he only reminds his new wife (Taani) of her losses - the groom and his family died in a car accident on the way to the wedding, and her father had a heart attack and died shortly after asking Suri to marry his daughter and take care of her - Suri has an idea to attend the dance class Taani has joined, so he can see her as she was before. Bobby gives him a complete makeover (and has to create a fake mustache after an unfortunately-timed power outage)
Suri inadvertently gets himself entered into the dance class competition and ends up randomly partnered with Taani. It's a bit of a disaster, as "Raj" is trying too hard to be 'cool' and she's not impressed. When he realizes that she'll never win with him as a partner, Suri tells her to find another partner and decides that the experience was worth it, and he's satisfied with what he got.
Taani hunts Raj down when he doesn't show up at the next class, and Bobby is able to call Suri at work and get him there (Suri gave the class their mechanic-friend's address as his own). She tells him that if he can care about her losing because he can't dance, she should be caring about helping him learn to dance.
Suri and Taani spend more time together, from a gol guppa competition to a motorcycle chase to shopping for clothes. He convinces her to spend a full day with him, because he's never spent his birthday with anyone, and ends the day by taking her to one of the highest points in the city, where he can express how he feels to her in the only way he knows how - which is to get his coworkers at the power plant to flip some switches. As the lights come back on, in a very specific pattern, Taani misunderstands his intentions and admits that she's married. Suri tells her that he knows everything, right down to the fact her husband works for the power company, and that nothing has changed between them.
The problem, of course, is that Taani has fallen for Raj.
The cinnamon roll gets a little sour here, because he's now worried that she'll never see Suri, but doesn't realize that he has unintentionally put her in an impossible situation. Bobby tries to explain this to him, but Suri's focused on fixing things. He overcompensates trying to do something (winning a trip to Japan by staying in the ring with a sumo wrestler for two minutes) for her, as Suri, and once they get back home, she loses her temper and yells at him.
After they both apologize to each other (via handwritten notes, instead of words), Suri decides all is right again, while Taani is crashing. He panics when she goes missing at the movie theater, and learns she's at the garage, looking for Raj. He finally gets there and she can't understand his good mood. He explains to her that love shouldn't be painful. He fell in love with her and that's fine; she fell in love with someone else, and that's fine, too. He's, of course, referring to the man she was supposed to marry, while she thinks he means Suri.
And in continuing to make bad choices with the most innocent intentions.. Suri tells her to run away with him (Raj), not expecting her to agree. Realizing Suri has lost, he makes arrangements to leave her the house and requests a transfer, so that she will be free of him as soon as the dance competition is over.
The morning of the competition, Taani reconsiders her decision and realizes that even though she doesn't love Suri as she should, he has been there for her at every moment. Before their turn, she tells Raj that she can't leave with him and apologizes.
When it's their turn, Raj doesn't show up. Taani knows he won't be there and asks to be disqualified as Suri shows up onstage as Suri. After the dance is over - and she's finished processing every obvious sign that Raj was Suri - Suri returns to full cinnamon roll and expects to get a second lashing from her. She calls him a liar and points out that he clearly knows what love is and they end up winning the dance competition and take their honeymoon in Japan
Long story short: SURI IS SWEETER THAN A CINNABON
+ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi caps by me
Always taking advice on the icons, too :)
Usual politeness applies (aka credit where credit is due), please!
In trying to think of a character, I was sidetracked by an icon over on DW and realized that I do have quite a lot of love for the most cinnamony cinnamon roll who ever cinnamoned: Surinder 'Suri' Sahni from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
Suri is a quiet, awkward power company employee who attends a wedding, only to find himself the one getting married. After explaining to his best friend (Bobby) that he only reminds his new wife (Taani) of her losses - the groom and his family died in a car accident on the way to the wedding, and her father had a heart attack and died shortly after asking Suri to marry his daughter and take care of her - Suri has an idea to attend the dance class Taani has joined, so he can see her as she was before. Bobby gives him a complete makeover (and has to create a fake mustache after an unfortunately-timed power outage)
Suri inadvertently gets himself entered into the dance class competition and ends up randomly partnered with Taani. It's a bit of a disaster, as "Raj" is trying too hard to be 'cool' and she's not impressed. When he realizes that she'll never win with him as a partner, Suri tells her to find another partner and decides that the experience was worth it, and he's satisfied with what he got.
Taani hunts Raj down when he doesn't show up at the next class, and Bobby is able to call Suri at work and get him there (Suri gave the class their mechanic-friend's address as his own). She tells him that if he can care about her losing because he can't dance, she should be caring about helping him learn to dance.
Suri and Taani spend more time together, from a gol guppa competition to a motorcycle chase to shopping for clothes. He convinces her to spend a full day with him, because he's never spent his birthday with anyone, and ends the day by taking her to one of the highest points in the city, where he can express how he feels to her in the only way he knows how - which is to get his coworkers at the power plant to flip some switches. As the lights come back on, in a very specific pattern, Taani misunderstands his intentions and admits that she's married. Suri tells her that he knows everything, right down to the fact her husband works for the power company, and that nothing has changed between them.
The problem, of course, is that Taani has fallen for Raj.
The cinnamon roll gets a little sour here, because he's now worried that she'll never see Suri, but doesn't realize that he has unintentionally put her in an impossible situation. Bobby tries to explain this to him, but Suri's focused on fixing things. He overcompensates trying to do something (winning a trip to Japan by staying in the ring with a sumo wrestler for two minutes) for her, as Suri, and once they get back home, she loses her temper and yells at him.
After they both apologize to each other (via handwritten notes, instead of words), Suri decides all is right again, while Taani is crashing. He panics when she goes missing at the movie theater, and learns she's at the garage, looking for Raj. He finally gets there and she can't understand his good mood. He explains to her that love shouldn't be painful. He fell in love with her and that's fine; she fell in love with someone else, and that's fine, too. He's, of course, referring to the man she was supposed to marry, while she thinks he means Suri.
And in continuing to make bad choices with the most innocent intentions.. Suri tells her to run away with him (Raj), not expecting her to agree. Realizing Suri has lost, he makes arrangements to leave her the house and requests a transfer, so that she will be free of him as soon as the dance competition is over.
The morning of the competition, Taani reconsiders her decision and realizes that even though she doesn't love Suri as she should, he has been there for her at every moment. Before their turn, she tells Raj that she can't leave with him and apologizes.
When it's their turn, Raj doesn't show up. Taani knows he won't be there and asks to be disqualified as Suri shows up onstage as Suri. After the dance is over - and she's finished processing every obvious sign that Raj was Suri - Suri returns to full cinnamon roll and expects to get a second lashing from her. She calls him a liar and points out that he clearly knows what love is and they end up winning the dance competition and take their honeymoon in Japan
Long story short: SURI IS SWEETER THAN A CINNABON
+ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi caps by me
Always taking advice on the icons, too :)
Usual politeness applies (aka credit where credit is due), please!