#ipkknd cast

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Barun Sobti and Sanaya Irani without context in By Invite Only Season 2 (x)

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Hi,

Firstly, thank you for sharing your thoughts and work with us. Looking at your work, I can’t help but wonder if the production team really thought through things, or if we are attributing meaning afterwards. So, my question is this, if you were to make a guess, what % of your analysis do you think were details that the production team intentionally left. This is a random question, so please ignore the message, if it is weird or not worded right.

Thanks in advance.

Hello!

Thanks for the compliment :)

I reckon over half of it was intentional, maybe 60-70%.

I always point out when Arnav and Anjali knock (or fail to knock) on each other's doors, and when they lock their doors. I also analyse the colouring and ordering of the flashbacks in great detail in my recaps and often comment on the staging of scenes (who stands where, how the camera behaves, etc).

These are things I assumed are scripted (or guided by the script, writers and director) but I also knew that I could be attributing meaning to things that weren’t intentional. Dalljiet Kaur (who played Anjali) once posted a script on Instagram (I don’t have a link because it was one of those time-limited things):

The script is fairly detailed, including that Anjali doesn’t lock the door, the order of the flashbacks (and the reasoning behind them) and even the treatment of the scene to guide the director. Near the end, it also mentions what Arnav is seeing and feeling. Someone (a team of people!) thought about all this and cared enough to write it down.

My stance is always that I can only find the things I analyse because someone left them there, but I also know I’m enthusiastic about my analysis!

 Thanks for asking :)

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IPKKND 10-year anniversary Instagram Live

You can watch it here or here. I kinda live-blogged it.

Lol at Abhaas struggling with the filters.

Oh no, Dalljiet dropped out! Oh, she’s back.

Is Barun wearing a white kurta on purpose? 

(Edited 36 minutes into the video: I don’t think he would even remember the white kurta lol)

This is so chaotic. Sanaya’s trying to keep them all on track and failing miserably.

Abhaas: *mentions Balwant Kaur*

Barun: Main tere ko mukha maar doon?

Aww, that made me a little sad, that he can’t actually deny the journalists when they ask the same three inane questions over and over and over again. He still sang it though.

LOL Abhaas just straight-up acknowledging that the fans wouldn’t have tuned in without Barun and Akshay. 

Abhaas: “Blame the gram, don’t blame the host.”

Barun: “Main toh chingum dhoond raha hoon yaar.” I laughed so hard I had to rewind it.

Ngaw, poor Akshay. I super respect the way he’s come out and gone on record about exactly how unhappy he was with how it all turned out.

I love how surprised Sanaya was!

Abhaas: *mentions that he met Dalljiet last*

Sanaya: Really?!?!

Dalljiet: Muhn maar raha tha mera husband kahin aur, muhn kala kar raha tha. Wahan shoot pehle hui thi! Ghar toh baad mein aaya na?

Barun: Haan phir dara hua tha main, helicopter mein kabhi baitha nahin tha! ... Pehla din seedha helicopter mein daal diya ... Main bahut pareshan, ki main toh middle-class Delhi ka aadmi hoon, mere ko helicopter mein bitha ke karenge kya?

Oh I remember this!! They hired a Toyota RAV4 Fortuna for Lucknow and then had Arnav in the other white cars with the badge covered as if no-one would notice. He’s right, they would’ve had him on a moped had the serial continued lol.

I’ve often made jokes about how the passenger-side seat-belt was probably broken given how much Khushi struggled with it -- nice to know the car was just a piece of crap.

Ahh, they’re talking about their entries. I do so very much love the way Arnav and Shyam were introduced.

I laughed very hard at how quickly Akshay said “Never!” to doing another show. I’m on that boat right there with him lol, may these people never act together again!

Nggaaawww. Barun saying Akshay’s exit scene was the first time the director was telling them not to cry, whereas at other times he was always told to cry more.

As a side note, I love that Aman and Lalit were named after the directors. It was a nice touch and I try to preserve it in my stories.

The razor story makes a come-back lol. 

OH THEY’RE EXPLAINING THE MISSING SHOTS. I’ve waited ten years for someone to explain it!!!

Akshay’s favourite scene was the NYE one they had to do because Barun and Sanaya were on holidays. It’s kind of sad -- he totally has a point because that is one of Aakash’s best sequences and he only had the chance to do it because both leads were away.

One of the things I like about IPKKND is that even the nonsensical scenes and sequences have a reasonably good in-canon explanation. Like, if the Bali-in-Delhi sequences came about because of cost-cutting and they were initially supposed to go somewhere (be still my beating heart, this is going to be an OS, I can feel it), the final result -- while still random -- doesn’t feel super awkward.

I too love the scene in the mandir with Arnav and his Di!!

Abhaas: Your whole show was mandir-wala scene!

Q: What would your characters be doing right now?

Q: If not for your character, which other character would you want to play on the show?

Barun: I would be busy running Amazon. A to Z. Big businessman. And maybe Arnav is having a conversation with someone to sell the Safari and buy a smaller car.

Akshay: My business in America tanked because nothing gets done without Arnav! Now he’s selling CDs. 

Dalljiet: Shyam isn’t there, we kicked him out with a slap.

Abhaas: I’m still plotting against you with a scorpion.

Dalljiet: Well I’m cooler than all of you because you all have children.

Sanaya: You didn’t have a kid?

Dalljiet: No, and we kicked out the person I’d have kids with.

Akshay: I think Shaym got married to the scorpion.

Oh my goodness Abhaas still has Rani Sahiba saved on his phone, which is still programmed as Aman’s number.

Abhaas: Anyone but Shyam? I would be Aakash.

Akshay: Kya bol raha hai bhai?

Barun: I would’ve played Hari Prakash if they paid me per-day.

Q: What dialogue do you remember from your character?

Dalljiet: I would love to play Hello hi bye-bye!

Akshay: I would not want to play in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon! (after like ten minutes of refusing to answer) ... Lakshmi!

Sanaya: I would want to play Mami-ji for sure!

I laughed so hard when Akshay slapped Abhaas through the screen that I cried.

Sanaya: Laad Governor!

Akshay: *dramatique* Bhai.

Okay, the rest just devolved into general chaos.

Dalljiet: *reads out chat* Akshay is hot!

Akshay: *Vogues*

That was fun to watch, gave me some much-needed laughs. Doesn’t beat the LOTR reunion though.

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Captioned: Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄🎄🎄. It’s the season to give, so go out there and gift your loved ones, gift people who don’t have loved ones, spread the joy it’s an amazing feeling. Bring big smiles on peoples faces 😄😄😄 HO HO HO. Little bit of censoring on second picture 😉😉😉

Source: Instagram

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Barun Sobti + Look Test as Arnav Singh Raizada

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Did you know that the goat 🐐 played 'Lakshmi' died few years ago? (Sanaya mentioned it in one of the interview.) :(

Hi!

Um, no I didn’t know :(

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Hello hello hello!!! So I'm quite new to this IPKKND fandom (I'm 75 episodes in) but you seem quite educated on this topic so I'm asking you. As i'm scrolling thru the IPK tag on Tumblr I'm seeing a lot of Balwant Kaur song references? Who is she?? Is she a really important character? It seems to be an inside joke and I want to be in on it too!!

Hello :)

Welcome to the fandom!! I hope you enjoy watching my two favourite idiots and their adventures, and please feel free to ask any and all questions (it’s probably best to watch it all once, though, as my responses are spoiler central!).

Balwant Kaur is not part of the canon! She is not a character at all.

The cast used to sing a Punjabi folk song off-screen all the time, and it became a THING. The lyrics:

Balwant Kaur na aayi.   [Balwant Kaur hasn’t come]Balwant Kaur na aayi.   [Balwant Kaur hasn’t come]Sariya bibiya ayya,     [All the ladies have arrived]Balwant Kaur na aayi    [But Balwant Kaur hasn’t come]O te kendi si mein bara vaje aawangi     [She said “I will come at 12″]O te kendi si mein bara vaje aawangi     [She said “I will come at 12″]Aithe baj gaye dhai,    [And now it’s two thirty]Balwant Kaur na aayi.    [But Balwant Kaur still hasn’t arrived]

I think original song is one of those hilariously inappropriate songs that aunties sing at weddings, where the lyrics can be anything and everything, so there are also different versions of it. You can probably find most of them if you search youtube or dailymotion with the words “balwant kaur ipkknd”.

So yeah, it’s a bit of an inside joke in the fandom and now you’re in on it too :)

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