The Fangirl Tales

Chapter 17: Quitting ER1 & watching it again !!

As the girl put the next title as Chapter 17: Quitting ER1 and watching it again, she gets struck to the golden memories that are associated with the same. She softly smiles and comes back to reality from her endless thoughts. She now resumes to write... ✍️

Dear Diary,

To start with, I guess me as an ER1 fan needs no introduction because you all know how much I love Vetri, VM and ER1 !! From the girl who said she'll never watch such a show to she becoming an ardent fan of it, surely I have come a long way. And honestly watching ER1 was the best thing that happened to me, otherwise I would've missed Vetri and VM. Thankfully I was lucky enough to witness their beautiful journey. 😇

When everything was going so smoothly there came a storm and that was called "COVID-19". Honestly covid had disrupted our lives and now it's the new normal that has transpired and we have adapted to it somehow. I still remember the last episode that I watched as an ardent ER1 fan before covid and that was the Women's Day episode where Vetri presented Malar with an oil painting portrait of her. Though it looked very unrealistic but still it's the sad reality that it was the official last episode that I watched as an ardent ER1 fan and everything after that changed drastically. 🥺

So, there came a day where the television industry had to shut down its operations and abruptly stop shooting further episodes of the daily soap operas and fans like us went mad not about the outrageous covid that was taking lives (though we didn't knew the seriousness of it back then) but the fact that we can't see our favorite characters and person anymore on our tv screens was so miserable to even think about. 😔

Meanwhile the 'Mee' who was already pissed off with this stupid thing called covid because they cancelled my 12th board exam of Business Studies subject due to the same and it got me even more agitated as they even stopped telecasting my most favorite show. 😤

I mean, now how will I spend my day without watching vertri and vm. What about the further storyline, how is vm's life gonna be further, all this was running behind my head. My day always felt incomplete without watching er1 and now I don't even know how my life would be without watching any new episodes on a daily basis were the different thoughts that was lingering in my mind. Our Batch was so unlucky because we had to abruptly cancel all the pre-planned holiday tours and fun due to this unexpected virus outbreak. 😮‍💨

I vividly remember the difficult times and the amount of support the fandom gave to the actors. We used to patiently wait for even the slightest of an update about the next episode. Even we used to enjoy the imagination of our content creators of ER1 where they would predict what's gonna happen next. 😀

Though we missed dhiru, pavi and all the other actors onscreen but still they found means and ways to entertain us by posting a lot of content on Instagram. Mainly Dhiru!! He was someone who kept us all entertained throughout the pandemic by way of posting his reels and pictures, trying out different stuffs. That was possibly the only solace that the fandom had back then. I also remember our happiness when vijay tv once tried to make a content with the lead pairs by making them connect through video calls and even we got to see some live videos on YouTube. Still we all missed ER1 to the core because nothing can replace that one thing which was more like our routine. The whole fandom rewatched the entire series and found solace there and that was the least we could actually do. 😌✨

While all this was going on for like months together finally there came a day where everything came back to new normal and somehow people started to live with the pandemic. Soon government gave permission to start shooting and the news made us all happy. I was so excited to watch the first episode after all this mess and felt good but something was missing and it was the pandemic track where Vetri volunteered to do social service, though I liked the concept but yet again something was missing. 💭

One fine day when I was watching a episode of ER1, a harsh reality hit me like never before. I hated to admit that I was no longer interested to watch ER1 because the storyline was almost exhausted, I mean the purpose of the story was to see how vetri and malar united despite of the circumstances and odds which was beautifully shown to the audience. So, now whatever they showed felt like dragging the storyline because now the focus was on Pugal - Akila and slightly on Thaen - Azhagar. VM was just being there trying to sort out the differences between their extended family which was nothing sort of a refreshing one. Though I watched it with a half heart just for VM and VM only but my patience exhausted during that Anjali Murder track and Vetri going behind bars. I mean I couldn't tolerate it anymore that I no longer wanted to see that again. I felt sad for the tragic end that got me out of watching one of the best shows that I've ever watched in Tamil. 😇

Also, my board results were out and during that time I became busy with the admission process to enroll into under-graduation. There was so much that was happening in my life that I totally forgot about ER1. Though I used to remember it someday but still I was left with no time to watch it. So, that was how I abruptly ended my craze for it and my life changed after that. But if I have to be honest with you people then I have to admit that meanwhile I found some amazing shows in Hindi and Tamil with great storylines so I was watching that. But destiny again had other plans for me. 😌

Somewhere around August 2021 I heard the news about ER1 going off-air and of course that news made me a bit sad because of the memories and emotional connect that I had with the show. After so long say somewhere around December 2021 I was feeling bored during my Semester holiday that I suddenly remembered about ER1. Instantly I opened Instagram to find so many beautiful edits on VM and my heart felt so happy to see all that again. 😍

I immediately opened Hotstar to find 807 episodes and I felt proud about it because back then for an afternoon serial to receive this much accolades and episodes was not a normal affair. ✨

Then I watched the entire series from where I left, definitely not all episodes but most of them. I seriously enjoyed the mid part of the malar pregnancy track and it was gorgeous to see how vetri took care of his malar and his unborn baby. What an amazing screenplay it was and much respect to the writer for that malar chickenpox track where she asked vetri about the pox marks on her face and her being ugly to which vetri replied to her about how she'll always be his forever love in spite of her looks.

Vetri always surprises me in the most astounding ways ever!!!! 💝😊

So, that was how I quitted watching ER1 and then definitely watched the remaining episodes late but latest. I really felt complete when I watched the final episode of them and their family entering their new phase of life in their dream home and a happy family. ER1 with all it's imperfections is one of the finest stories of reality that I've ever watched in Tamil till date.🥰

I can never forget how Vetri, VM and ER1 made me feel - Happy, positive, sad, loved, wanted, excited, romantic, angry, dejected, emotional and the millions of other feelings to cherish forever. To me Vetri and VM will be forever special and ever dear to me. This is one serial that I would definitely share with my posterity for sure. Because I feel that every women deserves a man like Vetri in their lives in the form of a husband, father, son, brother, friend etc., and every man should try and be like vetri to make this world a better place to live. ❣️

The memories of ER1 will always be cherished by me and my little heart...💗

Yours
DD 🤓✍️

As the girl puts the next title as Chapter 18...

(To be Continued...)