Hi Chick
Interesting post
I might agree with you in few points but we need to get at the bottom, what makes this character Shravan what he is. Shravan does have a distorted vision of women... the way he set up Sumo and humiliated her at the reunion party was all a representation of a man who thinks highly of himself and has an opposite view of women. And then again the way he set up Urvashi. Also, Pushkar did say that there is something wrong in the way he deals with women... he uses his charm, which fortunately or unfortunately, he has plenty.. to raise their hopes and crash them ever so badly. Case in point Sumo and Urvashi both, probably many more at London where he did spend a lot of time.
But, yet this same man is asked by our female protagonist, why would anyone do this to you? How? Anyone? (4th May episode). And he reasons with her as he could have done that he has no problem with Chachi, she was doing it for her sons...
And he really meant it. He appreciates Chachi for one reason... a reason which has scarred him for life. That her reaction, her responses stem from the fact that she is a mother.
His mother who had left him. Rejected him and cast aside. Add to that his Sumo, his friend who he believed in spite of she being so young and far more immature than him, will never leave him and shall always protect him.
And these two incidences happened simultaneously. It must have been very difficult for a sensitive person like him (whose whole life was surrounded among books.. the meaning which he had to decipher himself rather than anyone doing it for him). There were no proper relationships for him after these two incidents. Moreover, his father and other family members never corrected the image he had built up about women during these last ten years.
So, his learning has been faulty. And I guess it didnt help matters that during the last ten years he met women who must have been quite similar to the negative stereotypes he had constructed of women.
Sumo's perception has changed from the overtly biased view that he had learnt and inferred over these last ten years.
However, he finds to difficult to reconcile her image, one which he has gathered recently and somehow matches with what he had previously inferred about her before that school humiliation incident. Why do I say so?
Look closely at the terrace scene when Sumo said I almost thought you had forgotten our friendship, he said he tried to but was not able to. Also, he did say that she was always the instigator of those fights... so I do not think he has forgotten that incident. It pricks him still. And he cant believe that Sumo has two contradictory characteristics to her personality. One who is loving, helpful and protective about her family and the other whose actions stem form being image conscious. He knows where this need of image building comes from but I guess, it hasnt yet been resolved.
Shravan's character demands a lot from his inner circle which typically included Sumo, his mom and dad. And if any one of them fails, this Oxford-returned lawyer tends to behave as an absolute jerk. He has put these three people on a pedestal.. and two of them did fail. One recovered her position (Sumo) but at times the crack surfaces. His teasing her could all be a unconscious reaction to these contradictory signals he gets from her. His father did fail him during the Khosla case and see the way he responded. His mother is a different ball game altogether... I would like to know his mother
Shravan looks down upon women because he does believe that they only value superficiality, yet he also appreciates at times their other qualities. One which might not be apparent even to Sumo whose largeness of heart is the most welcoming quality about her. (eg: Chachi being a mother)
DCH, I thought Aamir's final declaration of his love for Preity's character would more suit our madcap (Sumo) (read my post The Door, the Pen, The Truth)
Lovely post as usual👏
Edited by indranigupta - 9 years ago
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