Yesterday's episode was what I had been waiting for after the beautiful and poignant 50th episode.
So, let's begin
Show begins with Sumo praying, pleading for second chance... second chance for herself and Shravan. Viola, bell rings... oops sorry, not the doorbell but a far more significant sound. Sound she had recently heard and had over the last ten years almost but forgotten. The code. Their own code to defy their elders, to play on without disturbance and also to dispel confusion (they would be aware that it is only them and no one else who has called). He was there. Shravan. Same language played ever again to be heard no more...
Heard no more because he is moving on or has moved on? Nope. He has not moved on. He cant move on. Why? Just before this knock Sumo had been praying for second chances. This is the second chance to move on from their lost opportunity of the past to gather the present into something new (probably more delicious than of old... paneer anyone?)
He has come to say goodbye before he leaves for London. Moves on to London. Moves on from Sumo. Nah... what he does is beyond moving on. He brings back the childhood of Sumo, a lost age moved on from the debris of the past to the beauty of their present. Can anything be as beautiful as the swing scene yesterday? He gives a push to the swing as she wished for from her mother who could never ever come back; move on from the veils of the dead. This is by far for me the most romantic scene till date.
And what made it special... was he sitting beside her on the swing... Partners in crime, partners in life... moving on from just being friends to becoming what they are destined to be.
He also asks her what she wanted to say the last night. She who wanted to say that do not move on... said shouldn't you grab the second chances. He lightly said "am happy being single". But, he did not realize that at the present moment or in the distant past he was never single... he was sitting beside her on the same swing. Sumo you are not single, he will be there. Even when he sits in the car he pulls back the window to gaze at her... one last time
Last time... but, end is always the beginning of new
Sumo receives the phone call about the crash and rushes to stop him, from moving on. Because he needs to move on... to the knowledge that he has everything in this world to the fact that he is alone in this world. All alone...
This scene between Sumo and Shravan shall be etched in my mind forever. Shravan still thinking that Sumo has come up with a kaand to stop him (his subconscious thought always works overtime😆) is shocked. Vomits. Many would find it ridiculous.. I didn't.
He vomited out not only whatever he had eaten the last night which he had spent with Sumo but in doing so, he vomited out all the good feelings he felt about life. His happiness was vomited in that instant.😭 Life was suddenly too dark.
And yet, there was a moving on not only for Shravan in terms of his realization but for Sumo. Sumo the young girl who had failed to support him during that eventful 10 years ago... today was helping him, was being his moral.physical and psychological support. One scene here needs a special acknowledgement. When Sumo wipes Shravan's mouth with her hands after he vomits and gives him water. THIS WAS LOVE...A SPECIAL WALA.
No words as of now to describe the beauty of this scene ... spellbound. Is love this.. so simple and yet magical. In a street where they were alone.. these two moved on from being simply friends.. to not lovers but resplendent of a dream come true.
Also, note she was an orphan and had been so for the past 18 years and yet it is she who was giving him support. LOVE it screamed.
She takes him home. His family comes to support him, but Shravan rejects them.. tries to walk and then falls. Brilliant piece of direction there by CVS. 👏
The man who was supposedly now an astute lawyer giving advises, counsels to others falls... because his support is not there. The support which had carried him, moved on with him for the past ten years. He was alone and he fell. Also, again a brilliant piece of direction by the CVs that they showed Shravan's reaction as ever recurring. Remember the school incident when he had gone to seek Sumo's help because his mother had left him. He had then also fallen... has Shravan moved on? I leave it you. Yesterday when he was seeing his father everywhere.. he was the centre of the circle and yet the circle couldn't be drawn.Tragic isn't it?
Moved on from where to... from whom to... from what to...
Was the precap overboard? Don't know till it pans out. But, whatever I saw yesterday was painful of the highest order. His whole family couldn't control him almost as if he had become half-human.. his position as shown on the screen was of an embryo. He was totally helpless and unfortunately, none of the family could do anything to alleviate that pain. He was required to be sedated. Moved on to a knowledge that mere education, your riches cannot support you to a knowledge which shall move him on to greater understanding, that it is family and love which makes the world go round... a fact from which he consciously wants to move on
Yesterday, episode was fab.. simply superb. 👏Few of us might not have liked it but see it as a codification of moving on... and you will feel the brilliance of it all.
Namik, Nikita take a bow👏
One more scene, Vandy crying her lungs out... she who had known Ramnath for a few years only, also felt the enormity of this loss. Think about Shravan now
This scene will have few major repercussions... what if his father refuses Sumo as his daugther-in-law (might, might not happen)? What will Shravan do? Second... what if in the future Sumo leaves him (I do not mean death) but is not there... how will he respond?
How will he move on?
Please do respond with your views. Shall be waiting😃
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