Bang on post Sammy
Excellent review👏
Your title reminds me of my post which I had written few weeks back titled Order and Disorder...
Well.. Shravan Malhotra surprised me today with the kind of venom he spewed today. There were signs of it earlier but yesterday... by far, was the worst example of how negative his views of women can be and regressive as well.
Anti-thesis to what Sumo had been expecting of her so-called tests. 😆
But, if you look beyond the collage we saw yesterday with so many jerks and unnecessary piling of flashbacks, I found certain signs of synthesis as well...
Sumo for all the negative things she had heard him spew earlier.. still went upstairs and though she knocked she did not forsake him. That is enough of a synthesis to tell you that the future might not be rosy yet this girl will be there for him. Hovering in the background. Cut back to the traumatic scene few days back when she did not leave for a second. Hugging him as if it was her very life
Reminds me of the time when young Sumo fought on his behalf with the lady... something which both of his parents failed to do.
Sumo is also an independent girl like his mother, fighting off odds on a daily basis yet look at the way she nurtures her family... cherishing the very memory of her past.
Something which Ramnath failed to aspire in his son... the son looks at the memory of his mother and is filled with bitterness. A bitterness which colours the best parts of his personality in black
Nirmala wanted to give her son a good life and insisted on the money angle when she was arguing with the father
Sumo also wants a good life.. remember the first episode when she bought the trench coat (something like that) and yet willingly gives it to her sister. Sumo wanted to save the house from the clutches of Khosla yet she did not consider a 6 crores cheque enough... why because money cannot buy Truth or Love.
And lastly, Sumo knows of the letter and is aware of her own feelings for him and yet she allows him to move on... the day of his goodbye (50th and 51st episode)... Move on, sacrifice her own feelings so that he could be happy. Even if that meant her own life coming to a standstill
Coming to the play out of the promo.. pyaar vs samman, Sumo will move on from this MCP Shravan but yet shall treasure the image of her teenage, nerdy friend in her heart. Only the teenage, nerdy friend you say...
And Shravan, presently, is in fact, the very image of anti-thesis to Sumo, believing in the adage "Frailty thy name is woman"
Yet.. is it so simple as that?
Why did Shravan come back to give a swing to Sumo? Who was that Shravan? Simply a friend, well then he is great friend😆
A friend who values the simplest and the most heart-felt wishes of a young girl can he be simply termed as MCP? This is how he has become... from a good friend to a really bad species of the male order (which he did encapsulate in yesterday's episode, btw😡)
He was good and now he has moved on to be a bad specimen... Anti-thesis
That one smile, the last smile he tried to put on his friend's face can it be simply that... a one good gesture among the many bad ones that he does or shall set out to do in the near future
Winning the case for her, for her Nanu for the home, for the memories, for Truth. And learning through her example that good things in life matter more than giving in to family pressure... Is it all an example of his negative traits that was so explicitly shown yesterday?
Who was the guy who managed to see through Sumo's pushing him and even cutting his hand?
And mind you she was a woman and yet he could see it was he who was wrong
Sumo's inane tests shall come in handy one day to tell us beyond this conundrum of anti-thesis/disorder... there is a man who was willing to wait for his friend not only at the parlour but also, willing to carry an image of the girl (example of female species he hates and despises) he locks up in that letter. JJ said the letter is resplendent of a time when his affection was at its peak and then the downhill started. Yes but for me,little more than that. The letter stands of a realization that she, Sumo was always special... one who he wanted to keep beside himself. She who was a woman and not merely his friend. The letter is also of a belief that there are other times, other meanings to life, to relationship, towards love and of what he has gathered in these past ten years about who is a woman.
Pyaar vs samman
Yes, Sumo should and would choose samman and yet
Pyaar would play its part as it did with the Khosla case
If earlier he came back from the airport, having managed to stifle the heart-vs mind conundrum to rediscover himself... this anti-thesis shall play its part to bring forth synthesis we so much look forward to.
Sammy you say, that Shravan has moved on to the very-anti-thesis of Sumo's wanting a woman who who should be at his beck and call; yet a man who at a very young age was willing to let go of his wife if she cooked what he did not like went on to relish the same dish made by the same woman. Moved on usually means moving from one point to another... Where has Shravan Malhotra moved on to? From young sensitive boy to an image of what we saw yesterday... yet, this same Shravan is the first one to seek the rekindling of her friendship, terming it as the most beautiful ehsaas.
He will move on one day to the that time in the night when he was all alone, literally and figuratively and there was only one person to support him. A woman and an orphan. He will move on to that image. He will move on also to the fact this women tried to make him articulate what he could not do or wanted to do. That he loves somebody and has always done so. And to whom, voila! as Lalaji said, ladki se😆
He will be the first one to understand the meaning of that plane crash of his father which never happened... that all women are not the same. Some are special... and meant to be with each other for ever. And this was always there, this small voice within him one which made him not write that letter and yet to keep it safe with him for these so many years. He will move on probably (I believe) to add something more to the letter... after as you say he has moved on
Well, we have been going on about the promo now being played out to its full potential. True. Yet, if you remember the first promo, Sumo after hearing that he has moved on flings the pictures she carried with herself and leaves. Yet, as the pictures fall all over the place, at the center of it all is Shravan lingering behind her.
We want to see them together.. but right now.. there still a long way to go. Even for Sumo... how long can she dependent on the meaning of a letter written ten years ago? He might have moved on as we all are carping on. So, on learning this fact where will Sumo move on and how?
And for once, I have started to like this Preekar relationship... one thing which is sunny among the darkness of the past, present and future of our lead couple.
Great post Sammy
Loved it to the core
Edited by indranigupta - 9 years ago
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