Originally posted by: sanfan
I see the current track as a detour in story telling to position the actual story at the point of the original promos of the show...this detour was intentional in my view (my hindsight knowledge really) becos if this was the Shravan we had met at the start of the show as per the promos...i doubt we would have had too many takers for his side in the story or would have given this love story a chance..The detour was primarily taken for us to give us a real glimpse of these two characters Shravan and Suman...the two lovers-to-be
You know, San your take is interesting, in fact very much so. The first 50 episodes (almost all of them put together) were a detour to build up to this point. So that people can watch it far more calmly and how Sumo reforms this man. Means this sounds almost like a joke, in a show which we all believed was slightly more realistic, all of a sudden you tell me that its the duty of the FL to help this idiot (I have other words for him rite now, but wont use it😆). So did this detour help? Many among the forum members have already thrashed this detour as coming from nowhere. That it doesnt make sense. Shravan how did he turn out to be such an ass. And how different it is from other shows, where the main job is to portray the FL as trying to reform the ML from such regressive thinking.
So, all the earlier instances of goodness in this character which if was there in the first place, has already been forgotten by the forum members. Where did this detour lead us then? Many also have pointed out that's it going back in time. The story has made no progression at all in terms of character growth. Now what is left in the story is to correct his prejudices, a totally warped one at that. So, detour hasnt helped the show at all and definitely not the hero, Shravan (if he can be called a hero with what was shown yesterday).
Even if there were some new character traits that we have come across of Shravan Malhotra.. its all being put under the scanner by his most regressive attitude towards women.
Was he so upset by Sumo for the last ten years because she was a woman, after all (forgetting about the letter's contents for a while)?
Detour really didnt help.. .if Shravan has turned out to be an MCP of the worst kind. And as you say a misogynist.
How did this detour help?
But was it a detour in the first place?
The show's greatest strength for me is the way the story has been told.
As Jonathan Culler has said... the significance lies not in the tale, but in the telling of it. The story is simple... most of us have already noticed it, in fact, all stories are simple even the greatest ones (Midnight's Children, anyone).
So, the story is here not important that of father's bad parenting or the floundering of the parents' relationship which has made Shravan such an ass.
So, what makes this show interesting for most of us?
The story in this show is never completely told ... like the third question which is yet to be asked by Shravan to Sumo. Before the reunion party, most of us had been against Shravan, after the party many felt differently (I didnt, btw😆).
The story in this show has always followed the mode of "in medias res".Starting not from the beginning or even ending at a desired end, but lingering in the middle. As if the whole point in telling this story is perspectives do matter. Beginning or ending usually are written from a certain vantage point where the storyteller/s already are aware how the story would progress or how it would end.
Here, in this show this is being denied to us and more so, to the character themselves. Sumo who thought that Shravan Malhotra is a good man and so she cannot lie about him and in doing so, as Red pointed out, Pushkar's performance within the Malhotra firm was cast aside. Was her truth valid when you look at the totality of what was shown yesterday?
Given the chance, if Shravan keeps on saying or acting upon his regressive beliefs.. will Sumo not believe that actually she has done wrong to Pushkar, who is as much a friend to her as Shravan. In fact, more so than Shravan because he has followed her journey in these past ten years not from a virtual distance.
Flashbacks in this story have always given us a limited perspective as if reiterating that it is foolish to pass a judgement. Father is bad, Son bad and an idiot if ever there was one. And mother wronged. Sumo, a heroine who has to face the brunt of it all.
How much did Suman Tiwari actively help us in bringing Shravan to a point where you say we do like him a little bit? (not many after yesterday's episode😆)
Sumo also didnt apologize (another major grouse among the forum members here😆) for what she did ten years ago. What did she do that it made Shravan say a heartfelt thank you to her once (walk down memory lane). Sumo did not need to offer any explanation as to why she did what she did, yet this MCP acknowledged her journey of loneliness and pain.
Think again about the storytelling mode.. and tell me was that also, a detour? Or was it making us aware along with the characters that a mirror doesnt reveal the whole picture? You can only see what you want to see or what is exactly placed before the mirror. Other things, incidents, characters which do not fall in this line of vision shall not be shown or cannot be, till a new mirror comes along. Again that wouldn't the whole picture but shifting of perspectives.
Sumo saw something which makes her question her views of what she has seen in the mirror. But, was it all wrong or was it merely incomplete?
We saw yesterday a mirror.. in which few of the characters' new layers came to light. But, does that mean we need to discount the other mirrors which we had seen and observed. Going back to the logic of the show, the answer is no
Its not simply a matter of maintaining our interests as viewers that they showed what you label as detour.. its rather telling us that this show is not a mirror to life but, life itself is composed of several mirrors which we keep on finding along in journey towards love or the lack of it.
I dont know if I answered your response.. but your argument San was so topical. In spite of our intense dislike of what was shown yesterday, why do we keep on watching? Detour or ...
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