Lovely post🤗... Chick
Was thinking about a word in the title of your post... "boundary"
What do we understand by boundary? Is it merely the limit, the periphery, the edge which gives anything its shape, structure and its order? Yet, boundary also signifies something which is outside itself... beyond the limit. A is what B is not, friendship is what love is not...yet, friendship or love both cannot be understood without the other.
Boundary apart from pointing what is inclusive to it and exclusive also interrogates the limit itself.. and opens it for review. This show more than anything asks us to turn the mirror and probe about what we do understand by boundaries.
Sumo and Shravan... teenage friends outside the boundaries of peer acceptance... became friends on the sly... outside the boundaries or...
Their secret code of door knock.. outside the boundaries of parental authority, peer pressure, of a guilty pleasure...
The washroom lingo between these two.. outside the standard conventional idiom of speaking within a larger group.. boundaries again
Shravan outside the door.. family within and he outside and he within and the family outside. Boundaries again
The letter penned by a teenager to declare his love.. exceeding the limits of friendship.. boundaries questioned
Flirting in the kitchen, closet, terrace... boundaries dissolved and then reinstated. Is it so?
Sumo outside or within the family.. .Khosla case this question was asked... boundaries probed
Sumo and Shravan's case is unique in the sense because order is eventually found when the boundaries are dissolved or bridged or simply swept aside.
Last Friday's episode had a small but significant scene that of Shravan sitting on the window sill of the kitchen to see Sumo cooking the daal. As much as this scene does remind the viewers of the teenage Shravan watching Sumo cook for him and for others umpteen times in the past... dissolving the boundary between the past and the present. It also explicates the working of the boundary... boundary which is never static but always dynamically oriented. How so? Like the letter which was penned by Shravan, daal is the boundary between Sumo and Shravan, Shravan and his mom. But, daal is both a happy and a sad memory. Like the letter ...it cannot be contained... it cannot be structured but its very articulation is more than a disorder... more than anti-thesis.
A boundary which flows, spread its wings and is more than a line. Look at the friday episode again, when Sumo and Shravan are speaking inside the kitchen they are seen through for a second through a divider... window sill acted as the frame which shall separate them. Or, in other words, daal or the figure of the mother coming close to that separation. Yet, for all its divide, this very boundary is a part of Shravan's system something akin to the letter itself. The letter of a child becoming an adult too soon, crossing a boundary and yet that boundary is flowing, its meaning carried over even ten years after it was written. Friendship as a boundary not to be crossed is itself held up for review
The question is not whether there is a boundary but what do we understand by a boundary
Is Sumo and Suman different? Is there a boundary between teenage Shravan or the adult one? Has the meaning changed as written in the letter? Boundaries... all of them, yet more than boundaries they are perspectives. Like the mirror to which Sumo continuously talks to. Is there a boundary between her and the image which is seen in the mirror? Is there a difference between the past and the present? Boundaries are everywhere but this couple's relation is neither outside nor inside. It is a border which is worrying the lines constantly, shifting its paradigm, its frame but not completely out of the frame. Like in the game of cricket, when you hit a six, it means you hit it outside the boundary and yet the boundary of the game persists. Whatever these two do or say in the future or have said in the past.. it is to be seen in the light of dissolving a boundary and yet the larger boundary remains. That is the boundary which states that their relation is and was of love.
Hope I made some sense😆
Great post👏
CID
