Ramnath, is a very layered and highly insecure character.
Not that we don't find people like that in the real world, we do. Everyone is flawed in one way or another, good or bad depends on the perspective of the viewer.
It was Ramnath's insecurity that got him to believe his lack of success in the professional front drove Nirmala to an affair with her then successful boss. He took counter measures to keep his now only family, Shravan with him forever. He did everything he deemed right to make his son successful, to make him a good human being, not realising that the damage had been done. It is now that he knows what he has done to Shravan and though he may want to undo the wrong, he can't without falling in his son's eyes. To top it off Nirmala is back and he saw her at court. His instincts kicked in, his insecurities came back with a bang. He thinks she is here to take his son away. He lies his son is happy knowing all well Shravan is far from happiness. Its just his defence mechanism.
And Nirmala, woman I do not understand you no matter how hard it try.. If she didn't bother checking on Shravan for a decade why would she barged in now? He was starting to live. Whether she wasn't all that wrong, wrong she was. She showed her son, he wasn't worth fighting for. Epic! And now coming back, she will snatch his only two people of solace, his father and Sumo.
If he shoves both his parents, he will break. Being the sensitive guy he is, he won't be able to take it..
Edited by orion23 - 9 years ago