Originally posted by: --Amulya--
I know that this forum right now seems to be divided with Sumo's and Shravan's followers... I've a really conflicting question that whether Shravan's anger on Sumo is really valid?? Did she cheat him? Did she break her promise? Did she ever confess that she loves him? Did she ever really give any hint that she's gonna be only his? There's only one answer indefinitely and its a NO...
I myself suffered through the same situation which the leads pass through but I was always almost sure about my one-sided love (for my BFF) that it wouldn't culminate into a relationship. I was perfectly ok loving him by myself even though I never had any hope. I thought its just natural to love a friend when I love my family. I'm a very practical person and never had any illusions.
I'm unable to connect with Shravan while I can with Sumo as he seems to be unable to face the harsh reality while she chose to face it. He lives impractically while she seems to live practically. Her saying that she would consider Adi's alliance as an arranged marriage is a proof of it while he inspite of inhibiting the plan of hating her forever (in her mind) wants her to wait for him. Betrayal, this strong emotion wasn't in Sumo while it was in Shravan.
I do know that Shraman are the end but I'm just unable to connect with the ML character created by CV's. I'm most worried about forced-marriage now as it would just show him more impractical that his stubborn attitude would correct his life. I would love to watch the show if atleast now he decides to face the reality and uncover the truth around him... Why ain't he feeling odd when there're so many unreasonable things going on around him?? ML please use your Oxford brain.
Amulya
You say that Sumo has never confessed to him and has never ever given him hopes for the same. So, for Shravan to feel betrayed is wrong. Well, you have answered your question yourself. If Shravan had no rights upon her and he should not have felt bad about it...because Sumo had not confessed to him, then by analogy even Sumo should not have voiced that how hurt he must have felt. Why did she feel it in this manner? He also had not confessed and in fact, a day before had broken off ties of friendship with her. This question of she getting married with whomever her Nanu has chosen and which would hurt him should not have arisen...
She knew he was hurt, she knew he was distressed...why she had not confessed..neither had he. Recently, all they had done was to accuse each other and then why this recognition of the feeling of hurt in Sumo...You might say because she was a good person or she loved but Shravan didnt...But, notice her monologue...sshe never mentioned that she is hurt...she recognized that how hurt he must have been...
Lets go back to an incident when Shravan returned ten years later, why did Sumo feel that if she just mouths an apology ...she will be forgiven. Ten years her friend had stayed away from her...and she knew it was because of her silly mistake and yet she knew she would be forgiven. What gave her that confidence?
Why just by reading an old letter of Shravan (written ten years prior) she felt that he had not moved on. And hence felt emboldened to pursue certain experiments regarding the same. Not only Sumo, even a Ramnath and Chachi after having read that letter...felt Shravan's feelings were never that of a childhood infatuation.
Why did Shravan confess to his dad? Because one, he couldnt control his feelings and secondly, he knew he loved her and she loved him back. It was a confidence that made him say to his dad...yes, she loves as well. Sumo when she threw the challenge at Ramnath ..she knew he loves her...in spite of many MU between then and hence, said he will realize my love and then can you stop him
The question that you have posited actually fails to realize the equation between the two...
Is love only that which can be articulated, or is love also a concern, a feeling that you are responsible for the other's happiness?
This same Shravan came forward during Khosla case in spite of the biggest MU between (he had disregarded her very identity "Kaun Sumo") them at that point to support Nanu and Sumo ...He held their hands together...and when Sumo wanted to ask him why is he here...He said not today...
Love also means to protect the person you love from pain, from a sadness by consuming it yourself
It is not a question of one-sidedness ...its a question of a connection which in spite of ten years of absence and distance between them...they still looked at the other..They hadnt moved on...
When they had a conversation over telephone...how did Shravan know she was in pain? Why did he make her go off to sleep? And said even if a Nanu is not there...he shall be there...
At times you need to hear the silences, the pauses to gauge that love does not mean chasing, does not mean pursuing...it means to give hope, it means to make your lover fall off to sleep so that she could dream...
If Love was only a confession ...then this story should not have been made in the first place...
Love is a thread that connects, that vibrates, that resonates and brings the past alive into the present...and makes you hopeful about the future