edkv - the quandary that is life -edited

I watched the last few episodes and this is my take -

We are all actors in the stage production called Life scripted by destiny, and whose twists and turns we meet by applying varying shades to the characters/roles we play. Often, we do play many different roles - sometimes a parent, at other times a lover, and then a lot of the times a friend. Often, a lot of these roles are more than what we initially sign up to. They are add on's that get thrown our way, and we take up the challenge - fulfilling it with aplomb. At other times however, our performance in some or all these roles is lack lustre, despite our deepest efforts. A mother can fail at being a lover or vice versa, or perhaps a friend becomes a lover, in hours of insecurity and personal conflict you turn around and find a friend and confidante in your boss - all various roles that people play in this production of life. Some roles/characters are tailor made for us, and no one call fill our shoes - others are better done by someone else. But whatever the case, we trudge on applying all our energies to attain the one thing in life that is elusive - Happiness.

Nirmala - She fulfilled her role as Shravan's mother so well that when she moved on to her next character or role, it left Shravan bereft. She still stayed in character, only becoming mother to another child in need of a mothers affection. But the conflict in her three roles - that of a mother, a wife, and an independent woman - made her flounder and caused an upheaval in the life of the person she wants to protect, even now. She failed at being a wife and a mother to one but did well at being a woman and mother to another. I however think that by cowering down to her husbands threats, she failed at being a woman too. I wonder what role she will take up now going forward.

Shravan - Devoted friend. Oh, he played this well and how! As long as he was Sumo's friend all her misgivings were accepted as endearing quirks. As long as he was a friend who fell in love, he was willing to accept rejection if it meant preserving the friendship. But one he stepped into a lovers shoes, logic lost its way at sea. He became irrational. A friends possessiveness turned to the deep jealousy of an insecure man, who wants to build a glass tower for himself and his beloved, a tower where no other would dare to venture. He allowed himself to dream. And he thought those dreams would turn to reality. He did everything he could to placate the dijins of love and passion - but he set out to possess without understanding an enigmatic, all enduring truth - that happiness lay in being close to the one he loved and not merely possessing her. So when she accepted, or seemingly so, another man's help; when she allowed herself to become engaged to another man, he - the lover - saw a deep anger, a tornado of emotions- bubble to the surface. He allowed the painful acid to gnaw his insides. What was left was neither lover nor the friend. Emptiness. What role will he take up now? Shravan has played every character with dedicated ease - whose shoes will he step into now?

If I were to opine, the lover, the friend is still there within him. He has not handed in the papers. When he confronts Suman for a dance, his controlled anger, the desperation comes to the fore. When he cries with his mothers photograph, his main grouse HIS Sumo being lost to him. But will he claim her? What will make him claim her ? For him to take matters into his hand and arrange in neat orderly rows the relationships that make his life, he will have to confront a few truths that will shift the balance in his favour - that Sumo loves him, and that she never betrayed him. He has to come across the truth of the investors and the memory box.

Sumo - Fighter Sumo has now become Suman, the girl allowed herself to be sacrificed. She stepped out of the fighters shoes when Shravan stepped out of his role as a friend. For her to regain the upper hand as Sumo, Shravan will have to come into being as a person, as a friend, as a lover - not as a tin box of toxins. A truly flushed out Shravan can help both of them heal and regain even the vestigial of the great love they once shared.

Today this show has become a joke. RIP.

Nothing to say.

Thanks a ton for coming up with this write up Beagle. Will read and respond tomorrow.

Thats hilarious. The lamp of eternal flame has been extinguished.

You have a way with words... I loved this... And agree with what you said here...

Oh dear! What did he say that he has not said already that is mean? He seems to have a serious case of verbal dysentery which is an affliction most male leads suffer from.

Thank you Roshni. To be honest, it was a case of to watch or not watch for me and the to watch won. And now, from what I gather, I'm not all that certain it was the right choice. I wanted to make stewed apple of some of the characters but everyone has jumped into the pot to get stewed together.

She needs him to become Sumo and he needs her to heal

Waiting to see that soon