^^ Eeeh, yikes?! Sorry Gogz! So much for pushing me to join your forums, 😆
Nur - you know her?! 😲 Well don't you know a handful of us madhatters scattered over the world then?! 😆 She was so insistent I join IF that she opened my account from her personal system once upon a time, but I didn't come around to being active until recently after I moved out of home (:
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JZee
ps: lovtv, that was my post! Credit no one else!
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Excellent post lovtv 👏
I have only recently gotten onto the Gulaal bandwagon, and caught up with the necessary details of the show. Admittedly, Gulaal's life for the past decade has been all about becoming the stop-gap Vasant arrangement for the household which has been stretched too much. While the family (and Gulaal herself) awaited the comeback and take over of Kesar - what no one expected was the advent of a whole new tornado in their lives, because Kesar is no longer the willful boy who wil sooner or later be talked into the will of the elders - that he is now a grown up man who has lived the past decade of his own life on his own terms (barring where and why) and has become in the process an independent-dependent young adult. In a strange way, his independence and dependence on Gulaal herself stems from the co-factor.
That said, for Gulaal, he continued to be the little boy who's custody she had undertaken in a wicked turn of events as yet another of Vasant's responsibilities, albeit the top of list kind. Additionally, her own great attachment to Kesar as a ward has been immense, and she has never quite outgrown that phase. For her, she is still Vasant's widow, and in that position, Kesar's elder - if not bhabhi, since she never really took that precise spot exclusively ever - always, Gulaal was first his friend and confidante, and then anything else, even hen he was writing her letters he never posted.
In an ironic turn of fates with the passing of Vasant, both Gul and Kesar have led lives that end at each other. Their need and want of Vasant in their life, and the gap he has left behind are on different levels, but of the same extent in certain ways - and their no matter what becomes of them in the future, and where they stand today - that one factor shall bind them tight, and they shall always be on the same page over the matter. Perhaps one day Gulaal will se how Kesar's intention is not to replace Vasant in her life, but to acquire a whole new place for himself; because he understands her past like nobody else could... It will probably go a long way to quell the violated sense she feels for herself at the hands of Kesar's candid confession!
But as far as closures are concerned, neither had their own for the longest time. While Kesar spent a decade over the mystery of his brother's death and Gul-Dushyant controversy in the matter; Gul of course has purely lived in the shadow of her late husband, even as she appears to be the forefront of everything. While the recent turmoil has hastened Kesar's realization of his love, and even confession, one must admit his closure over the matter of his brother's death has not been exclusively dealt with - neither for that matter does the family till date have any idea. I perceive Gulaal's closure on Vasant front as the beginning of not just Gul-Kesar in the making, but also resolution to many buried ghosts. And perhaps, in the unearthing of those dark chapters, and eventual resolutions of the same lies the reestablishment of the Gul-Kesar bond brand new, with a whole new ground.
Once again, thanks for the insightful post! Will look forward to more!
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JZee
Edited by JZephyr - 14 years ago
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