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So we've still got Sunday to pass - not to mention whatever part of Saturday for respective time zones, and I have this vague line of thought that I want to further, so I think a discussion would be fun - hence this thread...
Now looking back at the months of this show's story in retrospect, one can tell the show was always about GK - about depicting the custom of deevyarvattu, it's place in the society, and depicting its consequences through a subjective case of a family, and the couple GK, in this case. But have we ever wondered what things could have been like, if not as they are?!
DISCLAIMER: This is totally AU, in a sense, because it's all about what if! Just to clarify, I think this show is such a beautiful complexity because of the way it is, because of the way its characters are inevitably tangled with each others lives... and because all that complication gives rise to multiple layered rich characterizations such as the ones we have - and gives us what we all like to call a thinking audience's show!
I'm just talking hypothetically, and trying to imagine alter circumstances - random deviation of thought! No offense intended, if you know me from this forum at all - you know how much I love Gulaal ☺️
Let's begin with Gulaal
What if Vasant never had a younger brother 'Kesar'?
So she could still be Nirja, she could still fall in love with Vasant and the two could still be married. Dushyant could still be the evil cousin who obsessed himself about Gulaal and killed Vasant in the lure of the moment - so that when the situation did come down to deeyarvattu Gulaal would not have the Kesar option.
Biggest question here is - minus of Kesar, would Gulaal still have 'sacrificed' her chance at escaping the ordeal of being a widow and following on Vasant's sapna? It's a major question, because in way it determines exactly how long ago Kesar became an indispensable presence in her life. She claimed that she had to stay back in the house, and take care of her responsibilities, and that has always been her understood cause of the DV with Kesar. Point is, if it wasn't for him, would her sense of responsibility still be as undeterred for Vasant's dream? Which translates to - has her persuasion of goal all these years been of Vasant's dream, or Kesar's welfare and future? Partially, those two factors overlap, but really, they are still distinct. Would a DV with Dushyant - her only option minus Kesar - would have been her decision to save MB's family from harm and property from being usurped, as a part of her moral obligation towards the unfulfilled duties of her husband?
Bottom line - what would Gulaal's decision after Vasant's death have been, if there was no Kesar.
And on that note, one begins to wonder how indiscreetly, but constantly divine justice has been dealt to Gulaal - in the form of a savior like Kesar. Half the fables in the world are centered on a lonely damsel whose life is spent in cinders and oblivion, until the day the prince charming comes in and changes it all. While from a shallow perspective it may seem to be Gulaal's case too - it really isn't. Kesar isn't a prince charming who's stepped out of the blue into Gulaal's limbo excuse of a life. Gulaal herself has been instrumental to merge his color with her life - while its fateful that Vasant did have a brother called Kesar - everything else about his presence in Gulaal's life is ironically self induced.
And somewhere, thinking along that tangent - one begins to see the beauty of how 'fate' has returned to save Gulaal - courtesy her goodness. In all her error of decisions, in all her extremity of sacrifice, and more or less blind sense of righteousness, Gulaal has been such an utterly pure soul, so white in her intentions - that despite the rude jolts of crisis time and again - most of them being repercussion of her own misjudgments and austere ideologies; life has given her Kesar. An angel she truly deserves... for what if Kesar had genuinely built a level for hatred for her to change the person he was? What if he had managed to drown his dilemma and turn outright black and vengeful? Or what if, he'd just fallen in love with Talli on his return?
When you look at Kesar, you realize Gulaal has been lucky after all - responsible for her luck, but also plain lucky. And then you think, she of all the people, truly deserves a happiness like that! Fair enough!
Let's move on to Kesar
What if the Nirja Vasant went out in search of was a 50 some year old woman who came to save Talsagra village? So Vasant would have never been enamored by the beauty of this pretty girl, never fallen in love with the virtues of her heart which equaled her external charisma. Dushyant would have never found lust cum obsession for the lover, then wife of his brother, and hence never killed him. But most importantly, Kesar would have never met Gulaal!
How would that affect his life? His village would be saved by the old lady Nirja. His elder brother Vasant and Dushyant would get married in time, to whoever was respectively chosen for them, or by them. There would be no love triangles, quadrangles, and no gore. Kesar would probably never be sent to boarding, and end up growing into a shadow of his Vasant bha and the reign of Talsagra village would probably be succeeded by Sarpanch Vasant. There would always be the negative elements like JK and Raman, Dushyant would likely never reform (enough), and Giga and his family would be the second fiddle as always?
Basically - Kesar would have the normal life, of a normal powerful rural joint family. So although with the show's own story line, Gulaal is the soulmate for him - he could well have had a straight forward simpler life minus her, yeh?! Probably even have fallen in love with a girl his age like Talli?!
Now this other side of the coin is the debate point here. Of why Kesar deserves Gulaal - if or not!
Again, totally hypothetical. We have those random posts about Gulaal-Vasant being the story, but at least the bunch of us regular and loyal viewers agree it is about GK. So I thought why not try and counter question what we have, and see why exactly it is meant to be about Gulaal Kesar... Gulaal's side easier explained, I've done. Now let's hear it from you guys about Kesar?
ps: Feel free to add/subtract any what if angles to the story and/or my post. Basically, lets strive to harp on about why GK are ideal soulmates! ☺️
Please chip in your views... and may the Sunday be past before we realize, Amen! 😆
xx
JZee
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did I forget to say? I got my laptop backkk!
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