This is called being sucked in by a black hole - our perpetual black hole is GK-dom these days, ofc 😆
Originally posted by: Anjalg
Bottom line - what would Gulaal's decision after Vasant's death have been, if there was no Kesar.
On that one...I feel Gulaal would have preferred to keep at her responsibilities and fight for the family as Vasant's widow. I don't think she would have ever opted to become Dushy's wife come hell or high water. Ok, Kesu was extremely important to Vasant and even before Gulaal stepped foot into Talsagara, she knew that Kesu was Vasant's heartbeat. So, to Gulaal, marrying Kesu was practically like marrying Vasant's heartbeat...and she became Kesu's knight in shining armour, protecting him, fighting for him, nurturing him. I remember an episode where Gulaal told Kesu that Vasant and she used to call him their 'sapna'. Kesu got very angry because he did not want to be called a girls name - sapna but that is what Kesu meant to Gulaal...Vasant's dream!! So marrying Dushy was completely out of the question!
Jeez...here I thought I would get a quick peek at the forum and call it a nite and then I saw your topic!!! Ok, back tomorrow😆
So I don't disagree with Gulaal still wanting to fulfill her responsibilities - but how would have been a vital question. Maybe she would have gone back home and found a way to do it from a distance? I can't imagine Gulaal bowing down to pressures of blokes like JK's family, but really her situation was out of hand dire, but for her way out with Kesar.
And aaah! While you say it beautifully - Kesar being Vasant's heartbeat - oh the Kesuda phangurl in me just flips at the thought Gulaal having done her DV with Kesar cause he's Vasant's heartbeat - let's stick to the sapna line of thought 😆
On that note - that scene was oh so cute, when she's telling him about Vasant and her dream being Kesar and he's being all bratty boy at being called by a girl's name! It's uber cute that he lets her call him even sapna, as long as she doesn't do kaam tamaan of his izzat in public by calling him that elsewhere ...😆 Dushyant was always out of question. I suppose one possibility would have been a private encounter with Dushyant where the entire abduction scene played out and then Dushyant came around like he did in the show and supported her to be allowed to live in the house, respectfully as a widow? Let's not forget how Dushyant had geared up to combat dushman ki beti Nirja and in one moment of being overwhelmed by her beauty, backed off! But then, if Dushyant would have become that savior - minus of Kesar - would we have eventually had a G-D angle?! Likely, when you think of it!
Anyway - I think making a man out of Kesar was always really what Gulaal's responsibility boiled down to. Taking care of the house, keeping its people together, Rewa's crisis, Sudha's lull, Talli's adoption... and everything else just happened in the wake. The people of that house, despite their internal grudges and politics had always been under one roof, and would have continued the same way, even if Gulaal had left! No one would have discovered about Dushyant - because this is assuming there is no Kesar character and other than him and Gulaal, nobody did any search work anyway! - and all would have been the usual, as it was without her and JK's family would have risen to fore... Rewa would have been packed off sooner or later, and really, Yogesh could have still married her - Revji is a sensible man, even if Poonam tends to go berserk! It was really, beneath all her overt responsibilities - all about Kesar, and but for his character, she could have well left the house and things would have gone on!