Secret letters, hidden pain and a coin toss - Page 6

Originally posted by: nureat01

Chal,jiska bhi title hai ,bahut achcha hai 👏...Jzee ko bataa dena ki Mogambo khush hua !!🤣

@bold , really well said ".He's not Vasant...he never wanted to be either.." Really yaar , Vasant mar kya gayaa, sab Kesar ke peeche hi pad gaye, usse Vasant banaane ke liye ..and he was such a different soul from Vasant ! In that context I can never forget what one of Gullu's friends told her about Kesar before leaving "tune hamesha ye dekha ki woh kya nahin hai , kabhi ye nahin dekha ki woh kya hai.."...and that is the tragedy of Kesar , right from his childhood he was misunderstood and chided for not being upto some mark or the other...no wonder he finally got fed up - remember how in the last scebe with mojdis he clearly said something like when my own problems know no end, hoiw can I solve the Gaon's problem and take the gaon's load... I think that was his proverbial last straw...he could take it no more , this "being turned into Vasant " thing !

Edited by VJ-LNMDJ - 13 years ago

Originally posted by: VJ-LNMDJ

Whatever her paradox , I think her greatest "drawback" was that she could never think of herself as another human being with needs , so engrossed had she become in giving and setting others' lives right ever since Vasant had discovered her "powers"... and in that context the unsung hero of the dialogues (which never came even as a single FB) was Kesar's words to her before he went to panchayat to break the DV - that there was one person she was being very unfair to : to herself , to the woman in her...

And thus another paradox in her life was probably that her memories of Vasant kept asking her to be above human and her "present' with Kesar kept asking her to be human Exactly! And all of this was on a very subconscious level for the longest time until Kesar's confession shattered her carefully constructed shell...Gulaal stopped allowing herself to be a regular human being with fallacies, with wishes, with dreams...her only dream was the one Vasant left her with...and for that, she transformed herself completely...became so used to being that, living that that she completely forgot to remember that she too was human...while Kesar is the most human character you can come across as Neil mentioned in the final interview too...he doesn't pretend to be mahaan, the wisest, the greatest...and therein lies the charm of the character...


You know in a sense like Kesar used Gulaal's letters almost like a security blanket sometimes cuz he sought solace in them...Gulaal did the same with Vasant's memories, his mojdis, his portrait...it's seriously EERIE how similar these two are...eerie...Vasant made Gulaal rise above what she was...to shoulder responsibility and she imbibed that permanently...but she took it to an extreme over the years because it ultimately became a defense mechanism for her...and only Kesar was capable of making her realize that she is but human in the end...and it's not WRONG to be human...I'm discounting Vasant's mahaan lecture in the end cuz I count that as an aberration in the show anyways along with the second to last epi😆 ...

VJ

Originally posted by: VJ-LNMDJ

@bold , really well said ".He's not Vasant...he never wanted to be either.." Really yaar , Vasant mar kya gayaa, sab Kesar ke peeche hi pad gaye, usse Vasant banaane ke liye ..and he was such a different soul from Vasant ! In that context I can never forget what one of Gullu's friends told her about Kesar before leaving "tune hamesha ye dekha ki woh kya nahin hai , kabhi ye nahin dekha ki woh kya hai.."...and that is the tragedy of Kesar , right from his childhood he was misunderstood and chided for not being upto some mark or the other...no wonder he finally got fed up - remember how in the last scebe with mojdis he clearly said something like when my own problems know no end, hoiw can I solve the Gaon's problem and take the gaon's load... I think that was his proverbial last straw...he could take it no more , this "being turned into Vasant " thing !

Originally posted by: JZephyr

Oh I cannot resist adding this quickie - I think Gulaal was technically the only person who did not want to convert Kesar into another Vasant. Even if she said all those things about the mojdis and blah - the whole step into Vasant's shoes for her, was initially about seeing Kesar as a responsible person - in his own rights - and later of course, in the sense of the DV itself.

Originally posted by: JZephyr

So I wrapped half the crap bunch for tonight - kese kese ajib bache exam dete hain yaar *head desk*

Nur - yes! That's what I mean, she always wanted him to be the best of the person he was. When he was a kid, and when he grew up. Everytime she is disappointed in him, it is solely on account of failing the hopes she has in his potential and goodness - not in failing to become his elder brother. And although Vasant hands over this dream to her - somewhere, right from the word go, Gulaal can see in Kesar, the good the others can't. She recognizes, and connects so instantly with the golden heart inside that brat of a kid - because technically, that's a trait they share! While in Vasant, she finds the 'ideal man' to fall in love with - in Kesar, she finds shades of herself - the extent of goodness, and the extent of punk. Kesar is not the 'selfless' good guy, but he's is, I repeat, a golden heart! He can hate and love with so much passion - he can bear a grudge for a decade, and he can let sour strains go in a second. The way he shuns her initially - let's not forget the stone throw welcome 😆 - and the way he opens his heart to her is so natural to him... he's a candid heart, and he doesn't gift wrap his emotions or intentions, good or bad! How can someone not be drawn to a character like that - especially Gulaal, who is so much like that herself! Or at least characteristically was, when she first met him, even if she tried to adjust and change herself with time and circumstance!