Excellent questions and an excellent post.
With LTL, I find nothing is as it seems, or at least I hope so, as this new track unfolds!
My head is where Ruby's is at, presently. I think AS could be BH, but I am not fully convinced yet. I wonder if even the CVs have finalized who the BH is to be. Hmmmm...🤓
Here are some possibilities or thoughts I had as I was going through everyone's responses:
Why AS allowed Dutta to be a Don: I think after her husband died, she was in a horrible situation. She came to depend on Dutta, as he was now the man of the family. Yes, she put a lot of responsibility on him, which I am sad about. But I wonder if she had any other choice. She was worried for her daughters, their futures...I don't know yet how I feel about this.
If AS wanted to hurt Dutta, then she would remind Dutta of how his father killed SP, who was trying to save Dutta. The very guilt of that would have eaten away at someone like Dutta.
If she wanted to hurt Damodar, all she had to do was raise Dutta to become powerful (which she did by allowing him to be a Don) AND to poison his mind against his father, so that Dutta always focused on revenge. Yet, she keeps knowledge of the past away from him.
Some thoughts:
I'm not sure what Dutta remembers of his father. He was young and perhaps did not understand what was going on at the gambling match, or that his father used him in place of money, and was willing to give him away to a stranger. How could he? How could any child understand the twisted world adults sometimes create? So, it makes sense that he does not remember fully. Yet, why does he revere Sriram Patil's memory so much, even though he knows it is not his true father? Sriram Patil did not raise him per se. Could Dutta know that he is somehow responsible for Sriram Patil's death, even though he clearly is not? I am sure Kala would have said something or another over the years to remind him of how she lost her father. This would in part explain his fierce loyalty to his sisters, particularly Kala, and AS--to take care of them.... to make it up to them? Did he keep this guilt buried inside of himself all these years, without ever expressing it?
Here's another question I have: Given Damodar and Sriram were related and that Damodar was through and through rotten, did Sriram and AS try to take Dutta away from his abusive father before all this gambling scene happened? It seemed Dutta was stuck with this miserable excuse for a human being and father for some time, prior to that Diwali night.
Another question: Do we know AS did NOT try to stop Dutta from being a Don? What if he did NOT listen to her when she tried to stop him?
I am glad the CVs gave us some insight into Kala and what happened to the family that night...it's the first and probably most relevant clue as to why she is the way she is. It's so sad how all these children were traumatized by that night...the fear, the insecurity, the sudden death of the father...how easily children are shattered by the selfishness and inhumanity of some adults. I've always believed that children ARE LIKE GLASS. Once hurt, they rarely fully recover.
Today was very sad indeed, not just for Dutta, but for AS and her girls and SP as well.
Edited by gp00 - 14 years ago