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I love Dutta. I'm not sure what it says about me. That I appreciate the occasional bad-guy-on the outside, good-on the inside? That I like complicated people? That I find something in him that I empathize with or see in myself? I DO NOT KNOW.
Dutta is a mobster, a DON. Even though he is shown as a Robin Hood Don, whatever that means, at some point in his day-to-day business, some innocent people get hurt or cheated--a casualty of "Don-dom". Inevitable.
One of the things we romanticized about what how Naku loved Dutta no matter what he did as a profession or his past. Naku fell for Dutta the MINUTE he saved her from More. It wouldn't matter if he killed 100 innocent people or 10. He was a good guy to her. She was not even slightly appalled or disgusted to know his "career".
We have praised her behavior as non-judgmental, we have romanticized it! We have even said that she loves him for his his "true" self. I thought our actions, how we live, is at least A LITTLE BIT a reflection of what we are on the inside.
Perhaps with a guy like Dutta, you can't help but to fall in love with him, his honesty, his gentleness.
And we all HATE Supriya. I hated Supriya because of the GAMES she played--she was greedy and dishonest and STUPID. Three things I really, really hate in people.😆 Not because she thought Dutta was revolting because of what he did. We sometimes wrote as if Supriya was so closed-minded and blind not to love Dutta. But was she? Let me propose the following:
Dutta was the occasional terrorist, targeting the "bad" guy, "bad" being open to interpretation/subjective. He killed some people, some innocent. However, he is a darling on the inside...loving, giving, had a bad childhood, etc. If you were in Sups' place, would you want to marry him? Would you even give him a chance knowing what you knew? Seriously, it's tricky.
And we have Naku, who liked him irrespective of whether he killed 1000 people or 1. What is more believable? THAT he was a Don, that he hurt innocent people in his daily affairs did not matter to her at all, didn't occur to her...
And here's the real interesting part--WE PRAISE THAT! Me too! That she loves him for his "true" self. Does that not give you pause to think WHY she never cared about that? Why it didn't occur to her? The convenient explanation--her background. But I think not.
Could she very well have been the following:
A girl who many years of her life was covered with soot. Real father was gone. Step-father thought of her more as a burden than anything else. There was no strong male figure in her life. The males that were in her life always sought to sell her out, punish her, abuse her. She must have dreamt of the day, even though she kept herself from believing in it, that she would be loved by a guy who would love her and protect her and respect her. All the things she never had in her life. And in walks Dutta. Who is an honest, straight-forward man, saves her life. She is transfixed, idolizes him. She is curious about him, has a crush on him, wants to know more about him, wants to make him happy, help him. YET she never ever thinks about the fact that he kills people. She never pauses to think about that. I tend to think any normal person would pause, as Supriya did. What does this say about Naku? Is she desperate to fall in love? To make a man a hero in her hero-less life? To love somebody? To be respected back? (All of which are very human needs we all have). And more importantly, what Dutta is to her?
I've thought about this many a time, and you've seen it once in a rare while in one of my posts. But it is an interesting thing.
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