Warning:Impossibly large post so read at your leisure..
Remember that throbbing pain in the leg muscles that used to make you feel so irritated and grumpy at night before dinner as a kid. These pains used to keep you awake at night making your parents wonder if you need medical help or would it go away. These pains were the growing pains, caused by a athletic exciting day. Maybe too much jumping around with that skipping rope, too much running on the soccer field, too much pedaling on that tricycle. But with time, with age, we grew up of those growing pains, didn't we?
Wondering what a semi-medical lesson doing in a LTL Forum that too by a too much talking blabbering silly girl like me? Hang on a second. I'll get to the point. Wada! Pakka Wada!
Recently, I came across many theories and point of views regarding the current track and Dutta's character and in general the whole of show. The show is losing the touch! It has become stagnant, no story movement! MR refuses to leave yet PH is contriving to take away the focus from his character. They are mellowing him down, making him appear a pansy-a crying blabbering fool. The made him sing songs and sprout poetry. Now they are doing the unimaginable by making him enter kitchen and make tea for wife. Why is he not planning to get back at Kala? Why is he playing house with his donnesa wife and building a love-nest in jungle? MR looks sad. Maybe that's not acting he really is sad looking at the politics surrounding him by the PH. He is leaving because MV said his name wrong in a episode.
I don't oppose any of these views. Everyone is entitled to what they think about something they all love. Some of the viewers are more attentive than others. Maybe they are more attuned to a complete stranger playing a character on Television and are able to read their minds..the actors not the character's, I mean. I don't say I do either. I am just a viewer. I am a romantic who works 10-12 hours a day in a 12*12 cubicle in front of a PC, thinking out algorithms and codes which would put more people out of job as my codes make the manufacturing automatic without manual labor. So after spending almost half my day thinking like a robotic arm, I spend a few hours trying to think like a human being with emotions. LTL has provided me that outlet. Before LTL it was many Byronic characters created by the finest of thinkers. Right from devdas to Mr Darcy…Subarnalata to Estella. I am enamored to this show. Almost every aspect of it, every part of it. My fantasies about the characters, my amateurish tries for creating a story around them got overwhelming response which egged me on. Sucked me deeper in.
Still didn't get around to explain the relation to the 'Growing Pains', did I? Blame my wandering mind! Zubby last week handed me the analysis of most complex character of TV industry as of today. A very mediocre mumble-jumble came out, which was appreciated but was not the analysis I thought this character needed or deserved. I am not analyzing today….this is not what Dutta ShreeRam Patil Boltoy..This is what I say when I look at this character. It's what my eyes show me..which I want to share with all of my friends.
I feel that the growing pains that we outgrew at the approach of puberty still haunt our Dutta..yes, 'our Dutta'..After 398 days of watching him rant, rave, romance, rage, remorse, rebuke…I mean basically doing everything a man can do..in front of our eyes..somehow along the line the whole idea of Dutta has become 'apna sa'…He has become an important part of our lives. Again I deflected from topic…so as I was saying maybe the growing pains are still very much around our Dutta…not the throbbing pain in the muscles due to overuse as a child..not the physical pain…he might have outgrown that pain. I mean the pain of growing emotionally.
He must have had a secure even if struggling childhood. His father's traumatic desertion did not affect him. the poverty and child labor might have stunned his groW*H in life, making him a mere garage mechanic but emotionally he was a secure young man with normal wants and ambitions. I am saying so after looking at Kalawati who was deeply affected by her father's death, scarred. Her childhood and youth, she had spent plotting against and hating the son of her father's killer. Yet she had pretended all her life to love him. How much scared she is, how much deeply affected, how deep her growing pain must be?
But Dutta had the first throb of the pain when he was betrayed in love. A pain so severe that he changed the course of his life. Then the second bout of hurting came when he was stood up at his wedding. The insinuation that his friend was behind this all was a double hit below the belt. It made him take steps which this time around changed course of another life along with him. His pain became his anger which found outlet in masochistic behavior towards Nakkusha. When truth about his parentage came out, the pain it caused made his reactions again destructive but it nakkusha became the soothing balm this time. The spurts of pains began to ebb. Things became rosy again. Then when he felt everything was good and the pains were gone forever, he got the shock that shook the foundation of his safe harbor. Nakkusha's Truth. He was familiar with the pain and its burn this time. He was not ready for it but he knew it well, familiar with what it brought. His accident, the blindness, then the truth of his sister. They were all those spurts of residual growing pains for his emotional groW*H.
A man as volatile in nature with extreme emotions of love and hate, feels these jolts of growing pains more intensely. We all face emotional turmoil. Even after the physical growing pain ebbs, our emotional groW*H comes with many hits and misses of emotional nature. Maybe not as drastic and dramatic as Dutta's but hurts nonetheless. I don't say that characters like Dutta's don't exist. Many have quicksilver, destructive anger like him. Strong sense of obligation and friendship and responsibility like him. Too much feeling is also a character flaw in some ways. Never be too trusting, distrusting, too gullible, too smart. Too much in love so as to be blind to other's defects, too much in hatred so as to turn a blind eye to their goodness. These extreme emotions need to be balanced out with time and the spurts of emotional growing pains to mould oneself into a better person.
I believe we have seen Dutta grow up in many ways emotionally after facing all these growing pains. It's not a mellowing, It's maturing. His reaction to Kalawati's betrayal was a far mature response than all the earlier betrayals he had faced. His handling of the situation when coming face to face with Seema and then her declaration of love was sensitive and calm.
We all loved the explosive, dominant, aggressive, lethal Firebrand Dutta..But I always felt that it was not a complete grown up man before me. He came across as a child facing growing pains. After Seema's deflection his taking the path of crime, that's when I saw the hint of that child in him who has been told that he can't have a toy he had been saving up for, who when denied the toy destroys the other toys around him in rage. This first spurt of growing pain carried on its manifestation for a decade, making him weary of further emotional attachment. Like a child is weary of jumping too much after last night's spurt of pain but then the lure of his peers on the playground drags him to the field. Similarly he was pushed by all towards Supriya. Then his reaction was of raging out to anyone he could lay his hands on, like the child blaming the people who took him to the ground in first place. Then when a soothing balm is applied to the hurt, the pain becomes bearable. That's what nakkusha was to him during his parentage issue. But then when the pain came back again he realized no balm could take it away, he had to learn to live and deal with it. And that's what has been happening since the day of his accident. He has learned to deal with his emotional turmoil and pain by himself. Nakkusha started the healing and growing up process, now he has got the hang of the ropes.
I agree his eyesight need to come back soon. I have total faith that it will too( there is no way around this issue) but everything they have showed till date regarding this character, it has all been comprised of his growing up. I don't see it as mellowing, I have tried to think of it that way but I can't. I see it as maturing by himself. How do you take him to be mellow when he fought like he did while protecting his wife and before that while killing his attackers at that house? His anger at deception of his sibling and Brother-in-law is very much there. But his reaction this time is not so volatile or self destructive. Its more thought-out and internal. He is handling it without hurting himself further or harming those who love him. He is all grown-up now, able to handle his emotions without going to the extremes. I wouldn't want it any other way. Don't worry; meekly accepting defeat is not in fabric of his nature. He has ruled too long to accept the life of a fugitive now. He will strike back. This nesting is more of getting hold of his bearings before the attack.
Now why he is not plotting and planning yet. Well, what had been almost a week on planet earth is just 24hr on LTL planet. In that 24hr he had found a place to regroup, cleaned it, mussed about his family, questioned his maker, attacked potential threats, then made friends with them and finally started treatment of his blindness. The planning will come tomorrow (on planet earth its next week..)
Do you really find it that unreasonable? He did keep referring about teaching them a lesson since yesterday night before camping, and before Nakkusha set up the Shiv-Parvati deity. He is thinking about his revenge, yes. But he himself must be at loss due to his disability.
Learn the virtue of patience as Dutta has learned. Because our clock and his clock don't really walk at the same speed.
About importance not being on Dutta. And camera not doing justice to his acting. I can't say much about that, as maybe I am not that attentive a viewer. I just noticed a few things about the character that I have already shared. But I can say this much, when I am stranded in jungle with my beautiful wife after a month's separation, I would want to confess my love and longing for her as many times as possible within a span of the day I was reunited with her. I would definitely want to do more than just hug her being a red blooded man but then that would be cut off under Indian censor board's sharp scissors. I won't really find much to be happy about or jump in joy about after finding out that my elder sister and brother-in-law were in cahoots with my enemy to kill me and that they have imprisoned my family. To add to that I had to take help from my Ex who had jilted me and whom I hate and the fact that I my sight is as sharp as smoked glass at night is not really helping my normally sunny disposition. So pardon me if I am a bit grumpy and morose. Don't want to dance a tango in a party right now!
But then that's just my thoughts….and it covered about 2047 words…Ohh..won't blame you if you missed the whole post, though
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