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This will be a quick and short and not entirely in depth comment on tonight's episode. Sorry, Mooner.
First of all, brilliant episode and awesomefantabulous sequence to a sad song that fit Dutta perfectly. I love it when he's all brooding (but not drinking) and wallowing. Only he wallows way too much. Still, he manages to wallow in a way that makes me want to cuddle him rather than peptalk him. Sigh. What a broken and absolutely beautiful character. I'll never tire of pointing this out. Ever.Right, so I promised someone that I'd be all energetic and in my Dr. Phil (ew) mood tonight, doing one of my tremendously boring)analysis on the episode. I can see that BB is already sprinting away from this thread before I can hit the POST REPLY button. You come back here, Hitler's Love Child.
Without further delay, I shall begin dissecting. Observers, gather around and pay attention. I might ask you trick questions to see if you were listening to me at all.
Wow. A lot has happened in the past week. Dutta went from denial and anger to realization and, well, more anger, and grief. He has finally realized, full and well, that Nana is his enemy. Now on top of all this, he has also forgiven Damodar to a certain extent and has started beating himself up about 1) not taking the chance to talk to Damodar when his father was still alive, and 2) freezing Madhu out.
Buuh, Dutta.
Although we all understand. Come here *cuddles Dutta*
I suppose that as much as new wounds have been made within him, old wounds have begun their painful healing process. The Blaming Game is a part of Dutta's usual grieving process. First, he is all high and mighty PMS, in denial, a real brat, and then he realizes the reality of things and starts blaming himself to the point that he needs alcohol to drown all his senses - and then, of course, the real healing process begins.
I love this guy.
Throughout his realization of the truth, I could feel just how overwhelmed he was by all kinds of odd and bewildering emotions. Some of those emotions were nameless. Now, it seems that he feels a strong sense of loyalty toward his father. The notion that he wants to promise Damodar not to harm Nana as long as Rupali is alive - somehow I doubt that he'd even consider this in his normal rage following such a revelation that obviously tore him apart. No, it's those cryptic emotions toward his father (in the wake of reading the letter) that has Dutta making this mental promise to Damodar and becoming so aware of Madhu and the few memories he has of his meeting with his father - note that in the video he was remembering how he treated Damodar and how Damodar, despite the abuse, treated Dutta. I always thought that Dutta having no actual memory of Damodar selling him/feeding him beer, etc., as a kid means that Dutta had no actual hatred toward Damodar other than the strong detest that was a result of the knowledge he was given about Damodar's deeds.
But there's a bond between parents and their children that is hard to simply break.
I think that Dutta felt a strong sense of relief, having read the letter - 1) because he wanted to allow himself to care for Damodar, yet felt a strong sense of loyalty toward his mother and sisters, thus it bothered him and he decided to shut Damodar out of his life entirely. However, knowing how much his father paid for his deeds, knowing that he felt remorse and attempted to do the right thing, and knowing that he never forgot his son, but kept an eye on him - all of these things seemed to make Dutta feel that he could permit himself to care now. Because despite being a bad person, Damodar was trying to make amends, and did manage to make a few amends before he died. 2) I think that Dutta always wanted to know the truth about his father. To know that they were different somehow, not entirely the same. Dutta couldn't have overlooked the striking persona-related similarities b/t Damodar and himself. The road they both chose to go down. Yet the difference remains that Dutta never stopped caring. Even when he was dark, a part of him stayed human. He killed people, but not always for selfish reasons (as it were to start with, you know, Seema's betrayal, etc.). Unlike Damodar, he felt responsible for people.
I wonder, though. How does one perceive Dutta's dirty deeds compared to Damodar's or Nana's or any other gangster's for that matter? Are there different levels of bad? Did Dutta ever really come to terms with his past as a cold-blooded killer? He was a contract killer. He killed for money. How does one come to terms with something like that? Perhaps he'll burn forever, knowing what he did, and not feeling that he can ever make up for it? Where does his redemption start and where does it end? Is it true what Kala said? He'll end up in Hell, punishment for his bad deeds?
But there are so many things that sets him apart from Damodar, the man his father was. The whole history repeating itself element is still very much there - yet Damodar and Dutta were two different men, despite their similarities.
Nakusha's comfort is touching. She's just there, helping him through. She can't take his pain. But she can support him through it - kind of like when he held her hand through the surgery after she was shot. That was a very sweet moment between them.
DuJi hug? Epic. Need I say more? I'm sure Mooner has an entire analysis ready on that two-second scene.
I'm curious to see how Dutta will be around Madhu now. How will the revelations alter their relationship?
More so, I'm excited about the Dutta-Nana silent war coming up. Dutta knows about Nana now, but Nana doesn't know that Dutta knows, which puts Dutta ahead of the game that Nana's playing with him. Will Dutta pretend around Nana, searching for the man's weaknesses as he waits... for what? For Rupali to die or wake up? I have a feeling that the air is going to be poisonous whenever Dutta is in the same room as Nana... it might not take long for Nana to figure out that Dutta knows. I also have a feeling that if he ever comes to know about Madhu, he'll make her his next target.
Still, I'm not too worried. Dutta is ahead of the game right now as he knows the truth and as long as Nana doesn't figure this out, Dutta can scheme and plant traps for Nana and ward himself and his family against his enemy. However, Dutta being such a straightforward person, might do the quite opposite. Who knows.
Awesomefantabulous episode 👏 I shall take a bow.
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