Originally posted by: likarsh
I wanted to add. I don't know if this is the place to put it, but it goes with your overall point that part of what makes Sultan is his characterization as a gangster--and that characterization is also what allows the story to move forward in a certain way.
In today's episode, Sultan's response to Madhu that any problem to her is also his problem and no one not even her husband can do anything. That is also tied to his Gangster/Bhai mentality.
Sultan has Aryan and Kaka as his close people. Madhu had kind of become part of that unit. To expand Sultan's own metaphor, just as the lion of the jungle teaches its cub to hunt, so does the lion protect its pride.
It's just not as simple as--Sultan is falling a bit for Madhu and that's the reason behind his reaction and his protectiveness. (Not saying that it can't be part of the reason.) I'm not talking of his intercepting RK's car and checking up on Madhu. I think it's obvious that he was quite right in doing what he did, and also right in backing away when she asked him. But just as he behaved as Gangster in pulling out the gun, he defended that action not as man asserting his right or protectiveness over a woman but as a man who lives in a world where such loyalty and ferocity is everything when it comes to those who are worthy of it.
Aryan, in his worry that night Sultan was missing, told Madhu Sultan once had a very good friend for whom Sultan searched the whole night, implying of course that the friend had died. If indeed it was that the good friend had met his demise, there is no doubt in my mind that Sultan avenged his friend with a fury.
And though he may not have become part of those whom Madhu considers close, she has become so for Sultan...for all that she has done for (him and) his son.
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