Metti Oli Character guide - Page 3

Saro....

Very few sleep nicely during a train or flight journey. I belong to the group who do not get good sleep during travel. Books give very good company during such occasions. I have read Kalki's "Alai Osai", an epic and immortal novel; The characters in that story are not just characters of that story, but they live with people who read that story.

It may sound like an exaggerated idea and I am drawing the parallel. Saro, Leela, Dhanam , Viji, Chidambaram and few other characters in Metti Oli live with people who know them. It is very difficult to think that they are imaginary. It looks like they born like us, enjoy good youth and live with pain and suffering like us. Sometimes, I think the characters move the story and they write the sequences. She is the pet for her father Chidambaram. Born with four sisters, she is number two in the family order. What a wonderful life she had in Azhagarkulam with her sisters and father. She did not miss her mother at all because of her father's love and she ensured that her sisters do not miss their mother, by being so passionate to them. Very pretty, very lively, very accommodative, kind at heart are the terms to describe Saro, before marriage.

Poor Saro. Only nave, submissive, easy target for victimization and bears with domestic violence become synonymous to Saro after her wedding to Manikkam. Saro symbolizes majority of middle income class woman in Indian society. Chidambaram's top most worry in this world is Saro and her life. Torturing Mother in law, violent husband, who uses the violence to end any conversation where he loses (all most all)and lonely sister in law (Nirmala), who gets jealous very easily when ever she sees Saro happy defines her world. However, there is some solace from her brother in law (Selvam) and a patti who lives mostly with them and Natarajan (son) who is her hope for future.

Why there is both pain and pleasure in this world? Why some of us always live in pain and do not get a chance to taste pleasure till the end? Why God is so partial that he offers only pain to few?...these questions are certain to visit everyone's mind. Saro and Leela's life reflect these questions again. Sometimes, when there is more than one kid at a home, and when one is healthy and other is sick, the sick gets untasty patient diet and healthy one gets tasty regular food. The sick person, already being sick has also had to live with untasty diet and bitter medicine on the top of it. Like that, Chidambaram's advice to Saro and Leela are are always "be patient, be patient" and nothing else….may be he says so, because he thinks patience will give them at least some peace of mind in their life? Saro misses her mother now than at any other time.

I do not think that I wrote the above, but I feel when I thought of Saro, Saro and Leela came and told me to write the above.

I have same feeling...these characters seem so real to us and I too dream about talking to them...

Sorry for making it little serious on my notes...I know I stole the humour in this thread. But, this story is not a humorous one...I am unable to make them funny...

Thanks for the appreaciation though. Above posting was an inspiration from Kalki and his Alai Osai, I feel very sad for Seetha character and if given a chance I would go to heaven and fix Seetha's problem...but in imaginary world, we can only be a spectator

As a matter of fact, Saro is better than Seetha. (I know there will be at least one reader now!)

Has Selvam raised his hand against anyone? I have seen Gopi slap Viji, fight with Elango, Ramesh (when Rajam was beaten) and at the Devipattinam rowdies. When Ramesh talked about him being impotent at J's marriage, he silently cried and left it to the four asses to fight.

Has he even physically fought with anyone?

"Gopi is the ideal husband any woman would want to have", said Minnal, probably reflecting the sentiments of the majority. Minnal's perseverance and due diligence in her daily updates lend credibility and clout to the conclusion on picking Gopi.

Alas, like several others she has overlooked the obvious one.

(to be continued)

BTW,

Awesome portrayels from you all. You are giving me a complex. Can I even come close to this?? Let me see😉.

Selvam BTW, has shown slipper to Ramesh(which caused him to get beaten up). Did he just show it or beat him?? I think he did. Not sure.

CHIDAMBARAM

"Maappillai Mahadeva Swaroopam"

👏--Hai I have also started with a quote😃.

My dad used to say this and I know many oldies say it too.

Anyway that is the "tharaka Mandiram" for Chidambaram. He is a broker who helps people buy and sell land (Real Estate).
He is very well respected by all who know him as a man true to his words---"Vaakku kuduthaa pechu maara maattaar". So he is trusted by all who come to him for their land dealings.
He is a widower with five daughters. He has managed to bring them up without a lady in the house and has showered on them so much love and affection that they never miss their mother.
He has instilled in them all the virtues and values of life. Has a brother-in-law(bose) who is like a son to him and so gives his elder daughter Dhanam to him, in marriage, and keeps them with him always,at his house.
He is very patient and does not get easily provoked,unless it is about his daughters. He did get angry when someone from Mds comes home and tells him about Manickam getting arrested etc.,when they went to "see" Nirmala.They speak ill of Nirmala and he defends her as though she were his own daughter.That is how attached he is, to his sambandhis also.

Saro, the daughter he adores, is married into a family with a tyrant as her mother-in-law. The lady has suffered a lot in her heydays to bring up her children, without a husband.(She has worked as a housemaid in several houses and has brought home the food they gave her,to the children while she herself went hungry). All that hardship has hardened her heart too (Irugipochu manasu) and so she is over protective about her children. She is also insecure now, and feels that if Manickam, the elder son, starts getting a bit close to his wife, they both might plot to get rid of her from the house. This fear makes her to always fill Manickam's ear with "poison" about Saro and is happy when she sees them fight or when he "gives it to her" !!
The daughter (Nirmala) who she thought was getting married to a rich guy, has been cheated in life by a good for nothing fellow.He lives in their house and takes money from them instead of taking his wife and leaving the house.This Yemaatham is another blow to her hardened heart and she takes out this frustration ( Of seeing a vaazhaavetti daughter) also on Saro.Selvam, the other son, is the only solace to Saro.
But when Chidambaram's daughter Leela likes Selvam and viceversa, he is against the marriage, as he does not want her also to suffer at the hands of Rajam ( The tyrant MIL).
Seeing his favourite daughter suffering at the hands of her mother-in-law, is very difficult for Chidambaram. But he thinks that by repeatedly going to their house and talking "goody goody" to the tyrant lady would soften her heart. Unknowingly, he has only earned her elakkaaram, as she calls him "That Tharagar payal" etc.
Chidambaram has been a saddened man for a while now, as his two daughters are suffering in their "pugundha veedu". He keeps advising them about the virtue of silence (porumayaa iru--he tells Saro) or he tries to help them out with their monetary problems,despite him having to borrow it from outside.
He has pinned all his hopes on the last daughter Bhavani whom he is sending to College. He saw to it that she did not miss her exams even when she was sick. He stood outside the exam hall and gave her medicines to be passed on inside,by a teacher. That is how dedicated he is to anything he takes on.

Despite being repeatedly insulted by his Sambandhi and Son-in-law(Ravi), he insists on going and calling them personally for all the functions. He says that he is prepared to" Kayyila kaalla Vizhundhaavadhu", get them to attend the functions.

He seems to be from the old school and is strictly following the saying that has been quoted in the beginning. But is it the right thing to do, in this age and in this time???

Kaalamdhaan badhil sollanum

Hey guys,

I may have digressed inbetween about the others, so feel free to edit and attach those parts in the relevant character studies !!! If it is ok to leave it , leave it. That was Chidambaram. Not as good as you guys. Bear with me.😃

Nagi....very good intro.

You confined yourself to Saro...(and a bit for Bhavani); Other sisters will get mad at you soon!

Other sisters getting mad oru pakkam irukkattum--others on the forum kochikkaporaa😃--I have written about their 'character'(of the serial) also.😆

About Selvam...I think just being to nice to all will not make you success, Actually I think, we need to understand that not everyone will be happy at the same time..Reading from Nagi's comment from episode 622,

I feel so bad for poor Leela." Epdi irundha naan ipdi aayitten" apdinnu Vivek styleley sollalaam ava.😕. She was the lively one and she got such a raw deal out of life😡.She got this for not speaking her mind and forcefully marrying Wealth.He also did not take the bold step expected of a 'man'. Atleast when the alliance topic came up the second time ( after balu ditched leels), he should have put his foot down. He even had M on his side at that time. KOzhayaa irundhaa idhaan mudivu. Ippo ennadaannaa " Kai pai" azhagiyoda sirichi pesindu puliyodharai saaptundrukkaan😡.

We can see that he should have been aggerssive, strong and should have married Leela...(but, we would have lost Metti Oli serial 😊)