I know we have all discussed the choti Sumo visit a lot. Honestly I am not disappointed with the younger Sumo because it is consistent with her characterisation and older Sumo because she takes everything at face value. Anyway let me get to the point, I have a different take on this, so feel free to disagree 😉 or agree.
This is a classic example of "Fight or Flight", when faced with the worst in life, something that shakes the core of their being, people have only one of these 2 responses. Shravan choses to flee and Sumo choses to fight.That is why the younger Sumo is here. We have to remember that the younger Sumo was 15 and she was 6 when her parents died. What would a 6 year old do or for that matter what would a 15 year old do ? I think she chose to block the pain and that is the way she fights. We can argue that, that is also fleeing, I agree.Remember when they visit Sumo's house Shravan asks her why she hadn't told him so far, that he hasn't seen this side to Sumo before, she says he never asked. So she had blocked out everything.
I am not taking sides, I am just looking at this objectively. Both the responses are not wrong or right, these are things that keep you sane. Think about the parallel. The scene where Shravan leaves for London. The catch here is that we know Shravan left and Sumo stayed but we don't know how she responded. My assumption is that she blocked the pain, in fact I think she must have blocked out the younger Sumo and hence the reappearance of younger Sumo today when almost the same thing is happening. Shravan is going to come back on his own and he will be fine. He vented out his anger and it might have subsided a little bit.
Till last night I was thinking Shravan suicide, no way. But now I can see how it fits. Once he knows of the Sumo-Adithya rishta he will be broken again and will probably attempt something, if not consciously may be subconsciously he will do something,he is going to be ruthless. And I think Sumo will fight to get him back to his feet (symbolically ) .
I don't even know if I am making sense. So leave in your comments, I am sure a lot of you will disagree with me, bashing welcome 😉
Edited by nith125 - 9 years ago