Very interesting question, Ksh. You know, a similar thought occurred to me while watching Monday's episode --- in that scene where Suds presents himself to Kala with their 'loyal men' after bumping off all of Dutta's, and she tells him that if he wants, he can call her Kala --- there was a bit in it where she walks around her chair, goes from infront of the BGs who are surrounding them and comes to stand in front of Suds, which was a deja vu moment of sorts...it took me back to the scene where Nakku Bhao was standing in the midst of all those burly and rowdy men burning the town, ordering and jamaoing her control over them. That visual of a seemingly dainty woman being in command...which looks so unusual that you are forced to evaluate the really, how and why of the scene with a double take, nahi? Same was the case with that instantaneous moment of Kala so freely moving about all those men with greater physical power and ammunition which made me wildly think in that second...why haven't a group of the BGs conspired amongst themselves to assassinate her? Pull out a gun right there with utmost ease and send one through her...what is stopping them from overpowering her when she is pretty much defenseless at their mercy?
So yes, I totally agree with you...this idea of a woman, and women like Kala and Nakku especially, being able to head such a business openly seems very impossible and most unusual. Nakku's case is obvious in why and how she isn't fit for this...but for Kala too...she is not a woman who does personally...she is a woman who thinks and provokes...so she can control things from the shadows with the masterful psychological influence she possesses and manipulate the major strings of such a business, yes...but to openly be the queen...she does not have the magnanimous persona of the streets, of invincibility, of being grand and hard at the same time...something like what Dutta has...his opponents know just from his name that he is someone to be reckoned with...he is a force in and of himself. But Kala doesn't have that...she doesn't have years of that reputation to make her untouchable...and the biggest chink in her armor is that she is an usurper. So though Suds needs her, she actually also needs him just as desperately...because on her own, without the brute force of man power underneath her, she is not equipped in persona or character to rule a whole region and that too in the seat of a feudal lord. Women who do have such a capability possess almost a god-mother like aura around themselves in terms of the respect they invoke in their subjects...Kala doesn't have that. Her rule is momentary...and the only way it can last is through the shadows...she can never be a long term and big game player because there will be other giants, more experienced, gritty and powerful in the business, who will overstep her little kingdom and easily swallow it down.
Now as for why Suds is still supporting her...there used to be a cartoon called Pinky and the Brain, and the Kala-Suds pair really and seriously reminds me of that 😆 Kala of course being the Brain and Suds the Pinky, who is too feeble-minded and wimpish on his own to get anywhere. It's an alliance for survival...Kala cannot trust anyone else...so she snaps him up to execute her plans keeping in mind all his weaknesses and jamaoes bhav over him to keep him grounded and beneath herself...he sees Kala as the master-mind who can pave way to a life of power, control and material luxury, things which an influentially mediocre and forgettable person like him has probably stewed over his whole life...so he lets her guide him, because I honestly don't think Suds is as possessed with the idea of ruling like Kala is, and he cares more for the benefits (money, women, etc.) that he can get out of following her plans. However, the day when either one of them is pushed over the edge or sees an opening, they will finish each other off. If Kala gets another 'paltu aur wafadaar kutta' to be her more efficient subordinate, she will cut off Suds' wings and throw him out on the street. When Suds gets sick and tired of Kala's needling or snotty airs, he will take her down himself. But for now, in the middle of their grand hostage plan, he is still too in awe of what she might be thinking and doing to contemplate killing her...so he bears the obvious put downs and keeps at the job because he knows there's still time to go yet until they reach their 'destination.' But even before getting there, we've already seen the seeds of dissension between them...when things start snowballing for them, both do not remain on the same page...he pokes at the failure of her plans and she pokes at his inability to do anything properly...so when Dutta comes around and undoes their work, they will have another meltdown, another argument, and in that itself they will most probably internally combust. For now, they are co-existing out of need and circumstances, on both ends, not just one. In a pressure situation, they will act without thinking and make holes in their own ship. Tai tai fish 😛
Edited by make-believe - 14 years ago
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