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Being an avid reader of myths and legends, I have been immensely fascinated with the strange relationship between Dutta and Kala from the very start. To date, it remains the one and only brother-sister relationship in TV history that has brought involuntary chills down my spine. This, of course, could not have been done without Mishal Raheja and Aashka Goradia's consistently intense performances and in depth portrayal of the characters. Something that I have always felt is that both Dutta and Kala - essentially - were born out of the same darkness. Yet only one of them had a pure heart. They were both traumatized in an early age. They're both internally broken, wrecked. Yet one of them has managed to find the right path and follow it with the support from his love. The other, despite having a doting and God-fearing husband, never realized his worth nor allowed him to take her down the right path.
Ironic, isn't it? How two so psychologically similar people can be so different in terms of action?
The reason I started this thread is to share a thought I had on this sibling-pair. I think that we're all quite familiar with the Arthurian legend? There are many versions of this legend, yet one thing remains the same: the characters. The same characters appear in each one of the versions. I'd like to do a comparison to two specific characters from the Arthurian legend.
King Arthur and his half-sister Morgaine (Morgana/Morgan Le Fay - she is widely known under many variations of her name.)
I find it fascinating how there many similarities between Arthur-Morgaine and Dutta-Kala.
Morgaine was the daughter of the Duke of Cornwall (Gorloise) and Ywaine. Her father was killed by Uther who married her mother and took over her father's land. Soon her mother gave birth to a son, Arthur, the heir and would-be king. Morgaine is known as the dark sorceress who did everything in her power to ruin Arthur's marriage to his wife, Guinevere, and to destroy his power. She's often described as a seductress and megalomaniacal villainess. Her hate toward Arthur only grows until it consumes her soul - its root being the murder of her father by his father's hands and her mother's following betrayal.
Morgaine in art:
... here with her son Mordred whom she raised to hate his father (this made me wonder what would've happened if Kala had taken Annay with her, poisoned his mind against Kishore - it would've made for such an interesting track and character-development on Kishore's part and his relationship to Kala/his son...)
Morgaine in person (from a TV show) and Kala:
Thinking of Kala's past and her feelings toward Dutta, I find it intriguing how they are so alike - Morgaine and Kala. But more than that, I find it intriguing how the relationship between Dutta and Kala is so similar to the one between Arthur and Morgaine. For even Arthur didn't realize his sister's hatred toward him, but cared for her the way a brother would care for his sister while she continuesly stabbed his back in the dark.
Dutta's feelings toward Kala have always been somehow conflicted, I think. He's had an immense respect for her, which has been the reason why - despite her obvious and poisonous remarks - he has chosen to ignore that side of her, accepting it to a certain extent, I guess. She knows him, his nature, well - but she has never understood his thinking. For instance in the scene where she speaks to him by the bar. She assumes that he's thinking about Naku and her family's mannerisms, but what he's thinking about is his father and how he's curious about him. However, I noticed the way that he looked away from Kala in that scene, his face closed, his eyes expressing the words "let her assume that she's got this one right", but he was ignoring her words.
Oddly enough, no matter how much he ignores her words, they always seem to stick with him on some level. Because they resonate within his head at times. I'll never forget how Kala once said that Naku and her family were dirt and wherever they went, they dragged dirt with them. Dutta used the same words about Naku following the FR when he came home drunk and wanted some buddy-buddy time with Baji and Naku.
Scary how those words from Kala, so long back, stuck with him and how similar he was to Kala in that sense. There's so much history there, I feel. So much rich history between Dutta and Kala. I feel like we'll never reach the bottom, the roots of it all. I feel like I'll never fully understand their relationship or why she has this kind of strong hold over her brother, or why he - even after everything she's done - remains a slave to her memory.
Morgaine and Arthur:
Do share any other references to any other literary works in relation to Dutta and Kala's strange relationship - if you want. And sorry for the rambling š³
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