Take on Talli

to me gulaal and talli are more like stupid character of novel emma by jane austen ...emma aka gulaal who overestimates her match making abilities adopts talli aka harriet...talli indulges gulaal worst qualities, giving her opportunity to meddle and serving only to flatter her. gulaal in turn fills talli with grand pretensions that do not suit her low situation in society ...and then gulaal decides to marry her to her very own husband and thus running into complication confusion and utter mess

Originally posted by: arti07

to me gulaal and talli are more like stupid character of novel emma by jane austen ...emma aka gulaal who overestimates her match making abilities adopts talli aka harriet...talli indulges gulaal worst qualities, giving her opportunity to meddle and serving only to flatter her. gulaal in turn fills talli with grand pretensions that do not suit her low situation in society ...and then gulaal decides to marry her to her very own husband and thus running into complication confusion and utter mess

Originally posted by: vvasanthi

arti07..can I press like multiple times on your post??

Wish I could. Spot on!

Originally posted by: gckasturi

OMG! I had never considered this, but you are so right in your comparison! 👍🏼 Just brilliant! 👏

I agree with the previous post about wanting to be able to press the "Like" button multiple times... 😊

Originally posted by: JZephyr

Vidya - pretty much sum up anything I'd have said, or would want to say.

Arti - I'm afraid I disagree, while the comparison is uncannily plausible, it has a major fallout - Gulaal is a mother hen by compulsion and circumstance, a lot more than Emma ever was. While Emma was just another female whose vanity lay purely in her wisdom than her exceptional looks, Gulaal for all her taking over the responsibility of the big kunba, has never actually grown into half the confidence that defines Emma. A basic but major difference is the way she falls back, at the end and beginning of each crucial juncture, to sharing with a mere photograph of her husband. Somewhere in her psyche, she has some divine guidelines from her man in heaven, which serve as her lamp in the bush! Emma on the other hand was far to sure of herself, and the only times she was challenged about it - by Knightley - she put it all down to his need to boss around her and assert himself. It wasn't until much towards the end, that consequences of her folly bring her down to reality. Gulaal on the other hand - if you presume Kesar is playing her Knightley in wanting to show her sense - still remains oblivious of where exactly she went wrong. Her sole concern, and reason to plead with Kesar, accept mistake, and expect him to punish her, not Talli lies purely in wanting to save the situation and salvage it best. In her heart of hearts, she still has no clue where Kesar comes from, or why his wedding with Talli is so wrong in his mind. She only understands that her decision making has offended him, and that her only mistake was to try and dictate the life of a now grown up man - which btw was never her intention! For her Kesar was, and is the kid, and she, his guardian. She hasn't taken upon this role because she's trying to be socially important or establish her forte in matchmaking, but because Kesar was always top of her list as a 'task' assigned by Vasant.

As for Talli - she was a kid when she came under the tutelage of the mother hen, not a grown up teen. She has seen, and learned what her formative years taught her - and unlike Emma's protege, she never had her own separate thoughts, likes/dislikes etc. which she would disregard for Emma's superior teaching. She came to Gulaal at too raw an age to have any mind of her at all... and in the given over protection of Gulaal, ceased to ever have the opportunity to see things objectively in her own perspective!

Sorry for the excruciatingly long comment here - but I really did see much to debate about that comparison, and had to say my bit! No offense to your opinion of course (:

xx

JZee