Perfect sense Anj, and you've summed it up😊
They have the most simple yet complicated relationship there is, which is what makes them - well Kesar-GulaalYou've summed up it so well in how they both get each other and understand each, and with Gulaal an instant wall comes up and more so now, coz of everything that has happenedI remember Gulaal told him once pretty sure it was when they met after 10 yrs, that he knows her mann more then she does... that he does, otherwise his faith and love for Gulaal wouldnt have remained after the truth he heard years back, or ever doubted as such in a big way to make him go off track completelyIts one the things that makes Kesar the Kesar he is today, in knowing how she functions and sees what she has done to herself esp that woman in herI feel today Kesar needs to be everything that Gulaal was to him back then (obviously it was a difference coz she was also an adult to him back then)... Gulaal was just there for him, supporter, getting through to him in such a way to make him understand and see and tackle his fears (i go back to the scared of the dark scene) etc
Len..that is my fav Gulaal - young Kesar scene!! I have watched that scene so many times...when she urges him to take someone's name and he starts chanting Gulaal's name!! I swear I got all teary eyed😊