Saras: It's Kumud, Kumud from the heart

I LOVE the way Saras says Kumud. He says it not from the epiglottis 😉 but from the heart ❤️. These are subtle things that sets apart the CVs of this show from the others. You can really tell that they have worked on the dialogue delivery with this one. How each one says the other's name shows how they feel about each other.

I will do a little analogy of how I see it.

Examples:

Saras: Kumud (with curiosity in the car in Dubai).

Saras: Kumud (with affection after reading her poem on Facebook).

Saras: Unhe (to Kussum when she dressed as Kumud to dupe him, he feels the distancing she does).

Saras: Kumud (with love when he realizes during haldi scene how deeply she was hurt).

Saras: Miss Kumud Sundari (Miss Hoity Toity, during fights)

Saras: KUMUD! *Hush!* (Often when she whips up a tornado in his defense in public and she listens! He's more aware of propriety 😆)

Kumud: Saraswatichandra (with hope of love, acceptance, before the rejection letter).

Kumud: Mr. SaraswatichandraJI (I have pushed you away, I am distancing you and setting you in your place! Skype scene).

Kumud: Mr. Saraswatichandra (fights, general distancing, balancing their power struggle)

Kumud: Suno (I kinda can't say your name when I don't use Mr. because you are sorta lover, sorta husband, but neither - Most scenes, particularly frustration scenes).

Kumud: Unhe (telling father Saras has to leave after the fire, pretending that a relationship is happening so this is very formal husband term).

Kumud: Usse (with sisters, take ownership by claiming that relationship again, can't say his name because women in traditional cultures avoid husband's name).

Kumud: Tum toh woh ho, Dumbo (I feel like being playful and pouty with you 😳)

So they both do a power struggle with the way they use their name against each other. But when they are talking to each other, from Saras' side it comes from love and from Kumud's side it come from acknowledgement of that unspoken/broken relationship. Somewhere in her heart, he has imprinted as hubby/lover and that's why she doesn't call him Saras. At the same time, she doesn't call him aap or suniye because even though he probably has a good 3+ years on her, they have an equal friendship. There's respect, but not formal honorifics.

He on the other hand, says Kumud from the heart like a husband/lover, no honorific, formality, or anything. Just love, be it lover love or hubby love ☺️

awesome post yar..i love the way he says it.. waitin for kumud to say saras name like that

Ahhh, I know! The whole name situation kills me because it provides this annoying grey area where I'm like, "are they gonna accept their love?" "no they're not... maybe next episode" "but they're so sweet to each other whats going on why!"

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Originally posted by: shana0127

seems like u did lot of research mary and a good one indeed .

but i would have loved kumud call Saras suniye instead of suno coz this is how we married women call our husbands lol... i do it so and when at my in laws , i am not allowed him to call by name so its like suniye this suniye that ...well it seems like a tradition to call husbands suniye ...lol

but i am trying to like kumud saying sunu... use ...wo jata kyun nahi... wo samajhta kyun nahi...kehta khyun nahi ...etc. ...coz in long run Saras Kumud relationship is gonna be a complex one and both r going to be at equal level like friends yet above each other in inspiration ...so suno is more better after we all call God by name ...Kanha... Shiv Shankar sun lo pukaar ...so no prob. with suno saras ...:)

Great response! I added a little bit on why I thought it was not suniye. There is denial na? Suno sounds more intimate in my ears 😆

Originally posted by: akila15

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he calls her as if he is her husband

Ya, totally agree. They both internally accept each other. That's why she doesn't call him Saras either.

nice post... like the way saras says kumud

Awww Mary lovely post again.. I love the way they adress each other...they indeed beahave like hubby wify...

Originally posted by: Marybarton

Great response! I added a little bit on why I thought it was not suniye. There is denial na? Suno sounds more intimate in my ears 😆

here i differ a bit...but then this difference is coz i have been conditioned to call suniye to my husband which i find quit intimate lol... thats why i often switch to english when i have to be respectful to some senoir man and instead of calling him suniye in hindi ...i become angrejan and call excuse me sir 😆...for us suno is for friends and equals and suniye copyright to husband and other elders are suniye papa suniye mummy etc...its funny but this is how we most Indian married women are conditioned whatsoever educated or foreign return we may be 😆

but i have learned to differentiate as people come from different family class culture have there own versions and do enjoy this complex suno of saras to kumud 😃