Hello brave - Hello series, #2 - E-book - ePub

In Hello brave the attention shifts to the antagonist, Mastandi the father of the triplets narrated from the antagonist point of view. Mastandi a handsome, middle-age, unmarried man, his handsomeness had only intensified over the years. The hair at his temples has begun to turn grey and has grown a thin salt-and-pepper moustache that made him look like Omar Sharif. Like a film star, he wore sunglasses everywhere.
But it wasn't only his bronzed face, his square jaw, the white teeth that he flashed on the rare occasions when he smiled. It wasn't only this that made him handsome. His manliness had matured like a fine wine. His movements were smoother, his voice deeper. His emotional stiffness seem like self-control, and his humourless expression made him look like some beast, slumped in the sand, apparently listless, but that can, with a single bound, descend upon its prey with ferocity and devour it.
Mastandi presents a sensitive, patient, analytical, unpretentious but deadly character who plays a long game when dealing with Modi. Although Mastandi has the resolve and determination to find TAM, he displays a remarkable lack of anger and urgency in doing so even when he faced abuse and mistreatment at the hands of Modi. Despite the grave subject matter and a mournful voice that is pervaded with a terrible feeling of premonition, Mastandi realises the interiority of his character through digression and deferral by using lyricism and lofty tones.