Originally posted by: sashashyam
I don't think that will be the case, Leo. These get ups must be for the promos.
This script seems to be based on the classic 1990 Chanakya of Chandraprakash Dwivedi, which is the ultimate word on this subject. Of course that was a dense politico-strategic treatise on empire building, which would have to be softened for current audiences.
There, Chanakya decides that his protege should marry the daughter of the dead Dhananand, who would be this Nandini, so as to gain legitimacy as the new ruler. He would not have welcomed any love marriage for his boy wonder, since that would distract him for the ABN abhiyaan, but far from opposing the union of Chandragupta and Nandini, he was the one who insisted on it.
One of my young friends had dug up a press interview snippet of Shweta's where she says exactly the same thing- a forced marriage between enemies who hate each other.
Neither Chandragupta nor Dhananand's daughter wants the marriage but Chanakya pushes it thru.
For Chandragupta was of very modest lineage, and for all that Sushim & Co. rant about Ashoka as a daasiputra, Chandragupta's mother Mura, from whose name the dynasty took its name, Maurya, was the next thing to a daasi. So marrying Dhananand's daughter would have helped him gain acceptancy among the Nand-supporters.
Remember also that after Chandragupta had been crowned, Chanakya entrusted him and the kingdom to Dhananand's mahamaatya, Acharya Rakshasa, and went away to complete his Arthashastra. So he always wanted to extract everything beneficial from the Nand dynasty and its government.
As for the timeline, they will have to show the teenage Chandragupta being taken on by Chanakya after the big blow up between Chanakya and Dhananand. They cannot begin with the grown up Chandragupta and show the earlier part as a flashback, for the Chanakyasabatham, Chanakya's shapath, or oath - that he will not knot his long hair till Dhananand is dethroned - is the vital central point of the whole tale.
They have already signed on the young Chandragupta, one Jineet Rath.
Judging from the way in which Jodha Akbar was handled, I think they will have a few episodes to wrap up all these preliminaries, and will then switch to the time when Chanakya probably goes to Takshashila to mobilise the opposition to the Greeks, and takes Chandragupta along.
In the 1990 Chanakya, Chandragupta goes to Takshashila on his own and wants to gain admission to the Vishwavidyalaya there, the Takshashila University. He gets in, as he has been well taught by his father, who was a prominent scholar in Pataliputra. There he is taught by Chanakya, and later selected to lead his crusade, first against the Greeks,and then for an Akhanda Bharat, and thus against Dhananand.
So the changeover from the teenager to Rajat has to take place in Takshashila. But what they could do is to show the Samrat Chandragupta in the opening sequence, and then the rest as a continuous flashback. Let us see.
What really disconcerts me is the idea of our Khallatak playing Chanakya.😡
By the way, did you at all see my response to the question you had asked yesterday? I don't think so.
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