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jayaks02

@jayaks02

Dazzler

Posted: 8 years ago

#111

Is RT making an entry next week ? I somehow think they should have taken Balak CGM a little longer.

But EK needs to capture TRP now as it may not have taken a great start.

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Khushi_love

@Khushi_love

Rocker

Posted: 8 years ago

#112

Originally posted by: jayaks02
as someone said, Swetha girl does sword fight with a lot of spunk. Unlike 😉 😆

Yup...didn't look like "hopping-ho" to me 😃

& I also liked her toned & controlled angry expressions...thank heavens she doesn't "pop" her eyes almost out of her sockets 😆😆😆

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jayaks02

@jayaks02

Dazzler

Posted: 8 years ago

#113

Originally posted by: ---Khushi---

Yup...didn't look like "hopping-ho" to me😃

& I also liked her toned & controlled angry expressions...thank heavens she doesn't "pop" her eyes almost out of her sockets😆😆😆

Yep Khushi - National Awards have a lot of worth and meaning and you can see it. She looks very attractive in that Black and white dress. I am so looking forward to her entry as well.

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amina1

@amina1

Dazzler

Posted: 8 years ago

#114

I can say two power house,yup no dandiya and no im always right 😉

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

Sparkler

+ 3

Posted: 8 years ago

#115

A trifle premature, Khushi dear, this back patting! Your Miss Irene would have said the same.

Minx means an impudent young female, and is an archaic term much used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fits you to a T, my pet!😉 I would not change the least bit in you for anything, for I love your cheekiness!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: ---Khushi---
Now this one's easy...it would be something like a mischievous imp, used for the female gender, right?😆

Now wouldn't Miss Irene (my English teacher in school) be proud of Lil me??...*pats myself on the back* 😆

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

Sparkler

+ 3

Posted: 8 years ago

#116

My pet,

The IFS is not always meeting the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Zubin Mehta or attending gala dinners.

It can be getting trapped in the Embassy building with a howling hostile mob outside, as happened to me in Bangkok in 1984.

It can be having to move out of a capital that has suddenly become a war zone at two days' notice , as in Kuwait in 1990, to leave your family in the neighbouring capital, Baghdad, and yourself shuttle between Kuwait and Baghdad every two days, chartering buses, making financial arrangements, and preparing consular documents for nearly 200,000 Indians who had to be evacuated over the next several weeks. All our colleagues at our Embassy in Kuwait did precisely that, regardless of the danger, working 24x7, especially to get the documentation done, till the end of January 1991. That was when the last of those who wanted to leave had been got out, including a large number or foreign nationals. They did all this, only to be slandered last year by the producers of Airlift, who declared that the whole Indian embassy in Kuwait had abandoned the Indian community and run away! If I could have got at them,and at Akshay Kumar, I would have gladly killed them.😡

My young lady colleague, M.Manimekalai, was the Ambassador in Libya when the western backed attacks on that country and the govt., leading to a civil war situation, were at their height two years ago. She stayed at her post, shifting from Tripoli to the west of the country, and braved war conditions as she struggled to evacuate all the Indians from Libya, in co-ordination with all the concerned departments of the Govt.of India back home. She was specially commended for her courage and her effectiveness.

There are so many such stories, Tripti. The IFS can at times be very demanding and downright dangerous. But then you might enjoy that!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais
Aunty: I do know the difference, aunty, but One is always protective when they love. Lol. I think I cannot listen to any criticism, even if it is warranted, when it comes to Rowling, Blyton, Milne & Dr Seuss. I miss my book-devouring.. Anyhow, Elizabeth Taylor?! I am forever, forever jealous of you now. She will always remain the most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on. <3 IFS is always, always glamorous & starry, wish I could join it too. Thank you for sharing, do share more.

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

Sparkler

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Posted: 8 years ago

#117

My dear Ankita,

Yes, of course you may, call me Aunty, that is. What an original id you have! Is it by any chance the name of a character from Game of Thrones, which I have avoided totally?

Your breathless post was most entertaining, and your compliment to mine most flattering.- I have never before had a post of mine hailed as a jackpot!😉 I am delighted, above all, that you enjoyed the funny bits (including, hopefully, the one about the dentist's chair!) so much.

Seeing that this one pleased you, you might also take a look at Chandra Nandini 3: Moonrise, which is at

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/chandra-nandini/4731774/chandra-nandini-3-moonrise

Yes, young Chandra has lovely, light eyes. The steady gaze from them that is his forte, and the excellent lines (yes, I got the pun!) they have given him, help cover up his limitations as an actor.

As for Alexander, the funny thing is that they always show him as blonde and blue-eyed, whereas the the truth is that most Macedonians, and Greeks as a whole are dark haired and dark eyed.

As for "lifts" from Bahubali, which too I have not seen, they seem to be multiplying by the episode!

Amatya Rakshas could also stand in for on of the Star Trek characters. Even a Star Wars one.

OK. This is it for now. I hope to see more of you on my threads. As for your managing to come, that is up to you!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: BrienneOfTarth
This is such a fantastic post ! I came to IF after so long and I think I found my jackpot!😆
I've been watching CN from the start and am hoping for a good story.
I love the way you write...um...may I call you Aunty? I am Ankita.😊

Your post had me chuckling and choking over my breakfast this morning. Luckily I survived.

Young Chandra has lovely eyes and even better lines. Ab peedha nahin hoti, ab abhyas ho chuka hai really was a poignant hit to my system. I am a sucker for good dialogues and this show seems to promise something along those lines, if you get the pun.😉

The Mura Nand scene actually reminded me of Baahubali more than Ashokvatika. probably because Bahubali is more fresh in my memory. I think its quite cheeky of the director here. The widowed Ma of Bahubali waiting for her son to come exact vengeance and the widowed Mata Mura waiting for her Chandra to do the same...the similarities were unavoidable and the backdrop only accentuated that fact. Cheeky indeed.
</div><div>I must mention that Alexander of CN had me in fits when I saw him first. Blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin...all check. But why oh why was he butchering the Devnagri dialect (am I right?😕) to address a Greek army seven years prior to his invasion of Bharat?That transformed the entire speech from an omen to a parody.😆

And yes, Amatyaji can give any Red Indian a run for his money. But I like it somehow.😆

I have seen the Chandragupt serial of NDTV Imagine and Chanakya was a favourite of mine ever since. This version of the erudite brahmin does not disappoint so far.

All I all, I am enjoying these initial episodes. Monday promises glimpses of RT n SBP as the older CN. I caught the last promo and I must say it added to my excitement.
Hope to read more of such lovely posts in the future. If I manage to come, that is.😆

Take care.

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

Sparkler

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Posted: 8 years ago

#118

My dear Prem,

It is good to have you with us again. I am glad that you have been reading my updates, but if you liked them, do mark them with a Like, so that I would know that you have been there.

One thing to keep in mind while watching this series is that it is pointless to cite this or that "historical facts" and berate these CVs for neglecting or distorting them. For one thing, as I wrote in my last post, it seems to me, going by the various theories I was already familiar with, like the Buddhist one about Chandragupta belonging to the Sakya clan of the Lord Buddha, and the material collated and presented in this forum by Abinaya (abiariel) and the superbly meticulous Abhay (history_geek), that there is no shortage of versions of Chandragupta's origins, and all the related issues like Mura's identity and the like. It is like a supermarket - you look around and you take your pick. It could be true or it could be untrue. Nothing and no one can conclusively prove that your choice is the latter.

This one is Ekta's version, and one cannot say that it is not a researched one, but something that she has picked up at random, solely because she wants Rajat and his fan following to boost the show's TRPs. It is anything but that, and in fact there seems to be a lot going for it: the Piplavan kingdom, the overthrow of Shishunaag's dynasty by an unfaithful queen in cahoots with a lowly lover, and a daughter of a Nand - Padmanand ya Dhananand, antar kya hai aakhir? - marrying Chandragupta Maurya.

In fact, I was surprised to see so much "historicity", at least till now. They have even tied up the matter of the young Chandragupta being (raised as ) a sheperd boy quite neatly.

My comments on yours below are in blue. Many of the points made by you have been discussed in an interesting manner earlier in this thread, so do take a look at those posts if you have the time.

See you again soon.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: myviewprem
thanks a lot for the updates aunty
not watching it as of now but reading all your updates

hopefully in a few weeks when things get settled i will venture to view it

I did not like chandras father being shown as a drunkard who is after money etc

any man who can shelter an orphaned baby chandra would have to been a selfless guy and such a man hitting his wife or his adopted son for a few pennies looks a bit tough to digest

as per history he was a peackock herdsman - so he must have been a villager rearing peacocks etc and other birds for livelihood and they lived outside pataliputra in a forest area - obviously they were low castes who could not venture into city and lived away from society.

Such a man just adopting a baby lying in his village abandoned and rearing him must be a good man if not great, but here they show him selfish and drunkard and wife beater

But this is not how his initial reaction is shown here. He calls the baby paap, and does not want it at all. It is the mother who insists on keeping it, and as he is not so brutish in those early days, he lets her do so. And there is nothing that says that a herdsman, of peacocks or anything else, living in a village, cannot be avaricious or become a drunkard.

This, however, is not the main point. The main point is that the abusive foster father, and the mother who not only takes all that beating but finds excuses for her brutish husband, together furnish an ironclad and extremely logical rationale for young Chandra's detesting the very mention of prem.

Second thing i did not like was nandini behaving so innocent, even today's times kids who are 5-6 understand what is reality and who is acting or lying and in 300 BC etc girls were married off before 10 years old, 10-13 was ideal age of marriage in those times(because life span was short only 25-30 years), so girls were quiet mature than compared to 21st century. May be this was done to say that nandini hated chandra because she did not realize truth of her father and brothers later on and absolve her of any guilt or wrong in serial.

Well, she is shown as totally cocooned, to emphasise that she knew nothing. But when she is grown up, this explanation would hardly hold good.

But i was wondering padmanand and his 7 sons are bad fine but chandra killed them all to become an emperor to establish an empire truly not really with an intention to relive magadha of terror(for that matter his own grandson ashoka and sushim were terror personified for magdha inmates in later years). So just creating a just empire was not chandras only objective else he would not conquer other kingdoms after nandas? Were all indian kings bad then? Not really a few were very bad, some ok, some good at all times. So chandra set out to create a powerful maurya empire(like akbar set out to create a powerful mughal empire) using sam dhand and bedh. So on nandini's part its ok as daughter of nanda to hate her family killer. But if she keeps hating how to make her hatred go away, so story writer uses bait of mura in jail by nandas and tortured for many years. In real history mura was never found after she abondoned chandra as baby. So how could nanda torture her?

See, , this is the same "real history" thing. It is pointless to cite it, especially when there are so many versions of the Chandragupta story.

The other thing i found odd was a nanda begging mura to be his? - come on man that is 300 BC just own her, she will cry and crib does she have any option after that none? Did not kings just take away any woman they liked and keep in their harem without their approval? (even in 16th -17th century) YES

so why is nanda begging to mura for years- because he loves her? a joke in those times love was not as it was in todays times that you will live and die for one woman and wait for her for ages neither was nanda shown as such a good man to believe his pleadings to her.

Not only have I touched on this point in my posts, but several others have discussed this psychological point earlier in this thread. I do not want to summarise their takes here, but they are very plausible,and you should take a look at them, especially those of Shailaja and Sandhya. It is not his love for Mura, it is something quite different.

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Mallika-E-Bhais

@Mallika-E-Bhais

Trailblazer

+ 5

Posted: 8 years ago

#119

Aunty: Oh I would, I certainly would!!! I know all the dirty terrifying nitty grittier & also all the golden-dusted glamorous parties, aunty, my Dad was a bureaucrat too & had many friends in the IFS. Many many of whom I pestered, at other times childishly tried to "charm" to tell me aalll of their stories!! Most obliged, here, there. My love for travel, glamour & that constant penchant for "something bigger, better" would've been answered superbly in this service.. But then again, maybe I say that only because I cannot be there!! Chronic case & constant loop of forever DIS-SATISFACTION!!!!

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LostTraveller

@LostTraveller

Rocker

+ 5

Posted: 8 years ago

#120

Yes, my ID name is actually a character from the ASOIAF (A Song of Ice and Fire) series which was popularised on TV as the Game of Thrones. I am unashamed to say that I too avoided the TV series as thoroughly as possible but I dearly, dearly adored the books. Brienne of Tarth is a a rare breed of a woman and one of my favourite ASOIAF characters.

I shall surely take a look at your other post. (How could I forget the dentist's chair?)

Expect me to turn up as suddenly as I disappear. 😆
Take care, Aunty.

Originally posted by: sashashyam
My dear Ankita,

Yes, of course you may, call me Aunty, that is. What an original id you have! Is it by any chance the name of a character from Game of Thrones, which I have avoided totally?

Your breathless post was most entertaining, and your compliment to mine most flattering.- I have never before had a post of mine hailed as a jackpot!😉 I am delighted, above all, that you enjoyed the funny bits (including, hopefully, the one about the dentist's chair!) so much.

Seeing that this one pleased you, you might also take a look at Chandra Nandini 3: Moonrise, which is at
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/chandra-nandini/4731774/chandra-nandini-3-moonrise
Yes, young Chandra has lovely, light eyes. The steady gaze from them that is his forte, and the excellent lines (yes, I got the pun!) they have given him, help cover up his limitations as an actor.

As for Alexander, the funny thing is that they always show him as blonde and blue-eyed, whereas the the truth is that most Macedonians, and Greeks as a whole are dark haired and dark eyed.

As for "lifts" from Bahubali, which too I have not seen, they seem to be multiplying by the episode!

Amatya Rakshas could also stand in for on of the Star Trek characters. Even a Star Wars one.

OK. This is it for now. I hope to see more of you on my threads. As for your managing to come, that is up to you!

Shyamala Aunty

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