Originally posted by: sashashyam
Folks,
This is exactly what last night's episode reminded me of, a PPT by the CVs in seven parts, which were, alternately, and sometimes within the part itself, good, indifferent, bad, and unintentionally comic. I am simply going to take them ad seriatim.
Ad Seriatim!!!
Then came his pativrata istree of a mother, and I started gritting my teeth all over again. That woman, as I mentioned earlier is a closet masochist. If I have to listen to her babble just once more about the shakti that her amit, amar prem for her goon of a husband gives her to tolerate the beatings, I shall start climbing the nearest wall😡. It is such women who make such men even worse than they are, and I have NO sympathy for her.
How else could she have explained her staying on with that man to the little boy! May be that was the explanation she gave herself for the relationship she shared with her man. It is fine saying today, given the education and exposure and social flexibility of the 21st century, and not all the women had the solidity substance or the self confidence of the likes of Dharma to live as a single woman/mother.
-Ashoka vatika rebooted: In the whole of the passage between little Nandini - who, though cute like most 5 year olds, looks a bit like an illustration for the nursery rhyme line Along came a little bird and pecked off her nose! 😉
Like this????😆
- Depths of degradation: Nemesis got one more bash at Avantika as she literally groveled in front of her contemptuous partner in crime, babbling of her love for him and seeking the reciprocation that she knows perfectly well by now will never come. It was creepily satisfying to watch this evil woman being ground into the dust by a vengeful goddess.
And there was such bitterness when Avantika spoke of Nandini. She was angry and envious that Nandini got what she always desired - Nand's complete attention and love. She might make things worse for Nandini later on.😔
-Robin Hood or Bahubali?: Now I am laboring under the serious handicap of not having watched Bahubali, so I am periodically blindsided by references to it here from those who have. So, for the woodland scene, I have to fall back on the Robin Hood and his merry men parallel, the one familiar to my generation and hopefully not unknown even to yours!
I have read an abridged version and found the story extremely boring.
However, here we are shown more. His cool confidence and unshaken calm even when facing the senapati of Magadha and a whole contingent of soldiers. His clear-minded, unafraid enunciation of why he and his companions did what they did. His sense of self-respect that has him doing a remix of Amitabh Bachchan's shoeshine boy Vijay in Deewaar (made before most of you were born, but you might still have caught up with it on TV - Not watched yet, only familiar with the 'Mere paas Maa hai' dialogue😆) and refusing the tossed reward. Which he does not with arrogance, but with quiet, polite self assurance.
No wonder that Amatya Rakshas - who bears an uncanny resemblance to a Red Indian chieftain from the old cowboy films 😉- is so taken with this little boy, with the bearing of a king and the swabhimaan of an emperor.
Those Amatyas of that age were excellent all rounders - in shastras, weaponry, king making, government running, judging people, identifying talents! Wonder where they disappeared later on. Had the Rajput Kings had the likes of them, no Gajini or Babur would have made inroads into India (We might have missed Jalal then😲😆) Had such men been present and powerful in Jahangir's court, he wouldn't have allowed the first British factory at Surat either.
Finally, when Chandra responds to Rakshas' shocked query about the welts on his back with Ab peedha nahin hoti. Ab abhyaas ho chukka hai. .. the bitterness in the lines sears the screen, overcoming even the limitations of the child mouthing them.
How would Siddharth have performed those lines and the scene! But yes, the role being small doesn't merit Sid. I'd rather an average kid and an adult RT.😃
An aside. Did you folks notice that the other, unnamed amatya, who is shown advising the army commander Varkanas to release the royal family they had taken prisoner, bears a distinct resemblance to Gollum in The Lord of the Rings? I fully expected him to fall on all fours and start crawling after Chandra, mumbling My precious! 😉😉
🤣 I found this somehow very funny though I haven't read The Lord of the Rings, nor seen teh movies.
-Videshi kudrishti: There seems to be a fad for kudrishti in this show. First it was Mura ranting about Nand's omnipresent kudrishti directed at any female within reach, and now it is Bharatmata doing the same about Alexander of Macedon's kudrishti, directed, no, not at any female at all, but solely at herself.
😆
Jodha used to utter the word in a strange and funny way. And Mura is worse. Bharat Mata too is just average. Stresses too much at places and instead of sounding serious, ends up jarring!👎🏼
-The Grand Entry:
My answer would be a qualified yes. He is already fully competent, if not inspired. He might lack the sheer presence of his predecessors in Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat and the 2012 Chandragupta Maurya, but I feel that very soon he will put his own stamp on the role and make us forget that he was ever anyone but Chanakya.
I need more time to get the 'Rajkumar Sushim' out of my ears and zehen!
- Ek hi uddheshya, ek hi marg, ek hi lakshya: The closing part, with Chanakya and Chandragupta both setting out for Pataliputra, each to save his special maa, was beautifully conceived, scripted, and shot. I loved the very last line: Jo aaj tak mile nahin, wo bhavishya mein aise milnewale the ki Bharat ke itihaas mein unka naam saath saath liya jaanewala tha.
And no Nandini can change that!
Now that the 2nd commandment has been abandoned, I can bravely compare. (not that I wouldn't even if it weren't 😆)
It reminded me of the similar comparison after Jodha speaks to Moti on Maa Saraswati being on her tongue and making her influence Jalal's history and at the same time Jalal talking to Khan Babaabout making his mark in history and another of both of them praying.
Fate is really devious and all powerful. It can raise people to great heights and sink them to depths. What if the two had set out in different times! CGM was destined to achieve greatness by Fate. On the other hand the Balu of Salangai Oli was just thrashed by fate at every step! Luck is indeed as important as talent and hardwork!
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