Originally posted by: myviewprem
Chandra gupta has come into the lions den and is just trying to absorb the surroundings when he suddenly finds he is caught. But best part is he did not get scared like anyone would, maintained composure 👏👏👏 which shows he is fit to be an emperor and answers in calm way nisandey. What i did not like was that nanda told him to fight his son, oh why? he is a spy why should a crown prince fight a spy in front of the court full of other kingdom princes? Now that he was defeated will not magadh and nand prestige reduce in eyes of other smaller kingdoms?
He wants to enjoy a gladiatorial killing. It was perfectly clear. If he could have, he would have fought him himself, probably using the ustari!😆
Next thing chandra refuses nandini hand in marriage - oh really chandra are you dreaming that emperor will give his ladli daughter hand in yours and make you a prince? how stupid? If at all anyone will reject it should be nand who rejects hand of nandini to a spy not other way. But here all ulta pulta is happening. Second nand only whips chandra for having audacity to reject nandini, any other emperor his head would be off his shoulders in seconds.That is why i say chandra speaks too highly in wrong places he is not a prince of any kingdom still to talk in this manner and not to get away unpunished severly. Luckily this is a serial so he got whipped, in reality he would be beheaded instantly
But what is there not to understand in this? Chandragupta wants to humiliate Nand and his daughter, so he says that quite deliberately, before Nand, who is yet to recover from the shock of Dhananand's total rout, says anything.
The fact is Nand has himself announced that the person who defeats Dhananand can claim the hand of Nandini. Chandragupta is then invited to fight Dhananand by Padmanand himself. So what is stupid about Chandragupta saying so? There is nothing ulta pulta, it is completely well thought out, plus being deliberately and cuttingly insolent.
No hero of any adventure story ever gets beheaded, and in any case, Nand wants to question him, so he would hardly have had him beheaded him on the spot.
And no amount of his great warrior in reality would not protect chandra, one arrow is al it shall take to bring his down to his feet. Chandra and CVs should realize that chandar is no bollywood hero to defeat thusands and escape from pataliputra. Even bravest of warriors have been killed by numbers and brain and could not escape enemy hand. So first chandra should learn when to speak and what to speak and when to show his bravado. Till then he cannot become a great warrior forget emperor.
Look, this sort of daredevilry is a standard feature of adventure stories like the Three Musketeers. The hero always wins out against impossible odds.
The next thing i did not like was nand wipping chandra oh really an emperor shall whip a spy would took an prince vesh and enter magadh, that too after he defeats his most capable son? Which emperor does that? Nand at heart is still an barber- his thinking is still that of a barber not come to emperor level must say. What are body gaurds and soldiers for to carry out the dirty task of an emperor. Akbar, Ashoka, Chandra gupta, etc cannot be expected to go around whipping spies and other lowly criminals even if they create contempt.
But you have answered your own question. Nand is only a barber at heart. Moreover, as I had written to you in my last response that you have not apparently noted, he is also a sadist.
With all getting angry and shouting etc from nand to his sons and chandra too acting brave, the only person acting human and sensible is nandini and party. Nandini was right in getting angry at rejection, anyone will but would she want to marry a commoner spy. Its better she had rejected his hand in marriage instead of chandra that would be the correct thing. Like a draupadi rejecting karnas hand.
Here i disagree with auty that nandini is childish, in midst of all manipulative and political persons be it nand, avantika, chandra, chankya, amatya rakshas and nands sons she is the only one acting normal a breathe of fresh air. Whether her giggles or anger or pouts etc it does not look to me too irritating for in this mad insane political world she is the only one humane, the one innocent soul who has no idea of kapata or double layer. She shows what she is inside out, what she is inside she is outside the innocent soul enjoying her life as the ladli princess of her father and 9 brothers pampered by the ten men in her life. Is that not how only daughters are in reality? pampered by all the men of house as she is the only one lady of house, the delicate darling of her brothers and the life of her father. Yes she is immature, innocent like i said no kapat in her heart or mind, protected by harsh realities of life by daddy dearest like a Gautam Buddah etc
I can see that you are all set to become the president of the Nandini Fan Club😉, and don't worry, you will have Sri(jayaks02) and a number of others as members. No harm in that, and I can quite understand a young man like you making allowances for a pretty, chirpy young lady!😉😉
But you will not me.😉 Right now, Nandini is childish, and does not behave in the least like royalty in public. Perhaps that is because she is half of very low stock.,being only a barber's daughter. (In fact, but for Padmanand's military strength, no royal candidate would have turned up at the swayamwar at all, considering Nandini as too low born). No princess born and bred behaves in public the way she behaves at the swaymavar. She actually giggles when the other princes refuse to fight Dhananand, which is the height of bad manners. Later, she behaves like a Roman at a gladiatorial circus, waiting for the kill. Being young is no excuse, princesses were trained in proper behaviour from a very young age.
And this not Kapilavastu under Suddhodhana. I for one cannot understand how Nandini does not know anything of her father's atrocities against the people. In the five year old, one can understand her ignorance, but this 16 year old? This is not innocence, it is deliberate blindness.
The reality will strike her when her family is killed by chandra and she is forcefully married to chandra by chankya. That moment she will realize life is not a bed of roses her father set for her, its filled with thrones all along and she has to find the rose moments among all the thrones at her feet. Till then i do not mind her innocence, she is just being a teenager enjoying life by pranks and laughter.
Chandra meeting his mom is too filmy
So what? This is a film of sorts, only much longer. 😆
