Chandra Nandini 13-15: The plot thickens - Page 11

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My darling Lashykanna,

What a delightful and unexpected treat, my pet! I am truly touched that immediately after the rush of getting your Chapter 19 out, you made time to wade thru so many of my overlong posts, and to comment on them so crisply and at times comically.

Senti aansoon ---> 😭

Another week should do it.

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Exactly... actually, I wished Helena didn't put herself down by roaming around in those places uninvited unwanted... for a glimpse of Malayketu... though in spite of all that, she seems more queenly than Nandini does despite her paltan and the BGM!

Not uninvited, my dear, for she is a guest of honour and would naturally be asked to join the royal ladies.

I stand corrected..

Chandragupta: Irrepressible bravado ?: Having clobbered Chandragupta soundly two threads back for babbling his secret plans to a strange daasi, I am now impelled, and not just out of a purely humanitarian impulse, to defend his repeat performance in Alexander's tent.

I defended him earlier... but it's getting too much now

Defending him this time was easier.

I read your explanation periyamma... but I didn't like his bravado in Alexander's tent... how much more of an intriguing-fear factor would he exude (like Chanakya would) if he just silently glared and gave the right explanations... and why try and put your hands inside a lion's mouth to show you can do it? Why not just stand silent and watch it... chances are higher you'd be left alive!

The latter part is OK. I felt the same. Not that the overall effect was to make him look silly. I was talking only about the scene in Alexander's tent, and what Chandragupta does there is deliberate and effective.

Look, Lashykanna, you cannot drag later scenes into earlier ones. Hindsight is always 20/20! What he does in the tent is not counterproductive, but in fact effective. That he gets caught later is due to another kind of folly for which I have blamed him in my next post.

But effective because he was let go... what if the Greek conquerors were having a bad day? And which conqueror would put up with impudence so patiently?

Chanakya's face, turned towards the fire, seems frozen, as if he could see, in the dancing flames, the dark future of his beloved Mathrubhoomi under the heel of the foreign conqueror.

What a beautiful description See why I need you, kid? No one else noticed that bit.

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Nana Patekar??? Haven't you seen any of his films? With Chanakya disguised as the mendicant, the resemblance is strong.

Oh yes I've seen Nana.. but I couldn't quite make out the same connection..

For a second, I imagined I was reading M&B here... No, my pet, I have never read any Mills and Boon. Only 2 Barbara Cartlands, which put me off her for good. I restrict my romantic novels to Heyer.

The M&B chapter continues... you have graduated from G and PG to 12+ periyamma.. 😆

Well, as film directors say when they want the heroine to do a revealing shot, the script called for it! 😆My pet, I am not 13, you know, but do 12 year olds really read this kind of stuff these days?

There will be 12 year olds who read far worse than this...and adults who wouldn't read even this... But on a general basis, yes 12 year olds these days do read equivalents of this - I'd guess quite commonly, in fact! 😛

I loved this scene... the most sensible scene of CGM (without Chanakya directly involved in it)

All his scenes with Helena thus far are excellent.

Waiting to read your take on Chan-Dur😊

In fact, he plays Helena like a violin - a Stradivarius for choice!- right thru.👏

I read your descriptions about this in your discussions with Saraswathi periyamma

Do you remember my comment about how Heera handles the redundant information that Gokul brings her about Akbar supporting those 2 kids ?

Yes...

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Originally posted by: lashy