Chandra Nandini 29-30: Samhaar! - Page 6

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

👏👏👏 How apt. RT was just that in the battle scenes. You could feel the raw power combined with flair and style, that pierced through the enemies, cut through the various ranks, and decimated them all, as you watched him in action.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My very dear Adwitiya,

Now this is a new one for me! And HD too, though Tatasky has not yet been able to persuade me to go for HD, since I feel that the tripe one has to suffer does not really need HD.So my new roop must be better than the real thing I have at home! 😆

Thank you for the affectionate warmth of your response to my efforts.Yes, this time I went to a lot of extra trouble to try and create a "visual" effect, but my dear, nothing can compensate for the absence of the visuals, especially not where Rajat is in his element. None of the three standout moments I have flagged here would really make sense if you could not see him.

You little wretch, your lupine, supine, vulpine, and leonine made me laugh out loud. That was neat, and then I never mind having my leg pulled by youngsters!

That chakravyuh situation had occurred in the first battle as well, and had been beautifully and realistically handled there: Chandra went down on his knees and made a circular, strong sweep with his sword, and disposed of all of them. Though I can never understand why they wait for so long to attack him; it is some sort of Mexican standoff obsession of the director, but when there are so many against one?

I have not seen the new promo, unless it is the one in which she is declaiming that Chandragupta has won this time, and babbles about Magadh ka vinash, as if it was heaven on earth under the iron heel of her pita maharaj! That was just about passable.

As for the next episode, let me just paste below what I wrote above, though I will be covering all this in detail in my next post.

As for the episode, my take on it is quite different from the standard issue one here. Chanakya's aadesh and Nandini's demented, crude outburst hardly need any discussion, for the one is pure politics, no matter how out of place it looks to us from this age of ours, and the other is only an extension of and even worse than her behaviour with Mura.

But what I focussed on was Rajat's performance in the scenes with Durdhara. Right from the time he approaches her, to the morning after, he was quite simply outstanding.

It was a very difficult set of scenes to tackle: the awkwardness, the reluctance amounting to distaste for having any such intimacy with his best friend - whether he is right or wrong here is not the point, the point is that he does so feel - the thinking back to Nandini's mad, hateful tirade, the shamefaced reaction the next morning.

But every single bit of it was near perfect. I cannot think of many actors, even those in films,who could have pulled that off.

As for the emotional equation between Chandra and Durdhura, as I wrote to Saraswathi Akka above, Durdhara loves Chandra, though she does not show it. And as for him, I think he himself does not understand what it is that he feels for her. It is surely not only the anger triggered by Nandini's crude outburst. But there is a deep seated aversion in him towards any act of physical intimacy with a woman, which has to do with his bal brahmachari bent of mind, which is still deeply ingrained in him.

Ashwinee has added a very interesting and psychologically astute explanation for why Chanakya issues that aadesh to Chandra right then. Here is what she has said:

I also feel that Chanakya was not suddenly worried about Chandra's uttaradhikari but he sent Chandra to Durdhara to undo any residual effects that Nandini's comments might have left on Chandra's psyche. I would bet on this guru knowing his shishya that well and also on his cunning in trying to keep Chandra's thoughts from revisiting Nandini's speech by keeping him otherwise 😉 engaged.Cynical but not impossible since it also has the added advantage of nudging Chandra in a direction which he otherwise would not take given his 'bal bramhachari' niyat. As you said, pure politics - of a very layered kind!

Very neat and plausible. is it not? Of course this is predicated on Chanakya having heard Nandini's rant from up there, but then everyone here has an eagle's vision and the hearing of a lynx!😉

As for Nandini, I think she has lost her marbles completely. Now she will almost surely pretend that she knew nothing about Malayketu having attacked Chandragupta from behind after the close of battle, and will be praising him for his shaurya in bringing Chandra down.

I cannot imagine how this abysmal character is to be eventually rehabilitated. Look at her in the precap last night, glaring at Chandra in her copyrighted fashion! It has been a long time since the actress won that National Award, that too as a child artist, and it shows. I only hope she pulls up her socks and does much, much better than she has been doing till now. If not, I am afraid that that she will make the show sink, and take poor Rajat, who needs a solid hit, down with her.

The make or break moment for her as an actress will be when she learns the truth about her pita maharaj. Let us see how she delivers then.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Ranjana, my darling girl, what a morale booster you are! I cannot remember a single one of your posts that has not pepped me up. Thank you, my dear.

I am delighted that you liked the battle part so much, for I took far more pains with it than usual. But why was the bottom page missing? Because the samhaar was, so to speak, left hanging in the air? I felt far worse when the telecast began last night, and I found that the chap was alive after all, and not much the worse for it, at that!😲

I loved your comparison of Chandra on the battlefield to Bhima bearing down on Dusshasana. It is perfect, and it is better than anything I could have thought of. The Mahabharata offers parallels for any and every situation in life. No wonder that it is called a whole world in itself.

I am happy that you enjoyed the gentler portions as well, especially the last line, for I was really pleased with the way they turned out, which is not always the case! Rajat was so good in the comic sequences with Durdhara that I could not stop laughing.

He is getting a lot of variety of situations and demands on him in this show, I feel, far more than in Jodha Akbar, and I am sure it will help him hone his skills as an actor even more. As for last night's episode, which has been generally panned here but which I saw very differently (see my post to Pakhi above) what he managed to project there was quite extraordinary.

I am a greedy creature, so I shall look out for your comments on the last two threads too, but I hope that does not cut into your work time.

Affectionately,

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose

Aunty.

How can she fall in love with someone who killed her family. It's incomprehensible to me..how will CVS show this. I don't think it's possible in reality

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

That too right in front of her eyes.

But firstly, how can Chandra marry her, given what her father did to his family, and how she behaved with him and WHY should he marry her at all?

Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose

To torture her, of course. That still makes sense😆

Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose

Aunty.

How can she fall in love with someone who killed her family. It's incomprehensible to me..how will CVS show this. I don't think it's possible in reality