My take on nandini as a character
Nandini is always staying quiet and not saying truth
First sunanda told her she has dual personality mental disease and she never informed to her own mom avantika or chandra or dadi or mura why? It led to so many issues for chandra and chankya (like duplicate roopa pushing chaya because nandini stayed silent)
Second issue nandini did not trust chandra and chankya and went to nand hideout to inform nand of chandras plans. This led to roopas death and nand running off in the meley. In a way chankya is right in saying nand ran off because of nandini. Both chandra and chankya were not present when nandini went to nand. So how can we say what they both spoke?
Third issue is that when roopa was killed nandini did not try to save her. So how can chandra - chankya feel that she was not on nand side?
Fourth nand took nandini with her - if nandini was against him why would he? He took her means she is going willingly with him.
Fifth nandini jumped off nand horse when chandra was pursuing them. If she had not jumped off chandra would have caught up with nand and killed him and taken nandini with him. So any human will assume she jumped off to save nand only. Think practically not emotionally. Chankya is right in saying that.
Sixth how can nandini where nand was if she is not with him? Chankya and chandra did not tell her place or plan of theirs yet she reached nand den on her own
Not once nandini has shown loyalty to chandra or chankya or magadh. In village she supported nand with helena, she went against chandra and went to nands den and foiled their plan, she always says nand nand even her dream chandra felt she dreamed of nand death and got scared, she tried poisoning chandra during haldi ceremony and once with chandra during chayas time(though it was roopa). Again indirectly nandini silence helped roopa try to kill chaya once and chandra once.
Chandra may get blind in love but a mature chankya cannot
If chankya turns blind eye to nandini faults and behaviour he risks life of millions of akhand bharat citizens. Because if chandra dies who will face akhand bharat enemies? no one is capable. Can chankya go and fight nand and alexander army in battle or any other small king? No none. Only chandra is keeping entire akhand bharat together.
Nandini must mature and start talking seriously and maturely than a kid princess nand putri. Till then chankya will not trust her and he is right practically. You cannot blindly trust an enemy's daughter just because an emperor married her and she is chief queen.
Remember nandini is chief queen not because helena and dhurudhara re not capable. Dhurudhara is next emperor mother and a rich man daughter and helena is an excellent warrior and shrewd starategist in war. But both cannot be chief empress because helena is foreigner and dhurudhara a commoner. Else in real history nands daughter was never given any position in court. Even in serial she would not get this position if helean was not a greek and dhurudhara a commoner
Nandini will not get chankyas approval till she proves it hard way again and again and chandra cannot tell get out to chankya (like akbar said to maham)
Edited by myviewprem - 8 years ago