Originally posted by: shailusri1983
Pratiksha, I was equally shocked to see the metamorphosis of Chanakya into Zillelahi Akbar of Salim Anaarkali or Amitabh Bachchan of Mohabattein. After that, I began thinking about this aspect a bit deeply. This was the reply I gave Lavanya in Shyamala Aunty's thread. I am copy pasting it because I don't have the patience to type again:
"Lavanya, I don't know what Aunty is going to say about this or how she will explain this. Now that my first shock over the behavior of Chanakya has subsided, I am trying to make sense of his behavior. I don't know if this explains it or not. There is a play by George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion which was later made into a film, My Fair Lady. Professor Higgins who is a language and phonetic expert makes Liza Doolittle, a flower girl into a fine lady with all his learning. In a sense, he pours life into a lifeless statue, but once it comes alive, the statue starts thinking differently and having a mind of its own. He is shocked why a thing he has made thinks differently from its creator. I think Chanakya is passing through a similar crisis period with regard to Chandra. I hope he will recover soon once he comes to terms with this change."
I feel that Chanakya is under the sway of the same kind of insecurity. He literally made Chandra from a scratch to what he is today. In a sense, he perceives him as his maker. He has been controlling his life, his thought processes, his feelings until now. He has always warned Chandra against nurturing softer emotions or sprouting a Hriday because he always knew that if and when Chandra did that, he would be unable to control him as completely as he does now.
After the advent of Nandini in Chandra's life and the birth of these feelings for her in his heart, he can no longer control everything so smoothly. Anybody in a position of power and in the threat of losing some of it, will exactly behave the way Chanakya is doing. He made Chandra. He controlled the way he thought. He controlled and conditioned the way he felt. But today, his own creation thinks and feels differently from what he has conditioned and controlled all along.
The remote is no longer in his hand. So he is reacting pretty ballisticaly to the situation. He is seeing threats where they do not exist. He is seeing enemies is his friends. Practically, what he perceives as a snake around his neck is only a harmless rope around his shoulders. But the way he is behaving, he is making the same harmless rope around his shoulders into a hangman's noose, by knotting it around his own neck and even tightening it to the extent that it is suffocating him. I hope he sees sense pretty soon and realizes who his true enemies are.
