Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki: Episode Discussion Thread - 24
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Parvati dancing with Damaru & Trishul is tough to believe, showing her doing Shivji's puja would have served the purpose. Seeing her among sadhu's any mother can get worried.
Looks like Mena will remaing like this till end, we will have to bear with her for a long time. We need to be compensated for that.It was good to see Daksh & Prasuti after a long time may be for the last time.Eagerly waiying for Parvati to grow up soon.😊
Exit question: any bets on whether Daksha & Prashuthi will attend Parvati's wedding?
Originally posted by: narangi_77
I stand corrected on Himavat and Mena. They too were not easily accepting of Shiva as a son-in-law!
I just checked a Shiva mythology sourcebook and found many stories of Himavat and Mena having to be convinced to let Parvati marry Shiva. Himavat proves to be easier to convince than Mena. Main source seems to be Shiva purana.Here's one story as a composite from 2 sources. Will post some others when I get time.This is a beautiful story in which Shiva takes a beautiful form and dances in front of Mena. Hearing his beautiful song, Parvati faints and sees his true form (smeared with ashes etc) and chooses him as her husband. the vision then passes.Mena on the other hand, sees only the graceful dancer and offers him a reward which Shiva (as a dancer/beggar) does not accept. He asks for Parvati as his alms. Mena gets angry and abuses him and tries to throw him out. Himavat (who had gone to bathe in the ganga returns) and also tries to throw him out, but no one can touch the beggar. Shiva then proceeds to take various forms: Vishnu, the sun, Shiva-Parvati, and finally the formless tejas. He finally returns to his form as a beggar and asks Himavat again for Parvati as his alms. H refuses and the beggar vanishes.H then realizes that this was none other than Shiva and great bhakti s born in H& M (😆).Sources:Shiva Purana 2.3.30.25-54Brahmavaivarta Purana: 4.40.71-111.P.S. Sorry for the rough-shod language. Was typing in a hurry.Should I post this story in some other thread also?
Just got to watch the episode now - missed it @ 8pm.The thing that struck me watching it was Daksha - how conspicuous he was w/ the goat head. One thing that struck me about that is that despite having a goat head, he still had his belly. Just wondering - did Surendra Pal have to play him just b'cos he had played him earlier? I mean, w/ a goat head, he should have become much leaner, and they could have used another leaner actor, probably w/ the director himself dubbing his lines?The other thing that struck me - when Parvati went w/ her plate to take food to Daksha, it seemed quite strange, given that wouldn't Daksha now be eating what goats eat - leaves off the trees, grass, and maybe an end of Parvati's garment? Maybe it was b'cos Daksha was remorseful that he didn't seize that opportunity. 😳for Both of the points above, he just has a goat's head coz veerbhadra could not find a human head, he does not have a goat's constitution or intestines.. and also it seems the human brain is intact, coz he is speaking and everything. So no, he will eat human food, maybe only veggie.Also, Himavan meeting Daksha & Prashuti seemed a tad redundant, since they were preaching to the choir. Instead, he should have taken Mena out there to talk to Daksha, so that he could have cautioned her against being like him. Speaking of Mena's nightmare, it's good that she got up b4 Parvati could touch the sadhu, since it obviously wasn't Shiva.Himavan meeting daksh and prasuti itself is a big IF AT ALL. Everything else just follows the same logic bihin logic.The final scene of an ash smeared Parvati dancing w/ those beautiful dancing shoes - actually, while Mahadev occasionally smears himself w/ ash, I don't recall ever reading about Parvati doing it. Anybody recall whether it's true about Mahakali at least? But here, Parvati did look quite cute smeared w/ ash, and dancing w/ that toy trishul. Only thing - if she has the original drum of Shiva's trishul, couldn't she have had Shiva's original trishul to go along w/ it?mahakali smears herself with blood, not with ash. It typically is Shiv and Mahakal's department.Parvati dancing in dancing shoes is another creative mismatch. If parvati is so deep in bhakti that she dances with damru and trishul and smears herself with bhasma, she would be without her tip top dancing shoes or for that matter her hair , her ghunghat , flowers all were all properly in place. the scene was not given much thought. It was just a filler imo.So Sonarika debuts as Parvati tomorrow? Or were they showing the promo, rather than the precap? I recall that Sati and her friends used to serve Shiva routinely, and it was only one day when Kama came and spoiled everything that Shiva left them. It's not like the first time Parvati came, Kama happened to be there as well. And they need to show Indra sending him - Kama wasn't a loose cannon who did that on his own volution.@bold red: u mean parvati right?😆😆 I think she went for shivpuja only once and that too narad insisted coz the master plan was cooking in background. Whatever, it was, it definitely was not this, heroine meets hero in reincarnation movie, type.