Star Plus 'Siya Ke Ram' - discussion thread - Page 15

I really like Madirakshi's costume in this picture. It looks a lot more decent and grand than the other costume.

The theme song of this show is really nice! I look forward to the music if nothing else.

Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..

I really like Madirakshi's costume in this picture. It looks a lot more decent and grand than the other costume.

yes di
decent and looking royal as well

THROUGH HER EYES

To write the story for his new show Siya Ke Ram, mythologist and author Devdutt Pattnaik read many versions of the Ramayan. He shares with Shrabasti Mallik versions of different texts where Sita killed a 100-headed Ravan and cooked such good food in Lanka that people wanted to stop fighting

Do you recall huddling with your siblings and listening to your grandparents narrating the tale of Ram and how he killed Ravan? And if you are a 90s kid, you will remember that Saturday mornings were reserved for watching the telecast of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana with your family members completing household chores in a jiffy. In every way or the other and also in every step of life, we often draw reference from the Ramayana.

But ask mythologist-author Devdutt Pattnaik and he will tell you several different stories otherwise. He explained to us that the stories that we've grown up listening to, are Valmiki and Tulsidas's Ramayana. "But there are several other versions of the epic which majority of our population does not know about. Moreover, we are accustomed to seeing the epic from Ram's point of view, not anybody else's," he said on the sidelines of the new television show Siya Ke Ram.

The show aims to break the conventional story and show it through the eyes of Sita. We identify her as Ram's wife but she was also the daughter of king Janak of Mithila. She was born out of the soil and was raised in a kingdom ruled by a learned king. "We want to show her as a daughter first, raised in a kingdom where all the Upanishads were written. So, it was but natural that she was very intelligent but sadly nobody writes about that. In fact, Janak was a very modern king if you think about it. He raised four daughters and never wanted a son " he never cared for the gender of a child, whereas king Dasharatha wanted sons. That is a big difference between the two kings and nobody ever seems to discuss it," he elaborated.

Pattnaik is like a treasure chest of stories " familiar with a number of text of the epic. "None is similar to the other," he said. Drawing the stark difference between the portrayal of Sita in Valmiki and Tulsidas's scripts, he pointed out that while Sita was seen as taking decisions and a stand for herself in the former, Tulsidas, which is 500 years old, rendered her incapable of making any choices and decisions. "Through the show, we are trying to change the perspective of the story, as we know it. For example, there is no mention of the Laxman Rekha in Valmiki's version of the Ramayana which was written 600 years ago. Similarly, you will find something different and new in every text on the epic," shared Pattnaik, one of the creative writers of the show.

When asked about the various versions that he read for the show he confessed, "As many as I could get." But he did share more interesting and unheard stories of Sita. He narrated, "In the Adbhut Ramayan, Sita is seen slaying a 100-head Ravan. Another text narrates an extraordinary story of how well she cooked when she was held captive in Lanka. It was said that she cooked so well that the people there did not want to fight and instead wanted to stay home and eat her delicious food."

We asked him about the story in which Sita is an environmentalist and in love with nature. He confirmed the fact adding that, "She was the daughter of mother Earth so it is a given that she is more closer to nature. She voluntarily accompanied Ram when he was exiled, not because she was his wife, but because she wanted to make life comfortable for him in the forest. Ram was the crown prince of Ayodhya, not accustomed to a life in the wild."

http://www.dailypioneer.com/vivacity/through-her-eyes.html

As per the latest article, they are most definitely not following just Valmiki's Ramayana. They are looking at many different sources, and most likely they will use sources which have more stories of Sita.

Actually, there was this thread that discussed all the alternate stories of the Ramayan, including various Sitas killing a 100 headed Ravan and 1000 headed Ravan 😆

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Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..

As per the latest article, they are most definitely not following just Valmiki's Ramayana. They are looking at many different sources, and most likely they will use sources which have more stories of Sita.

I wonder if they will really show Sita cooking food for the Lankavaasis, and killing Ravan herself. 😳 Should be entertaining to say the least, lol.😆

I wish Ashish would smile more in his pictures. Vishnu's incarnations as Ram and Krishna are known for their smiling, joyful countenance.