Mahakumbh 5-8: Tangled skeins - Page 5

Hi Aunty superb post

Thank you so much my dear girl. Yes, I will continue doing weekly takes unless the show collapses, which is not going to happen!

And what a lovely, unusual name you have!

Shyamala Auntt

Originally posted by: -wintergreen-

Wonderful post Shyamala aunty! 😊 Thank you so much for the PM! Do keep writing :)

-Abhinaya

Thank you, my dear Faria! It is readers like you who keep me going, for my posts are an acquired taste that not every one takes to. So I am always both relieved that reassured when a new reader likes them so much.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: fariaabrar

Hi Aunty superb post

what a fantastic analysis you did .

I loved reading it and thank you for the PM .

Originally posted by: elasingh

Me too in the same boat...Na khuda hi mila na visaal-e-sanam, na idhar ke rahe na udhar ke hum...😆😆

Aunty fabulous read as always😊

Thanks a lot, my little Mishti!

I too loved that sort of paisa vasool episode. Rudra has the kind of face that makes his physical triumphs all the more striking; it is impassive, not a muscle in it moves as he performs the most amazing feats of strength. I loved it when he tossed that muscled hunk down into the courtyard. Reminded me of the young Krishna. There are a lot of parallels with the young Krishna here anyway, starting with Maimuyi's Yashoda Maiyya.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: mishtidoi

Aunty fabulous read as always😊

I loved yesterday's episode...I was cheering and clapping all round episode🥳👏

And we were introduced with seven Rakshaks concept..and met with one too, he was totally local boy armed with, what one calls, a desi katta

@blue. I did not go into that myself, as the post was already so long and I was beginning to get really stiff and tired. But it is a very valid point about human goodness, and I am glad you flagged it. That is to say, re: the strangers letting Shivanand use their phones.

As for Kuba's mother helping him at such great risk to herself, I have already discussed that in detail in the A reluctant heroine:

Why does she do all this for a stranger? At the perennial risk of being found out and murdered by her husband, thus leaving her beloved son to a horrible fate? Initially, it is out of a sense of guilt for having hit and injured this stranger. But for the most part, it is humanism at its purest, goodness without any thought of reward.

And also because, in this poor tormented woman's life, Kuba's relationship with this stranger brings a few moments of unalloyed happiness. Watch her smile with pride when Kuba offers his piggy bank to the departing Shivanand. And again, the first real smile seen on her face when Shivanand, after fixing the lock and throwing away the key for luck, hugs Kuba and then picks him up and whirls him around with the kind of playful paternal affection his father should have shown him but never did.

But who is the father figure in Poland who dies? Unless you count Shivanand's being recaptured as a kind of living death in the sense that he is now lost to Kuba.

Shyamala Akka (are you too Tamilian?)

Originally posted by: Calliope

Apologies for keeping this space reserved for so long! I just finished watching last week's episodes and here I am.
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And then we come to know why Baba saved and took Rudra Varanasi. A man full of regrets saw his own flesh and blood in Rudra, his lost legacy in the boy who was drowning. It was a easy decision for him to dive after Rudra's struggle to stay afloat. He loved Rudra like his own and till the final moments, he saved Rudra from both physical and emotional repercussions.

I must say the character Udiya Baba has come to a full circle. His guilt was lessened when Rudra was saved as a child. He continued to groom and save the child in years to come. With minimalistic memory of his own father, Rudra treats baba as his own father and the earliest mentor who has taught him values in life. He is still so young and when he walks, it seems like with the mark on his back, he is carrying weight of the world on his shoulders.

Pandey's nephew mentions something very interesting in passing: The battles between Bramhanisht Panth vs Sri Santh Panth monks. It was hinted that the two factions have fought before and it was an ongoing tussle that many are already aware of. Pandey was used as an accessory in procuring Rudra and wasn't really in on the real story. He has his vendetta against Swami and he is now hurting Swami via Rudra.

I want to be cynical and say - why help a strange looking guy wandering in the street? Why offer my cellphone to make a possibly long distance call or worse, run away with it? (We are talking 2001 when international calls were insanely expensive!) Why offer him money, comfort of my home fully knowing the extent of wrath that I will incur if my abusive husband was to walk in.Why allow a stranger to sit in my table and gladly give my phone for him to make a call. Why is that human decency becomes such a rare commodity that when ordinary people help a homeless looking man, they don't judge but help him instead. Yes, I don't think Shivanand would have been given phones when asked. But it's nice to know that there is still human decency left in this world to help a fellow human being when he obviously seems in distress.

Parallels run across Poland and Varanasi. A father figure dies, a boy mourns and a mother's love over shines everything else.

All around a very good second week for the show.

RIP Baba.


Calliope.

Aunty,
Wow fabulous take as ususal and its a delight to read both of your posts and tidbits on ja too..I have not watched it for weeks now but your take wanted me to see atleast those two scenes you mentioned.sorry for going off topic.

I was not feeling well and couldn't come online as i used to before but wanted to
wish you and mk friends over here a very happy,blissful,healthy and prosperous new year...


I started of giving it a try as the storyline is different and what a treat it turned out to be.Two weeks of very good episodes with interesting twists and the hero has yet to enter the serial .I'm pretty sure he would be fabulous and do complete justice to his role but somewhere i wish the young siddarth remained along as i'm awestruck with his acting.He is such a delight to watch onscreen with ever eminent seema.
Their bond is brought out so beautifully and i wish maui's is not a cameo and would have some significance in future too...but as of now enjoying every episodes of mk and hoping it will continue in the future too.

Aunty, fabulous post!