Arshi,
meri jaan, kahan khatam honge aapke hunar? This scintillating post so closely mirrors my own feelings about the last night's episode that I felt I was talking to myself !
Yesterday, Mahakumbh was like a remix of Superman (for the shav vahan being blocked and the lifted) and a documentary on the effect of PDP or angel dust on the human system, plus some standard issue maar dhaad in a constricted space. Plus of course all that fantastical stuff about time stopping for 7 minutes, the 7 gates to the amrit guarded by the 7 garuds, and so on.
What was never explained, and probably never will be, as you too have noted, was how Rudra blasted himself pat into the middle of the underground naga lair. Perhaps Dansh, in the excitement of his coup in getting to the Two Books and still retaining Shivanand, forgot to switch on the laser and the Garuda Locator worked!
Shruthi, after Drish mapped Shivanand's brain last night, I realised that part of your theory re: the exchange and the grenades Dansh used, was correct. He never intended to give Shivanand back, for then the vital brain-mapping would have gone for a six. You were right on this.
But by the same token, he could not have been thinking of killed Shivanand with that grenade.
His plan must thus have been for Leela to get the Two Books and hand over Shivanand. At that point, he would have tossed a grenade at Rudra and the others who would have been advancing towards the open space. In the confusion created by the explosion, Dansh would have streaked up to Shivanand in his wheelchair and dragged him back into the vehicle and pushed off with him.
Arshi, you will be pleased to know that I liked Dansh the best last night😉, crazy or not. He is in fact at his best when he seems high on grass. He was chortling away to glory watching Shivanand hammer the DM, Charles and Katharine, instead of snarling as usual, and even in the precap, he only expels Leela, he does not kill her, as even her father would have expected him to do.
And in the beginning, he sat there in the naga lab, on the edge of a chair, like an anxious, expectant father inside the labour room, while his guru, having the upper hand for once, pottered around pompously with the brain mapping and its decoding.
Now see how technologically advanced the nagas are as compared to the garuds!😉😉
They can successfully map what passes for poor Shivanand's brain, addled as it must have been by so much of heating by laser, plus the assorted poison injections😉. Even more impressive, they have hallucinogens (seedhibaat, colour coded, without a doubt!😉) that can produce specific hallucinations tailor-made for the target! Dansh instead of Rudra one time, Rudra instead of that poor bakra another time, and so on!
I am sure the CIA or the successor of the KGB, dazzled by such stuff, would love to get their hands on naga alchemy, and would pay anything for it.😉 Seriously, too much time is being spent on these hallucinogen hijinks.
Folks,I might be wrong, but I am beginning to be afraid that the final denouement of Mahakumbh is going to be neither neat nor comprehensive. They are already beginning to cut corners, as evidenced by the long laundry list of glaringly illogical bits that Arshi has listed here.
One thing is for sure: Mahakumbh is neither the Mahabharatha, with its 100,000 verses, nor the Harry Potter saga with its 7 (there is the number again!) books and 8 films. Here you have only 120 episodes, and only 44 of these are left as of now. Till now, 5 of the 7 garuds do not even know what their powers are, nor have these powers been activated. Kis muhurat ki prateeksha hai?
I did not much like this last week's episodes, which did not have a single standout scene , and incidentally broke the pattern if there being something exceptional at the end of the Thursday night episode. Rudra has nothing significant to do bar punch the nagas and lift vehicles, and his looks seem set. Drish was much better than usual yesterday, but is generally fatiguing. Leela has a very limited set of expressions, and Maya is still, happily, comatose. The only character, and performer, worth watching, is MB. I hope we get to see more of her this coming week.
As for the rest, I fear that we are going to end up with the good old holdall that folks used to travel with on trains in the old days. Everything left over stuffed in and the contraption strapped tight, despite all the odds and ends sticking out. Mark my words.
Vilupt Saraswati ka gyaan: One thing. After last night, one got a hint of what the vilupt gyaan is. It is a crucial supplement to the knowledge contained in the Two Books (which Rudra seems to have rescued unscathed from the fire into which Drish had tossed them, though when he was lifting that shav vaahan, they were nowhere to be seen). The Books indicate where, when and how the amrit kalash will emerge. The vilupt Saraswati will presumably indicate - of course to Rudra, as Dansh's uppityness would have put her off good and proper! - how to get at the amrit kalash after passing thru those 7 doors.
Shyamala
Edited by sashashyam - 10 years ago
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