Originally posted by: sashashyam
Folks,
You can relax, this is not going to be another Ramayana like my last post. 😆
In fact, I have nothing much to say about the episode, except that Puru's bhashan about the unequalled virtues of the Bharatiyas would have provoked an angel. Even Jodha Begum never spouted so much self praise about the Rajvanshis.
If all the Bharatiyas had been like what Puru makes them out to be, there would have been no Dhananand (of course it is doubtful if Puru knows anything about him or about Magadha either😉), and no reason for Chanakya to struggle for years to cobble together a coalition against him. Raja Purushottam would have had the whole country fight alongside him against Alexander, instead of having to go it all alone, with Ambhiraj of Takshashila ranged on the side of the invader. And of course we would never have been ravaged by the Ghaznis and Ghoris. and ruled over by any number of outsiders from the Slave Dynasty to the Brits. We are a great country and we have a great, millenial civilisation, but there is no point blowing one's trumpet non stop about it, and that is all that Puru does.
Now, after having been treated to Puru's usual hijinks of solo victories against a dozen, which bores one to tears, we are apparently going to have a duel between him and Alexander. This is something that I had anticipated earlier in a different context, and then dismissed, thinking that a king would not fight a commoner. But now here it is!
I don't suppose either of them can be shown defeating the other, not at this stage of the show, so I expect it will be a draw, or it will be somehow cancelled.
Actually, it is strange to see Alexander. the king of Persia, thinking of fighting against some ordinary Bharatiya, and for what? Normally, kings would fight only against their equals in rank. Why does Alexander plan to do this now? To prove that all the stuff Puru was spouting was wrong? A sensible king would just have locked him up, and the public would very soon have forgotten all about him.
Perhaps it is a boyish desire to prove himself top dog, even against a nobody, simply because he has dared to challenge Alexander. This is perhaps Alexander's real weakness (though I doubt if Puru is going to spot this durbalta); he has to win every time, and he has to be seen winning.
But Alaria has a different take on this, so do look at her comment below.
So the whole of Faras has to be there to see him triumph against the Bharatiya. Is he going to build a mammoth stadium to accommodate all these Farsis? Ridiculous.😡 And what of Bactria and, hopefully, Roxanne? Put on hold for these gladiatorial games, one presumes.
I begin to get the impression that something Chetan Hansraj (he was one of the only two TV actors I have ever met, along with Aashka Goradia) told me 10 years ago in Montreal still holds good: that the CVs wake up each morning and write the script for the next day. And they probably write by committee: Kal maine kar liya na, aaj tum kar lo!
Yes, and Alexander has now officially been classified as a rakshasa, courtesy Laachi. I suppose that he will progressively be turned , from what poor Rohit thinks he is, a parallel lead, to a full blown villain. Saare lakshan to aise hi nazar aa rahe hain.😡
The only thing that was worth watching tonight was the way in which Alexander sat there, unmoving, like a graven image, while Hephaestion was being half strangled by Puru. His self control is admirable, and he never flies off the handle.
Then the way in which he quickly looked back at Barsine when Puru said they had come to Faras to fulfil a promise. He can connect the dots faster than a modern PC! 👏
Yes, and the way in which his tawny eyes held Puru's dark eyes in a lockhold, neither of them blinking and neither letting go. And the level voice in which he speaks to Puru, never raising it and never ranting.
Finally, it was clear, from the sudden triumph in Alexander's narrowed eyes when Puru saves the child and clobbers Hephaestion, that he had achieved what he had wanted, ie to smoke out the Bharatiya who was helping Barsine. I was glad to be (occasionally!) proved right!😉
Puru fails to bring any nuance to that confrontation ; he is the same, smug, self-satisfied, over-confident character he ever was, always sure he is 101% right and ready to lecture to all and sundry. He must have been feeling deprived, not having had the chance to deliver a bhashan for quite a while, and now that he got it, he made full use of it, alas for me!😆
Lastly, I think it is high time Alexander changed out of this Persian costume and got back to the Macedonian white in which he looks every inch a warrior. I am sure even Rohit's most ardent admirers must have done with counting and admiring his abs, so there should be no complaints!😆
I have not watched the Paurava Rashtra parts; that can keep.
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Shyamala Aunty
Mahadev And Sons
