Mahakumbh 77-80: Distorting mirrors - Page 4

Originally posted by: jayaks02

Nice post.

veshes and the secrete socity never knew that shivaaanand was a garud, rao knew. at first, i we thought he wasn't connected but we should have knew by the erliear dialogue of the cardinal/ bishop, that he was like them. but i think we have to see how deep he is with them. sab kaa khulaasaa hogaa aaj hi, par puraa nahi.

anyway, which country's army is helping rao? pakistan or china? i belive it could be china. but they will show pakistan.

Originally posted by: Arijit007

anyway, which country's army is helping rao? pakistan or china? i belive it could be china. but they will show pakistan.

Shyamalaji Dr Rao can be anyone but he can not reach Amrut by himself and will try to control garud. That is the reason he is a bit shocked to see MB . And MB might have sensed his intentions. 😛

Not only an easy target, Sri, but a dead cert of a choice for any conspiracy meant to destabilise and if possible dismember India. Have you forgotten 26/11 so soon? It is not a joking matter, my dear, those wounds are still fresh.

And how does anyone know who knows what about the amrit? Even if the plot were to be hatched in one country, the plotters can be sure of back up support from the other country.

As for the writers of Mahakumbh, they will not name any country. They won't have the political courage to do that. This apart, the whole reference to Rao coming with "armies of the neighbouring countries" was too ludicrous for words.

Shyamala Akka

Originally posted by: jayaks02

ha ha ha - Both are not correct choices as Amrit and its history are not known much to them ? But liked your humour that they will show PAK - Easy target.

Fabulous post Aunty, AGAIN😳

Originally posted by: mishtidoi

Fabulous post Aunty, AGAIN😳

Aunty this new Rao could be a doppelganger of the original Prof Rao...the original was gone for finding antidote to the poison and he was kidnapped by this double...Gawd!!!! silly theories...I badly want a pataka Mona darling...missing her everywhere😉😆

Thank you so much, my little Mishti, and if Rao is indeed a doppelganger, think what that will mean! We will end up with TWO wooden faced characters instead of the one we are having to suffer now!😉

As for the likely candidates for Mona Darling, you two are getting to be as mischievous as my old , riotous chipmunk gang from my Jodha Akbar threads! Mishti to Mishti, par Aparna, aap bhi?? I think more than Dansh's dar ki bimaari, the propensity for making wicked cracks is catching on here!😉 Jokes apart, don't get your hopes up for any patakas, we have only damp squibs here!

Shyamala/Aunty

Originally posted by: appukrish

Arre, don't give ideas to the makers. Already we are confused with so many parties wanting the Amrit. Prof is another expressionless guy so his Mona darling will be like Maya or Leela, matching his expressions.😉 Patakha tho mushkil hai 😲

Mahakumbh 81: Of means and ends

Folks,

After all the high falutin' concepts we, especially Shruthi, have been batting around here, Mahakumbh is beginning to look like a cross between a B grade horror flick and a James Bond film about a megalomaniac set on world domination.

A below par Master Criminal: Augustus (Agastya Parashar Gautam) Rao, with those AK- 47 toting guards all lined up, and a dim tent with more zombie like guards in it, looked more ludicrous than scary. His namesake, Julius Caesar's nephew, the first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, would be horrified at the sight of him. What was it with that Ruritanian style uniform? He would have been more sinister in a grey business suit. '

Rao is also a remarkably wooden faced actor, which does not help matters. He cannot convey menace even when the recipients, the Veshes, are more than ready to genuflect before him in rank fear.

And where was that tent of his, pray? I could not catch what Greyerson said, but surely it cannot be in the Mahakumbh grounds, where all this private armoury would not be allowed?

Rao also seemed to have forgotten all about his earlier order, conveyed thru Greyerson to the 'Veshes, that Sector 53 should be cleared completely, thru bribery or mass killings. Maybe he has reconsidered and dropped that insane idea, and the Veshes, delighted to be let off the hook, would not have asked for clarifications, especially as they can now collar the whole of the Rs. 50 crores!😉

Shivanand:Enough is enough!: I do not know about you folks, but I have had enough of Shivanand's OTT screaming and wailing. As I wrote in this post, keeping in mind his history of standing up to the worst kind of torture in Poland, and his aggressiveness even in his post-naga vish hallucinations, it is hard to believe that so tough a man could be so thoroughly shattered, mentally and physically, just because of a series hard blows with MB's staff.

But he seems like a wreck, either flailing about in terror, or ranting like a Biblical prophet about death to the nagas. I am sure he will get the critics' award next year for these uncontrolled performances, but I would be most grateful if they could cease!

The garuds:A dismal lot: Rudra looks blank and undecided at the same time, Tiwari looks silently bloodthirsty - I am sure if the bali was to be of a fellow garud, he would be equally ready for it. Katharine and Thappadiya Mai are not worth even a mention. What a sorry lot these garuds are!

WHAT are these garuds actually doing to fulfil their mission, and how much time do they have left? Rudra is the least like a leader that I could imagine, and last night, half the episode was spent, in fact wasted, with him either avoiding Tiwari's accusing/demanding gaze, or looking into his eyes defensively, like a couple of roothe premi!😉 It was all so bad-filmy and so stupid.

A crisis of conscience: Rudra is the Garud Pramukh, for Heaven's sake, does he not have any idea of what to do and how to handle Tiwari? With his cast iron commitment to insaaniyat, of course including the nagas as well, he can hardly execute Leela in cold blood ( an inadvertent pun,😉 for snakes are cold blooded, come to think of it!), so why does he not say so as a Garud Pramukh ka aadesh?

He did that quickly enough with MB, so why not now? All he has to do is to ask them one simple question. How they can call themselves rakshaks if they are ready to kill wantonly just to get ahead? Something that will bring them down to the level of the nagas? That the intended victim is going to save Maya's life is one additional reason for Rudra to shoot this horrendous proposal down, but it shoud not be the decisive one.

But he does no such thing, in fact he does nothing at all but stare. And one by one they all drift away from him and to Tiwari: Katharine because she is, at heart, a Greyerson acolyte, Charles ostensibly for the sake of Rudra's Baba, and Thappadiya Mai, after a mild protest, very likely because she does not want to be left out of the majority. Tiwari of course because he is, when push comes to shove, ruthless in a totally amoral fashion.

Crunch time: So we arrive at the point that was foretold by MB to Rudra in Episode 72: Jab koyi saath nahin hoga, to bhi tujhe aage badna hoga.. I had then not thought this to mean that the other garuds would desert him, but rather that he might at times have to go it alone. It now seems that MB's advice was meant literally.

It is now testing time for Rudra, but I am sure he will come thru very well. The thing I want to see is whether he is able to bring the other garuds back to his side thru sheer force of moral superiority, not just by force, by exerting his final authority as the Garuda Pramukh.

What lies ahead: The only ones I wanted to see, MB and Dansh, were missing last night. I hope that at least tonight they resume the MB-Dansh pas de deux, adding Drish as the third element. I never thought the day would come when I would want to watch Dansh more than Shivanand, but that day is here!😉

Most of Episode 82 will very likely be spent looking for those stores of vish. And possibly Rudra dunking the by now very voluble Guru Maharaj into it. Maybe he too will turn blue, which might improve his looks, for they can hardly get any worse!😉

Folks, there are too many elements being added to this brew, of which the writers seem to have lost control. Rao as the master villain is a mistake, and the garuds bid fair to be blundering about like this till Episode 119. What a let down!

Incidentally, what was it about Thappadiya Mai's garud chinna doing a Shivanand and turning a vivid puslating blue when Leela's naga blood drips on it, only to regain normalcy when Thappadiya Mai spreads it a little with her finger?

I think the script is going to get more and more weird as we progress, and it is going to be all compressed drastically as we near the end. As it is, we have all this blood and gore in the offing, for even the nagas here seem to drip blood, ugly gurus with forked tongues, things going blue and red, and someone's bali in the works. Our Mahakumbh is bidding fair, I fear, to resemble Aahat, a horrible show that I have never ever watched😲. Don't mind me, folks, I am just getting irritated beyond all bearing. 😡

To add to the confusion, Arshi has helpfully pointed out that Maya too is a naagvanshi, which makes her a sister under the skin of Leela's😉😉! Oh Lord, I have to look for the Amrutanjan!

Shyamala/Aunty/Di/Akka