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This is not an episode discussion post. It is about three important women characters,Nandini, Avantika and Moora, in Patliputra, and the way they think and act and an attempt to decipher why they think and act like that. At present, I have written only about Moora. My perspective on Nandini and Avantika will be updated soon in the same post after I see more of them in the coming episodes.
Moora: Mera Putra Aayega
We have seen the varied shades of this brave lady. Her love for her husband, her love for the son whom she left behind as a new born, a resilient fighter who does not give up hope even in the face of tremendous odds and can find it in her to give a fitting reply to the tyrant Padmanand who torments her at times due to his desire for her, at times for her refusal to fall in line with his wishes, at times for the very many ways in which she reminds him of his impending doom, etc.
She is like the corrosive acid in Padmanand's stomach. She eats away his vitals with her vitriolic outpourings and yet he cannot or will not get rid of her. Because if he gets rid of her, his entire appetite will collapse due to indigestion. Okay, now jokes apart, both Moora and Nand are highly toxic to each other but will not let each other go as one person's ego will not let him forget his failure to win the juiciest fruit he ever aspired and which forever remained out of his reach, and this lady's inexorable quest for revenge which seeks its fulfillment even at the cost of suffering to an innocent girl who is in no way connected to whatever happened in the past to her or her family.
Moora can countenance to see Nandini in pain if at all it causes pain to her tormentor Nand. She is a collateral damage in a war that is inevitable. Just as children enjoy the inheritance, and luxuries earned for them by their parents, they occasionally pay for the sins and mistakes committed by their parents.
We can understand and sympathize with everything she has been through. There would perhaps be none who would not want to see her reunited with her long-lost child, Chandra. Then why does she refuse to go with Chandra when he tells that he would help her to escape. She keeps telling "Mera Putra Aayega" again and again.
But when he comes in front of her two times, she does not recognize him. It would have seemed positively stupid to many of us when she keeps repeating these words again and again. How would the poor chap, her long lost son, even know what his history is if she did not find him and tell him about it? She should have been looking for her chance all this while to escape from Nand and find her son. At least she should have been on the lookout to examine the necks and hands of the blessed few she meets in the prison in the same age group as her son for that dratted crescent moon locket and tattoo of the peacock feather. That would have been the logical thing anyone in her place would have done.
But she chooses to remain behind in prison reminding one of Sita in Ramayana! I can see it only as her positive and self-righteous insanity of motherhood! Her single minded hope and belief that it is her son's destiny to bring about Nand's downfall is truly unnerving and at the same time exasperating. Sri Ram at least had a few clues to work on to exactly figure out what happened to Sita. The poor child whom she abandoned has no chance of knowing unless she tells him.
She holds the clue to his past, present and future, but she stays put wherever she is, hallucinating and deluding herself that he is going to come to take her. Why he even came and wanted to take her with him, but she does not go because she does not recognize him! Destiny favors the brave and those who help her. I can only say to the poor lady, "Help destiny to help you."
Moora: Mera Putra Aayega
We have seen the varied shades of this brave lady. Her love for her husband, her love for the son whom she left behind as a new born, a resilient fighter who does not give up hope even in the face of tremendous odds and can find it in her to give a fitting reply to the tyrant Padmanand who torments her at times due to his desire for her, at times for her refusal to fall in line with his wishes, at times for the very many ways in which she reminds him of his impending doom, etc.
She is like the corrosive acid in Padmanand's stomach. She eats away his vitals with her vitriolic outpourings and yet he cannot or will not get rid of her. Because if he gets rid of her, his entire appetite will collapse due to indigestion. Okay, now jokes apart, both Moora and Nand are highly toxic to each other but will not let each other go as one person's ego will not let him forget his failure to win the juiciest fruit he ever aspired and which forever remained out of his reach, and this lady's inexorable quest for revenge which seeks its fulfillment even at the cost of suffering to an innocent girl who is in no way connected to whatever happened in the past to her or her family.
Moora can countenance to see Nandini in pain if at all it causes pain to her tormentor Nand. She is a collateral damage in a war that is inevitable. Just as children enjoy the inheritance, and luxuries earned for them by their parents, they occasionally pay for the sins and mistakes committed by their parents.
We can understand and sympathize with everything she has been through. There would perhaps be none who would not want to see her reunited with her long-lost child, Chandra. Then why does she refuse to go with Chandra when he tells that he would help her to escape. She keeps telling "Mera Putra Aayega" again and again.
But when he comes in front of her two times, she does not recognize him. It would have seemed positively stupid to many of us when she keeps repeating these words again and again. How would the poor chap, her long lost son, even know what his history is if she did not find him and tell him about it? She should have been looking for her chance all this while to escape from Nand and find her son. At least she should have been on the lookout to examine the necks and hands of the blessed few she meets in the prison in the same age group as her son for that dratted crescent moon locket and tattoo of the peacock feather. That would have been the logical thing anyone in her place would have done.
But she chooses to remain behind in prison reminding one of Sita in Ramayana! I can see it only as her positive and self-righteous insanity of motherhood! Her single minded hope and belief that it is her son's destiny to bring about Nand's downfall is truly unnerving and at the same time exasperating. Sri Ram at least had a few clues to work on to exactly figure out what happened to Sita. The poor child whom she abandoned has no chance of knowing unless she tells him.
She holds the clue to his past, present and future, but she stays put wherever she is, hallucinating and deluding herself that he is going to come to take her. Why he even came and wanted to take her with him, but she does not go because she does not recognize him! Destiny favors the brave and those who help her. I can only say to the poor lady, "Help destiny to help you."
