Porus 130: Chandrakanta ya Hatim Tai? - Page 3

which is a highly negative article about Alexander by one Samuel Jones. Well, he is entitled to his opinion, that is fair enough. But he was indulging, as far as the battle was concerned, in outright lies, banking on the assumption that no one would check up what he was asserting. But I did, and I posted a detailed rebuttal of his stand on the question of who won the battle. My response is the only comment on his piece, so you can't miss it. I think it will interest you.

I will stop here, for my hands are more painful than usual today - I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. But I will give relatively brief answers to the questions in this post.

Once more, welcome to my threads!

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: x_sree_

My dear Aunty, I am New in this forum as well as in your threads but I have silently read many of your threads. Although I don't watch this show, I had tried watching the first few episodes of the show, but I got bored right after 2 weeks only so stopped watching it.

But I am commenting over here, not because of the show or it's historically horrendous episodes, but because of your interesting analysis and also the amazing pieces of info that you give related to Indian history as well as the world history. Being a history lover myself I love reading your interesting pieces of informations related to history.

BTW I read over here that you used to watch Peshwa Bajirao, did you use to post your analysis on that Forum, since I was a silent reader of that forum as well and I don't recall reading your analysis on that forum, so I was asking did I miss reading your wonderful analysis???

Nothing bar one short lament on the abysmal TRPs for such a superb show, which is at

http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=4807723

Incidentally, I was bemused to find 14 likes for this post now, of which not even half were there when I first put it up!😉

And related to the show, I feel that the biggest flaw in the scripts of an Indian Historical is that just to show Indians and India great the Cvs paint the foreigners out an out black, which I feel is completely wrong. The opposition don't always need to be completely wrong to make you great or right. And after watching a few scenes of Porus, I feel the Sony TV's Porus is 'All Talks and No Actions' kind of guy, and I severely hate those kind of Guys, so I will not talk about him anymore.

Agree 101%!

Btw since you mentioned many of the historicals which I have watched wholly or partially, and Peshwa Bajirao was my favorite as well amongst them, although the script degraded badly After leap with the story revolving only around Kashi-Bajirao-Mastani love story only, which I simply hated. I want to ask did you watch Chandragupt Maurya of NDTV Imagine, since there was no mention about that show in your post, since that was also one of the best historicals made in India, although it had an incomplete ending due to forced shutting down of the channel. I feel that was the only show which could properly do justice to the character of Kautilya Chanakya (my favorite character in Indian History), which neither CAS & CN could properly do justice to!!!

The best ever representation of Chanakya on TV is by Chandraprakash Dwivedi in his iconic Chanakya, of 1990 (47 one hour episodes). That showed Chanakya's weak moments as well, his instants of despair, and was thus far more realistic even than the NDTV Imagine version. It also devoted a lot of time to the details of Chanakya's political manoeuvring.

However, Manish Wadhwa was magnificent as Chanakya, and NDTV Imagine's CGM is the next best. I have not yet finished watching it online. The sound is often bad, and that is irritating, plus the overdose of Dhananand, and the sleazy Amatya Katyayan, aka Rakshas. You should see the one in the 1990 Chanakya! There are also unrealistic bits, like the way in which the kid Chandragupta rescues Chanakya from being executed. Their Alexander looks like a suet pudding. Still, a very good effort. The 1990 Chanakya made no concessions at all to entertainment value, and would not have lasted for more than 2 months today!

I gave up on CAS as soon as they showed the great Chanakya, who had a mind like a steel trap, letting himself be trapped and murdered like the veriest tyro in statecraft. The one in Chandra Nandni, the Mahaamatya Khallatak of CAS, was not even worth talking about !

Thank you!!!

Will love to read more from you over here or any other Forum!!!