Porus 133: Enter a firebrand!
Attagirl,Ayesha! 👏You rock just as much as Rukhsana (I like that name better than Roxanne, the Greek or Macedonian version ). A sassy, happy, bouncy post. It made me feel good just to read it.
Rukhsana is not precisely beautiful, but she has a very strong, mobile face, and she has that other intangible, very special attribute: personality. Presence. It cannot be acquired, it is there or it is not there.
She has presence in spades, as she socks it to the rat Darius and sends his chamcha No.1 to meet his Maker. And proposes, to Darius' face, that he should be handed over to Alexander as a peace offering. Some girl, this! 👏I have never seen a leading lady quite like this one.
No wonder not just her father Oxyartes, but his Shah, Bessus, both let her say whatever she likes without rebuking her, no matter how blunt her words are. She must have had both of them under her thumb ever since she began talking!😉
Hers is an easy, self assured arrogance, coupled with a laser like focus on the interests of her own people that should be a perfect match for Alexander. When she goes to meet him, her voice is just as steady and composed as if she was talking to her father. No wonder he is intrigued.
When she removes that naqab, he is going to be blitzed! And inlieu, his hair seems (though it was dark and visibility was low) considerably improved!😉
Ayesha, I too loved the lines they have written for the exchange between Alexander and his mother. A very pleasant change from the fire and brimstone fulminations against Barsine the day before. Talking of Barsine, can there be a greater contrast than the one between her and Rukhsana?
I think that Darius will now run away from Bactria to avoid being traded off to Alexander. He will go back to Syria, and the final fight between him and Alexander will be at Gaugamela. Surely they cannot have that encounter here, in Bactria instead? They have so far shown all of Alexander's major battles accurately, so why not this one too?
As for the prison segment, it was ugly and horrible, just like Shivdutt. There was no need for all the Mahabharata style dragging by the hair and the physical humiliation of Anusuya.
But I loved it when, right at the end, she swore that she would kill him with her own hands. The parallel with Draupadi was marked.
The scene where Puru feels the agony of his mother telepathically was also very well done: he is wracked by emotional, and almost physical suffering without knowing why.
Shyamala Aunty
PS: For the show to run its full, pre-announced course of 260 episodes, the CVs will have to find a lot more material. As I showed on Priya's thread, they will end up about 70 episodes short, seeing what is left to show.
Edited by sashashyam - 7 years ago