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Folks,
You would have escaped this one, for I had forsworn Porus after Tuesday's miserable goings on, and was going to leave you in peace.😉 But I finally ended up watching last night's episode 178, more to forget the goings on at the hospital than anything else ( I have been there for long spells for two day running now). And then of course I could not help commenting, even in brief, on it!😉
My observations:
- Mangling mythology: SidT and his CVs seem to be rather weak in mythology, not just Greek/Macedonian, but Hindu as well.
Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea, not of the earth, and his Roman equivalent is Neptune, just as Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus and Juno of his wife Hera.
And then our Trimurti do not always work together in perfect harmony, as was being made out. Lord Shiva cut off one of Lord Brahma's heads to tame his arrogance. He had 5 heads earlier, now he has only 4. Moreover, Mahadev is generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of the Trinity, though my Ayyangar (Vaishnavite) friends won't agree!😉 Vishnu and Brahma both fail to locate the beginning and the end of the glowing pillar of fire that is Mahadev, since He is anaadi evam anant, without beginning or end.
- Below expectations: As for the Grand Confrontation between Anusuya and Olympias, don't throw anything at poor me😉, but I expected it to be more fiery and to crackle with steely pride and aggressive oneupwomanship (sic).
As things turned out. I felt that both of them were simply reciting a set of predictable lines with, in Olympias' case, all the head movements to match. There was not a single sentence that was unusual, that would have made one sit up and rewind to listen to it again.
I did not feel that Anusuya was insulting Zeus, that was Chanakya earlier, with his sneering at Zeus'
jalal during the sanskaari apaharan (LuckySnow, that is a priceless expression!👏) But then he is a pretty harsh and arrogant person anyway, and he hates the Macedonians with a white hot hatred.
Anusuya is not like that. She is gentle and civilised, no matter what the situation Last night she was controlled and dignified throughout, and never lost her cool no matter what the provocation.
Olympias, however, with her unbending pride and her rock hard arrogance, is fully a match for Chanakya, and I suspect she will escape from Paurav Rashtra on her own, most likely, as suggested somewhere else here, with the aid of the Dasyu Rani. After all, the scenes shot in Dasyu Lok, featuring Olympias and Laachi, among others, are round the corner !😆
This apart, one can hardly imagine Olympias having to be rescued from any situation by anyone, even by her son! Her body language, and her flashing eyes, and her air of being totally in command even though she was in fact a prisoner, were the only watchable elements last night.
Less than impressive: I did not like the sight of Chanakya standing silently in the background, like a darwaan, while the two ladies indulged in their battle of wits. I cannot imagine the great Acharya, one of the greatest strategists and administrators in the history of Bharat, behaving like an ADC to the whole Paurav Rashtra royal family, and personally executing all this skulduggery, like the kidnapping of Olympias. The actor is undoubtedly very competent, but his Chanakya is beginning to look as flat as a pancake.
- Loss of bearings: It was odd to see Puru going to the wrong hut and not being able to place the inevitable sounds of the renewed fight between Alexander and Kanishka, in the other hut that was right next door. For a while, till they finally showed both the cottages side by side, I was totally at sea!
This apart, Puru in his Macedonian army uniform, almost half a foot taller than the standard Macedonian soldier, would have stood out like a sore thumb if he had encountered anyone from the Macedonian side. So it was as well that he did not!
- Loss of control: Alexander has clearly begun to lose his psychological bearings in his rage at having Chanakya fool him twice running, even though he had scored a neat hit of his own in between by trapping Chanakya.
If he was not so possessed by the need to get even with the foxy Aalim, why would he want to kill Kanishka himself, and so violently at that? And now, presumably after getting the news of the sanskaari apaharan, he is apparently rushing into an unplanned attack against Paurav Rashtra, which is exactly what Chanakya would have anticipated.
Finito: Rohit was excellent in depicting Alexander's near demented fury during the killing segment, but I am sure that scene was copied from one of the less nasty scenes in the Game of Thrones!
Not that Kanishka deserved any pity. His sudden volte face and expressions of remorse wrt his family were too little too late, and sounded like a desperate last bid to escape retribution.
It was odd to see Bamni calling out tenderly to the son who had personally ordered him, and Anusuya, killed in open court. If Kanishka had survived, be sure that Bamni and Anusuya, and thus, willy nilly, Puru as well, would have forgiven and rehabilitated him!😲
But Inlieu, they could not have assumed him to be innocent of the plot against Puru's life, for the informer clearly tells Puru enough to make it clear that Kanishka was collaborating with Alexander, and was being punished for failing in the task assigned to him.
- Slip up!: How come Alexander walks off , leaving his tohfa for Porus lying there on the floor of the hut, instead of having it safely stored in the Takshashila palace pending safe (this time) delivery? When his minions find that the (this time really) dead body is again gaayab, Alexander is going to burst a blood vessel for sure.😉
OK, I am going to sleep now. They have taken enough blood from me this morning at the hospital to make anyone feel faint!😉
I am sure I don't need to remind you about the Like button, do I? But only if you feel like it.
Shyamala Aunty/Di
PS: It was very odd to see Chanakya's shishyas decapitating Olympias' snakes during the sanskaari apaharan. If they were all immune to poison, there was no need for it, and then again, it was totally contrary to our traditonal ethos of high regard for the naags.
Actually, Chanakya seemed more to be showing off than anything else, and the duel with Olympias was the high point of this exercise.
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