Ram going to Mithila

Originally posted by: divareena

Hi 😊

In the old ramayan, they showed Ram going back to mithila to see raja janak and the queen. I hope we get to see this in the new ramayan.

What do you think?😊

Originally posted by: Rajnish_Kumar

This has never happened in old Ramayana ,could not recollect . Actually king Janak came after sita banishment to ayodhya to visit Ram and tell him about a letter which sita had send to him. This was shown in older Ramayana

Originally posted by: Rajnish_Kumar

This has never happened in old Ramayana ,could not recollect . Actually king Janak came after sita banishment to ayodhya to visit Ram and tell him about a letter which sita had send to him. This was shown in older Ramayana

Lalitha is right - they did show it in the previous serial.

But I do hope they don't show that here. First of all, Valmiki has nothing about the relationship between Janak & Rama post Sita's exile, and therefore, the servile grovelling attitude of Janak that they showed in that serial (which even irked Rama himself) was totally uncalled for. We've argued over whether Sita should have gone to Mithila instead, but I'd think that given the events, Rama himself had no right to go there now. The biggest problem I have with this 'poetic license' is the message it seems to endorse that parents-in-law should treat their sons-in-law like gods, no matter how badly their daughters are treated. (Yeah, yeah, Rama didn't 'ill-treat' Sita and did what he had to, but correct or not, that's the perception that would have been created. However, one consequence of this would have been that he'd have lost the moral right to ever go to Mithila again).

One way they could do this is move over to Mithila, and show people of Mithila expressing outrage over Sita's exile, and vowing never to allow their daughters to marry anybody from Ayodhya. In fact, spin in an Avadhi groom about to be engaged to a Mithila bride, and the news coming in of Sita's exile, and then the wedding instantly being cancelled and the groom instantly being thrown out and pelted with chappals. Yeah, it would be unfair to him since he'd possibly be innocent, but no less unfair than his compatriots were to Sita.

Other option - don't show Mithila at all.