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Originally posted by: Chandraketu

And all this while, they do a perfect job in promoting the charade that they are really devout Rama-bhakts😡 - all while making it look like fatalism (Vidhi ka Vidhan) is what rules ones destiny.

I noticed the title song once, and there, I did catch 'Swami Ananda' as one of the sources of this, which would be Khalrika-di's Ananda Ramayan. Although addressing as 'Swami' someone who wrote that Rama asked for Sita's arm to be severed and given to him bas***dizes the term.

Yup, Ananya & Chen2, I second that. In fact, there are 2 things they are doing here which serve to strengthen that impression of it being a fictional monster thriller:

• Showing ahistorical events even in the main serial, (such as Indrajit's severed hand writing the note to Sulochana,) making the Ramayan a lot more fanciful than it actually is, and sometimes more grizzly🤢
• Replacing the completely normal train of events in Valmiki with a whole bunch of make-believe stories from elsewhere. In fact, if one takes out Ravan's 10 heads, Ahalya's revival, and a few other things, the Ramayan is perfectly logical to allow as a historical document: in fact, historians have used Ramayan as a source for the history of that era (although they don't go by the treta-yuga and dwapar-yuga timelines of thousands of years).

The only silver lining to this is that TRPs are in the toilet. It's therefore a good thing that nobody is publicly protesting this, or else, the publicity they'd get would only drive up ratings. I hope that they continue to fall like a rock, (or like Luv would have had today's rakshasha guards let him drop).

The other good thing is that NDTV Imagine is just one of some 100 channels, and that too with a very low rating, with the result that the coverage that Ramanand Sagar's serial had in 1987 is not there with this serial today. Not too many people know about it, and even if they do, not everyone has it - one has to specifically order this channel with some TV carriers.

And yes, I hate the serial being called Ramayan anymore. In fact, unless a serial is pure Valmiki, it should be banned from being called Ramayan. Let them call it any of the suggestions we had, or something else. The past can, and normally affects, the present and the future. The present cannot alter the past, as the government would like to do.

Originally posted by: chen2chic

And for heaven's sake, stop referring to this serial as "Ramayan". We have a load of other options to use.

The more you see it as Ramayan, the more your blood boils..... honestly mine does!!!

Originally posted by: Kal El

It would have been better if they had created a separate show for the Jataka tales. They are quite interesting on their own but combining them with Valmiki and Tulsidas versions is not a sound creative decision. They don't go together very well. This is especially problematic on a show that has been presented as an adaptation in the same vein as the earlier Ramanand Sagar version.Or they should have been honest from the very beginning that they were going to stretch the show by any means necessary even if the script doesn't hold up. I remember the show Raavan. That was quite different (and very interesting during the child and teenage stages of Ravan's story) but, regardless of whether the script worked or not, at least they made it clear from the very beginning that it was going to be a different take on the story.

Originally posted by: rupalip

I agree with u all
Yes we should protest
They are spoiling my Ramjis image ...

This second part
(Dont want to call as Uttar Kand of Ramayan)
is the worst show on the name of Ramayan
Now everyone will ask Ram-SIta the reason behind
this ... They sone babies have to answer
Ramayan was very divine show but now just a show

Rupali

The only way we should protest is by not watching the show, and bitching about it here. If we publicly protest this, it will play into the hands of NDTV Imagine, and provide them the publicity they need to invoke public curiousity - thereby backfiring on us.

Are Gurmina the public spokespeople for this serial? If yes, they have serious trouble on their hands if on their TV appearances, they get asked about the source of all this. For his sake, I hope that they're familiar with what Valmiki says, and which portions are from which sources, rather than just saying that they are taking it from plenty of sources, and not just Valmiki.

Khalrika

I know Ananda Ramayan is not yours - I just said 'Khalrika's Ananda Ramayan' to credit you with its discovery on I-F. I know you wouldn't write any crap of that sort.😆😆😆

Originally posted by: Same108

Oh btw.

Couple of days ago I posted on You tube promo which was aired TWO months ago, about Lava-Kusha story (remember this? Where Sita is going down to earth). guess what? I was screwed by you tube and I was forced to take it down.. Oh well.. Two months ago Sagars showed a chain of events SO DIFFERENT from novadays, I have no words!

In today's episode, Bhayasura collapsing on Chakrasura and killing him reminded me of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert's ego and insecurity are both personified by 2 giant sized Dilberts, and when Dilbert's ego grows too big and threatens the peace of the house, Dilbert or Dogbert - I forget which - ask the ego to confront the personified Mr Insecurity, who is far bigger than the ego. Mr Ego is crushed by Mr Insecurity falling on him - similar to how Bhayasura fell on Chakrasura. If any of you are unfamiliar with Dilbert, I apologize, but this parallel was just too glaring to go un-noticed.

But hey Khalrika & Chen2, I don't mind if Ramayan stories are now derived from Dilbert, since they are already importing stuff from the jataka tales, folk stories and the like - why not Dilbert? Mr Vidhi is Dogbert, Kush-Luv are Dilbert, the rakshashas and the meanies who confront them are Catbert, et al. Certainly, Dilbert would be a lot less grotesque than Sinbad, Ali Baba, Hatim Tai, et al🤣🤣🤣

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

In today's episode, Bhayasura collapsing on Chakrasura and killing him reminded me of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert's ego and insecurity are both personified by 2 giant sized Dilberts, and when Dilbert's ego grows too big and threatens the peace of the house, Dilbert or Dogbert - I forget which - ask the ego to confront the personified Mr Insecurity, who is far bigger than the ego. Mr Ego is crushed by Mr Insecurity falling on him - similar to how Bhayasura fell on Chakrasura. If any of you are unfamiliar with Dilbert, I apologize, but this parallel was just too glaring to go un-noticed.

But hey Khalrika & Chen2, I don't mind if Ramayan stories are now derived from Dilbert, since they are already importing stuff from the jataka tales, folk stories and the like - why not Dilbert? Mr Vidhi is Dogbert, Kush-Luv are Dilbert, the rakshashas and the meanies who confront them are Catbert, et al. Certainly, Dilbert would be a lot less grotesque than Sinbad, Ali Baba, Hatim Tai, et al🤣🤣🤣