Concerns About the potrayal of the Queens

Originally posted by: ..RamKiJanaki..

I have given it a 3/5 because the overall episode is good, and the introductions of the characters is interesting, but I dislike the portrayal of Kaushalya so far as this bitter queen with anger towards her husband.

I have nothing against the fact that they showed the Shanta story in this Ramayan, because it is a popular and well known story, BUT Kaushalya was a very kind and happy woman who treated her husband with the utmost respect and love even though she knew Kaikeyi was his favorite wife. Actually, Sumitra is the queen who is occasionally jealous of Kaikeyi and goes to Kaushalya with complaints of their husband's unfairness, but Kaushalya always assured Sumitra that Dashrath was a fair and kind ruler, and not to think bad about their husband.

Kaushalya is supposed to be kind, wise and just. Why else would Lord Vishnu have been born to her? A woman would have to have an ideal character to bear God in her womb, and the way Nikhil Sinha portrayed Kaushalya, she seems like a very bitter and unhappy woman. Didn't like that very much.

Originally posted by: radt

You're only disliked the way they're potraying Maa Kaushalya? I didn't like what they did to Maa Kaikeyi.That was so unlike her. There was a story that Kaikeyi Maa loved Lord Rama more than Maa Kaushalya, Maa Sumitra and Dashratha Ji put together. And that's why she begged Lord Shri Hari Vishnu to choose her to face the wrath of the people for ages to come because she said that she would be lucky and blessed enough to have her name taken in Rama's story, even as the villain. And that was exactly why Lord Rama worshipped her first. She looked like a regular TV soap greyish lady. My heart sunk real bad ever since. After this I saw each and everything with a little doubt. I even ended up frowning at the crow, well only till he came to his human form.