Historical facts about Porus

First Previous

Page

Next Last

Frequent Posters

486792

Hibernated

Posted: 7 years ago

#11

About Porus and Alexander being of the same age and being born on the same day in this show,well,I believe this is a creative liberty taken by SidT for the purpose of pure entertainment.

It makes it more dramatic to show Alexander and Porus as two sides of the same coin.

Afterall a TV series needs to be entertaining too 😛

Quote

Shreya

@GrumpyCat

Inactive

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#12

As some of us discussed in this forum, it is safe to assume that some of the prime characters in the show may be fictional as very less information is available about porus family but I've heard that his sons died in the battle (his sons will be shown in the show too as an actor named shane luke mentioned on his social media that he played one of porus' sons in the promo).

Sid Tiwary says they have researched from Greek sources but you are right we cant trust it to be 100% historically correct as most historical shows have fictional elements.

Moreover I've never read or heard that porus grew up with the dasyu (pirates) and later married a pirate girl Laacchi 😆 so it definitely seems they have added a bit of fiction in the story in order to make it entertaining.

Quote

Looks like you are new here. Register for free, learn and contribute.

Shreya

@GrumpyCat

Inactive

+ 2

Posted: 7 years ago

#13

I'm not sure whether king parvatak also called parvateshwar (who had a son named malayaketu) and porus are the same person or not. One version of the story is that Malayaketu (army commander of Porus) ascended the throne after porus was killed by eudemus. Another version is that Malayaketu was son of porus (parvateshwar).

Quote

FlauntPesimism

@FlauntPessimism

Viewbie

+ 9

Posted: 7 years ago

#14

I will comment only on the winner of the war part. Since the references of the war which we rely upon are only Greek so we tend to believe them saying that Porus lost but then it becomes a very unrealistic things that immediately after this war Alexander decided to forget his dream to win the world. And other fact that can not be negated is that he died while returning and this was the last battle he fought.

Considering these facts many western historians are now thinking that probably the Greek accounts are not completely accurate (Just like Chand Bardai made Prithvi Raj Chauhan a winner at the end by saying the blind king killed Ghori which is far from truth)

They are now researching on this fact and are no longer conclusive on who was the winner (that is why the US movies on Alexander don't show him or rather no longer show the result of the war and end it at the part when Alexander was overpowered by Porus)

Quote

FlauntPesimism

@FlauntPessimism

Viewbie

+ 9

Posted: 7 years ago

#15

Originally posted by: Meself

Thanks you concluded it pretty well

Quote

486792

Hibernated

Posted: 7 years ago

#16

@Meself,Yo Pitaji!!😎

Remember me??😉😆Knew I would find you over here🤗

P.S.So you finally watched GOT??Can't tell you how happy I am to see Jonerys in your siggy❤️

Quote

FlauntPesimism

@FlauntPessimism

Viewbie

+ 9

Posted: 7 years ago

#17

Originally posted by: GrumpyCat
I'm not sure whether king parvatak also called parvateshwar (who had a son named malayaketu) and porus are the same person or not. One version of the story is that Malayaketu (army commander of Porus) ascended the throne after porus was killed by eudemus. Another version is that Malayaketu was son of porus (parvateshwar).

In most versions that I have read Malayketu was the son of Parvatak and he was contemporary to Chandragupta Maurya making Porus a generation elder but if we go by this show then Chandragupta n Porus should be of the same age.

I am a bit confused

Quote

486792

Hibernated

Posted: 7 years ago

#18

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

In most versions that I have read Malayketu was the son of Parvatak and he was contemporary to Chandragupta Maurya making Porus a generation elder but if we go by this show then Chandragupta n Porus should be of the same age.

I am a bit confused

Actually here is how it goes.

Porus was elder to both Alexander and CGM.Infact CGM was only a kid when Alexander invaded.

Malayketu the son of Porus was a contemporary of CGM.

In this show they did a major Natakiya Rupantar by showing Porus and Alexander being born on the same day.This disrupts the historical flow😆😆

But I guess it was done to show some soul connection between Puru and Alex😆

Quote

FlauntPesimism

@FlauntPessimism

Viewbie

+ 9

Posted: 7 years ago

#19

Originally posted by: --BlackSheep--
Actually here is how it goes.
Porus was elder to both Alexander and CGM.Infact CGM was only a kid when Alexander invaded.

Malayketu the son of Porus was a contemporary of CGM.

In this show they did a major Natakiya Rupantar by showing Porus and Alexander being born on the same day.This disrupts the historical flow😆😆

But I guess it was done to show some soul connection between Puru and Alex😆

The second reason being they don't want to show a middle aged Porus fighting a young dashing Alexander so made this guy young. So Ambhik who was a generation younger to Parvatak becomes his contemporary here

Although CGM was not a kid when Alexander invaded. There are accounts that he in fact worked in the Greek army for a few days to understand their war tactics

Quote

486792

Hibernated

Posted: 7 years ago

#20

@FlauntPessimism,precisely.They couldn't have shown a middle aged protagonist fighting a younger and more attractive opponent.Moroever by selecting a young actor for Porus they would be able to attract the youth audience too.

By making both Porus and Alexander of the same age they got themselves two handsome and attractive faces to promote the show.Afterall nowadays jo dikhta hai wahi bikta hai😆😉

Moroever I guess this was also done because they wanted to show Porus and Alexander's journey parallely and this couldn't have been possible if Porus had been elder to Alex.

Yeah CGM was not exactly a kid.More like a teenager I guess when he worked for Alexander's army.

Edited by --BlackSheep-- - 7 years ago