Originally posted by: BARBlE
arti as i said before i totally agree with you about the first part, nothing much to add to it 😊
coming to showing his divinity, i once had discussion here with others and we agreed that makers have been inconsistent with it
one one hand it was implied that balram knows that krishn is to kill kans and particular demons like bakasur . but he was shown unaware of identity of kaliya and aghasur (the snake demons, WEIRD) 😕
seeing his enthusiasm and excitement about RK romance i was pretty sure from start that he doesn't know the end of it. if you have noticed, all of a sudden he can see the progress and activity of radha sitting in home along with krishn 😆
in the mango garden sequence he mentioned about golok as if he was part of it but is blissfully unaware of sridhama's curse
i share your views that cvs themselves don't know what they want to convey regarding it 🤔
Tusu, thanks for sharing more of your thoughts on this.
@Bold - Yes, the CVs are being weirdly inconsistent and don't even know what they want to show regarding Balram's divinity (and some other stuff at times), but that is bound to happen when they make up so much stuff that they get lost in it themselves! 😛
For example, they showed Bakasur being killed by Krishna by himself, which is part of the actual story (even if they put in the other stuff with Vrindavan's formation and Radha being present etc etc at that time in the show), and they can't eventually have anyone else kill Kans no matter how much they fictionalise the story in the show, so they had Balram know about these things. 😊
But then they added so much more fiction stuff to the Kaliya and Aghasur parts like everyone except Radha, Krishna and Balram forgetting about Krishna dancing on Kaliya, and Radha being involved in Aghasur's killing. So here the CVs got so lost in their fictionalisation of these parts that they forgot to include Balram knowing about them! 😆
So in a way, while they are picking and choosing and getting so lost in their own stuff, the CVs actually have Balram mirroring the audience again, in a funny way - he is explicitly shown to know about some things that are actually from the mythology/literature (like at least some of the audience would know) at times when they haven't fictionalised the actual relevant happenings too much, but not necessarily other things (even though they are also from the mythology/literature) at times when the CVs have invented much more of the goings-on (just like the audience don't know exactly what the CVs will come up with)! 🤣 (Lame attempt at humour, I know!)
Ok, jokes apart, one way to tell the audience something is to have the characters talk to each other about it. So when they wanted to tell us (the audience) about the Kaliya and Garud story, and about Aghasur being Putana and Bakasur's brother, the CVs chose to have Balram asking about them as if he didn't know about them already (which was damn weird!) and Krishna telling him. This device works fine in non-divine settings but writers actually should be much more careful using it with divine characters! (not just in RK but mythological shows in general these days) I think it would have been much more effective if they had simply had Balram and Krishna talking with each other as if they both knew these things, and perhaps Balram could have asked Krishna about them in a way that makes it very obvious that he knows about them but is just checking to confirm.
Whatever the inconsistencies, I'm glad they did eventually show Balram's Sheshnaag form in the show - before that I was starting to wonder if the CVs had actually forgotten who he was! 😃
Edited by A-A-S - 5 years ago
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