The biggest bonanza about a pathetic week is the added bonus of cracks in your posts aunty. More the inconsistency more the sarcasm and wit.
-Augustus Rao: Augustus (Agastya Parashar Gautam) Rao, with those AK- 47 toting guards all lined up, and a dim tent with more zombie like guards in it, looked more ludicrous than scary. Julius Caesar's nephew, the first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, would be horrified at the sight of such a downmarket namesake!
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What was it with that Ruritanian style uniform? He would have been definitely more sinister in his regulation grey jacket. Rao is also a remarkably wooden faced actor, which does not help matters. He cannot convey menace even when the recipients, the Veshes, are more than ready to genuflect before him in rank fear.
He can compete with maya in blandness quotient.
Pointless bravado: His boasting about how he will become the second Bhagwan, the one on earth - who would have found out the formula for creating amrit by analyzing a sample (this is itself a very tall claim, but let that pass!), would manufacture it wholesale in a factory, and then sell immortality at extortionate prices - would be comical if it were not so illogical.
Did he really?🤣. Just imagine Rao's 'immortality for sale'. In different sized bottles.😆. And why would the client pay. Well, he would initially and then come back to grab it. He cannot be harmed anyway as he is immortal. 😆
Now, Rao, out of the blue and quite
casually, informs his ADC Greyerson: Bharatiya
shastron ke anusaar, dharti ko ek jeevit vastu maana gaya hai. Isiliye yahan ki
sanskriti mein ise maa kaha jaata hai. Ab jis prakaar maa apne bachche ke liye
doodh paida karti hai, waise hi yeh dharti samay samay par amrit paida karti
hai. Us amrit ka durupayog na ho isliye us amrit ko nadi mein undelne ka kaam
kuch logon ko saunp diya jaata hai.
America
mein Mississippi aur Colorado, Africa mein Nile, aur India mein Ganga, in
nadiyon mein amrit undela jaata hai. Isiliye in nadiyon ka duniya bhar mein
bada mahatva hai. Par yeh bahut gut rakha gaya hai, taaki is prakriya mein koyi
baadha na pahunche.
Now what is the viewer to make of this sudden revelation? The Nile is
of course the River of Life for Egypt, but I never knew
that the Mississippi and the Colorado were sacred rivers as well! I have visited the valley of the Colorado twice, and the Grand
Canyon as well. Pity I did not know that the river water was laced with amrit, nahin to ek lota Colorado ka jal to
saath mein lati aur pooja ghar mein Gangajal ke saath rakh deti!😉
🤣. Jai Mississippi maatha. Jo koi thumko dhyaatha, Colorado hey maatha, moksh mil jaatha, Jai Mississippi maatha .
And what is it about those tasked with
the undelna of the amrit , that Mother Earth apparently
disgorges spontaneously and sporadically, into these designated rivers? When
and where? And who are those designated for this ultra secret task?
It
is all more that bizarre. If Rao knows
of the when and where, why does he not
go there and collect an amrit sample at the very source, from the earth? Why indulge
in all this complicarted and long rigmarole?
Jokes
apart, the whole thing is nuts. It demolishes, at one stroke, the whole basis of our tale thus far: that the amrit can be seen, and if possible got, only from
the Saraswati at the pre-destined time and place, at the special Mahakumbh once
every 144 years. If one can get amrit from the Nile and the Mississippi and the
Colorado, then why wait for 144 years and then congregate only at the Mahakumbh
in Prayag?
It sounded as if the writer had been high
on something quite potent!😉😉
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- The great vish hunt: As I had expected, this was pure abracadabra, straight out something like Hatim Tai. There was the bubbling, boiling brew of vish, and the Guru Maharaj sticking out his forked tongue and waving it about repeatedly in front of a totally unmoved Rudra. Perhaps he did it to reassure himself that it was indeed there in his mouth, for there was no other valid reason that I could think of.😉
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Instead, questions, all logical, surfaced.
Why does Rudra not take Leela with him to the vish kendra? She should know best how to tackle it. If he does want to go alone, why does he not
take one of the DM's jeeps with him, so
that he can make it back fast, and without having to provide such prolonged delectation
for the Naga Pramukh?
Logic not allowed.
-A naagmani,
a naagmani!:
Why, that
she had no other choice but to betray Rudra and lead him to his death,
because Dansh ke paas wo mani hai jiske
kaaran hum sab ko uske ishaaron par chalna padega.. In short, the naagmani beloved of writers and directors of fantasies involving ichchadaari nagas and
nagins, often with the sultry
Sridevi heading the cast. 😉
And Amrish puri as sapera.🤣. Who knows , we may have a naag dance by Mona Darling.😆
Still ruled by his
heart:
But then he lapsed into folly, going alone and on foot to find the vish kendra and tackle the naga guardian of the kendra, the Guru Maharaj. Why
does he not take Leela with him, which would have been the only logical thing to
do? Not only does he go alone, but he does not even think of going by jeep up
to the point nearest the location, so as to be able to rush back with the vish, nor of providing himself with some safe
container for the vish. How did he
think he was going to transport it back to his tent?In his mouth?
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Shyamala B.Cowsik
