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Shruthi dear,
WHAT is the message that Mahakumbh is aiming to convey? It is by now so confused, like a puppy chasing its own tail, that neither the writers nor the viewers know whether they are coming or going. If you were to ask them, I am sure the writers would not have the foggiest idea what it is supposed to be, bar the ultimate triumph of dharma, however defined!😉
I had listed all the loose ends in my first two posts here, and that list is a massive one, and the loose ends are all major ones. Let me recap it, with supplementary comments.
- Maya being kidnapped by Rao, one does not know what for. Rudra is with him as of now, so why this potential lever for blackmail? Once Rudra knows what Rao is up to, no lever will work on him. It is like that old saying, Pooth sapooth to kyon dhan sanchay, pooth kapooth to kyon dhan sanchay?
- Rao's Mississippi, Colorado, Nile et al, which is really the worst bloomer so far, for it knocks the stuffing out of the core concept of Mahakumbh, that once in 144 years, the amrit surfaces at the Mahakumbh at Prayag, when the vilupt Saraswati becomes prakat, and nowhere else. I do not know whose bright idea that was. Not Utkarsh's, I hope!😡
- the still powerless garuds, who are now apparently about to be transformed into a bunch of scaredy cats all set on abandoning their mission, thus abandoning the amrit to the nagas, because Shivanand is afraid of dying. If Dansh could hear him, he would be chortling in glee, and I want to see what Rudra does when the truth about his precious Baba dawns on him.
- the enemy within the gates, ie Shivanand, going one better than even Dansh in sabotaging the mission of the garuds. This is the cruellest cut of them all, for I adored Shivanand, and see what he has become now!😭 All for lack of a few more hard blows from MB's staff!😉
- the 'Veshes, now clinging to the hope that one more sadhu baba will help them control the nagas. He seems to have turned up; the writers are still introducing new characters, aur jo hain, wo jaye bhaad mein!😉 Wonder what this one is going to do, with Dansh and for the 'Veshes.
-Leela, jisne khatiya pakad li, all for donating 3 drops of blood! Then there is the question of whether Dansh discovers what she has done to save Rudra and gets after her, though I doubt if he and the writers have time for such odds and ends!😉.😉
- Drish's tunnel, which he seems to be neglecting in order to hang around Dansh and MB. If I know anything of workmen anywhere, the tunnel is likely to end up in Sector 34 instead of Sectore 53! 😉Why, when they were digging the Chunnel under the English Channel, the tunnels from the two sides ended up, at the mid point, with one 3 metres higher than the other!😉
- MB's sauda with Dansh, the most vital of all, about which she has not yet informed Rudra, and which she appears to have put on hold for the present to babysit the Garuda Pramukh. Poor, silly Dansh, imagining that his guards can prevent her from leaving! But then he has not yet seen her apparate, only levitate.😉
-the teesri kitaab, which by now begins to remind me of Alfred Hitchcock's the McGuffin, something touted as tremendously important that everyone is after, but which is really mithya, like the nuclear secrets in Notorious or the Maltese falcon in the film of the same name.
If MB is bluffing about this Third Book, why and for how long? If she is not, and there IS such a book, will she really give it, or explain its contents, to the nagas? The garuds of course are nowhere near thinking of any such Third Book, being as yet not even up to deciphering the Two Books.
- the literal transposition of the samudramanthan right down to the halahal. This part is more Mahadev than Mahakumbh, and it seems, from MB's apocalyptic pronouncements, that she expects the halahal to descend any instant. Presumably she will then play a portly Parvati to Rudra's Neelakant 😉, there being no other candidate available!
This last would seem to indicate, Shruthi, that with the samudramanthan parallel being taken so literally, the amrit is not going to be esoteric right knowledge, but real amrit in a kalash.
-Rao must be having his test tubes and retorts and spectrometers all ready to analyse it and then duplicate it. But how will he convince his potential clients that it is the real thing? Only by drinking it himself, and then having a second appointment with them after 50 years or so, by which time most of them will be dead anyway!😉
Given all this, my dear, I am not prepared to condone all the cumulative follies of Utkarsh and Arvind Babbal just because Mahakumbh is, even now better than the usual soaps. They talked of giving us a special, sophisticated show, and they have to measured against those standards. This done, they have failed badly, and I cannot make excuses for them. If you claim to be much better than the rest, and end up like this, you have only yourself to blame.
Lastly, where is the TRP-driving angle at all? Mahakumbh has always had poor TRPs, and it is a finite show, so how can they tweak it to make it crowd-pleasing? And why should they even try that? It would be like a Bharatanatyam dancer suddenly attempting a striptease to attract wolf whistles!😉
As fro your @blue, I agree completely, and I too have highlighted both these segments in my own posts here, my take on the latter being identical with yours.
Well, this is as much as I can manage at one go, so bye till tomorrow!
Shyamala Di
WHAT is the message that Mahakumbh is aiming to convey? It is by now so confused, like a puppy chasing its own tail, that neither the writers nor the viewers know whether they are coming or going. If you were to ask them, I am sure the writers would not have the foggiest idea what it is supposed to be, bar the ultimate triumph of dharma, however defined!😉
I had listed all the loose ends in my first two posts here, and that list is a massive one, and the loose ends are all major ones. Let me recap it, with supplementary comments.
- Maya being kidnapped by Rao, one does not know what for. Rudra is with him as of now, so why this potential lever for blackmail? Once Rudra knows what Rao is up to, no lever will work on him. It is like that old saying, Pooth sapooth to kyon dhan sanchay, pooth kapooth to kyon dhan sanchay?
- Rao's Mississippi, Colorado, Nile et al, which is really the worst bloomer so far, for it knocks the stuffing out of the core concept of Mahakumbh, that once in 144 years, the amrit surfaces at the Mahakumbh at Prayag, when the vilupt Saraswati becomes prakat, and nowhere else. I do not know whose bright idea that was. Not Utkarsh's, I hope!😡
- the still powerless garuds, who are now apparently about to be transformed into a bunch of scaredy cats all set on abandoning their mission, thus abandoning the amrit to the nagas, because Shivanand is afraid of dying. If Dansh could hear him, he would be chortling in glee, and I want to see what Rudra does when the truth about his precious Baba dawns on him.
- the enemy within the gates, ie Shivanand, going one better than even Dansh in sabotaging the mission of the garuds. This is the cruellest cut of them all, for I adored Shivanand, and see what he has become now!😭 All for lack of a few more hard blows from MB's staff!😉
- the 'Veshes, now clinging to the hope that one more sadhu baba will help them control the nagas. He seems to have turned up; the writers are still introducing new characters, aur jo hain, wo jaye bhaad mein!😉 Wonder what this one is going to do, with Dansh and for the 'Veshes.
-Leela, jisne khatiya pakad li, all for donating 3 drops of blood! Then there is the question of whether Dansh discovers what she has done to save Rudra and gets after her, though I doubt if he and the writers have time for such odds and ends!😉.😉
- Drish's tunnel, which he seems to be neglecting in order to hang around Dansh and MB. If I know anything of workmen anywhere, the tunnel is likely to end up in Sector 34 instead of Sectore 53! 😉Why, when they were digging the Chunnel under the English Channel, the tunnels from the two sides ended up, at the mid point, with one 3 metres higher than the other!😉
- MB's sauda with Dansh, the most vital of all, about which she has not yet informed Rudra, and which she appears to have put on hold for the present to babysit the Garuda Pramukh. Poor, silly Dansh, imagining that his guards can prevent her from leaving! But then he has not yet seen her apparate, only levitate.😉
-the teesri kitaab, which by now begins to remind me of Alfred Hitchcock's the McGuffin, something touted as tremendously important that everyone is after, but which is really mithya, like the nuclear secrets in Notorious or the Maltese falcon in the film of the same name.
If MB is bluffing about this Third Book, why and for how long? If she is not, and there IS such a book, will she really give it, or explain its contents, to the nagas? The garuds of course are nowhere near thinking of any such Third Book, being as yet not even up to deciphering the Two Books.
- the literal transposition of the samudramanthan right down to the halahal. This part is more Mahadev than Mahakumbh, and it seems, from MB's apocalyptic pronouncements, that she expects the halahal to descend any instant. Presumably she will then play a portly Parvati to Rudra's Neelakant 😉, there being no other candidate available!
This last would seem to indicate, Shruthi, that with the samudramanthan parallel being taken so literally, the amrit is not going to be esoteric right knowledge, but real amrit in a kalash.
-Rao must be having his test tubes and retorts and spectrometers all ready to analyse it and then duplicate it. But how will he convince his potential clients that it is the real thing? Only by drinking it himself, and then having a second appointment with them after 50 years or so, by which time most of them will be dead anyway!😉
Given all this, my dear, I am not prepared to condone all the cumulative follies of Utkarsh and Arvind Babbal just because Mahakumbh is, even now better than the usual soaps. They talked of giving us a special, sophisticated show, and they have to measured against those standards. This done, they have failed badly, and I cannot make excuses for them. If you claim to be much better than the rest, and end up like this, you have only yourself to blame.
Lastly, where is the TRP-driving angle at all? Mahakumbh has always had poor TRPs, and it is a finite show, so how can they tweak it to make it crowd-pleasing? And why should they even try that? It would be like a Bharatanatyam dancer suddenly attempting a striptease to attract wolf whistles!😉
As fro your @blue, I agree completely, and I too have highlighted both these segments in my own posts here, my take on the latter being identical with yours.
Well, this is as much as I can manage at one go, so bye till tomorrow!
Shyamala Di
Originally posted by: shruthiravi@Arshics yesterday was a much better episode. Though as Shymaladi said there are many loop holes I have decided to overlook and look at the positives. Reason maybe it is not great but in the world of TRP rating, forced to give message as well as rating the CVs should be under immense pressure. And if we as viewer's can criticize, but if we don't give appreciation for some of the things being done, we may not even get such things in future. Maybe it is not to compromise the message they makers have decided to shut it down than taking extension. We never know. I am telling this because I have seen many shows getting extended and once extended their message goes for a toss. All regressive things come in. Veera in SP is a classic case. So was SC which was diluted to a candyfloss love story. EHT shut down prematurely but they didn't compromise on the message. So for the time being I will just list down the positives I observed yesterday
- Convo between MB and Dansh. MB highlighting the power of time. Once again the message Samay sabse balwan hai. Forcing Dansh to fight than wait for her to spoon feed him on third book- Convo between Rudra- MB. Loved the way she showed Garud Pramukh his place, telling him she went away because he asked her to go. Also loved the dialogue that Maimui cannot betray Rudra nor Bairavi can betray Garuda Pramukh. That means if he wants her , he will absolutely have to trust her actions which is always done for the benefit of the success of their duty. It also symbolically showed with each mistake he makes, to undo it, she will have to take harsher steps.- Shiva and Kat. Fear bug has been induced in all. And precap shows Charles and Tiwari too victimsLast but not least MB asking Rudra the time is asking for his sacrifice. So what is the sacrifice he has to do. What all he has to lose again. I feel there is more he needs to lose. And hopefully we will get to see that in next episodes.And agree to you Arshics they should have started such things atleast in April. Maya bhajan should have been cut down and the script should have moved forward.
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