REBLAST 1 Episode 1 - 5 - Page 41

Yes Indi, Vaidehi is Sita. That's why the wait to see if the Sita like repeat would play for Khushi happened until the fag end of Remarriage day, where she will be left while carrying his child. There were many fans very disappointed that asr actually came back to the mandap venue and this what would have been an intense track never played out.

Creatives had a different mould initially reg. how dark asr could be and reflections of that for Khushi.

Not aware of the spring story but only aware of the reason why Dassera is celebrated.. Vijaya Dashami.. to celebrate the day of victory. akal bodhan is very believable. Ravan prayed and Rama won is an interesting read... But the former is a stanch Shiva bhaktha and a great musician.. how music is an integral part of prayer.. his is a story of how one weakness can bring one down inspite of being a great devotee..

I like what you say about the first divorce.. thats what it was she going back to her mayika. Interesting that they are the epitome of ideal couple... the couple who never really had any happy wedded days! . Yes Rama should have taken the test of fire along with her to make it any justifiable. But she wouldn't accept that second time around after her return from abandonment and went back to her mother earth. It is said that preserves what ever "divinity" in the earth for the next eons/ generations during kali. The woman, once a damsel in distress waiting for her prince charming to save her, strong enough to raise her kids with all the virtues all by herself in a forest. Her story indeed modern for any age screaming patriarchal bigotry and strength of morals.

As a side note, there was a writer Ranga nayaki in telugu who wrote Ramayana visha vriksham..( Ramayana, the poisonous tree) in the 70s. Couldn't go past 2/3 pages when I tried to read it. the first ever bashing I came across before IF, of all of the ideal man Rama.. that was a case of feminism gone extreme.. ofcourse there was another writer who promptly wrote Visha vrishkha Khandana (Poisonous tree- condemned). There were many debates about these two growing up.

Originally posted by: indi52

indu,

i was almost in my thirties i think when it started to occur to me that the ram i accepted as a hero character without really thinking about it much was really not just in many ways... of course, this is a vast story with many additions alterations variations and interpretations, yet, when you hear a story again and again, some part of it reaches you and becomes your touch point with the tale, your version of it. in mine, ram needs to really look at what he has done. sita is indeed a modern woman. timeless her story. she was no trophy wife, she was the giver of love, of birth, and she reared her boys..

ravan is worth knowing and yes that flaw of his that took him down.

i was thinking of shylock. it is said he is the villain of merchant of venice, but i always felt when i read it in college that teh writer had great sympathy for this character and actually presented his most compelling creation as the villain but he was the central figure.

did valmiki alos do something similar? he set out to write the tale of the ideal hero like man, an exemplary character, but along the way did sita's character begin to attract him? did he start sensing her more strongly? is that why he wrote her like that? if even a child can feel the power of this character, maybe she became the hero without anyone quite realising it.

honestly, ram never evoked any great emotion in me. and in mahabharat, neither did the panch pandav nor the wicked cousins... karna, yes.

i am rambling.