ПАДМА - ПАРВА — @дневники: асоциальная сеть

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Что обсуждают?

Двое меня! И не разделяйте!

Сегодня -очередной день, и я продолжаю следить за сериалом (или - за судьбой оного).
Что вчера обсуждали? Ну, это было, прямо скажем, событие.
Один наш товарищ (тот, который мне в помощники записался) лично знает Гурмита Чоудхари, постоянно ездит в Бароду, фанатеет, короче, написал паническое письмо под названием
"Не теряйте ваш интерес к Рамаяне!".
И все как ему ответят...
Он клятвенно пообещал все наши ответы Ананду Сагару доставить.
Образчик ответа от нашего циника Вришасены, к примеру:

читать дальшеI for one appreciate the work that everyone is doing, and afaik, not one person has ever questioned the commitment or the acting capabilities of any of the actors in the serial. Thanks for sharing the details of their work schedule.

However, since we aren't discussing here Jyoti or Bandini, the story we see does have a major impact on whether we continue to enjoy it or not. There are several other channels, and competing for attention are several other shows (not to mention the IPL). All of us are familiar with the original, and when we see serious distortions of what we know and hold sacred, people cannot blame us for not taking seriously the show. At the end of the day, what we see is the Ramayan - not Debina rehearsing, not Rishab & Perin practicing their lines, not Vikram Sharma practicing his stunts, the rishis simulating an yagna, et al. What we see is the end product that's shown, and how we judge it will be on the front end, not the back end. This sounds harsh, but that's how it always is in the real world: people always judge based on the end results, rather than the efforts and processes put into a task.

Everybody has noted that the acting is great, and the popularity of the fan clubs is testimonial to that. However, unless the acting is singularly bad, how one acts is secondary to whether the story in question is properly represented. As an example, in the previous Ramayan serial, some of the acting was atrocious, such as the Vanaras getting down instead of falling when hit with rakshas arrows. However, because that serial largely followed the sсript, it was very highly acclaimed.

No offense to you, Gurmeet or anybody, but it is highly disingenuous to call any of the sources other than Valmiki authentic, since Valmiki's was a contemporaneous work, whereas the others all came thousands of years later - many of them during the Gupta period, if I recall right, and the vernacular versions, like Tulsidas and Kamban, during the Moghul period. If those are authentic, then I could write a Ramayan out of whole cloth, and demand that it be called authentic. It is interesting to know these various versions, and sometimes incorporate things from them that doesn't contradict Valmiki, but not to the point where they drive the serial, as is clearly the case here. An example: in Valmiki, Kush & Luv were clearly mortals with no special martial or other abilities, except for very melodious singing voices, with which they made history. In the serial, they do everything short of showing them as superman. Creating myths about these 2 kids just because they were Rama & Sita's kids does no good, and in fact, plays into the hands of those who consider the Ramayan fictional and a fairy tale. Incidentally, what sort of an excuse is 'it is too precise?' Since when is precise a bad thing?

I watch the serial the same way I stop by next to a car wreck - it's fascinating to watch. But I'm not enjoying it the way I did previously. Previously, what they had was largely accurate, although they sometimes threw in very outlandish variations, like Bharat being wounded in battle, Lakshman killing Shambri, Kaikeyi ordering Sumantra to get Yudhajit to invade Lanka, et al. But those things then were few and far between. Now, in this 'Uttarkand', we are being treated overwhelmingly to fiction, and and the only thing they have got right in this stretch is Sita giving birth to Kush & Luv.

I didn't and wouldn't suggest to anyone that they stop watching the serial, and if Gurmeet, Debina, et al are benefiting from us watching it, the last thing I'd want would be for that to be interrupted. However, given what they are now showing, it's a little much to expect people who know better to take it seriously. I'd definitely not recommend it to anybody who's using it to enhance his/her knowledge!

@темы: Рамаяна

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