I will not forget going to see Rajneeti in Satyam Cinemas in a hurry. Got the tickets delivered on time. Shiv and I had started out by 6pm, giving a buttress of 30 min for the traffic.The stretch of less than 3km took us over an hour what with the CM blessing Satyam with his entourage to enjoy the film vamsam.Understanding the difficulty of the aam aadmi,the flick started late. I hurried inside not without buying popcorn,puffs and water as is tradition with me.Ignoring " saapida vandirukkiya illai cinema parkava" from Shiv (dear, why should the two be exclusive for God's sake ran in my mind)but not forgetting to smile( I had made up my mind to enjoy the film)I settled down and started syncing from Naseeruddin shaw feeling guilty and leaving Bharti with a note..
Then came Bhanu with a fiery speech in front of the multitude and collapsing and the story never looked back.
Thanks to the CM and the delay, all the songs were cut and thus the script was rendered tight and enjoyable.
Nowhere could I say Ranbir said this/Nana did this/Katrina did not do this etc. It was the director and the story ( drawn liberally from the Mahabharath)all the time.Oh yes, Ajay Devgun looked as if he just got out of bed in all the scenes!
O director saab, why did you have to make Samar summarize the whole story in the end to Kat? Man that was deflating.
Did you think we could have come into the theatre only in the last five min of the movie? Sir, the bureaucracy is not that bad yet!!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
DM-1.4
Rishi Medhas reflects,the mahamaya incarnates in many ways. Listen here to some of her manifestations.
Once when there was this great deluge, when the universe was but an ocean and the Lord vishnu in mystic slumber on adisesa, two demons madhu and kaitaba spring up from the ear wax of the sleeping lord and seek to slay brahma (the father of beings) seated at the naval of the lord vishnu.
Brahma, with a view to awaken the lord extols mahamaya:
creater,sustainer and consumer of the universe;
cause of the embodied vishnu, siva and brahma himself;
goddess of all good fortune, intelligence,contentment and forbearance;
you are at once the most terrible armed with sword, spear,club,discus, conch, bow,arrows, slings and mace AND the exceedingly beautiful.
Devi of delusion thus extolled draws herself out of vishnu's eyes, nose,mouth,arms and heart and appears before brahma.
Vishnu thus rid of inertia, rises from his couch to fight Madhu and Kaitabha with his own arms. The battle goes on five thousand years. Madhu and Kaitabha thus frenzied by their own power lose focus and are defeated and slain.
"I will tell you the glory of the devi again" says Medhas to Suratha.
Once when there was this great deluge, when the universe was but an ocean and the Lord vishnu in mystic slumber on adisesa, two demons madhu and kaitaba spring up from the ear wax of the sleeping lord and seek to slay brahma (the father of beings) seated at the naval of the lord vishnu.
Brahma, with a view to awaken the lord extols mahamaya:
creater,sustainer and consumer of the universe;
cause of the embodied vishnu, siva and brahma himself;
goddess of all good fortune, intelligence,contentment and forbearance;
you are at once the most terrible armed with sword, spear,club,discus, conch, bow,arrows, slings and mace AND the exceedingly beautiful.
Devi of delusion thus extolled draws herself out of vishnu's eyes, nose,mouth,arms and heart and appears before brahma.
Vishnu thus rid of inertia, rises from his couch to fight Madhu and Kaitabha with his own arms. The battle goes on five thousand years. Madhu and Kaitabha thus frenzied by their own power lose focus and are defeated and slain.
"I will tell you the glory of the devi again" says Medhas to Suratha.
Here ends the first chapter of the devi mahatmiyam
DM-1.3
Continuing the rishi orders the king not to marvel at such uttering by anyone!
Mahamaya is the tamsic power of the lord of the universe, he adds. She throws the minds of even the wise into disturbance. She creates the seeming universe and commands boon, calamity and liberation. Verily she is the supreme knowledge and the cause.
Suratha with his head bowed in respect, requests Medhas to relate devi's origin, her nature and her sphere of action.
Obs:In most of our scriptures there is always an allude to the 'seeming universe'. Then there are our saints who entreat us to focus on the magician and not the magic. Does it mean they are able to see more than one universe here? Why is anyone not able to explain the delusion as it were?
Also the scriptures always talk about satvic, rajasic and tamasic as powers. Tamas or ignorance is treated as an angle and why not? There is always overlapping of knowledge and ignorance everywhere!
Mahamaya is the tamsic power of the lord of the universe, he adds. She throws the minds of even the wise into disturbance. She creates the seeming universe and commands boon, calamity and liberation. Verily she is the supreme knowledge and the cause.
Suratha with his head bowed in respect, requests Medhas to relate devi's origin, her nature and her sphere of action.
Obs:In most of our scriptures there is always an allude to the 'seeming universe'. Then there are our saints who entreat us to focus on the magician and not the magic. Does it mean they are able to see more than one universe here? Why is anyone not able to explain the delusion as it were?
Also the scriptures always talk about satvic, rajasic and tamasic as powers. Tamas or ignorance is treated as an angle and why not? There is always overlapping of knowledge and ignorance everywhere!
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