(Interestingly, the option of neither of them ascending Pandu’s pyre does not strike them. I am not as conversant as you in scripture and due practice, Sister, but these two reasons suggest to me that it is I who should ascend Pandu’s funeral pyre. It is my duty as wife, therefore, to follow him where he goes so that I might have an opportunity to satisfy him. ‘Then, too, consider that our king approached me with a wish to satiate his desires, and has left for the other world unfulfilled. ‘Under me, these sons of Pandu of different fathers will divide, quarrel and fight but with you, I am certain that they shall remain united until their deaths. You possess a nobility of heart, Sister, that I do not. ‘But if I were to leave them in yours, I have no doubt that you will care for my sons as deeply as you care for your own. If you were to leave them all in my care, I shall not be able to love your sons as mine.
She says, ‘Sister, think of the children. So Madri, do not stop me from giving up my life on our king’s funeral pyre.’īut Madri is adamant to be the wife who accompanies Pandu to heaven. ‘I am to be his companion through all journeys, and this one is no exception. Then arises the point of who among them should give up her life to follow Pandu into the world of the dead. ‘I tried to resist him, Sister, I truly did,’ says Madri tearfully. ‘Why did you allow him to approach you with desire?’ ‘You who should have protected the king has taken his life, Madri,’ she says. Her first reaction is to turn on Madri, because she assumes that the younger queen had seduced the king for want of more sons. Pandu falls to his death, his body chilled by an invisible thunderbolt. Here’s what we will cover in this episode:Ī few years after the birth of the Pandavas, one day in the season of spring, Pandu approaches Madri consumed by desire, and though she tries to ward him off, he bends her to her will, and just as they are about to be united, the curse of Kindama comes true.
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To access the full repository of Mahabharata episodes, see: 60 Mahabharata Episodes that Tell You the Whole Story.) (For the previous post in this series, see Episode 5: Pandavas and Kauravas. This will provide a quick and easy way for someone new to the story to become acquainted with it.
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It is rib-tickling, with the former portraying a funny character, like what he usually does in films.Ĭut to the present, and it shows how his grown-up son uses the world wide web, to sell a motorbike on OLX, sitting in the comfort of his home.In this series of posts, I am reconstructing the Mahabharata as a sequence of episodes. The video starts off with a conversation between Pandu and a newspaper agent, on how the latter struggles to keep his business afloat. It is said to be both entertaining as well as informative. An idea of TrendLoud’s popular YouTube channel Madras Meter, the video features Pandu, Shylaja and Manas among others. The web series is a hilarious ‘compare-and-contrast take’ on how difficult it was to sell household items in the pre-Internet era, as opposed to how easy it has become now. The reason being that the actor was the one who designed the famous ‘Two Leaves’ symbol of the AIADMK party! The actor has also ventured into social media for the first time, acting in a YouTube comedy series Selling - Then vs Now, which is trending on the Internet.
With the impending elections, veteran comedian Pandu, who has acted in more than 550 films in Tamil, has hit the limelight all of a sudden.
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