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Description | Bharat Ek Khoj—The Discovery of India A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster Episode 19: Kalidasa, Part II With Ravi Jhankal as Kalidas, Pallavi Joshi as Mallika, Virendra Saxena as Matul, Lalit Tiwari as Vilom, Devendra Malhotra as Kanva, Mala Kumar as Anusuya, Prabha Mathur as Priyamvada, Shekhar Thakur as Durvasa, and Meenakshi Thakur as Gautami. Nehru cites the French critic Sylvan Levi in The Indian Theatre: Theatre is an excellent expression of civilisation even in its infancy. With its translation and interpretation of real life it can be confined to a single striking form free from insignificant accessories and generalisation within symbols. Abhijnanam Shakuntalam opens with Shakuntala wrapped in thoughts of King Dushyanta and is oblivious to the arrival of the irascible sage Durvasa. The latter takes immediate offence, cursing Shakuntala to forget the one whose sweet memory has made her unmindful of his presence. Her companions Anasuya and Priyamvada panic and, at their entreaty, Durvasa softens his curse to make it inapplicable on production of an insignia. The time arrives now for the hermit-girl to leave for her husband’s abode, but the entourage is given a distinctly cold welcome by the king. Having forgotten all about his marriage and even pregnancy of Shakuntala, the king expresses righteous bewilderment at the very suggestion of a runaway marriage and the hermits are equally indignant at the King refusing to accept a lawfully wedded wife. The meeting breaks amidst much acrimony and Shakuntala is reported to be whisked away from her ignominy by heavenly fairies. The scenario changes from Kalidasa’s play to Kalidasa as in Ashad Ka Ek Din. Mallika is chastised by an uncle for having declined royal bounty, when who appears but Kalidasa himself! Virtually glossing over his long absence and hoping to find things as they were when he had left, Kalidasa regrets his years in Ujjain as ‘Matrigupta’ unable to adjust to royalty and never forgetting Mallika in all his creative outpourings. He offers to begin life with Mallika once again, but the ‘present’ intervenes, she is married now and has a child. Kalidasa walks out, never to return again. Nehru alludes to Sylvan Levy again: The Indian originality lay in the expression of a holistic approach in its dramatic art; it combined and condensed the dogma, the belief systems and the institutions… And here was Ryder assessing poetical fluency as well as intellectual grasp of Kalidasa: The combination of the two has not been found more than a dozen times since the world began. Because he possessed this harmonious combination, Kalidasa ranks with Sophocles, Virgil and Milton. |
Related Links | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6hYG_mIfU&list=PLqtVCj5iilH4w0Y8KBB4fqBu25T0sGhXG |
File Format | MP4 / MPG4 |
Language | Hindi |
Part of Series | Bharat Ek Khoj |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | AIR Archives Film & Animation Prasar Bharati Archives |
Content Type | Video |
Resource Type | Broadcast |
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