![]() The creative have spent a lot of time, a tad more than needed in an attempt to establish the bravery and smarts of young Chandragupta, who keeps putting his life on the line to save his friends. India as we know it today was politically created only in 1947.Ĭhandragupta (Kartikeya Malviya) is shown as leader of a band of young thieves. ![]() There is just one fly in the ointment, for we are interpreting history about what happened in 300 BC from a contemporary lens. So obviously the writers have to really go on imagination as to what must have happened back then to carve a coherent tale. And given today’s renewed interest in Chankaya as someone who first had the vision of united India, it makes sense on part of Sony and Producer to take the story forward hoping to rake in the much-needed eye balls.Īlso since ancient Indians were not very good recorders of history, there are not many authentic sources to fall back on. Guess the makers wanted to carry forward the patriotic interest generated by Porus and time frame wise both did happen around the same time 300 BC. There is no Indian reference to the existence of Porus who is only written about by the Greek historians. Interestingly, the makers (Siddharth Kumar Tewary’s Swastik Productions) have really added lot of fiction to history, for there is no record to the link of Porus, Chanakya and Magadh. Nand does the same mistake rulers after him kept joining hands with the invaders, striking an alliance with the Greek general Seleucus (Vikas Verma). But he is humiliated and jailed and vows to end Dhananand’s reign. ![]() Sourabh is playing the part to T you really want to slap him.Ĭhanakya (Tarun Khanna), who had unsuccessfully guided Porus’ one India dream, returns to Magadh a second time hoping to convince Dhananand of the dangers to Mother India coming from the invading Greeks. ![]() The story quickly moves to Magadh where the evil Nand dynasty emperor Dhananand (Sourabh Raaj Jain) oppresses his poor subjects in order to prevent them from rebelling. This same one-liner is the bedrock of the new Sony TV show, Chandragupta Maurya which seamlessly follows the ending of the earlier 8pm Sony show Porus (Laksh Lalwani) who had the audacity and gumption to stand up to none other than Alexendar the Great. If there is one historical weakness which has plagued India since aeon, it has been our reluctance to become united in the face of foreign invaders costing us our precious independence for centuries. ![]()
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