Preparations for bringing Ram Katha once on the big screen have intensified. Director Nitesh Tiwari is making Ramayanam with Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, South’s Diva Sai Pallavi and actor Yash. The shooting of the film is going on and its teaser has also been released recently. The film’s starcast has surfaced in the film. In this, Ranbir Kapoor is going to play the role of Shri Ram, Sai Pallavi Sita, Yash-Ravana, Sunny Dyol-Hanuman, Ravi Dubey-Laxman and Arun Govil- Maharaj Dasharatha. The big star of the film goes to the eye and goes to Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi.
Vivek Oberoi gets an important character
Vivek Oberoi is going to play a small but important role in the film. He has got the role of Vidyujihva (or Vidyutjiva) in this grand project of Nitesh Tiwari. The question arises that who was Vidyujhwa and how this character becomes so special in Ramayana? The actual electrogen is very small in Ramkatha, but this character is known for his powerful role. However, the mention of Vidyujihva is not directly revealed in the main story of Ramayana. This character comes out when it is said that there was a reason behind every incident in Ramayana. In this sequence, the reason behind the exploits of Shurpanakha is said to be Vidyujhva.
Shurpanakha’s husband was electric
On the basis of mythology, it is revealed that Ravana’s sister Shurpanakha was married to the demon Vidyujhva of Kalkeya dynasty. The lineage of Kalkeya ruled on Patalaloka. Once Ravana left for the Vishwavijaya, he conquered all the states of the south. After the authority over the earth and heaven, Ravana moved towards Hades. Here he was confronted with Vidyujhva, because Vidyujihwa did not support Ravana’s victory campaign and chose war instead of treaty. In this fierce battle, Vidyujihva was killed and Shurpanakha became a widow.
When Shurpanakha came to know about this, he was very angry at his brother Ravana. After this incident, Shurpanakha started to consider her brother Ravana as the cause of his misfortune. It is said that he cursed Ravana that I will erase you in the pride in which you have erased my honeymoon. Some legends are also like this, Ravana married his sister with the demon Vidyujihva of Kalakeya dynasty and made a treaty under the friendship marriage and made a friend.
He did not even want to attack Hades, but then he came to know that the electronical is planning to attack Ravana along with other demons and demons. After this conspiracy came to light, Ravana attacked Hades and there was a direct duality between the two. In this battle, Ravana killed the electromed from the Chandrahas Khadg from Shiva.
Shurpanakha was taking revenge for her husband’s murder
In this way, Shurpanakha instigated Ravana for Sita Haran, the reason was to become his widow. Angry with this, Shurpanakha deliberately goes to Ram-Lakshmana in Panchavati and makes unethical demand from him. It is here that Lakshmana is a episode of cutting his nose. Shurpanakha takes a cut nose and first approaches her cousin brothers Khar-Dushan, after killing both of them, Lanka goes to Lanka for Sita to Haran. In this way, the script of Ram-Ravana war is written by Shurpanakha for the destruction of Ravana.
This episode is also staged by some Ramlila committees. However, the staging of the episode of Vidyujihva has not been very famous, because one is the story of the highest paradigm of the Ramayana, the ideal situation, where every relationship is a hero who follows a dignity. In the context of Vidyujihva, many times the blood of relationships flows. The first is to destroy the honeymoon of his sister through a brother, the second is a deadly conspiracy to destroy not only the brother but also the whole dynasty. These episodes may weaken the entire structure of the ideal of Ramkatha.
What is the story of Vidyujihva
Film actor Ashutosh Rana is a part of a famous drama ‘Our Ram’ and plays the role of Ravana. The play ‘Our Ram’ also puts the episode of Shurpanakha through the stage. Where it is told that Ravana has killed Vidyujihva and awakens the angry Shurpanakha Devi Nikumbhala. The goddess comes and asks her to remain calm and then she says that now the end of Ravana’s ego is near. Soon, two Kumar of Ayodhya will end Ravana and you will become an instrument (means). In this way, it is clear in the drama that the script of Ram-Ravana’s war was actually written by the desire of Shurpanakha.
If the question arises whether Shurpanakha did this only to avenge the murder of her husband, then the answer is found in many compositions other than Ramayana. Ashutosh Rana also explains this episode in the book ‘Ram Rajya’, awarded by the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. He writes that Ravana’s sister’s real name was Suparna, but there is a different story of how she became Shurpanakha.
It is recorded in the book that ‘Vidyas Raja Kalka’s son Vidyujih was involved in Ravana’s worldly campaign. He was the head commander in Ravana’s army and won many wars with his valor, but he had something else in his mind. Electricity mentions it to Suparna (Shurpanakha) through a letter, in which he tells about his desire to become Lankaadhipati. Knowing this, Suparna (Shurpanakha) also takes birth in the mind of Lanka.
Why did Ravana kill Vidyujhva
Somehow Ravana comes to know about this and one day he kills the electronical in front of his sister. From this day, Suparna becomes Shurpanakha. Ravana sends him to his dominated Dandakavan and the army of 14 thousand demons, including weeds, is given to help him.
Valmiki Ramayana mentioned Vidyuhva
There is a mention of Vidyujhva in Canto 12 in the Uttarakand of Valmiki Ramayana. Where she has been described as Shurpanakha’s husband. Maharishi Valmiki mentions the electroconist in this canto by telling about the family of Ravana through Rishi Agatya.
Rakshasandrobhishaktastu Bharatribhi includingstada.
Rakshasya Bhaginya: Samchantayat
(Agastyaji says – Shri Ram!) When his consecration, the demon Raja started living in Lakapuri with the brothers, then his
Sister was worried about the marriage of demonic Shurpanakha. 19
Swasran Kalakeya Danvendraya Rakshasim.
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That demon gave his sister Shurpanakha to Danvaraj Vidyuhva, who was the son of Kalka.
After this, it is told in the further story that Vidyujihva is killed by Ravana due to his ambition. Shurpanakha on this act of Ravana did not say anything, but he had decided that this bride of Kalkeya dynasty would definitely be the time of Ravana.
Raksham himself: Vidyavajihva mentioned in the novel
By making Rakshandra Ravana a center, Acharya Chatursen wrote a famous novel called Rakshaham: Rakshaham. This novel raises Ravana like a hero and suggests that the Raksha caste created by Brahma also had its own rules and moral values. Ravana enriched those moral values. During this time, very ambitious Kalkeya Vanshi came in contact with Vidyujihva Shurpanakha. In this novel, Vidyujihva is described as a total and a mother -in -law. He kills Ravana’s great commander Suketu, who was the father of Vidyujhva. Then he also kills his mother. Ravana breaks his relationship with these reasons, but Shurpanakha supports her husband. In the story of the novel, there is a war between Ravana and Vidyuhva and the electrogen is killed.
Overall, the thing is that even though the character of Vidyujhva is small in the Ramakatha of Ramayana, he is brave, ambitious and a maharathi challenging Ravana. If he was not there, Ramkatha would have felt a little difficulty in creating his narrator. Vivek Oberoi is going to play an important role as Shurpanakha’s husband, but how much depth the film maker has given to his character, it will be revealed only after release.
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