Coup On Indian Epics – 07 [Valmiki Maharshi Vs Publicity]

There is same case with other epic stories. In case of Sri Ramayanam ….. Regarding King Dasaratha, he ruled his country in righteous way and brought up his four children Sri Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha and Satrughna in righteous way. He made them to learn how to respect parents and elders, how to practice morals, how to face the difficulties, and to obedience towards teachers. Since childhood, Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha and Satrugna had shown nice behavior.

Among them Sri Rama was more attractive, obedient, knowledgeous and with sweet talkative. Naturally, people, other characters in the story had praised him. Poet Valmiki Maharishi described this in a poetic way.

By referring this, the authoress of Ramayana Visha Vruksham, Ranga Nayakamma and other persons like her put several critics. She said that with such praising of Sri Rama by other characters, Valmiki Maharishi had done mass hypnotism or brainwash to give hero image or great image to Sri Rama, and in fact Sri Rama was not that much good.

Actually, Valmiki Maharishi didn’t give publicity, advertisements to make hit his writing. He didn’t make marketing campaigns to popular his Ramayanam. More over Sri Rama also didn’t effort such. He didn’t praise himself. He didn’t purchased awards, rewards such as Padma Sri or lifetime achievement or legend etc.

He didn’t paid money to perform honor in Ravindra Bharathi or in Lalita Kala Thoranam in public Gardens. Both Valmiki Maharishi and Sri Rama didn’t follow strategy, which the God fathers in cinema field i.e. coup makers are following to popular Amita Batchan as big B and to popular Rajani Kanth as Tamil super star and Chiranjeevi as Telugu Mega Star.

Both Valmiki Maharishi and Sri Rama didn’t follow the policy of ‘you scratch my back and I scratch your back’ as the cinema people. I refer Satyajit Ray’s compliment towards the heroine Jaya Prada as the beautiful heroine of the then days and Asia Journal’s ranking of Bipasa basu as the sexiest woman of Asia. Why I refer these incidents is this type of publicity is with match fixing arrangements.

Both Valmiki Maharishi and Sri Rama didn’t use the media to declare that they had a light with them. Without the media approach, people could observe the light, so that people had accepted the good qualities of them. Actually present days are not comparable with the days of Ramayanam and the Ramayanam time is not comparable with present time. In spite of this, why I put such satire is as follows.