Bhima Line Warrior ~ M T Vasudevan Nair 8/25

 

 Read Randamoozham today morning. I have already read it a long time ago and it's totally worth the re-read. The writer tries to fill the gaps that he feels Vyasa left. He also removes every supernatural aspects of the tale in his re-imagination

Reading between the lines, especially about Dharmaputrar being Vidurar's son. He had written about it somewhere

After reading Randamoozham, I realized that Bhima possessed remarkable character depth, which is rarely depicted in any Mahabharata-related works ever written.

After reading many novels and short stories of MT, I read Bhiman in Randamoozham as a repetition of his typical protagonist. If we compare him with Chandu of Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, both are essentially same person placed in different eras. In Asuravithu or Kaalam also we find the same person appearing as protagonist, with same anguishes, solitude and inferiority complex. 

I don't remember who, but someone called his Bhiman as 'Bhiman Nair'.

Alternative readings... Strangely, I found V.S. Khandekar's Yayati to be above this. Narratives from the perspectives of three people, making us see each perspective and making them all human beings like us feet of clay.