Scripting a tale of the forgotten
Sun, Jul 25 2021 08:51:43 AM
By Sukant Deepak
New Delhi, Jul 25 (IANS): One day, her house help was watching a Hindi film on television, showing Sita refusing to give the agni pariksha and pointing that she too could have stayed in the palace like Urmila and not followed Ram into exile.
That got script writer and author Smriti Dewan, whose debut book Urmila: The Forgotten Princess (Bloomsbury) recently hit the stands, thinking.
A picture started forming in her head - a woman, who has the two most significant people in her life, her sister and her husband, choose Ram over her. It started turning into an interesting love rhombus with Ram, Sita, Lakshman and Urmila, where Urmila and Ram are forever on opposite ends.