Author: msanjay

ಮುಕ್ತ – ಟಿ ಎನ್ ಸೀತಾರಾಂ
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A clipping from the serial…

Explanation of the title song…

The closest I’ve come to actually following a serial is undoubtably Muktha by T.N Seetharam. His tranquility in the most adverse circumstances is something I find pretty inspiring; I’d even say he’s a kind of role model.

My name on this site is only incidental but this page really belongs to all the Muktha fans who are actively contributing as well as passively reading it. Who knows, maybe someone of us can get Mr. T.N. Seetharam to actually have a look at this some day 😉 if not get involved or comment on it – he seems to be a pretty busy man. There are also some excellent ideas like putting up audio/video of the serial on the net (depending on E TVs permission) or enabling Internet chat, etc, and maybe if anyone can post the lyrics of the title song.

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Also see…

Get-together of Muktha viewers…

Title Song Download

Available at Pratap’s Pratibimba.

Muktha Title Song Lyrics

Baraha (in English) version [contributed by Chaitanya]

Kannada (Unicode) version [~Chaitanya]

Lyrics by Singer [contributed by Amruta]

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A scene from Muktha [created & contributed by Amruta] — [might take quite a while to load]

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Places

Hemagiri

Jalakanteshwara Devalaya

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Cast of Characters

ಯಾರು? (yaaru?)

[contributed by Amruta & her mother, + some inputs from other Muktha abhimaanigaLu]

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Dialogues and Excerpts

Read/Add any good excerpts from Muktha

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Formatting

How to type smileys? Eg: 8 ) –> 8)

You can use basic html tags, as well as

(without spaces) to

quote

any text. Bulletting and numbered lists don’t work properly but for that or other formatting, you could use markdown syntax since the plugin is enabled. You could also post in Kannada – there’s excellent detailed documentation for enabling Kannada on your sytem on sampada.net

dashes without spaces or

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For comments on Kannada and related literature in general, which are not really related to Muktha you might consider putting them at this link on Kannada Literature

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TNS very kindly talked about
this blogsite as well in his epilogue to the final episode and also in an
interview in Sudha magazine which was really cool…
CONGRATS to everyone here! Special Thanks to SHRUTI for nominating this page for
the LIMCA BOOK OF BLOG RECORDS
(most comments)

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In an interview in Deccan Herald:

Seetharam says that the bloggers post blogs on every episode of the serial and that is a feel good factor.

This site is definitely, afaik the only site where this used to happen. Thanks to the consistent commitment of VANI, DIYA, AMMU and SHRUTI and everyone else who’s given updates. That line is a direct acknowledgement to them! 8)

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Muktha – T.N. Seetharam

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Some pictures, any more are welcome!

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Original post from URL: Muktha – T.N. Seetharam which is now an independent page.

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I’ve never been much of a fan of Kannada serials, esp after trying to watch some typical family melodrama which my mother relishes, particularly the son-ditches-parents-after-marriage types. However some of the serials that I’ve seen over the past couple of years particularly in E TV – seem to be a radical shift.

The closest I’ve come to actually following a serial is undoubtably Muktha by T.N Seetharam. His tranquility in the most adverse circumstances is something I find pretty inspiring; I’d even say he’s a kind of role model.

Yesterday in the serial, an inspector almost arrests that lady (kid’s Ajji) but just by pure rational analysis he convinces the inspector not to do so. Both my mother and me really appreciated his incisive thinking.

[flashback: Earlier this week, I had a very bad fall in the rain while trying to catch the last shuttle in office and could barely walk. In the evening when I came home, with blood stained and dirty pant and painfully limping – the first thing my mother asked me of all things was – did you see God’s picture today morning!! And she was really angry with me that I hadnt!!]

Later on, after the serial, somehow that topic came back, she says a day depends heavily on what a person has seen in the morning.

Every morning she so kindly prepares breakfast and packs my lunch before I leave to work. She gave an example of a day when recently she woke up in a panic that it had become late for me. She didnt see the diety’s face that morning. On top of it she saw a particular photo (which she considers as bad luck to see first thing in the morning – but still feels obligated to put up on the wall anyway). Then while cooking that day she cut her hand and it bled quite a bit. She concluded that it proves beyond doubt the consequences of not seeing a diety’s photograph in the morning.

I tried to reason that
– she had forgotten to see the diety’s photograph
– she had seen some particular person’s photo (which she usually succesfully avoids seeing the first thing in the morning – though she’s still put it up on the wall out of obligation)

…only because her mind was already in a panicky absent-minded state. And it was because of this same state of mind that she cut her finger as well.

Therefore the root cause was her state of mind, and not what she had seen or not seen in the morning. I prompted her “Dont believe me, you yourself think about these simple facts”.

But without thinking she immediately said that I can’t disprove something that has been known for countless generations – that not seeing a diety’s picture brings terrible luck. (And also seeing some person’s photos as well?? 🙂 – but I didnt ask that!)

I said “how come you understand Seetharam’s arguments so well but you dont want to bother about mine?!”

She replied… “Oh, that’s only a serial!”

* Btw now my leg is better – no doctor nothing – I even played TT in the office.