Mahakali — Anth Hi Aarambh Hai

Mahakali - Anth Hi Aarambh Hai
Genre Mythology
Drama
Created by Siddharth Kumar Tewary
Based on Devi Mahatmyam
Kalika Purana
Devi-Bhagavata Purana
Written by Story
Utkarsh Naithani
Siddharth Kumar Tewary
Screenplay
Utkarsh Naithani
Dialogues
Vinod Sharma
Directed by Loknath Pandey
Madan Vaishyaal
Creative director(s) Nitin Mathura Gupta
Starring Pooja Sharma
Saurabh Raj Jain
Meghan Jadhav
Kanan Malhotra
Nikita Sharma
Opening theme Kram Kreem Hum Hreem Kaalikaye Hum Phat
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Hindi
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 95
Production
Producer(s) Gayatri Gil Tewary
Rahul Kumar Tewary
Siddharth Kumar Tewary
Production location(s) Mumbai
Maharashtra
India
Editor(s) Paresh Shah
Madan Mishra
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time approx. 40-60 minutes
Production company(s) Swastik Productions
Distributor Viacom 18
Release
Original network Colors TV
Picture format 576i
1080i (HDTV)
Original release 22 July 2017 (2017-07-22) – 5 August 2018
External links
Website

Mahakali - Anth Hi Aarambh Hai (English: Mahakali - The end marks the beginning) is a Hindi mythological television show, that aired on Colors TV.

The main protagonist of the show is the Hindu Goddess Parvati and her alter ego, Mahakali. The show’s plot is loosely based on the events of the Hindu Scriptutre Devi Mahatmyam, with the writers creatively fleshing out emotions, drama and interconnected storylines to establish a continuity set within the Hindu mythological universe. Mahakali’s plot also adapts stories from other famous Shakta and Shaiva texts like the Kalika Purana, Devi-Bhagavata, Shiva Purana and Linga Purana, that have to do with the evolution of the sweet and submissive Parvati into the wild and untamed Mahakali.

Pooja Sharma plays the role of the titular characters, Parvati and Mahakali.[1] Saurabh Raj Jain effortlessly essays the role of Lord Shiva, Kanan Malhotra as Lord Vishnu, Nikita Sharma as Goddess Laxmi, Meghan Jadhav as Kartikey and Krish Chauhan as Lord Ganesh.

And as additional information,some fans mahakaali feel panic,because of how Colors TV injustice posted of a new season mahakali,it will be set only until August 5 2018.

Plot

Parvati is introduced as a good, sweet, motherly and docile woman who, like every other individual of the time period, is brainwashed into believing men are superior to women. Shiva, her husband doesn't believe that. He along with Lord Vishnu orchestrates Parvati receiving a vision of Mahakali, a terrific warrior goddess, killing armies of demons.

Like most stories in Hindu Mythology, this story begins with the war between the gods and the demons. However, this time, the gods defeated and driven out of their homes in heaven. They are forced to seek refuge with Parvati and Shiva, at their home in mount Kailash.

The demon king and Primary antagonist, Shumbh sends his messengers to Kailash, declaring war upon Shiva and Parvati for sheltering the gods. But smitten by Parvati's beauty, the demons retreat without saying much and inform Shumbh and his simpleton brother Nishumbh of Parvati's gorgeousness.

Meanwhile, Shiva Informs Parvati and the gods that only a woman can kill the demon duo due to a celestial boon. He also taunts Parvati, telling her that it was ineligent of the demons to get such a specific boon, as no woman is tough enough to battle men. Parvati silently nods, and Shiva wows to change her opinion.

The demon king's envoy arrives with Shumbh's proposal: if Parvati were to marry Shumbh, he would give up on hunting the gods. The gods violently react to the messenger's words, threatening to kill him. But Parvati stops them and declines Shumbh's proposal, but also warns the demon to use his better judgement and not disrespect a woman. She then shows him out.

Parvati complains to Shiva of her mistreatment. He simply replies with "Why do women come to men to solve their problems. Women need to fight their own battles." And then proceeds to speak in metaphoric sentences that become crucial to Parvati only later. He falls into a trance, as he usually does and Parvati is left to ponder on the meaning of his words.

Out of reverence to Parvati's gentleness and hospitality, the gods vow to protect her. Undetterred, Shumbh sends his trusted, Dhumralochan to bring Parvati to hell, his capital by force. When he attacks with an army of 60,000 men and insults the intelligence of women, Parvati loses her temper and screams loudly into space. Due to the cosmic vibrations from her shriek, Dhumralochan and his army are turned to dust.

This marks the beginning of Parvati's transition into the warrior Goddess Mahakali. It is at this moment that the other Goddesses like Lakshmi and Sarasvati realize that there is something different about Parvati.

Shumbh is infuriated and sends another horde of demons to bring Parvati to him and defeat the gods. In this war, the gods are led by the Goddess Narasimhi who, due to her horrific appearance is mistaken to be the warrior goddess from Parvati's vision.

As the demons slaughtered god after another, the commanders, Chand and Mund make a dash for Goddess Lakshmi, who they decide to kidnap.

As she watches in horror, Parvati remembers something Shiva had told her earlier before he went into a trance : "If a woman gives up her 'shanka' (doubt, hesitation, fear) she becomes 'Shankar' (God, supreme force). And this end will mark a greater beginning." Parvati rushes forwards to protect Goddess Lakshmi who is trying to defend herself but in vain.

As she runs towards the demons, her anger crosses all bounds, she rids herself of all her hesitations and fears and transforms herself into Goddess Kali, the warrior.

Parvati, who was white-skinned (Gauri), naive, innocent and the tamer of Shiva morphs into Mahakali, who is bluish black-skinned (Kali), fierce, brave and is untamed by Shiva. She is armed with a scimitar, has her hair in a disarray and a garland of demon heads around her neck and an apron of demon arms around her waist.

As she descends upon the demon army, she destroys them by hundreds and thousands, including Chand and Mund, earning herself the epithet of "Chamunda".

She motivates the other Goddesses to also give up their hesitations and learn to fight for themselves. She tells them that whenever mankind treats a woman less than anything she deserves, she has all the rights to turn into Kali.

The goddesses Lakshmi, Sarasvati, Narashimhika, Aranyani and Indrani join her in battle assist her in destroying the demons. (A nod to the Saptamatrikas by the creators of the show)

The demon king then sends Raktabija, a demon famous as being Mahakali's Primary enemy. He had the ability to create a clone of himself from every fallen drop of his blood.

Each time a goddess struck him, another Raktabija was born. Kali then drinks up all the blood that oozes out of Raktabija's self and drains him completely of his pseudo-nectar, killing him.

She chops off the head of the first Raktabija and runs amok on the battleground, murdering all those who came in her way.

To stop her rampage, Shiva awakens from his trance and lies down in front of Kali. She steps on him, realizes that she had stepped on her husband (which is a sin in Indian culture) and sticks out her tongue in shame.

Ashamed of what she had done, Kali turns back into Parvati. Shiva makes her realize that she did nothing wrong, but Parvati is also bothered by the fact that Kali had to manifest in her and not any other woman at the time of need. She realizes that there is something more to her than just a housewife.

She embarks on a journey away from Kailash on the mission of self-realization, where she is introduced to Goddess Sati, her previous incarnation, by Shiva who acts as her guide. On the way, she meets Ambika, of whom she is a manifestation of. Parvati realizes that she was Sati in her previous incarnation where married Shiv against her Father's Will and during a Yagna hosted by her Father, when he did not invite her, she went there but her Father insulted her and Shiva due to which she burnt herself alive. As she was a form of Adi Parashakti and Shiva's Shakti, the wrath of Shiva and Shakti, Bhadrakali slayed her Father. Then she took a new incarnation as Parvati and married to Shiva. Parvati realizes that she is in fact Mahakali. She returns to Kailash.

Demon King Shumbh along with Daruka make a plan to capture Parvati not knowing that she is in fact Mahakali. Parvati falls in trap and upon realizing the truth, turns into Mahakali and Kills Daruka's abusive husband Daruk. Demon king now take Help of Tarakasur who has the boon to be killed by only Son of Shiva and Parvati. But due to a Curse given By Devi Rati who is Kamdev's wife and Kamdev burnt by Shiva, Parvati cannot conceive. Shiva then tells Parvati that Shiv and Shakti also known Purush and Prakriti are present in every form of universe. Everything in the universe is a creation of their energies and with the help of their energies they create an Energy Ball. Meanwhile, Shumbh and Tarakasur take ashes of Kamdev and turn him into a demon Bhandasur whom they appoint to destroy the energy ball. Parvati then takes the form of Lalita Tripura Sundari and kills Bhandasur. But Tarakasur manages to put the energy ball in river Ganga. Parvati is angry and broken. However she manages to go near the Ganga where she finds 6 small energy balls which transform into 6 children, taken by 6 Kritikas. Parvati enters into Kritika lok and wants to take them back. She joins all 6 of them into one single child. She decides to name the son Kartikeya or Skanda. She decides to keep Kartikeya in Kritika lok for his safety. After few years Kartikeya grows into a teenager when Parvati meets him and tell him about his past and his aim to kill Tarakasur. First Reluctant, Kartikeya agrees to his mother and along with Shiva, Parvati as Mahakali teach Kartikeya to be a Warrior. Mahakali transforms into a Weapon and Kartikeya along with the Weapon kill Taraksur.

The show then shifts to Bhringi Rishi who believes that Men are great and women are the shadows of men, who decides to visit Kailash and pray to Mahadev but refuses to pray to Parvati. Shiva tells that Shiv and Parvati are same just as Shiv and Shakti. Shiv is himself Half men and along with his Shakti, Half women earning the Name as Ardhanareshwara. But Bringi rishi does not want to believe him and tries to separate Shiv and Shakti from Ardhanareshwara, which makes both Shiva and Parvati angry. She invokes all the Characteristics and Body parts from Rishi Bhringi's body which are part of the human body due to Prakriti. Bhringi becomes paralyzed and realizes that without Prakriti, Purush is incomplete and of no use of his own and that Without Prakriti human body is just like a dead body. He realizes his mistake and prays to both Shiv and Shakti. Parvati forgives him and Shiva gives him a third leg for his walking. Bringi Rishi then prays to both Shiva and Shakti in the form of Ardhanareshwara.

Meanwhile, Indra and Kartikeya fight over a difference in which Indra provokes Kartikeya to fight against him. Kartikeya uses his powers and kills Indra. All the gods and Tridev and Parvati arrive at the spot. The Tridev give Life to Indra and Mahadev Punishes Kartikeya for his mistake. Parvati interrupts and takes the curse herself to be reborn. Meanwhile, Shumbh reaches to Mahishasur, the bull demon to get rid of Mahakali. Mahishasur gets into deep Tapasya to Brahma and receives a boon that only a Female having the powers of Tridevs can kill him. Meanwhile, Parvati is born to a fisherman named as Matsya Parvati. As she grows into a beautiful lady, Shiva transforms as a story teller telling Story of great Parvati devi and her life journey as Navdurga. Matsya Parvati wants to hear the full Story. Shiva starts with Shailaputri, the first Navdurga, When Mahakali takes a new birth as Parvati after Sati's death, she is born to Himavat, the mountain king. Hence Parvati is Shailaputri. Also she is Brahmacharini, Chadraghanta, Kushmanda, Mahagauri, Skandamata. Matsya Parvati remembers her Past and transforms into Parvati when Shiva tells her that it is time to complete her remaining 3 stages of Navdurga. Meanwhile, Brahma grants the boon and Mahishasur captures Brahma. Vishnu and then Mahadev arrive to free Brahma but they cannot defeat him due to his boon. They manage to hold him till Mahakali arrives and frees Brahma. Mahishasur holds Kartikeya and asks Mahakali to stop or else he would kill Him. Mahakali stops and turns into Parvati. Mahishasur then gives Parvati a choice to either save her son and sacrifice her life or let her son die. She decides to sacrifice her life and save her son but only by a weapon made by Tridevs. Brahma gives his Brahmastra, Vishnu gives his Sudharshan Chakra and Shiva his Trident. All three weapons move towards Parvati but instead of sacrificing her, they give power to her, the power of Tridevs. She Transforms into a more powerful form of Shakti, having shakti of Tridevs, Mahishasurmardini, Devi Katyayeni who wounds Mahishasur badly. He then transforms into bull and asks her to attack him now. Mahishasura Mardini sends her ride, the Lion to wound him badly and then Kills Mahishasur hence completing her next stage of Navadurga, Devi Katyayeni also called as Devi Durga. Next Parvati decides to kill Shumbh-Nishumbh. On Kaal Raat or Black Night Parvati as Mahakali fights with Nishumbh and Kills him. But Shumbh suddenly prays to Devi hence now she cannot kill him as he has become his devotee. She captures him and at that night she takes the form of next stage of Navdurga, Devi Kaalraatri and she lures Shumbh into fighting against her. Devi Kaalraatri defeats Shumbh and becomes Mahakaali to kill Shumbh thus ending the Kaal Raat. The next morning Parvati transforms into last stage of Navdurga, Siddhidhatri who is the goddess of Siddhi.

The show goes on to introduce and tell the folklore of characters from Hindu Mythology like Sati, Bhadrakali, Kartikeya, Veerabhadra etc., and many demons like Tarakasura, Bhandasura, Daruka and more.

The story continues with her realizing her potential and that she is the Primordial Force (God) and leading to the death of the unrighteous (including Shumbh and Nishumbh).

The show will also feature more stories relating to Mahakali and other Goddesses.

Mahakali - Anth Hi Aarambh Hai traces this journey of how the beautiful wife of lord Shiva, Parvati discovers her power and her existence as Adi Shakti of which she herself was unaware.

Series overview

In total, 95 episodes have been produced and broadcast.

Cast

International broadcast

The series is also converted into Indonesian as Mahakaali which is currently aired on ANTV since 25 June 2018 until 28 september 2018. The series is also converted into bangla also with the same name which is currently aired on Colors bangla since 16 October 2017 until 5 October 2018. As from 12 September 2018, the television series started to be aired on MBC Digital 4 in Mauritius with English subtitles. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Pooja Sharma to play the title role in Siddharth Kumar Tewary's 'Mahakali'". Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Times of India. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Mahakali ANTV Tayang Sore, Warganet Tanya Takdir Lonceng Cinta". popmagz.com.
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