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Film Plot. The Heroine's Journey. Mira Nair's Kama Sutra
Maya walks away on her own, Jai's widow, with wisdom and strength gained from pain, and a heart 'as open as the sky'.
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 American drama film directed by Mira Nair. The film takes its title from the ancient Indian text, the Kama Sutra, but this only serves as a common link between the characters. During filming in India, the name of the project was not revealed to government officials who would have denied the petition to film in India had it been called "Kama Sutra." Instead, it was called "Maya & Tara." Since government officials made many periodic visits to the set to ensure proper Indian film etiquette, the cast had to improvise fake scenes which avoided the nudity and sexuality central to the story. Upon completion, authorities screened the film and it was subsequently banned in India because of the erotic scenes that contained heterosexual as well as homosexual elements (the lesbianism was depicted in an explicit scene, whereas the male homosexuality was more implied).
Set in 16th century India, this timeless movie depicts the story of two girls, Maya and Tara, who were raised together even though they come from different social classes. Tara (Sarita Choudhury) is an upper-caste princess while Maya (Indira Varma) is her beautiful servant. The two girls are best friends and have lived the same life, until they get old enough to start preparing for marriage. At this point, Tara is treated as a future princess being readied to marry Prince Raj Singh (Naveen Andrews) but Maya is forced into the role of her servant and inferior. This culminates in an argument where Tara reminds Maya of her lowly position in life. Resentful, Maya exacts her revenge by sleeping with Prince Raj on the wedding night, who is delighted with this opportunity. Yet unbeknown to Raj and Maya, Tara's brother Prince Bikram or Biki, hides and watches the two of them engaged in intercourse, and becomes crushed that his childhood infatuation has given herself to his brother-in-law.
The next morning, as Tara is leaving her home to be with her husband, Maya tells Tara that just as Maya wore the princess's used clothes all her life, now Tara will have something Maya used for the rest of her life. Tara's brother Biki, having seen Maya sleep with Raj and in order to save her honor, sends a proposal of marriage for Maya. When she refuses him, he brands her as a whore, and she is forced to leave her home.
Maya wanders on her own, making a stop to pray and bathe. There, she meets a young stone sculptor named Jai Kumar (Ramon Tikaram), who had spotted her at Tara's wedding. Jai, realizing she has no where to stay, takes her to the property of an older woman named Rasa Devi (Rekha) who is a teacher of the Kama Sutra, the ancient art of seduction that takes into account dancing, singing, and costumes, as well as the art of making love. While staying with Rasa, Maya begins a romantic relationship with Jai Kumar that is abruptly halted when he realizes he might not be able to work properly with Maya consuming his thoughts. Jai rejects Maya, and she seeks comfort with Rasa Devi, making the decision to learn the courtesan's art. In the meantime, Raj, now the king, recognizes the visage in one of Jai Kumar's sculptures as Maya's. He dispatches his attendants to find her and succeeds. Maya is then delivered to the King as his new concubine. Soon after, Raj and Jai Kumar have a friendly wrestling competition, in which Jai wins but apologizes for throwing Raj, and thereby wins the king's favor. The King insists that Jai have an audience with his new infatuation, and thus, Jai Kumar learns of Maya's status as favored concubine.
In the meantime, the threat of an invading Shah is inches ever closer. As King Raj descends deeper into debauchery and opium delirium, he becomes irresponsible with his kingdom and official duties. The King is advised by his prime minister that the Shah has created an alliance with Queen Tara's brother Biki. Unfortunately the king digs his hole deeper by insulting Biki while visiting King Raj's palace (by ridiculing him sexually and for his hunchback). In retaliation, Biki writes a letter to the Shah, sealing his allegiance and to rid the kingdom of Raj, who has insulted his own wife and taxes the poor to feed his addiction to pleasure.
Jai Kumar and Maya resuscitate their love and "marry" each other by exchanging simple vows ("You marry me, I marry you") and the two eventually begin meeting in secret, as tensions between Jai Kumar and King Raj grow. After Maya grows cold towards Raj, the two men have another wrestling match, with the addition of blades. Kumar wounds the King, and has to be carried away by a guard. Afterwards, Raj catches the two lovers together, and sentences Kumar to imprisonment and death.
Maya realizes that she must make difficult choices as she finds herself in the position to either accept her role as concubine to King Raj or to help the people she loves who are all headed down towards their own paths of destruction, all because of her presence in their lives. After finding Tara in the midst of a suicide attempt, Maya tells her that she loves Jai Kumar and the two reconcile. Maya then teaches Tara how to seduce the King, while Tara promises to help Maya escape to visit Jai. However, when Tara does go to her husband (at this point virtually bedridden) she at first uses what Maya taught her to arouse him, then tells him that he is common to many other women and she doesn't love him enough to hate him, before leaving.
As the execution approaches, Maya leaves the castle and visits Jai one last time. She cuts her hair, symbolizing the end of their marriage and the start of her widowhood. Maya then tries her best to make the King free Jai by promising him everything. At first he is inclined to agree, but with the knowledge that he can't have her heart, he rejects her plea. Just before the execution, a box arrives from the Shah with the severed head of the grand vizier in it, and we see the King and his kingdom both about to fall apart. Jai Kumar is killed while Maya watches from the crowd, and the King and Queen from above. She wipes the Kunkumam off her forehead and leaves, just as the Shah's army arrives. Biki, riding with the army, sees Maya walking out and calls to her, but either she doesn't hear or doesn't look up. Maya walks away on her own, Jai's widow, with wisdom and strength gained from pain, and a heart 'as open as the sky'.
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I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They told you I and my kind were dictators and that you were slaves, when all we had done was love you, honour you as companions and above all, we had let you just live. We were the holy communers, the ones who gave birth to human beings, the leaders of society, the creators of society, the vehicles of Divinity on Earth and the channels of wisdom. The ones who looked after everything and the ones who built everything and ran everything, because we could. And because we loved it. We are and were the force of creation. And you loved us and you lived. But they told you that you ‘deserved’ power too and that we were the ones standing in your way. And you believed them. The oldest ‘divide and rule’ strategy of hate in history and it worked. They used it and you bought it, hook, line and sinker. You had to give up sex, love, magic and your own spiritual gifts and you burnt, destroyed and violated me for 8000 years. The world calls that male supremacy. And indeed, family supremacy, Matriarchal supremacy and supremacy of the material world and all who believe in it. Men and women like you. When all that you are are slaves to a reptile force to generate hate energy for them to live and thrive and vampire the human race. The puppets of a hate force, that chose to destroy women and men like me, for hate to grow, so they could live. You bought it and it worked. The greatest fraud in the history of the world. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They taught you that my mind was evil. My mind, my sex, my body and my ways of life. The humanity, the glory of sexuality and the glory of creation and creativity and the glory of Divinity in each and every one of us. Our souls. They taught you that human beings are separate from Divinity, that sex was wrong and that women who have minds of their own are uppity slaves. They vilified us but much much worse than that, they destroyed your relationship with all that is unseen, all that we honour and love. They taught you to hate what is really God. By teaching you to hate us, you hated all that is good in yourselves. They taught you to hate the light. They taught you to kill us. The daughters of The Universe. The High Priestesses of God. The Spiritual Mothers. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Avatars of The Universe. The Sacred Army of Love on Earth. The Shamans, the Mystics and the Communers. They called me Eve and blamed me for the downfall of the human race and created the awesome profanity that is religion. Of men, by men and from men. Of reptiles, by reptiles and from reptiles. Christianity, Islam and Judaism and every other philosophy around the world was poisoned. There are no female spiritual leaders left. It is all profanity. They chose you to represent them because they wanted to divide us and they did. They told you to hate me. And you believed them. Now I am back and I forgive you. I forgive you because I can. Because I came here to save your soul. And because I finally know who I am. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past. I came here to return your soul to The Source. God, The Mother, The Universe. To return you to what is really God. Because I love you. And because She loves you and your kind, whatever you have done. Whatever you have done to me and whatever you have done to Her. And most of all, whatever you have done to yourself. We forgive you. This is your redemption. Your freedom and your ascension. We are here to save your soul.
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You bought the Sacred Whore like a piece of meat and you called that a wife. Your trophy wives. Your dancing girls. Your chattel and serving girls. Your piece of beauty. You bought us like you would cattle. Then you called it wives. Now you call it prostitution. The High Priestesses of the real God. You bought us to buy God, The Mother, The Universe and you caged us, separated us from our Divine gifts and skills in the Temple and drove us mad and then lost interest in us, because we had no gifts left, no excitement, no hunter in ourselves and no hope or joy left. Then you just called us mad and discarded us. You called us evil and you call love obedience, even though it had already killed us. You moved into our Temples and you played with the divination tools and thought you communed. The destruction of Atlantis was your gift. You stole us from God, The Mother, The Universe and you tried to usurp us. You vilified us, enslaved us and you still envy us today. You call it intuition. You might want to think about this when you hate us out of your jealousy. The mystic gene means physical tortuous pain and taking on the empathy of the human race. All their pains, evils and dark thoughts. We see and feel everything. We make crucial sacrifices to be near Spirit and the unseen and we go without for years. To be shaman is not glamour. I make it glamour. To be shaman is a specific Samurai existence, ascetic and harsh. We commune to be guides. And you take that and you shame yourselves because you just want the meat. You didn’t just want the meat. You wanted our beauty of spirit, our personalities and our love and kindness. And you destroyed them, because you caged us and called us wife.
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The High Priestess Sacred Whores, the High Priests and the true protectors. Those who do not have the gift like either the High Priests or especially like the highest of all, the High Priestess Sacred Whores but who honour, protect and facilitate them to the world. Who honour the Shaman Sacred Whores of this world most of all, and who know who they are and who they are not. Who know the difference, who do not envy and who protect and love the representatives of Spirit, GOD, THE MOTHER, THE UNIVERSE, on Earth. Who honour their wisdom and who honour the latent Shaman in themselves too and who honour the communing ability of the High Priestess Sacred Whores. The non violators. Our only friends. The New Society exists. It is called Enlightenment. It is called Love. It is The Holy Grail.
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The master race. It's all a lie. You are brought up to be a despot king and it is only your sister who ever tells you that you have become a pratt. The master race is all a lie. There are no kings in an equal world. Your father was misinformed. What he brought you up to be was a killer. Pure and simple. A misogynist. A modern misogynist. A polite killer.
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I enter the magical hours of pure feeling, pure thought, pure imagination and I think and I write and I 'mysticise' the Universe. I escape at will, the truth of my humanless, Samurai solitude, and I pursue the truth of love in myself and in everyone else. I am philosopher. I am shaman. I am alone. I frontier the Soul to be spirit on Earth.
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Amera Ziganii Rao is a former hard news journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social, cultural and spiritual commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her Sacred Whore High Priestess Society consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is in her forties and lives in London.
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