SAHASAM story – Let the guessing game begin!!

Disclaimer:

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This is an attempt by my friend Jayasimha to guess the story of Sahasam, directed by Chandrasekhar Yeleti, from the recently released trailer. He doesn’t intend to hurt anyone associated with this movie. The following story is written purely on his observations. It may be correct or wrong. There is some kick in any guessing game so he just gave it a try (based on his freedom of expression)..!!

Synopsis:

The story can be traced back to the year 1947. Satyanarayan Varma (Suman) was a diamond merchant owning Pushpakalavathi diamond shop near Indo – Pak border. In the month of ‘April 1947’ when the communal fight was in rage (during independence), he fears an attack from the mob (who takes advantage of such situation) that he would be looted and killed by them. Sensing the trouble, Satyanarayan Varma carries all the diamonds he had, and escapes from the back door of his house.

 

Document showing the date as 26th April.

 

He understands that it was inevitable that he gets killed. He hides all the diamonds in a cave which was supposed to be the cave where the idol of Hinglaj Devi exists. He gets killed in the communal clashes and the remaining people migrate to India. Along with them comes a child (Narendra Varma), father of Gopichand.

 

At present, Gopichand works as a security guard in Hyderabad. We can confirm Hyderabad from the below pic (you can see Sultan Bazaar on the shop’s address

 

 

Gopichand worships Hinglaj Devi and is an ardent devotee of her, but he doesn’t know her name and where her temple is. Taapse (is a guide) visits one of the dance programs for which Gopi takes care of the security. There he listens to her telling about Hinglaj Devi as the biggest Shakti Peetha in Pakistan and sees her photo. This creates curiosity in Gopi and he asks Tapsee to take him to that temple as he wants to visit at least once in his lifetime and it is the same goddess that he has been worshipping since his childhood.

 

To know about Hinglaj Devi Shakti Peetha, let’s walk through the mythology lane:

 

King Daksha (son of Brahma) organized a great yajna, but did not invite Lord Shiva and Sati (the first wife of Lord Shiva). Uninvited, Sati reached the yajna-site but Daksha ignored her and insulted Shiva. Unable to withstand this insult, Sati jumped into the sacrificial fire and committed suicide. Sati died, but her corpse did not burn. Shiva forgave Daksha.The grief-stricken Shiva wandered the universe with Sati's corpse. Finally, the god Vishnu dismembered the body of Sati into 52 parts, each of which became Shakti Peetha, temple to a form of the Goddess. The head of Sati is believed to have fallen at “Hinglaj”. So this peetha is considered as the most powerful place. Shiva is also worshipped at each Shakti Pitha in the form of Bhairava, the male counterpart or guardian of the presiding goddess of the Pitha.

 

 

Shakti Kapoor is a local goon (operating near Karachi) in the range of Kheerthar hills, in the Makran desert stretch. He keeps searching for artifacts and uses a team to collect such goods. During his quest to find clues about his ancestors, Gopi comes across an old stone on which his grandfather's name was etched as a donor of gold and diamonds for a temple.

 

He then encounters Shakti Kapoor gang and he comes to know that they have found a box which has a treasure but they don’t have the key. The key to open this box is a locket shaped metal which has a god with wings behind hands (representing Lord Garuda).

 

 

Gopi comes to know the importance of this symbol from an ancient book which has info about Kanishka, emperor of Kushan dynasty in the 2nd Century. This book explains the Rapa Nui and Indus scripts. It also explains the symbols related to Caduceus or two snakes (Herald’s Staff/ Aaron’s Rod). It contains the importance of Garuda symbol to open a box with treasure.

 

Gopi and Taapse get trapped by Shakti Kapoor and they are taken to the small natural cave where the idol of Hindlaj matha is present. As mentioned before, Shiva is the guardian at each shakti peetha, the following is the trap created with the power from Shiva that protects the treasure.

 

This is the box having treasure which is protected by Lord Naga.

 

Now the responsibility is on Gopi to protect and safeguard his ancestors’ property and save it from falling into evil hands of Shakti kapoor and gang.

 

THE END

 

P.S: We should really appreciate Director Chandrashekhar Yeleti for the originality in the story and correlating Indus Valley Civilization symbols, Independence communal fight, Shakti Peetha and some kinda treasure hunt. This is truly refreshing. All the Best to the team of Sahasam.

 

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Jayasimha daylights as a Telecom Analyst and moonlights as a Writing Catalyst.

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