The master wordsmith also describes how the bards make it a point to blow an incident out of proportion. Every incident stated in Mahabharata as a divine intervention is shown in a new light to the readers. The book beautifully captures the pain and tribulations of Bhima and shows Kunthi,Draupadi, Dronacharya, Yudhishtira, Krishna, Arjuna, Karna, Duryodhana and all the other major players of this story as mere humans of flesh and blood. The title itself has the touch of a genius and is a fitting way to showcase the second-hand treatment meted out to Bhima by everyone all through his life. The story takes the reader right from the time of Kunthi and Pandava’s re-entry in to Hasthinapura following King Pandu’s death, through all the major incidents stated in Mahabharata, to a stunning climax. What makes this work stand apart is in the way the author has steered away from the mythological setting, and in the masterstroke of casting the characters as mere mortals, a stark contrast from the divine and godly setting portrayed in the epic. Randamoozham is a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata from the view point of the second Pandava, Bhima. This work, which was first, published in 1984, won the Vayalar award for the best literary work in Malayalam of the year. Hence ‘ Randamoozham’ or The Second Turn penned by Jnanpith award winner M.T.Vasudevan Nair, one of the living legends of Kerala literature, has to be held in high esteem. Though an honest attempt, the novel defied logic and sensibilities of the readers and was marred with erratic storytelling. The only recent Indian book I can think of in this vein must be ‘Asura’ by Anant Neelakantan, who tried to portray a different image of Ravana through his book. There have never been many champions who thought ‘what if a certain story of old was not how it actually happened?’ and tried to look at the same story from a different perspective.
#RANDAMOOZHAM NOVEL PDF PDF#
You can alternatively download the novel in pdf format here.Revisionism is not a popular style when it comes to Indian Literature. You can download the novel here at Prem Panicker’s website in pdf or document format. Prem Panicker’s English translation is titled ‘Bhimsen.’ This is a bold and great attempt by Prem Panicker and a major highlight of this adaptation is the use of simple language. A classic, Randamoozham is easily one of the five best novels in Malayalam language which has a very strong literary tradition among Indian languages. The focus is on the relationships between the main characters. Bhima, who always gets the second turn in all the main incidents in the Mahabharata, talks about the favoritism, betrayal, helplessness and silent sufferings of many characters in the Mahabharata including himself.
In the novel there are no supernatural heroes, even Lord Krishna is stripped of his divine powers and is presented as a normal human being. It is a work of fiction and not a religious one.
Randamoozham is basically the re-imagining of the epic from the point of view of Bhima. Now he has published the entire novel in pdf format for free. Prem Panicker, senior journalist, had serialized the novel in English in his blog for over a year. Randamoozham means the ‘second turn’ and the story of the Mahabharat is seen through the eyes of Bhima – the second of the Pandavas. Randamoozham is a classic novel in Malayalam by Jnanpith award winner and the popular Malayalam writer M T Vasudevan Nair.
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