Wow, what a title, I'm amazed myself. But truth to be said and also due to my lack of vocabularies I think the title does the show justice
Superb, nuff' said
The Legend tries to bring us the story of Rama and Sita's fight against Rahwana, yeah I know, it has been done to death before, especially those that came from Bali and or Jogjakarta will probably wonder: what's new? And yet I was surprised.
The show starts with a scene that is storyline-wise supposed to be played in the middle of the story,, that was why when I first watched it (I watched it two times, yes it was that GOOD) I was a bit confused, but then I thought: "maybe they wanted to do a time-skip?". I did not mind if they did decide to, but I was not sure about the other viewers as they might got confused. This first scene was the scene where Sita asked Hanuman to deliver her hair ornament to tell Rama that she was safe. I know a tiny weeny bit of Sunda language, that was why I understood the meaning of this scene. Hooray me =D
It was a brilliant choice of opening scene, what made it brilliant was the fact that this was the scene where Sita was shining at her best, the feeling of longing for her husband Rama could really be seen through her act here.
No photographs were allowed to be taken, sorry
The second scene was the true beginning of the show. We were introduced to the kingdom of Ayodya, where the king then further introduced us to his 4 sons, Baratha, Lakshmana, Rama and another which I couldnt catch his name XD. This was also a much enjoyable scene, as those 4 sons were depicted to have different personalities, we were given a taste of that through the dances that those 4 performed. And my, what a dance it was, when they were performing individually, we could really see the differences between them, the strong Baratha, the chivalrous Lakshmana, the graceful Rama and the intellect I-couldn't-catch-his-name (sorry XD). The scene ends with Rama, Laksmana, and Sita get exiled form the kingdom. The reason being, Keikeiyi, the queen to the throne, forced that decision to be taken.
actually today I came with the intention of writing something like a review to every scenes so that you
After that the setting changed to the forest where the three got exiled into, they teased us viewers by showing somewhat of 'love dance?'
trusty and strong, lakshmana
I LOVE LAKSHMANA, not only he danced like a true balinese dancer he was, he was really immersed to his character, and btw, after Lakshmana rescued them we could see a little fight between Rama and Sita, Sita became angry because Rama was able to be seduced, in short she was jealous
Sometimes later, back to the forest again, suddenly there were three golden deer, and our main heroes& heroine were shown to be happily playing with them.
Sita loves them
Gigi here was so damn adorable!! Remember in last note where I wrote that she transformed into a 17 years old girl? This was the scene. D*MN she was really adorable I almost jumped from my chair
Sita then asked Rama to catch one of the deers, Rama agreed, then as he was no longer visible, suddenly we heard a scream that sounded like it came from Rama. Worried that something might happen to Rama, she ordered Lakshmana to find him without listening to Lakshmana's hunch that the scream might not came from Rama.
Now I know why Asian women are the best! XD
Cute yet demanding, get jealous easily yet loved her lover deepily, NO MEN wouldn't fall for Sita, I can vouch for that
THE CAST
1. Rama (Khairul Shahrin)
The main hero, Rama was depicted as super powerful and yet graceful. Graceful, seen at first through the many jumps that he did on the introduction scene. On the first day of performance, I did not quite like his dance, aside from the fact that I was already all fanboy over Rakhwana, I just did not like how he stayed all graceful till the end of the show, he was supposed to be fighting for his lover, yet he still looked composed?
That aside, I did not mean that his dance was bad, it was very good, heck the day I'll be able to dance half as good as him will be the day I'm having my 6th grandchildren.
2. Sita (Gianti Giadi)
Me praising her again here will be unfair to the other casts <3
3. Laksmana (Putu Arif Mahendra)
Superb dance. If you ask me,dance-wise he was better than Rama and *gasp* might be better than Gigi. Awesome right, imagine a show where there were dancers that even better than Gigi performing together. You'd cry blood if you knew how awesome of a show that you actually had missed
4. Rakhwana (I Nyoman Budi Artha)
The man of the show, he really did show us what a powerful creature Rakhwana was just through his presence alone. He might not showed us the crazy movements done by the other casts, yet his...aura was undeniably overwhelming, this is not to say that he overshadowed the other casts, any scene, and I said ANY scene in which Rakhwana was involved was strangely where the other casts were able to shine the most. Jatayu, Sita, Lakshmana, Vibishana and many others that I cant mention here, they owed Rakhwana for bringing the best in them.
Wew, that's it.
Sorry for not writing something longer, I need to control myself for not writing too much XD
If you want to read the continuation of the story that I wrote in the previous note, ask me for the booklet of the show.
Final Words: A very good show, I'd bring you to another world. I still remember how I was all smiling after watching it the first time and how I was all absent-minded, jaywalked till halfway to the bus station after watching it for the second time. Wew, thanks God that no car ran me over XD
