The Legend of Hanuman (2021–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - Dance Of Fire - full transcript
Hanuman plans his escape to ensure Sita Devi's message reaches Lord Ram. Ravan prepares a fiery punishment for the death of his son.
How did Hanuman become
an immortal?
As a child he was almost killed
by Indra's thunderbolt
when he mistakenly tried
to eat the sun.
To save him and to placate the rage
of Vayu,
the gods saved the child and
blessed him with divine abilities.
Vishwakarma blessed Hanuman
with the most powerful of all boons,
immortality.
And Indra blessed him with the ability
to choose when he would die.
The supreme Brahma
also blessed Hanuman
so that he could invoke fear
in his enemies
and destroy fear in his friends,
that he could change his form at will.
But most importantly
Brahma decreed
that no curse or weapon,
not even the Brahmastra
could kill him.
This is how Hanuman
became immortal.
Citizens of Lanka! Look at him!
Look at the beast!
He has desecrated our proud,
glorious city!
Gaze upon him!
Have you ever seen
a more hideous creature?
Flea-ridden and mangy,
how his fur stinks!
And his crimes
are beyond imagination!
Our noble soldiers killed
by this monstrous thing!
And if that was not vile enough,
his greatest crime is the death, no,
the murder of our sweet Prince Akshay.
Gentle, virtuous Prince Akshay.
Was there any deed so base, so cruel,
as the death of Lanka's blessed son?
Look how his murderer stands!
Without shame or remorse!
What would you have us do?
What judgement should be passed?
Kill him!
Kill him slowly!
Make him suffer!
Cut off his arms and legs!
Put his head on a spike!
Quiet down! Quiet down!
My brothers and sisters.
My heart is the same as yours,
it bleeds for the pain
this beast has caused,
yet justice should be given
by our noble King
who has decreed
the criminal should live,
granting the killer
of his son mercy!
What majesty he displays!
Praise be to King Ravan!
Praise be, King Ravan! Praise be!
The mob loves you, Father.
They lived in huts and
ate stale bread before my reign.
Lanka has become wealthy from
the golden river that runs through it.
But the people of the kingdoms
you have conquered
are less happy than ours.
A wolf does not care
for the bleating of sheep.
No, in his infinite wisdom
our great King had decreed
this monster will live,
yet cannot go unpunished!
Bind his tail!
What are you waiting for? Grab it!
Grab it!
That's it!
And now?
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Why isn't he screaming in agony?
Something's not right.
He's not bothered at all.
It's impossible!
The Brahmastra had weakened him.
Apparently not.
I will finish this.
No, Indrajit. I want to see
what he is capable of myself.
But he will destroy Lanka, Father!
Destruction is inevitable in battle,
my son.
He has been studying us.
Now I will study him.
I understand, Father.
I... I... My brother...
I am just a servant
doing the bidding of his master.
Make way! Make way!
Make way!
After him!
You've caused enough trouble, vaanar.
There's no escape for you now!
Escape? Why would I want to escape?
Though I will count to three
to give you a chance to run away.
One.
Two.
Three.
Trijata, what is happening?
What have they done to Hanuman?
He has escaped, my Princess!
Escaped? But how? They had him chained
within the city square.
He broke free!
One shake of his arms
and he shattered Indrajit's chains
as if they were paper.
You should have seen how he jumped
over the guards
and went laughing across the city,
carrying fire on his tail!
His tail?
Bound in oil rags and set aflame,
and yet the flames
did not hurt him!
He must be protected by the gods.
See, my Lady. See!
My Princess.
I found you.
Hanuman,
you should be far away by now!
Ravan will find you here!
I think
he has other concerns tonight.
I needed to know you were safe.
Now my mind is at rest.
Farewell, Princess.
When I return, it will be
at the side of your husband.
Remember, you have only a month.
We must end the rakshas threat
before that.
Otherwise, the demons will destroy
all of mankind.
I know what is at stake and
I will not let you down, Mother.
Mother?
My respect for you knows no bounds,
so what better name to call
one born from Mother Earth herself?
It has been one disaster
after another, my Lord.
Your brother has lost all reason.
A quarter of the city burns.
His obsession
with Princess Sita will ruin us all.
Something must be done
about the king.
Say what you truly mean.
Did Ravan not take the throne
from his brother Kuber?
Sometimes, for the sake of the people,
a ruler must be replaced.
No! I stand beside my brother,
no matter what he's done.
Such loyalties cannot be broken.
Never utter those words.
But what do we do?
That vaanar destroyed half of Lanka.
Ram will destroy all of Lanka
if we don't give back Princess Sita.
Your loyalty is not worth
the destruction. Ravan has gone mad.
It's King Ravan.
You would do well to remember that.
Wise Vibheeshan, what good is it to be
a king if all your people are dead?
Do what is right.
Before it's too late.
There you are,
uncle.
I was looking for you.
You are a difficult man to find,
always lurking in shadows.
Mind your manners, nephew.
Please, dear uncle,
forgive me for any rudeness.
That is truly not my intention.
I wanted to tell you I'm afraid for you.
We live in dangerous times.
Danger? What danger
could I possibly face in my home?
You?
It is your father
that you should be afraid for.
He needs our help.
Afraid for him?
My father has no such weakness.
Fear is not a weakness, Indrajit.
It keeps our loved ones safe.
Your father is my brother.
I will do all I can to save him.
As you should have for Akshay.
He was the only person
you truly loved, I know that.
Yet, instead of protecting him,
you drove him to his death.
You dare!
You dare to accuse...
Akshay died trying to be like you.
It was your duty
to protect your brother.
As it is mine.
I will not repeat your mistake.
Do you know
I once mistook the sun for a mango?
I jumped up to try and grab it.
I got in a lot of trouble.
Have you come from the city,
my Lord?
I heard
there was a terrible monster there.
There is, but not for much longer.
I have to go.
I'd stand back if I were you.
A little further back.
Father, give me your hand.
Help me return to my friends.
The vaanar is nowhere to be found.
He has fled Lanka.
I beg you to return Princess Sita
to her husband.
If a single vaanar
can cause such devastation,
can we really risk a whole army
of such creatures?
Hanuman is not a vaanar.
he is the son of a god
and blessed with divine boons.
I have learned
what I need to about him.
Father, no weapons, not even the Brahmastra
was able to hurt him.
He is immune from pain.
There are many forms of pain.
In the end,
his virtue will be his weakness.
First, we need to repair
these burnt houses.
No!
Do not touch them.
They will remind us
of what is at stake.
Are the armies assembling?
Yes, Father.
As you commanded,
the entirety of our forces will arrive
in Lanka within the month.
Good.
Then, like a plague of locusts,
we shall destroy the cities of man
and the kingdom of the vaanars,
Kishkindha.
an immortal?
As a child he was almost killed
by Indra's thunderbolt
when he mistakenly tried
to eat the sun.
To save him and to placate the rage
of Vayu,
the gods saved the child and
blessed him with divine abilities.
Vishwakarma blessed Hanuman
with the most powerful of all boons,
immortality.
And Indra blessed him with the ability
to choose when he would die.
The supreme Brahma
also blessed Hanuman
so that he could invoke fear
in his enemies
and destroy fear in his friends,
that he could change his form at will.
But most importantly
Brahma decreed
that no curse or weapon,
not even the Brahmastra
could kill him.
This is how Hanuman
became immortal.
Citizens of Lanka! Look at him!
Look at the beast!
He has desecrated our proud,
glorious city!
Gaze upon him!
Have you ever seen
a more hideous creature?
Flea-ridden and mangy,
how his fur stinks!
And his crimes
are beyond imagination!
Our noble soldiers killed
by this monstrous thing!
And if that was not vile enough,
his greatest crime is the death, no,
the murder of our sweet Prince Akshay.
Gentle, virtuous Prince Akshay.
Was there any deed so base, so cruel,
as the death of Lanka's blessed son?
Look how his murderer stands!
Without shame or remorse!
What would you have us do?
What judgement should be passed?
Kill him!
Kill him slowly!
Make him suffer!
Cut off his arms and legs!
Put his head on a spike!
Quiet down! Quiet down!
My brothers and sisters.
My heart is the same as yours,
it bleeds for the pain
this beast has caused,
yet justice should be given
by our noble King
who has decreed
the criminal should live,
granting the killer
of his son mercy!
What majesty he displays!
Praise be to King Ravan!
Praise be, King Ravan! Praise be!
The mob loves you, Father.
They lived in huts and
ate stale bread before my reign.
Lanka has become wealthy from
the golden river that runs through it.
But the people of the kingdoms
you have conquered
are less happy than ours.
A wolf does not care
for the bleating of sheep.
No, in his infinite wisdom
our great King had decreed
this monster will live,
yet cannot go unpunished!
Bind his tail!
What are you waiting for? Grab it!
Grab it!
That's it!
And now?
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Burn him!
Why isn't he screaming in agony?
Something's not right.
He's not bothered at all.
It's impossible!
The Brahmastra had weakened him.
Apparently not.
I will finish this.
No, Indrajit. I want to see
what he is capable of myself.
But he will destroy Lanka, Father!
Destruction is inevitable in battle,
my son.
He has been studying us.
Now I will study him.
I understand, Father.
I... I... My brother...
I am just a servant
doing the bidding of his master.
Make way! Make way!
Make way!
After him!
You've caused enough trouble, vaanar.
There's no escape for you now!
Escape? Why would I want to escape?
Though I will count to three
to give you a chance to run away.
One.
Two.
Three.
Trijata, what is happening?
What have they done to Hanuman?
He has escaped, my Princess!
Escaped? But how? They had him chained
within the city square.
He broke free!
One shake of his arms
and he shattered Indrajit's chains
as if they were paper.
You should have seen how he jumped
over the guards
and went laughing across the city,
carrying fire on his tail!
His tail?
Bound in oil rags and set aflame,
and yet the flames
did not hurt him!
He must be protected by the gods.
See, my Lady. See!
My Princess.
I found you.
Hanuman,
you should be far away by now!
Ravan will find you here!
I think
he has other concerns tonight.
I needed to know you were safe.
Now my mind is at rest.
Farewell, Princess.
When I return, it will be
at the side of your husband.
Remember, you have only a month.
We must end the rakshas threat
before that.
Otherwise, the demons will destroy
all of mankind.
I know what is at stake and
I will not let you down, Mother.
Mother?
My respect for you knows no bounds,
so what better name to call
one born from Mother Earth herself?
It has been one disaster
after another, my Lord.
Your brother has lost all reason.
A quarter of the city burns.
His obsession
with Princess Sita will ruin us all.
Something must be done
about the king.
Say what you truly mean.
Did Ravan not take the throne
from his brother Kuber?
Sometimes, for the sake of the people,
a ruler must be replaced.
No! I stand beside my brother,
no matter what he's done.
Such loyalties cannot be broken.
Never utter those words.
But what do we do?
That vaanar destroyed half of Lanka.
Ram will destroy all of Lanka
if we don't give back Princess Sita.
Your loyalty is not worth
the destruction. Ravan has gone mad.
It's King Ravan.
You would do well to remember that.
Wise Vibheeshan, what good is it to be
a king if all your people are dead?
Do what is right.
Before it's too late.
There you are,
uncle.
I was looking for you.
You are a difficult man to find,
always lurking in shadows.
Mind your manners, nephew.
Please, dear uncle,
forgive me for any rudeness.
That is truly not my intention.
I wanted to tell you I'm afraid for you.
We live in dangerous times.
Danger? What danger
could I possibly face in my home?
You?
It is your father
that you should be afraid for.
He needs our help.
Afraid for him?
My father has no such weakness.
Fear is not a weakness, Indrajit.
It keeps our loved ones safe.
Your father is my brother.
I will do all I can to save him.
As you should have for Akshay.
He was the only person
you truly loved, I know that.
Yet, instead of protecting him,
you drove him to his death.
You dare!
You dare to accuse...
Akshay died trying to be like you.
It was your duty
to protect your brother.
As it is mine.
I will not repeat your mistake.
Do you know
I once mistook the sun for a mango?
I jumped up to try and grab it.
I got in a lot of trouble.
Have you come from the city,
my Lord?
I heard
there was a terrible monster there.
There is, but not for much longer.
I have to go.
I'd stand back if I were you.
A little further back.
Father, give me your hand.
Help me return to my friends.
The vaanar is nowhere to be found.
He has fled Lanka.
I beg you to return Princess Sita
to her husband.
If a single vaanar
can cause such devastation,
can we really risk a whole army
of such creatures?
Hanuman is not a vaanar.
he is the son of a god
and blessed with divine boons.
I have learned
what I need to about him.
Father, no weapons, not even the Brahmastra
was able to hurt him.
He is immune from pain.
There are many forms of pain.
In the end,
his virtue will be his weakness.
First, we need to repair
these burnt houses.
No!
Do not touch them.
They will remind us
of what is at stake.
Are the armies assembling?
Yes, Father.
As you commanded,
the entirety of our forces will arrive
in Lanka within the month.
Good.
Then, like a plague of locusts,
we shall destroy the cities of man
and the kingdom of the vaanars,
Kishkindha.