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Can willpower change destiny?

Samantar (Parallel, Marathi, 2021)
Season 1&2, Mx Player.

We understand that life has its ups and downs. Sometimes, the downside drags us so severely that it buries us in the muck so entrenched that it becomes impossible to wash off. Occasionally, choices made at the spur of the moment plunges us into such miseries. If only there was a way to identify these times when these crucial decisions had to be made.

Our ancestors came to suggest ways to predict bad times and possibly avoiding bad decisions. Palm reading and astrology charts based on one's birthdate and times form a crucial Indian way of soothsaying. It is believed that celestial bodies in space affect events, behaviour and outcome of events. Hence, the importance of auspicious times in officiating life-changing events.

What if someone is given hints of events of the near future? Would he be able to avert maladies, or would he still be subject to the same path he is destined to follow? Is knowing one's fate a way to avoid tragedy? Of course not, says this miniseries. We are all enthralled in fulfilling our primal desires that we fell prey to the conducts of the others who, in desperation, aspire to fulfil specific aspirations, use all their God-given attributes toward this end. 

Our present depends on our past, and our future turns out due to our current actions. We are the results of our efforts and will carry the burden of our activities to our next birth. This transgenerational carrying of karma is the reason for many freak accidents and bizarre occurrences in one's life.

This 2-season, 18-episodes of 20 to 30 minutes each tell the tale of a down-and-out office-middle-rank-worker, Kumar, who cannot understand the spate of bad luck that befell him. A close friend who is a work colleague cajoles him to consult a palm reader/religious man. At one look, the palm reader refuses to read Kumar as he has seen that same palm before. Upon much coaxing, he said that that was the same palm of another person named Sudershan Chakrapani some thirty years previously. Looking at Chakrapani's life would predict that of Kumar's.

Next begins Kumar's obsessive hunt to find Chakrapani. Their lives, it seems, run parallel, albeit at different timelines. The end result is not palatable but can Kumar change it with the help of Chakrapani's little peak into the near future? Can willpower ever change destiny?

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