When Rama successfully bends the bow of the god Shiva (and snaps it) he is threatened by the rival suitors, but they do not go into any detail about the account. I think it would be fun and interesting to expand on this account. Sita is rumored to be beautiful and is born of royalty so there were surely many men lining up to wed her. Because so little is said about it there is a lot of freedom to take it different ways. Maybe I could focus on one suitor that says something and it becomes a huge ordeal, or maybe show a few of them that say things but Rama just ignores them knowing that none of them are even worth the effort. After all he has already won her hand.
There is also not much said about time evil servant Manthara. This could be fun to expand on and there are a couple ways to do it that I can see. I do a story where she was wronged by the royal family as a kid and has been waiting her whole life to take revenge on them. I could also portray her as a good servant that was loyal in the beginning but was set off by something horrible that Rama did. Another option would be to rewrite the story of king Dasharatha killing a boy in his youth. I could twist it to where he killed the boy on purpose. Maybe the boy wronged him or Dasharatha was just a young warrior with killing in his heart.
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