shubhamsrivastavalu
Who can forget the wonderful epic and the legendary fight between Kauravas and Pandavas. Interestingly this is not a fight between rulers for throne rather for Dharma, for establishing the righteousness. This series has been played by legendary actors like Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma. This has a right mix of action, fantasy and drama. A marvel of its time its still amazes the viewers with the depth and diversity. Must watch for all.
Arup Ghose
Mahabharat is the finest story in the history of Hinduism and India (then known as Bharat), and one of the finest in the world. It teaches us so many things - family, friendship, love, patience, truth and truth amongst a few. Regardless of your religion or culture, it is something every individual should have the chance to experience. A key factor to the success of Mahabharat is the characters that have been chosen. You really struggle to find someone who doesn't suit their role. The obvious stand outs are Nitish Bhardwaj as Krishna, Mukesh Khanna as Bheesma, Feroz Khan as Arjun, Virendra Razdan as Vidhur and Pankaj Dheer as Karna but every single character plays their role so well. They are all power houses in their own rights! I feel bad to leave out the likes of Gajendra Chauhan as Yudishtir, Roopa Ganguly as Drapaudi, Puneet Issar as Duryodhan and Gufi Paintal as Shakuni, but the characters mentioned were just above everyone else in terms of their performances. My favourite scenes (in chronological order): - Vasudev walking across river Ganga with baby Krishna - Pandavas and Kauravas exhibition - Draupadi Swamvyaar - Gambling game - Arjun's meet with Lord Shiva - Krishna going to hastinapur as peace messanger - Krishna virat roop - Kurushektra entrance song - Arjun and Yudishtir returning Bheesma's blessings - Bheeshma's falling - Arjun and Karna fight scenes - Karna's death The attention to detail is brilliant too. Little things like Krishna, Drona and Draupaudi were known to have darker skin tones - this was shown. Unfortunately there is a lot of major stories that were missing, but it's understandable that not everything can be shown. For instance, Arjun's marriage to Ullupi and Chitrangda were not shown (although were shown in Mahabharat Katha) and Karna's marriage (also shown in Mahabharat Katha). I know there has been many remakes of this epic - Sanjay Khan's version, Ramakant Sagar's version and the more recent Star plus one but my god they're all miles away! Visually this Mahabharat isn't fantastic - in the late 80s they wouldn've have had such visual skills available to them but they've still managed to achieve a lot. The focus on the story, character choice and the acting is more important, and that is something this Mahabharat will always have over the other versions. I've watched Mahabharat endless amount of times so I pretty much know the story off by heart now. It's amazing and something I will always watch, and hope my kids will enjoy too. I would love to meet the actors to listen to their stories and what happened behind the scenes.
long-ford
While the production values are nowhere near western standards, BR Chopra's 'Mahabharat', by some estimates the most popular television serial in India, has a lot of positives going for it. The acting is generally decent, despite the presence of notorious hams like Mukesh Khanna. It's a good primer for anyone interested in Indian culture and Hinduism. In particular, the episodes dealing with the Holy Gita are excellent for beginners to Hindu philosophy. The rest of the series is high-minded soap opera involving rival kings and queens, numerous double crosses and endless battle scenes.Overall 7/10
akash_shetye
No one can do a better job then this seriously. You can cast these roles in their prime if they looked like these people and spoke their lanugague. You can cast Robert DeNiro Al Pachino Christen Bale Edward Norton Tom Hanks Leonardo Dicaprio Ben Kingsley Have the greatest producer The Directors- Steven Spielberg, Hitchkock, and Scorescese and this TV show will be a complet waste of time and boring crap compared to this TV show. The Mahabharata in its entirety was just perfect from every angle. The acting is better than The Godfather. The directing better than Phsyco. The drama, emotion, and complexity better than Schindler's List. The enthuisasm better than Star Wars. Forget the visuals and this TV show crushes the others and makes them feel like a childish, and immature movie. To make the Mahabharata is the toughest of all Steven Spielberg would die trying to make it and if you say he would then you are wrong considering the fact that SPielberg probably has never written 1.8 million words in his life. I do not need to explain how good this is based on this.