Mahabharat (1988)

Original title

महाभारत

Directed by

Ravi Chopra

Genre

drama

Country

India

Length

1 season, 94 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. It tells the story of a royal family's conflict over a kingdom, leading to a great war. The series presents the divine and moral lessons from the scripture.

epicmythologicalsolemndevotionalslow-pacedtraditionaldramaticspiritualstately

What happens

Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic spiritual & devotional religious scripture Mahabharata. The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan. It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The music was composed by Raj Kamal. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma, based on the epic composed by Maharishi Veda Vyasa. The dialogues were penned by Rahi Masoom Raza. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala. The serial claims to have used the Critical Edition of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute as its basic source with Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar and Shripad Krishna Belwalkar as its primary editor. Each episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the Bhagavad Gita. The title song was sung and the verses rendered by singer Mahendra Kapoor. The title song is followed by a narration by Indian voice-artist Harish Bhimani as a personification of Time, detailing the current circumstances and highlighting the spiritual significance of the content of the episodes. Mahabharat Katha, another part of the serial was aired on 1997 which covers all the untold stories about Karna's marriage with Padmavati, Arjuna's marriage with Chitrāngadā and Ulupi, and stories about Ghatotkacha, Barbarika, Vrishaketu, Babruvahana, conspiracies of Viprachitti, Ashwamedha Yajna, Dushala's story and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, which are not covered in the original series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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