Shakuni (the maternal uncle of the Kauravas) and Duryodhan hatch a plan to burn Pandavas and Kunti alive, but they survive and go into incognito. Dhritarashtra makes Yudhishthir the crown prince of Hastinapur. For revenge, Drupada obtains Dhrishtadyumna and Draupadi. Pandavas do so and give half of his kingdom to Drona. The story then focuses on the childhood of Lord Krishna.Įlsewhere, Dronacharya teaches Pandavas and Kauravas and asks to defeat Drupad as Guru Dakshina.

He shows the birth of Bhishma and his oath, birth of Pandu, Dhritarashtra and Vidur and birth of Pandavas and Kauravas. The show begins with Emperor Bharata giving more importance to 'Capacity' than to 'Birth'. The series covers the incidents of epic Mahabharata revolving around Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas among other characters. 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. 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 The title song was sung and the verses rendered by singer Mahendra Kapoor. 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.Įach episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and the Hindi/Urdu poet Rahi Masoom Raza, based on the epic by Vyasa. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan. Nitish Bharadwaj, who portrayed Lord Krishna, was very popular and became a Member of the Indian Parliament.Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic of the same title.

This is considered the definitive filmed version of the story. To ensure a good voter turnout in the central election one Sunday, the telecast was delayed to the evening. The series was a runaway success and public places were often deserted during the broadcast. It was aired in the premium Sunday morning time slot of 9:00 am – 10:00 am. Dubbed versions were aired in Tamil, Telugu, and Indonesian in the early 1990s.Īccording to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was 90000000. It has also been shown on FBC TV in Fiji and Star Utsav.

It was also the first programme broadcast on BBC2 after its 1991 revamp, but had also been shown late at night on BBC 1 the previous year. It was shown in the United Kingdom by the BBC, where it achieved audience figures of 5 million.

Costumes of the series was provided by Maganlal Dresswala. It followed the highly successful Ramayan broadcast in 1987–1988. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes. The music was composed by critically acclaimed music director Rajkamal. The 94-episode Hindi series originally ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on DD National. Mahabharat is a successful Indian television series based on the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

Mahabharat full serial free download