The couple is on a boat in the river on the banks of which Satyawati lives with her father - the fisherman king - and his subjects. The story starts from the beginning with an introduction to Hastinapur king Shantanu and his soon-to-be wife Satyawati. Owing to the insufferable mess that Ekta’s version turned out to be, I plonk on my couch expecting the worst from this one.
Set for the 8.30 pm slot Monday through Friday, the show has been touted as India’s most expensive TV series.
CAST OF MAHABHARAT 2013 PLUS
While the show was canceled sooner than the makers could anticipate - it was originally intended to run for upwards of three years - a new version of the epic debuted on Star Plus last night. The terribly miscast and ill-fated Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki - an opulent televised retelling of the epic that was populated with overly familiar faces from her saas-bahu serials and ridiculous clothes.
Oddly enough though, the show didn’t spawn any remakes despite its mythical stature until Ekta Kapoor, in a misguided move, created her own version of the show in 2008. It was a time when streets wore a deserted look on Sunday mornings as families, and entire communities in villages, huddled around TV sets to pay obeisance to their gods on screen. If Mahabharat maintains the quality of writing and cast, we may have another winner among us, feels Nishi Tiwari.īR Chopra’s Mahabharat, which ran from 1988 to 1990, went on to become a significant phase in the history of Indian television (still in its nascent stage back then) and, by extension, of Indian pop culture.
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