Upcoming track : The Mahabharat track - Page 3

Sita

Your guess - for now - is as good as mine - it could just as easily have been Yudhisthir only. I had guessed Arjun b'cos none of the Pandavas spent as much time w/ Krishna as he did. Also, did they show Duryodhan? I'd have to wait until I see the promo online, so that I can freeze it @ various points.

If Sagars are still searching for the rest of the cast (shame on them!!!), then they shouldn't go into Mahabharata straight away, and later on discover that Arjuna has problems like Rukmini had. Instead, show the Paundrak Vasudeva story, which is independent of the Pandavas, and buy time until the Kuru parivar is completely assembled. Don't want to see another fiasco in this serial - that'll be a real put-off. But so far, I think it compares favorably to both BRC as well as RSSK. Let's see how it goes from here.

yup they showed Duryodhan ..the actor who played Lord SHIVA in RAMAYAN (Imagines ) is playing Duryodhan ...
yeahh shame on the makers of the show if they are still searching for the rest of the star cast ..
yup it wud be great if they delay this MAHABHARAT track and show other stories of Lord Krishna which were not related to the Mahabharat ...

Oh, no, Amit Pachori was one of my favs - was Mahadev both in ASR as well as in initial episodes of Shani Dev. Last week, he played the role of a rishi in Shani Dev, and now he's Duryodhan? Guess he doesn't want to be type-cast as Mahadev 😆

I think I might find it pretty hard to dislike Duryodhan - I really hated him when Puneet did his role 😆

I really want Lalit Negi to be Arjun - but let's hope that the guy they pick is good.

Correction: Shiva's role was played by Amit Pachori - I got the name wrong in my previous posts about him.

Okay, this time, they've gotten the costumes right, except for Shakuni, who's wearing exactly what he was wearing in BRC, which was wrong. And like Balarama, the Pandavas ain't going to get crowns - only Dhritarashtra.

So they did show the Pandavas, although I couldn't make out which one was Bhima & which was Arjun from pic 7 above - was Arjun the one on Krishna's left (our right)? Bhima doesn't look the muscular hunk he was supposed to be - surely they could have gotten a bodybuilding type here? I'd find it pretty difficult to dislike Duryodhan, but let's see how Amit does this role.

I happen to be someone who intensely dislikes Kunti, and considering that, I like who they picked - it's easier to dislike 😆 Sita, you were right & I was mistaken - they clearly wrote Yudhisthir next to his name. By & large, I think I prefer this cast to the one in BRC.

Anyway, let's see how it all starts.

So the Mahabharat track has started, lets see how it unfolds

I am waiting to see how they start like Vrish said. The version I knew was when he convinced Draupadi for the swayamvar and recognised Arjuna and followed them to find their identity.

Vinu

Mahabharata & Shrimad Bhagvatam have different accounts about Krishna's entry into the life of the Pandavas. In the Mahabharata, Krishna first appears in the story during Draupadi's swayamvara. In SB, otoh, after Krishna's marriage to Satyabhama, he visits Hastinapur w/ Balarama to see Kunti & the Pandavas, but doesn't meet them, since they've moved to Varnavarta (the lakshagriha episodes). During that time, Satrajit was murdered and Satyabhama came to Hastinapur to tell Krishna to give her justice, so Krishna & Balarama returned.

Of course, in this serial, they did nothing like that, so who knows whether they'll show Krishna going to Hastinapur, or Upalavya(?) But since they are narrating the Mahabharata from Krishna's POV rather than Vaisampayana's, I expect them to show SB versions of events. Ideally, I'd prefer it if they made a composite of SB and MB versions of events, depending on what makes sense. For instance, I'd prefer them to show the MB version of Krishna's war w/ Shalva (as narrated by Krishna to the Pandavas) @ the same time that Draupadi's vastraharan is going on, since that was the reason Krishna gave Draupadi for not being available to prevent her humiliation.

But I like this aspect of the Krishna-centricity of the Mahabharata stretch of this serial. Honestly, even BRC had Krishna as the lead actor - the credit role always had Nitish Bharadwaj as the first name in the credit rolls, followed by Rupa Ganguli and others. But I do dearly hope we'll be spared those endless bhashans of Vidura, Gandhari, Shakuni, et al that were excessive in BRC's Mahabhashana - I prefer Satyabhama's dumb questions to those dialogs anyday 🤪😆