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I feel sad for real wife of karna that some writer is using her and twisting her story. Karna wife is not named in mahabharat and she was never proposed by Arjuna. It is sad that for some money and Trp people have destroyed great epic of Mahabharat where draupadi falls in love with karna in one novel and Arjuna proposes to karna's wife in other novel. It seems that people love to malign image of such great characters. I strongly oppose this serial as such serial be it chandranandini on Chandragupta maurya or karna sangini on karna's wife is gross injustice to iconic characters.
Creative liberties on Mahabharat have been taken since medieval ages. We have great poets & playwrights like Kalidasa, Kashiram Das, etc who have generously added their own original ideas and stories to Vyasa's, rendering beautiful angles (though fictional) to the already famous story in their own versions.
Some of them wrote their retellings in simpler language, adding colourful stories from their own imagination because their target audience was the naive peasantry who have no understanding of Sanskrit or the difficult philosophies of Vyasa.
But yes. These great writers of yore were honest enough to not call their own versions "Vyasa's Mahabharat". They never shied away from making it clear that it is "their" version.
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