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Originally posted by: Blukitten

I was very small wen old mahabharta used to come on DD...they repeated in several times and other channels have also repeated it...I hav seen the older version...It was very detailed and the casting was awesome !! each and every character looked real.

The tilte track with lines from geeta in sanskrit...plus at the end of each episode there used to be a moral.

The dialogs were amazing and brilliently written.

The current MB is good technically but its no match to the dialogues of the old MB...

well said !!! I saw it first in my childhood & watched it again & again in repeat telecast...
Its casting was awesome...dialogs,acting, direction everything looks very much real...title song is just superb...i love to watch it again & again...

I am watching this Mahabharat...one point is good about it that's technology otherwise everything is very poor - cast is not so good / storyline 😕 / characterization as they introduce all characters in their own way...

Really can't compare. I could properly watch only last night's episode.

granteed that this one can never match the Old Mahabharat we all expected that but I wish they had done better then this cheap imitation

everything right from caste to technology is wierd and worse

oh I was looking so forward to a nice serial but here they have merely made a mockery of each and every character of the the Mahabharat

This caste is not at all good no attraction at all no acting
road side street players are much better then them

Ab kya kahen...😆 I don't want to criticize anyone. I am not sure how this Gandhari (who for a second resembled Deepika Padukone from one angle) is going to look when she ages. I can't imagine a size 0 20-something actress playing the role of Duryodhan's mother. If they change the actress mid-way it again spoils it. But in B R Mahabharat, she was the same lady throughout.

Originally posted by: visrom

Really can't compare. I could properly watch only last night's episode.

They are focussing on Gandhari's dillemma in detail. In BR Mah, they showed it in a split second. She comes in wears a scarf over her eyes and done. Here they show that she's scared of dark, she's upset about the decision or that her dad didn't trust her. They are showing it from another perspective.

Also Shakuni...sometimes you tend to feel he's right in his anger with Bheeshma. Bringing in a marriage proposal for a blind groom is a kind of insult isn't it?

Whatever...I will not expect this to be like BR Mah. Will catch up when I get time.

agree...but simultaneously Shakuni never realize that he destroys his own sister's family not Bhishma's family...😛

Sometimes i feel its not Mahabharat rather a story based on Mahabharat 😆

Shakuni did what was necessary to make Duryodhan the king. He couldn't fight the proper way, so he chose deceit. Whatever it is...he was a well-wisher of Gandhari and Duryodhan from his POV.

In BR Chopra's 'Mahabharat', all the actors were selected through auditions and they were the best ones chosen. But the case isn't same here. The casting so far is good but looking at the rest I feel they have selected models who can never know the abc of acting 😆

Also, the makers are causing deviations in the story.

BRC's MB had actors who became the face of the characters they played. But this one looks like a ramp with models walking. Only Bhishma impressed me even though nobody can come close to the charismatic Mukesh Khanna. Arav is good. And I don't need to say anything about our original Duryodhan aka Puneet sir. He's such a great actor.

And I'm not satisfied with the casting of Pandavs and Kauravas, it's a big disappointment!

Originally posted by: visrom

Shakuni did what was necessary to make Duryodhan the king. He couldn't fight the proper way, so he chose deceit. Whatever it is...he was a well-wisher of Gandhari and Duryodhan from his POV.

I saw the video of 'Making of BR Mahabharat' where Puneet Issar rightly put it...no one in Mahabharat was completely good or completely bad. Everyone was a grey character. Even Yudhisthir isn't a 100% great guy. He did stake his wife in gambling.

Shakuni tried unethical means to ensure that Duryodhan gets the throne and finally it went to war. In the war, to be frank anyone could have won. Pandavas didn't win it the proper way. Even they cheated. Duryodhan had a genuine chance to win. So it's not like Shakuni's actions were the only cause of Kauravas desruction.

Actually no.. Shakuni's every move had the sole purpose of destruction of the entire clan in mind. It did not have either Duryodhana's or Dhridrashtra's goodness in heart. Shakuni wanted destruction of the entire clan that destroyed his family and made his sister's life dark (in his opinion).

Duryodhana already had the throne that Shakuni was trying to get him😉 Shakuni created an illusion that Kauravas and Dhridhrashtra accepted as right

Shakuni just increased the fear in duryodhan's and dhirtarshtra's heart about the pandavas. he created the jealously in duryodhans heart right from the childhood. I would still say in the end shakuni did achieve his goal of destroying the kuru clan. because after the great war though pandavas survived...but still the kuru court was not that great without its stalwarts bheeshma, guru drona and so many people who died in the war...

shakuni did indeed destroy the kuru clan..