An experiential viewpoint ..

My first post on this forum, though I have been reading regularly & I truly am amazed by amount of different substories that this forum has got in to the light of all tracks so far. Plus the discussions are great as well.

Personal biggest 'likepoint' of Mahabharat is how it connect my kids & my mom & generates discussions & stories about it at home. My son loves waching Mahadev & now Mahabharat (in addition to Angrybirds & starwars & this & that ).. and I Love that!

I still remember how old 'mahabhaaaraaat... w/ shankhnaad & ..sri Krishna bharat Bharti' in Mahendra Kapur's voice used to fill up my Sunday morning as kid! It took me to read various versions of this epic from Amarchitrakatha to original Bhagvad Gita to various literary masterpieces with modern, bold viewpoints!

This mahabharat , too presents a quite different approach. Kind of not staying on path of original story though. Sure, super casting & impressive actors, grand sets & good locales is there but still ...

Few pointers: Honestly, Krishna as narrator was a surprise, I liked. (SRJain is perfect). But where is he these days??? And though initial episodes I found bit sketchy (screechy when tinywinny Amba was around, whale-ish fish jumping in valley river, overpushy Satyavati etc) ... they covered up with young Kurus- pandvas & kaurvas(just 3 they focus on- Duryodhan, Dushasan, Dushala).

My fav. consistent Characters so far have been- Krishna as Sutradhar, Shakuni, Pitamah Bhishma & Kunti.

This StarPlus Mahabharat is definitely made with direct/undirect/conscious/sub-concious/un-concious effort to hook new age kids to teens to youngAdults .

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In future, they ill have many more such references-visual, contextual, memorial etc!

bahut scope hai in this Story wohi, soch kahin?! Tiwaribhaiyya +SittaronPlus 's interprtation mein!

Awesome post Shaina as usual👏...
always love reading your posts

Grown up Arjun ... Atta Boy! Shaheerbhai... You haven't let the chanel or PH down - so far. Though, raise your hand - if , post veena vaadan in front of earlier thanexpected +scarrierthanexpected Subhadra .. Arjun's reactions post Dhrit+sons outrage reminded me totally of Navvya ka Anant. With open mouth ( I heard in mental bg anant saying .. who.. main.. lekin.. papa/chacha...) .. Hope this improves. Along with stance in standing scenes! (a special gadgad' note here: Shaheer, You & Somya will always be my favorite-est & I always feel proud when you go places.)

- Subhadra... why oh- why .. oh why😕???? Bas!

Bahut Dino baad likha hai per kya khoob likha hain shaina ben👏

A typical "U" kinda writeup shainaben!!! U alwz bringout d good in d bad dat v usually missout or ignore in our rantings! A good topic in a equally good forum:)) U have been missed shainaben,whenever i visited dis forum:)
Coming to d topic...d amba n satyavati was a bit dramatic n OTT for me too n totally agree on Mo bhai getting d mute treatment here too! Bechare Mo bhai ko "kab tak chup rahenge"wali sthiti mei chhod diya hai tiwari ne.Going by d graphics n d way tiwari twists some parts for his benefit,d "shrek suhaagraat" myt b worth watching.
Tiwariji ka casting error has left a bitter taste for me to watch d episodes of ArjunSubhadra.D sooner dose get over d better i wud feel! I dont know d mahabharat dat well but still feel k tiwariji ka mahabharat is lacking in someway n its only coz of babua dat d trps vil rise a bit.
All said n done..do give us something as good as dis once in a while shainaben!

Thank You & dhanyawad & aabhar ladies!

EXACTLY !!! My son dsnt knw d d mahabharat n i tell him smthing n tiwariji shows smthing else!! Bachcha confuse ho raha hai, by God!!! not just dese words..d day arjun was being punished for attacking karan(aisa koi sandarbh hai kya MB mei??) in dat epi gandhari was heard saying,Arjun "mazak" kar raha hoga!! MAZAK??!! isnt dat an urdu word??jahan zaroorat hai wahan ders no shudh bhasha n unnecessarily dey use pure lingo even if its used in d wrong context. If u go thru d epis..u'll find many such words jiske meaning at dat particular tym is smthing really different!
Letz see wat else tiwariji has in store for us...

whoaaa!!! the way u present ur thots or views..amzng😊😆

Loved your post...It is funny because as a teenager I thought Mahabharat was the original soap-opera written by Ved Vyas to entertain the masses in those cold winters huddled around fire (as we did not have TVs in those days). You have every thing...illegitimate kids, taboo relationships, question about parentage, attempt to rapes, spoilt kids, murders and conspiracies, fight over property, love affairs, elopement, revenge...the only thing missing is plastic surgery (strike that ...Pandavas managed to pull off some semblance of that in 1 year agyatvaas with even sex change (Brahinala) thrown in).