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halfbloodprince

@WindsOfHeaven

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+ 8

Posted: 11 years ago

#271

A viewer of Starbharata who hasn't read Mahabharata will hate Bheeshm..!

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Sabhayata

@Sabhayata

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Posted: 11 years ago

#272

Regarding Dury and Bhima's mace fight no doubt i enjoyed it but it was a big distortion

Dury was a much more skilled mace fighter than Bhima that is what krishna ji even says in the end that none of the panadavas not even Bhima can defeat dury in a fair mace fight that is why Bhima had to deploy unfair means to defeat Dury on the last day

On day 3 Bhima does injure dury but in a bow and arrow fight not a mace fight

Truly ⭐️dury is a typical filmy villain who isn't good at anything

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Atiratha2.0

@Atiratha2.0

Beginner

Posted: 11 years ago

#273

I don't know if it's late to mention this: they made salya a bad character, by throwing his spear on Yudhisthir.. And Uttara died heroically. Actually it was Uttara who make his elephant step on Salya's car & horses, which is the first violation of the rule, elephant attacking chariot.. Salya threw the spear while jumping out of his "soon to be broken" chariot.

And they try to portray Salya as a spear fighter from the start to make him Yudhishthir's opponent. Actually he's a mace fighter, Yudhishthir was lucky to throw his spear during chariot "brawl" in 18th days.. where Salya also shows that he's a serious enemy in archery battle.

They erased the real 1 st senapati? Sveta! and they celebrated the death of a young boy uttar?

Abhimanyu is actually not that "nothing" against Bhishma..

and all those chariots can't run at all.. just like vehicles in flower festival :D

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Atiratha2.0

@Atiratha2.0

Beginner

Posted: 11 years ago

#274

and ghatotkach is not there yet?!?! he was there from day1... he was a great archer with his gigantic 8-wheeled chariot..

but TV serials' tradition made him available to fight Karna only

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Sabhayata

@Sabhayata

Sparkler

+ 4

Posted: 11 years ago

#275

@Atiratha agreed they unnecessrily made it seem as if Uttar sacrificed himsled and black washed kauravas as being the first ones to break the rules

i agree woth this line as well

and all those chariots can't run at all.. just like vehicles in flower festival :D

as per the epic one of the main strengths of an archer were his chariot and charioteer

The charioteer at times used to move the charioot so fast that any other arrow never reached its archer and also it enabaled the archer to shoot arrows in all directions.But that is diffciult to show on screen

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Justitia

@Justitia

Rocker

Posted: 11 years ago

#276

Originally posted by: Atiratha2.0
I don't know if it's late to mention this: they made salya a bad character, by throwing his spear on Yudhisthir.. And Uttara died heroically. Actually it was Uttara who make his elephant step on Salya's car & horses, which is the first violation of the rule, elephant attacking chariot.. Salya threw the spear while jumping out of his "soon to be broken" chariot.
And they try to portray Salya as a spear fighter from the start to make him Yudhishthir's opponent. Actually he's a mace fighter, Yudhishthir was lucky to throw his spear during chariot "brawl" in 18th days.. where Salya also shows that he's a serious enemy in archery battle.

They erased the real 1 st senapati? Sveta! and they celebrated the death of a young boy uttar?

Abhimanyu is actually not that "nothing" against Bhishma..

and all those chariots can't run at all.. just like vehicles in flower festival :D

Red - Then what was the need to make Nakul take the pran to kill him?? 😕 😆

⭐️CVs think we are all suffering from amnesia...

Heck, by the time Day 18 arrives, even Nakul himself might forget that HE was the one who had taken the pran!! 😆😆😆

Get ready for angry young man ⭐️Yudi on Day 18!!

Blue - 🤣

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Rehanism

@Rehanism

Dazzler

+ 2

Posted: 11 years ago

#277

Originally posted by: Atiratha2.0

and all those chariots can't run at all.. just like vehicles in flower festival :D

Exactly. Chariots are supposed to be as light and simple as possible. With all that embellished body and cushioned seats and shaky umbrellas they will be sitting ducks in battle field. Even the 'designer' bows are stupid and would never shoot in a real scenario. Also they show use of cannons, something that was never used in India until the times of Muslims.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRTwlfmMrsk[/YOUTUBE]

Frankly the problem originates with our mythologies themselves. For some strange reason our epic authors have given undue importance to archery. Almost all the top ranking warriors of our epics are archers - which is never the case in real life. Archers were largely used for providing cover fire and suppression of enemy lines from distance. They never faced man-to-man combat and therefore were barely 2nd or 3rd grade warriors. The most honoured warriors were always swordsmen, axemen and lancers/javelineers because they were the ones to actually face the enemy and shed their own blood. Even the elite chariot archers were used for shock and awe in battle and their tactic was shoot and scoot, much like modern howitzers. They never stationed themselves in the thick of battle for prolonged duels with enemy archers, unlike what happens in our epics. From a realistic view Nakul, Sahdev and Yudhishtir would be considered superior warriors to Arjun. Personally I never understood this fascination with archery and all sorts of fancy war scenarios.

Edited by Rehanism - 11 years ago

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ThePirateKing

@ThePirateKing

Voyager

Posted: 11 years ago

#278

I agree with what has been written regarding the chariots, but I do not completely agree with the statement that archers were 2nd or 3rd grade warriors.

The functions of archers as has been rightly mentioned was not hand-to-hand combat but for shock and awe/shoot and scoot tactics, but they were equally high in the pecking order along with swordsmen.

Forget MB, in the later times Romans, Persians, Greeks had all made requests to the Indian rulers for hiring Indian mercenaries to fight for them and their requests were almost exclusively for archers (on foot and on elephants). Indian longbow archers were among the most feared warriors back then.

Successes have always gone to the army that was best able to synergize the archers and the swords/spear men the best example being Chengiz Khan.

Edited by ThePirateKing - 11 years ago

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halfbloodprince

@WindsOfHeaven

Achiever

+ 8

Posted: 11 years ago

#279

Gandolf will be INJURED by Shikhandi? Feeling like laughing like a lunatic now..!

Couldn't they get a guy to play Shikhandi? That actress's voice is damn painful to my ears.

Btw, Star plus' theme is Rishta wohi soch nayi. So blackwashing Bheeshm is a part of this Nayi Soch. Hell yes! Kaliyuga ki soch..😆

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Rehanism

@Rehanism

Dazzler

+ 2

Posted: 11 years ago

#280

Originally posted by: ThePirateKing
I agree with what has been written regarding the chariots, but I do not completely agree with the statement that archers were 2nd or 3rd grade warriors.

The functions of archers as has been rightly mentioned was not hand-to-hand combat but for shock and awe/shoot and scoot tactics, but they were equally high in the pecking order along with swordsmen.

Forget MB, in the later times Romans, Persians, Greeks had all made requests to the Indian rulers for hiring Indian mercenaries to fight for them and their requests were almost exclusively for archers (on foot and on elephants). Indian longbow archers were among the most feared warriors back then.

Successes have always gone to the army that was best able to synergize the archers and the swords/spear men the best example being Chengiz Khan.

Yes, perhaps my wordings were wrong. What I meant to say that Archers were not real fighters. They were support warriors. Mongols did give huge importance to mounted archers, but Mongolian archers were light horsemen and their primary job was to scatter the enemy, while avoiding direct face off with enemy troops, making it easy for the lancers to cut them down. But no where did archers do the actual fighting, except for Indian epics. Paris, for instance, was a skilled archer and he killed Achilles and yet he's never considered much of a warrior compared to his brother Hector.

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