CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
This OS is meant to make fun of Starbharat and NOT intended to make light of any events described below. If someone is hurt, my apologies.
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Hello Mr Ashok, director of StarBharat. I am reporter Vijay. I want your interview.Nice to meet you again. Have a seat. Lovely word StarBharat. Haha.
Well Sir.. You should put a disclaimer like in movies that any resemblance to original Mahabharat is merely coincidental.Before reaching to any conclusion, please note that Starbharat script is written by our experienced, super talented CVs on high end computers in exotic fonts.
Original MB script, in contrast, was a scribble of a partially evolved pachyderm on a fragile palmleaf using a primitive tusk as a pen.
Now you be the judge which script is superior.
Hmmm. Anyway, congrats for high TRP of this show.
Thanks. I am always fascinated with Mahabharat. It has changed my life.
The serial has even changed life of mighty Bheeshma, Karna and Pandavas, so I am not surprised it changed yours.
I was always an independent thinker, a rebel, never caving in to established norms. In school, I suffered in Physics and Maths as it demanded the strictest adherence to laws and theorems. I also fared very poorly in remaining subjects due to lack of interest.
Arch enemies are like two parallel lines which never meet but your show has made Arjuna and Karna hand and gloves from the word go.
The special bond between Karna and Arjuna can only be likened with love between Parth/Krishna or Jai/Veeru or Daya/Abhijeet.
Mere Karan-Arjun aayenge fame, ever-old Rakhee Gulzaar was the first visionary to immortalise their bond.
Starbharat is heavily criticised by Mukesh Khanna. What do you have to say ?
Mukeshji is an old school who believes in detailed research, meaningful dialogues, realistic acting and logical presentation for success. He also has a nauseating reliance on outdated Vyaasa.
We have derived from varied sources such as Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, Kungfu panda series, personal experience as well as wild imagination.
Subhadra is inspired from Priyanka of Barfi. Bheema carries legacy of legends such as Joginder and RajendraNath. Shakra is Hedwig's ancestor. Our Draupadi haran by Jayadrath, underscores similarity between Sita and Draupadi.
We put lot of emphasis on fitness. One look at Arav's sculpted torso and its not difficult to see why Amba was so frustrated when he refused to marry her. It is truly a body to die for. We have decided to hold off on his payment to ensure natural angry, frustrated looks befitting Pitamaha's role.
You can very well see we are very committed to our work.
Please share your experience directing Draupadi Vastraharan scenes.
After years of in-depth research and exhaustive discussions with leading psychiatrists, neurosurgeons and women activists we have reached a conclusion that there is some merit in a claim that it must have been a very difficult experience for Draupadi.
We brainstormed for weeks with scores of expert women molesters before finalizing script of Draupadi's Vastraharan.
Nirbhay, our Dusshasana, was tutored by Prem Chopraji and Shakti Kapoorji to get perfect lascivious expressions. Sublime Vastra/Shastra poetry was conceived by the most creative minds in the industry.
We were not too thrilled with BRC's realistic Vastraharan scene in which Dusshasan and Rupaji share the same stage. We envisaged a magnum opus where hapless Draupadi alone takes the center stage, challenging Dusshasan to disrobe her who is standing on the periphery holding her pallu.The stage dimensions required such a long pallu that it consumed almost all clothing material available leaving very little for Krishna's supply of sarees.
What was the reaction to Vastraharan ?
Vastraharan is not just about a woman's agony, but it is also a spectacular visual feast of beautiful designer sarees and a perfect ensemble of oil slick half nude male bodies. The ladies all over India enjoyed it immensely. Their only grouse was that the scene was too short and we did not show all hundred Kaurava hunks.
Vastraharan also paved way to social awareness with lively debate on facebook, twitter about which actor looks hot semi-nude and which of the sarees/jewellery suit Pooja the most.
By popular demand, we plan to introduce similar Vastraharan scene between Keechak and Sairandhri. We are also in advance talks with few gyms for adequate supply of bare, toned bodies.
Nirbhay is now a busy star and has received several invitations to unveil swimsuit mannequins. Shinde is inundated with offers to direct B grade films featuring hot Reshma. Everyone in underworld wants to grow moustaches like Nirbhay or sport a beard like Arpit.
Shakuni is also a rage and candidates with rotten teeth are given preferential treatment for the post of chief consultant to Chhota Shakeel.
Why Panchaali is seen only with Yudhisthira ?
Our show does not encourage polyandry, although our hands were tied in Draupadi's case. Yudhisthira and Draupadi shots were necessary to perform Rajsuya and hence our CVs have decided to promote them as real husband and wife like Ram-Sita.
After Vastraharan, she has divorced all husbands except Yudhisthira. CVs must be lauded for this ingenious solution to shed bothersome baggage of husbands.
Tell us about Pandava's exile.
Whole Yaksha incident and death of Pandavas give me blues and hence we decided to lend vintage Saawariya blue look to the episode. The feel was so authentic, that viewers half expected Pandavas to be killed by Yaksha for not doing famous towel steps satisfactorily.
CVs decided to cancel Arjuna's Indralok journey and instead asked him to focus on hard tapasya on bed of arrows. Arjuna will be shown to learn invaluable lessons in reflexology and accupuncture. In the final battle, he will aim Pitamaha's precise accupressure points and give him great comfort and relief from chronic back pain on his deathbed.
Looks like CVs provide more rigorous training to Arjuna than Guru Drona. Please describe your proudest moment.
Shishupal was a phenomenon. Napunsak dialogue was my creativity, hence my joy knew no bounds when Shishupal fame, Joy Mathur was awarded prestigious Napunsak of Millenium trophy and expensive saree by Hijra community for his exemplary social work as Shishupal.
Gillette company is keen to launch new head shaving razors modelled on Krishna's Discus and Arjuna's pointed arrow. The company has signed SRJ and Saurav as brand ambassadors. The new ads will feature before and after head closeups of Rukhmi and Jayadrath to showcase efficacy of new product.
Starbharat sponsored game of Pitthu has garnered more popularity than Quidditch. We intend to strive for its inclusion in Olympics. We have received overwhelming response for Pitthu franchise and bidding will start soon.
Thanks for your time Sir and all the best for future distortions!!
Edited by Cotswolds - 11 years ago