Who’s who of Ekta’s Mahabarat-Article

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The Who's who of Ekta's Mahabarat

Ekta Kapoor's Mahabharat will go on air in August. The filming is about to begin next week. We give you a lowdown on some of the characters who have been finalized.
Ronit Roy as Bhishma

He is taking major training for his role from Prashant Sawant (SRK's trainer). He has stopped eating rice and fish.

Ram Kapoor as Dhritashtra

It is said that Ram is also on weight training and is working hard to prepare for this blind character.

Chetan Hansraj as Bheem

Chetan is training himself in a gym. It is said that while doing a dummy shoot, Aryan's biceps inspired him.

Hiten Tejwani as Karan

Interestingly, Hiten is already playing a modern day Karan in his show Kyunki but it will be more interesting to see him in mythological costumes designed by Manish Malhotra.

Aryan Vaidya as Duryodhan

He has replaced Akashdeep Saigal as Akash is busy with his reality show and a daily soap. Moreover, it is being said that he is too fat for the role.

Sakshi Tanwar as Ganga

She was shooting for the show recently in Ladakh and suffered from some altitude problems.

Akashdeep Saigal is playing Kans Mama. The character of Kans is not very prominent as he has a very short role while Rakshanda Khan as Amba, the sister of Ambica and Amablica, will be seen in amrapali costumes.

The main characters like Krishna, Draupadi and Arjun are still to be decided. A source told us, "Ekta is making the show for the new generation so it is going to be a contemporary one. Our target audience is the age group of 15-20 who have only heard about the old Mahabharat. It is going to be technically way better and Manish is working very hard on each and every costume."

Some of the members of the cast have already finished shooting in Ladakh. The rest of the show's shoot will begin on May 28.

http://www.indya.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2008/May/ News_20080519_210






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Posted: 17 years ago
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I hope Shabbir doesn't act in this Mahabharta
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Posted: 17 years ago
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age group 15-20....
i wonder what age group kym targets?? - Middle aged [/QUOTE]

coz they like to weep and weep and fear of Sautan is high😉 in middle age plus they can't sleep, so the time slot is 11 pm😳

Mahabharat for 15-20 is hillarious...it will neighter be here nor be there ( usual oldies audience)

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Posted: 17 years ago
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Candy, if the age of members here at KYM forum of IF is any indication of the viewers of KYM I would say 15 to 40!
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Posted: 17 years ago
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Who is Arjun?
Or is this modified version of the epic without an Arjun?!
Sorry guys, but with BT anything is possible...
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Posted: 17 years ago
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Thankfully Shabbo's name has not been mentioned so far. Hope he is not playing any part of this comedy circus.
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Originally posted by: tweety_me14

Who is Arjun?
Or is this modified version of the epic without an Arjun?!
Sorry guys, but with BT anything is possible...

Tweety, the article says they have not yet finalised Krishna, Arjun and Draupati. Hope they go in for new actors for these roles because they are central to the whole story and the existing established actors may not have as much time away from their daily soaps to play the part.

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Posted: 17 years ago
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Oh..I didn't bother to read the whole article..! :P
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Posted: 17 years ago
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Thanx for the article

Not expecting anything good from Balaji creatives
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Posted: 17 years ago
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i hope shabbo isnt in this project

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