Originally posted by: Chandraketu
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I'll try not to be too off-topic here, but my main problem with BRC was that they assigned to themselves the role of Vyasa, in addition to all the others - the serial was horribly fictitious. Everybody in it was a philosophical chatterbox, and I hated how centric it was around Vidura and Shakuni, and also how it exaggerated the camaraderie between Kunti and Gandhari. Aside from major distortions - like Duryodhan lighting Karna's pyre, for instance - Duryodhan never in his life got to know who Karna really was, and the reason Kunti confessed his story was that she couldn't let him go without an appropriate funeral, which the Pandavas weren't going to give him in absence of the truth.
No, I judge epic serials on accuracy, and BRC gets an F. I wonder how this would do, but I somehow don't watch it. I'd however love it if someday someone does a serial on the entire Mahabharat in its originality - with all the characters represented.
I guess this is another point we won't agree on,😆😆😆 because I personally never felt BR's MB was as fictitious as you said. I too judge a serial on its accuracy, but we can't expect every mythological to be absolutely perfect, because there are sooooooooooo many different books on MB out there, that directors choose the one they believe in. While this might not make some people happy, it satisfies the people who believe that version. Get what I mean? It's hard to judge which book is absolutely accurate in these days, because the story's been passed down so many generations that some changes are bound to happen, but the important thing in serials is to show the basic overall story. For example, there are different versions in the Ramayana about the Chaya Sita concept, but all of them have Sita's agni pariksha in them, don't they? If a Ramayana serial left out the agni pariksha alltogether, then we would know that that is absolutely wrong, but details like the Chaya Sita concept vary depending on the version people read. Like in the Sagars Ramayana, they showed that Sitaji knew about her exile beforehand, but some people believe that she did not, and those won't like the Sagar's rendition of Uttar Ramayan, while those who believe in the Sagars' version will like it.
But Ekta's MB is different, because she completely made up a story that Duryodhan was actually friendly with the Pandavas in the beginning and loved them like his brothers until a murder attempt was made on him, and Kunti and the Pandavas became the subjects. Although it was proven later on that they didn't do it, Duryodhan never got over his hatred and that's why he hated the Pandavas. I mean, how pathetic of a story is that? There's also another story she made up that Bhishma had a fight with Dhritarastra and left Hastinapura, but was later "coaxed" to come back. That was definitely an untrue story, because Bhishma Pitamah made a vow that he would always support Hastinapura no matter what, and he stuck to that vow throughout his life, even by fighting for the Adharm side in the war. In Ekta's MB, she shows Bhishma in a pitiable light, and I did not like that at all, because he was a great respected person, and
never broke his vow, especially due to a petty fight.
Just a quesion, what grades will you give the older ramayan and this Ramayan?
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