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I particularly love the way the Gandhars have been shown to be different from the rest of the kings, their furs suggest they lived in a colder region (again no way of verifying but at least not everyone in the serial is wearing impossibly ornate and heavy gaudy jewelry).

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It seems the makers were more concerned with how to make everything look larger than life and yes, a significant amount of money has been spent on the making of this serial but the results are not visible on screen since the CGI effects are simply atrocious. These may seem like small insignificant things, however, when put together they highlight the lack of research that has gone into the epic. I am no expert of geography, but I do believe that Hastinapur was located in present day Haryana and there arenвЂ™t any mountains for miles around! In some of the scenes, fireworks are shown, which werenвЂ™t invented until the 7 th Century A.D.ДЄt DevrathaвЂ™s coronation as a вЂYuvrajвЂ™, we see dancers performing the south Indian Bharat Natyam dance, which was again a little too farfetched (even if south Indian dancers did come all the way to the coronation of a north Indian king, why werenвЂ™t there any dancers from north India present or shown?)ДЄll the characters are shown to be wearing impossibly heavy and gaudy jewelry and tons of make up! The background music and camera movement is sometimes too melodramatic. The kingdom of Hastinapur is shown to be surrounded by mountains and rivers. An attempt to attack when your opponentвЂ™s back was turned would have been viewed as a extreme cowardice.

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The Kshatriyas at the time of the Mahabharat were very particular about the Kshatriya code which stated that you can only fight your opponent when he has the same weapon as you and then too only from the front after a warning. At one point he is attacked by the king of Panchal from behind, something which would have been unthinkable for a king to do in those times. Vichitravirya is captured by the Panchal King and is about to be punished for burning crops when he is rescued by Bhisma who turns up all gung ho, and pulls some extraordinary moves to rescue the hapless prince.

Some other inaccuracies that I canвЂ™t help noticing are the way the battle scenes have been shot. And yet her sisters are shown to be demure, more than happy to go along with Bhisma to marry a man who, as stated above, is weak and a drunkard and it seems prone to burning fields as well! However, the Amba that is depicted in this new serial is just plain annoying! When she is introduced, she burns down a field in order to meet her beloved King Shalv. I have always sympathized with Amba because of the way she was treated in the epic. Yet another characterization that I was unhappy with was Amba. This depth and complexity of their relationship has not been explored in the current serial. Her marriage to the king may have been based on a terrible sacrifice by Devratha but for all intents and purposes, she was loyal to the throne to the end and eternally grateful to Bhisma. Satyavati has been represented as an ambitious and selfish woman whose sole aim is to secure the throne for her progeny and yet the Satyavati of the texts was very different. The story of Shantanu and Ganga reduced to a couple of hasty scenes. Entire sub-stories have been glossed over. However, I still get frustrated by the apparent lack of research that has gone into re-making this epic.

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The more recent attempt by Star Plus is, while not perfect, at least watchable.

The first one was the disastrousВ attempt by Ekta Kapoor (Kahani Hamare Mahabharat Ki), which infuriated me so much that I stopped watching it after the first few episodes. Recently the Mahabharat has been adapted twice for TV.

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BR Chopra's Mahabharat was shown on TV in the 90s and I was subsequently glued to the television every sunday with my entire family. Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the Mahabharat.