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Mahabharat
Title screen
GenreMythological television drama
Created bySiddharth Kumar Tewary
Based onMahabharata
Written bySharmin Joseph, Radhika Anand, Anand Vardhan, Mihir Bhuta and Siddharth Kumar Tewary
Directed bySiddharth Anand Kumar, Amarprith G, S Chawda, Kamal Monga and Loknath Pandey
Starring(For entire cast see below)
Opening themeHai Katha Sangram Ki
ComposersAjay-Atul
Ismail Darbar
Country of originIndia
Original languagesHindi
Tamil
Telugu
Bengali
Marathi
Malayalam
Production
ProducersSiddharth Kumar Tewary, Gayatri Gil Tiwari and Rahul Kumar Tewary
Running time20 minutes[1]
Production companySwastik Pictures
Original release
NetworkStar Plus
Release16 September 2013 (2013-09-16) –
Present

Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language mythological television drama series on STAR Plus based on the sanskrit epic Mahabharata.[2][3][4][5][6] It started broadcasting on 16 September 2013 on STAR Plus.[7]

It has been produced by Swastik Productions Pvt. Ltd and stars Saurabh Raj Jain as Krishna, Shaheer Sheikh as Arjuna, Pooja Sharma as Draupadi, Aham Sharma as Karna and Arav Chowdhary as Bhishma.[8][9]

Plot summary

Mahabharat presents the story of the throne of Hastinapura, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan. The Kaurava and the Pandava brothers compete for rulership. Although the Kauravas' father is the senior of the two patriarchs, Duryodhana, the eldest Kaurava, is younger than Yudhisthira, the eldest Pandava. Both Duryodhana and Yudhisthira claim to be first in line to inherit the throne.[10]

When Bhishma asked for Gandhari's hand in marriage for his blind nephew Dhritarashtra, her brother Shakuni got furious. Though he agreed later, he swore to himself that he would destroy the Kuru race. He sowed the seeds of the climactic battle of Kurukshetra during the adolescence of the Kauravas and Pandavas by poisoning the mind of Duryodhana against the Pandavas. This results in the Kurukshetra War.

The War produces conflicts of kinship and friendship, and instances of family loyalty and duty taking precedence over what is just.

Cast

Dubbed versions

The show has been dubbed in other Indian languages including Bengali as Mahabharat, Malayalam as Mahabharatham, Telugu as Mahabharatham, Tamil as Mahabharatham, Indonesia as Mahabharata and Marathi as Mahabharat.[14] The Bengali version is telecast on Star Jalsha channel, the Malayalam version is telecast on Asianet channel, the Telugu version is telecast on MAA TV, the Tamil version is telecast on Star Vijay channel, The Marathi version is telecast on Star Pravah channel and the Indonesian version is telecast on Antv channel.[15]

Production and promotion

Star spent ₹100 crore (US$12 million) on the project and spent another ₹20 crore (US$2.4 million) on marketing the show, making it as India's most expensive TV series.[16]

The producers had creative associations[vague] with Bollywood script-writer Salim Khan, author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, music directors Ajay-Atul and Ismail Darbar, action director Ram Shetty and set designer Omang Kumar. The casting of the show is done by Sahil Ansari, Mahesh Chandra Bhatt, Arun Mitra.

According to producer Siddharth Kumar Tiwary the cheer haran[clarification needed] sequence, which Tiwary directed, took twenty days to shoot.[17]

Reception

Writing for Rediff, Nishi Tiwari said the show "gets the details -- lexicon, background score, and the sets" right in comparison to the 2008 version by Ekta Kapoor, but the actors were lacking in comparison to the BR Chopra version that aired in the 1980s. Tiwari wrote that "If it maintains the quality of writing and able actors who portray key characters, we may have another winner among us".[18] DNA praised the costumes, scenery, Krishna's flute theme, and most of the CGI special effects, but said the story pace was too fast.[19]

It garnered an opening viewership of 8445 TVTs (television viewership in thousands), which means approximately 8.4 million people watched it on 16 September 2013 the day it was debuted.[20] The show has become the highest rated weekday fiction show in the last three years on Indian television.[21]

In the week reporting in 1 December 2013, it was ranked 7th among the fiction serials with a TVT rating of 6835.[22] The following week it was 6th with a rating of 7,170.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Mahabharat (2013 TV series) Technical specifications". IMDb. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  2. ^ TNN 15 Sep 2013, 10.27AM IST (15 September 2013). "Mahabharat launced for the youth of the nation! - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 20 October 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Shakuni's role in Mahabharat once in a lifetime: Praneet Bhatt - Times Of India
  4. ^ Is Shafaq Naaz miffed with Mahabharat makers? - Times Of India
  5. ^ Shaheer Sheikh and Rohit Bhardwaj’s Buddy Diwali! - Times Of India
  6. ^ Riding high on 'Mahabharat' ratings, Star Plus tops the chart : Featured, News - India Today
  7. ^ Deepanjana Pal. "The new Mahabharat is an epic fail". Firstpost. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  8. ^ Actors take on Mahabharat - Times Of India
  9. ^ Paranormal activity on the sets of Mahabharat - Times Of India
  10. ^ Indian Television> News Headline >Mahabharat Redux on Star Plus
  11. ^ Neha Maheswri (27 October 2013). "Pallavi to play Krishna's Rukmini". Times of India. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  12. ^ Ankita R. Kanabar (27 February 2014). "Rohit Shetty adds humour to Khatron Ke Khiladi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  13. ^ "Raj Premi roped in to essay Kalyavan in Star Plus' Mahabharat". Tellychakkar. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  14. ^ Star India to air Mahabharat, Mahadev in Marathi | Rapid TV News
  15. ^ Mahabharata antv
  16. ^ Ajita Shashidhar. "Broadcasters betting big money on the small screen with Rs.100 crore shows". India Today. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  17. ^ Kanabar, Ankita R. (2 April 2014). "The cheer haran sequence in Mahabharat took 20 days to shoot". Indian Express. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  18. ^ Nishi Tiwari. "Review: Mahabharat, so far so good". Rediff. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  19. ^ Chaya Unnikrishnan. "Show review: 'Mahabharat'". DNA. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  20. ^ Debashish Mukerji. "Riding high on 'Mahabharat' ratings, Star Plus tops the chart". India Today. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  21. ^ Priyanka Srivastava. "Major networks in epic ratings battle as mythological shows like Mahabarat take on reality TV for nation's viewers". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  22. ^ "Rise in the ratings of TV shows this week - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  23. ^ "Reality shows see a drop in ratings this week - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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