MAIN HANTA HUN....
AUR AAJ
MAIN AAP SABH KO
DO MAHAAN GAATHAON KE BAARE MAIN APNE REVIEWS DUNGA..
In today’s review I have chosen to compare both adaptations of
Epic Saga called MAHABHARAT. They were made in a gap of two and a half decades, so there are huge differences in both versions. Although there were few more adaptations, but I personally believe these two are best. We all obviously know what’s the story behind the Mahabharat War. So
I will just skip that part. What I have decided to do is compare both the
versions what was good, bad, what to expect and what not. I have shortly summarized it into 10 main points to keep it simple as possible..
AND HELLO!!! I AM AN ATHEIST!! I AM WARNING YOU ALL!!
IF YOU FEEL OFFENDED, THEN AWWWWWWW!!
1. मैं समय हूँ ( Main Samay Hun)
The biggest demotivating factor was there was no "Samay" in the latest version. He is the best Narrator of all time, in fact he himself is time. Lord Krishna himself is the narrator for the first fourty episodes and that lord enter in the story ending his narration part.
2. Wrong Casting
The former version's casting was done focusing more on their acting abilities and personalities. But the later one's was solely based on looks. The complex characters of Pandavas, Kauravas and all other Hastinapurians were looking fabulous only till the moment they didn't open their mouth. Only few characters like Lord Krishna & Shakuni were beautifully portrayed rest were just lukewarm.
3. No Importance to Ved Vyaas
Star Plus's writers have hardly mentioned Ved Vyaas in total of 267 episodes. Maha rishi can only be seen in 7-8 episodes barely. He was the one who gave birth to Dhritrashtra, Pandu & Vidur. More over he was the one who Cease-fired between Ashwathaama and Pandavas. Come Seriously he deserved more!!
4. Special effects
Obviously the special effects are way better than any other soaps on Televisions in India. See I dont expect much, but if you compare it with the craps of bollywood & daily soaps they simply awesome and are beautifully shown most of the time.
5. Background Score
The music in the B R Chopra's version was composed by Late Rajamal Sahab & sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Star Plus didnt give much attention to background score. I mean most of the characters had their own signature music, but gave the impression of WWE entrance more. The lyrics in the older adaptation were focus to explain whats going on, so it had at least twenty seven different scores.
6. Weak Characters
Latest adaptation's lead characters like Karna, Bheeshma, Vidur, Draupadi, Duryodhan & many more were pretty confused. The firmness which Mukesh Khanna, Puneet Issar had was missing. Every time some twist happens they dont know what to do, where to go. Then either Lord Krishna or Shakuni come to the rescue.
7. Story's Pace
Star Plus's writers had given too much importance to some events like Bheem and Hidimba's marital issues, this made first exile of Pandavas to last for about 25-30 episodes which was for a period of 5-6 years. But the exile which was post 'Cheer-Haran' took only 12 episodes to complete that in reality lasted for 12+1 years. The Story's pace is slow Pre-Cheeraharan and Super-fast Post- Cheerharan.
8. Wrong Facts
This is something me and critics have hated the MOST. For the sake of TRP many facts and events had been twisted which were far far away from the actual events as per the book. For example, Duryodhan was always proud of his friend Karna, instead Star Plus chose to show that Duryodhan considered Karna as a traitor once he realizes the truth about him. Shame on you!!! Shame!! Shame!!
This is just one instant, there are many like this.
9. Vasudev, The SHOW STOPPER!!
The feel good factor in the version was philosophies of Lord Krishna. Right from the 1st episode you will wait for him to enter the frame, then your eyes and ears will focus only on him nothing else that is guaranteed. But even the Lord himself didn't have the power of the writers. During the war of Kurukshetra, Lord would stop time before the death of any positive character from the sides of Kauravas and tell them the reason for their death. That seemed really Unnatural to me and to be honest it wasn't required. Even "Samay" was not happy with it.
10. TOO MUCH MASALA!!!!!
B R CHOPRA'S MAHABHARAT + BOLLYWOOD EMOTIONS + EKTA KAPOORISM + SPECIAL EFFECTS + 3 TONNES OF RED CHILLI POWDER + EVEREST LA TEEEKHALAL, KASHMIRILAL AUR KOOTILAL equals
VOILA!!!! STAR PLUS'S MAHABHARAT !!!
And lastly we must not forget the fact that the junior artist used in both adaptations had same amount of enthusiasm!!
By the way if you don't have so much of patience and command over Hindi, you can watch Grant Morrison's version of Mahabharat.. This is pretty awesome!! But its pretty hard to understand whats going on if you dont know the background of the story, this is a non-linear adaptation of the same.
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