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| Mahabharat | |
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| Genre | Mythological drama |
| Created by | Siddharth Kumar Tewary |
| Based on | Mahabharat |
| Written by | Sharmin Joseph Radhika Anand Anand Vardhan Mihir Bhuta Siddharth Kumar Tewary |
| Directed by | Siddharth Anand Kumar Amarprith G Mukesh Kumar Singh Kamal Monga Loknath Pandey |
| Starring | Saurabh Raj Jain Pooja Sharma Shaheer Sheikh Aham Sharma |
| Opening theme | Hai katha Sangraam Ki |
| Ending theme | Mahabharat |
| Composers | Ajay-Atul Ismail Darbar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 267 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Siddharth Kumar Tewary Gayatri Gil Tewary Rahul Kumar Tewary |
| Production locations | Umbergaon, Gujarat |
| Editor | Paresh Shah |
| Camera setup | multi camera |
| Running time | Episode→1: 40 minutes; Episode→2-11: 20 mins; Episode→12-267: 22 mins |
| Production company | Swastik Pictures |
| Original release | |
| Network | Star Plus |
| Release | 16 September 2013 (2013-09-16) – 16 August 2014 (2014-08-16) |
Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language mythological television drama series on STAR Plus based on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharat. It ran from 16 September 2013 to 16 August 2014 on STAR Plus.
The show will be re-aired on Star Bharat from 5 August 2018 every Sunday at 8pmIST , the show will be re aired because it's popularity.
It was produced by Swastik Productions Pvt. Ltd starring Saurabh Raj Jain as Shri Krishna, Shaheer Sheikh as Arjun, Pooja Sharma as Draupadi, Aham Sharma as Karna, Arav Chowdhary as Bhishma, Arpit Ranka as Duryodhan.
Plot
Mahabharat presents the story of the throne of Hastinapur, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan where the Kauravs and the Pandavs brothers compete for rulership. Both Duryodhan and Yudhisthir claim to be first in line to inherit the throne. Duryodhan, younger than Yudhisthir, the eldest Pandav.
The first episode starts with Shantanu was sitting on a boat and Satyavati was rowing the boat. Suddenly watching a golden fish Satyavati tried to caught that but she hurt. Shantanu wanted to stop her but atlast she caught the fish. And her ambition was to get what she deserve.
Kunti obtained a boon from sage Durvasa, where she could invoke any deity and could bear his child. Out of curiosity, she decided to test the boon and uttered the mantra calling upon the Sun god and was handed a baby, Karna. Kunti, an unwed mother, set Karna afloat on the river Ganga with a heavy heart, in order to avoid the embarrassment of having a child before marriage. After her marriage to Pandu, Kunti invoked other deities and had her sons, Yudhishtir, Bhim, Arjun, Nakul and Sahadev(from Madri). Neither Karna, nor the Pandavs knew the true identity of Karna until the end of the Kurukshetra War. Karna fought against misfortune throughout his life, and was often ill-treated as he was the son of a charioteer.(Adirath, a charioteer and his wife Radha found Karna on the banks of river Ganga and raised him as their own.) Duryodhan, the mortal enemy of the Pandavs was the only person who supported Karna, even when the Pandav brothers insulted him for being a skilled archer while belonging to a lower caste. Thus Karna made a vow to protect Duryodhan throughout his lifetime and fought on his behalf against the Pandavs in the Kurukshetra War.
When Bhishma asked for Gandhari's hand in marriage for his blind nephew Dhritarashtra, her brother Shakuni got furious. But he later agreed when Bhishma persuaded them that Dhritrashtra would be the future king of Hastinapur. During the Coronation Ceremony; Dhritrashtra's younger brother Pandu was made the king with the high interfluence of Vidur(Dhritrashtra's another younger brother).
Shakuni felt that he was cheated and so he swore to himself that he would destroy the Kuru race. He sowed the seeds of the climactic battle during the adolescence of the Kauravs(Sons of Dhritarashtra) and the Pandavs(Sons of Pandu) by poisoning the mind of Duryodhan; the eldest Kaurav against the Pandavs.
This results in the Kurukshetra War where Shri Krishna imparts Bhagwad Gita to his Pandav cousin Arjun. The battle saw the deaths of Bhishma, Karna among many. All the sons of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, died in the war.
Cast
- Saurabh Raj Jain as Krishna/Vishnu
- Shaheer Sheikh as Arjun
- Pooja Sharma as Draupadi
- Aham Sharma as Karna
- Aarav Chowdhary as Bhishma
- Praneet Bhat as Shakuni
- Rohit Bharadwaj as Yudhisthir
- Saurav Gurjar as Bheem
- Arpit Ranka as Duryodhan
- Vin Rana as Nakul
- Lavanya Bhardwaj as Sahadev
- Nirbhay Wadhwa as Dushasan
- Thakur Anoop Singh as Dhritarashtra
- Riya Deepsi as Gandhari
- Shafaq Naaz as Kunti
- Naveen Jingar as Vidura
- Nissar Khan as Dronacharya
- Ankit Mohan as Ashwatthama
- Tarun Khanna as Balram
- Vibha Anand as Subhadra and Yogmaya
- Pallavi Subhash as Rukmini
- Ratan Rajput as Amba
- Sayantani Ghosh as Satyavati
- Kanishka Soni as Parashvi
- Shikha Singh as Shikhandini
- Karan Suchak as Dhrishtadyumna
- Paras Arora as Abhimanyu
- Richa Mukherjee as Uttara
- Hemant Choudhary as Kripacharya
- Sudesh Berry as Dhrupad
- Pravisht Mishra as Uttar
- Nazea Hasan Sayed as Vrushali
- Kaushik Chakravorty as Shalya
- Sandeep Arora as Vikarn
- Vandana Singh as Yashoda
- Ketki Kadam as Radha
- Preeti Puri Choudhary as Devaki
- Vivana Singh as Ganga
- Sameer Dharmadhikari as Shantanu
- Aparna Dixit as Ambika
- Mansi Sharma as Ambalika
- Aryamann Seth as Vichitravirya
- Atul Mishra as Ved Vyas
- Arun Singh Rana as Pandu
- Suhani Dhanki as Madri
- Ali Hassan as Takshak , Jayadrath
- Ajay Mishra as Sanjay
- Vaishnavi Dhanraj as Hidimbi
- Anju Jadhav as Sukhada
- Garima Jain as Dushala
- Ashnoor Kaur as Young Dushala
- Ketan Karande as Ghatothkach
- Joy Mathur as Shishupala
- Mohit Raina as Shiva
- Puneet Issar as Parshurama
- Nikhil Arya/Sachin Verma as Indra
- Kunal Bhatia as Agni
- Deepak Jethi as Virata
- Tinu Verma as Jarasandha
- Gurpreet Singh as Prince Rukmi
- Jayantika Sengupta as Arshi
- Rio Kapadia as Subala
- Shweta Gautam as Sudharma
- Chandani Sharma as Kripi
- Raj Premi as Kalayavan
- Siddhant Gautam as Ekalavya
- Alam Khan as Duryodhan
- Ananya Agarwal as Malini
- Akhilendra Mishra as Kansa
- Rumi Khan as Kichaka
Production and promotion
Star spent ₹100 crore (US$12 million) on the project and spent another ₹20 crore (US$2.3 million) on marketing the show, making it India's most expensive TV series of its time. Its record of being India's most expensive TV show is broken by Porus TV show.
According to producer Siddharth Kumar Tiwary the Draupadi cheer haran (disrobing) sequence, which Tiwary directed, took twenty days to shoot.
Reception and impact
Writing for Rediff, Nishi Tiwari wrote that "If it maintains the quality of writing and able actors who portray key characters, we may have another winner among us". DNA praised the costumes, scenery, Krishna's flute theme which was given by Raj Mohan Sinha, and most of the CGI special effects, but said the story pace was too fast.
Its premier had a viewership of approximately 8.4 million people. The show has become the highest rated weekday mythology show in the last three years on Indian television.
The viewership ratings of the week of 1 December 2013 reached 9,801 TVTs. The game of dice leading to Draupadi's 'cheer haran' took Mahabharat at its peak viewership(10TVTs.4 TVM) and helped the broadcasting channel Star Plus clock the highest GTVMs ever achieved by any channel in Indian Television History.
It won the trophy for the Best Drama in Star Guild Awards 2013 as well as number of accolades in other award shows. It won the Indian Telly Awards for Actor in a Supporting Role (Drama) , given to Aham Sharma for his portrayal as Karna , and Actor in a Negative Role to Praneet Bhat in 2014 . The crew members also won the awards for Best Costumes for a TV Programme, Best Make – Up Artist , and Best Stylist. .
It has been dubbed to other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Oriya, Malayalam , Tamil and Telugu.
In Indonesia, the drama was broadcast on antv dubbed in Indonesian in March 2014. The casts of Mahabharat were invited to hold a fan meeting tour at Jakarta and Bali. The Times of India reported in 2014 that the show has a huge fan following abroad and as result, the prominent characters from the show had been called to Indonesia for a special event. The main casts of Mahabharat, performed on "Mahabharat Show: Fan Meeting Tour" in the year 2014 .
As from 6 December 2015, the show starts airing in its original version and subtitled in English on MBC Digital 4 every Sunday in Mauritius.
In Thailand, the drama was broadcast on Channel 5 dubbed in Thai starting January 2, 2016.
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Star Guild Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Sidharth Kumar Tewary | Won |
| Best Mythological Series | Swasthik Picture | |||
| Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Visual Effects | Swasthik Picture | ||
| Best Historical/Mythological Serial | Mahabharat | |||
| Indian Telly Award | ||||
| Best Costumes for a TV Program | Bhanu Athaiya | |||
| Best Makeup Artist | G. A. Jamesh | |||
| Best Ensemble | Sidharth Kumar Tewary | |||
| Best Actor in a Negative Role | Praneet Bhat | |||
| Best Stylist | Shweta Korde | |||
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Aham Sharma | |||
| Star Parivaar Awards | Favourite Naya Sadasya (Male) | Shaheer Sheikh | ||
| Pehel Nayi Soch Ki | Saurabh Raj Jain and Pooja Sharma | |||
| Saathi Nayi Soch Ka | Aham Sharma | |||
| Nayi Soch | Saurabh Raj Jain | |||
| Favourite Kutumb | Mahabharat | |||
| 2015 | Scroll of Honour |
See also
References
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External links
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