My Favourite TV Show

Hey guys, This is rishu and I'm going to participate in 100 days of steem weekly challenges for the first time. Today I'll discuss about the topic my Favourite TV show.

So my favourite TV show name is Mahabharat And it is a mythological Based TV Show And it is too much popular in India. One of my favorite TV show i must say.

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What is Mahabharat?

Mahabharat is an Indian television series also one of the greatest Epic Series of the world based on the ancient sanskrit epic Mahabharata. The original airing consisted of a total of ninety-four episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan.It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The music was composed by Raj Kamal. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and the Urdu poet Rahi Masoom Raza, based on the original story by Vyasa. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala.

I know it sounds weird that it Ran in 90S but i would like to tell you guys that this show was recently started again during the lockdown to force people to stay at their home and enjoy the TV show because it's kind of really intresting.

Each episode is approximately 60 minutes and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the Bhagavad Gita. The title song was sung and the verses rendered by singer Mahendra Kapoor. The title song is followed by a narration by Indian voice-artist Harish Bhimani as a personification of Time, detailing the current circumstances and highlighting the spiritual significance of the content of the episode. It is the most successful Mahabharata series ever produced for television.

Summary of Mahabharat

The story covers the incidents of epic Mahabharata revolving around Lord Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas, Karna, Draupadi etc.

The show begins with Emperor Bharata giving more importance to ‘Capacity’ over ‘Birth’. The latter shows the birth of Bheeshma and his oath, birth of Pandu, Dhitarashtra and Vidur and birth of Pandavas and Kauravas. The story then focuses on the childhood of Lord Krishna and the death of Kamsa.

Elsewhere, Dronacharya teaches Pandavas and Kauravas and asks to defeat Drupad as Guru Dakshina. Pandavas do so and give half of his kingdom to Drona. For revenge, Drupad obtains Dhrishthadhyumna and Draupadi. Dhritarashtra makes Yudhishthir the crown prince of Hastinapur. Shakuni (the maternal uncle of the Kauravas) and Duryodhan hatch a plan to burn Pandavas and Kunti alive, but they survive and go into incognito. Duryodhan is made crown prince of Hastinapur.

Arjuna wins Draupadi in her swayamvara but latter shows her marriage with all five Pandavas. Later, Yudhishthir is made the king of Indraprastha and Pandavas conduct Rajsuya Yagna where Draupadi insults Duryodhana. Latter shows Duryodhana's revenge by trying to disrobe her and sending Pandavas along with Draupadi for an exile of 12 years and 1 year of anonymity. Duryodhana argues that the Pandavas violated the condition of anonymity in their last year of exile, therefore they must spend another 12 years in exile followed by another year of exile in anonymity. This conflict begins to sows the seed for the Mahabharata War.

After 13 years, Arjun and Subhadra's son Abhimanyu marries Uttara. Krishna tries to make peace between both parties. Indra in the disguise of a brahmin took Karna's armor and earrings. Krishna reveals Karna's true identity of being the eldest Pandava.

Before Mahabharata War, Shri Krishna enlightens Arjuna about Geeta and showed his Virata Swaroopa to Arjuna. The latter shows the deaths of Bheeshma, Drona, Karna, Abhimanyu, Shalya, Shakuni, Jayadrata, Ghatotkach, 100 Kauravas, 5 sons of Draupadi and many other warriors in the war leading to the victory of Pandavas over Kauravas. Gandhari holds Krishna responsible for her son's death and curses that his family will also get destroyed. The show ends with Yudhishthir's Rajyabhishek and Bhishma's death.

The TV show has a total of 94 episode each of approximately 60 mintues

Let's talk about my favourite character from the show

KARNA

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The biggest reason is - he is self made man, he did not get any birth rights unlike other warriors or kshatriyas .he fought the orthodox and norms of socities .he fight for the right of low castes. He get a kingdom (angh kingdom) for his skills and capabilities unlike pandava and kaurava who were fighting for there birth right though which was also karna's.

Second most is pity and inspiring.he was the most hardworking and only one who faced so many great difficulties and hurdles in his ,still he never lose hopes and fights for his right till the end.

Even people get boon ,loose their hopes but karna , despite getting cursed 3 times never accept defeat and follows his dharm and marched toward his goal.

And rest are about his powers , and how krishna stated that he was the all in one ,he said that” when all pandavas are rolled into one they form karna. He has great valour ,and knowledge of dharma with all 4 vedic knowlege and is master of spear fighting just like yudhister, he has a great physic and mascular body ( point to be noted ,he is refered as the only one who had eight ratni body) with mastery in mace fighting just like bheem, he is as skilled and master in archery just like arjun , he is most handsome man l ( if you had read mahabharata , you would find a stances where it is described how handsome he was and how would the ladies of all kingdom used to stares at him constantly) and is master in sword fighting just like nakul, he was as smart and intelligent and mastered in axe (pharsa) fighting as sehdeva .So why do we love a single quantity when we had all in one , karna

Also his achievements are more cool than anyone else .like he was the favourite student of lord parshuram ( woaahh!), he was mrityunjaya ,one who conquored death (awesome) . He was vijayadhari ,one who weilds the bow named vijaya which gives sure victory to the possesor(awesome). He was kawachdhari ,he had an invincible armour (awesome). He was digvijay ,one who conquored the whole world (awesome). He was and is the greatest daanvir ,one who gives charity ( respect man). He was the rightful heir of hastinapur empire still refuse the throne for his vows and friendship ( respect ). he lifted the whole earth while removing the wheel of his chariot (awesome), he reflected back the ‘rudra astra’ with his bare hands that no one even dare to dream ( awesome). The list is long….

He had some flaws too after all he is a human ,and this also helps us to co relate with him.

Main casting of the show in detail

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Nitish Bharadwaj was chosen by B R Chopra, Ravi Chopra, (screenplay writer) Pandit Narendra Sharma and (dialogue writer) Rahi Masoom Raza, to play the central role of Krishna, at the age of Initially, he was chosen for playing Vidur. But Virendra Razdan was cast for it as BR Chopra considered Bharadwaj young to play the role.Then Bharadwaj was offered to play Nakul and Sahadev, but he rejected and wanted to play Abhimanyu. Days later, he was called and finalized to play Krishna. Firoz Khan was chosen to portray the character of Arjuna (which he later adopted as his screen name, to not become confused with a more popular actor of the same name) despite being rejected in auditions.Praveen Kumar was selected to portray Bhima after Chopra was looking for someone "who could look the robust mythological character".Around six actors were shortlisted for the role of Draupadi, including Juhi Chawla, who opted out of the show as she had bagged a film. Ramya Krishnan and Roopa Ganguly were the final names, and at last Roopa Ganguly was chosen, as her Hindi was good.Govinda (actor) and Chunky Pandey were signed for the role of Abhimanyu, but they opted out when they bagged films. Later, Master Mayur played the role. Raj Babbar and Debashree Roy were the only two star actors of that time, who agreed to be parts of this venture.Mukesh Khanna was initially offered the role of Duryodhan but later got the role of Bhishma.Puneet Issar was told to play Bheem but was cast as Duryodhan on his wish.

Development

According to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was ₹9 crore (US$1.3 million).Casting for the series began in 1986 and shooting started off in mid 1988.

Main shooting location of the tv show

Shooting the war sequences was the most difficult part for the cast of Mahabharat. They shot for the scenes 40km away from Jaipur (Rajasthan) in June.