Nov 03, 2008 This aired about 10 years ago- and was - in my opinion the best portrayal of Draupadi in any mythological serial. Draupadi was shown as strong. Sep 15, 2013 Meet Draupadi from Mahabharat. I still get gooseflesh when I think of it. Smartek Sb1800 Manual there. The entire feeling was very divine and pure. I could feel I was 'Draupadi'.

I have long held the view that the is among the best stories ever told. It has heroic characters with flaws and flawed characters with heroic characteristics; the story is tortuous, tumultuous and utterly gripping. So I found myself hooked to the 1989-90 version by B R Chopra. Alas the Balaji version – Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki (2008 terminated before projected date because of poor TRPs and criticism) completely passed me by so I became determined to catch this latest version of Mahabharat. One would have thought that it would be hard to despoil a magnificent, sweeping epic such as the Mahabharat; that it would be great no matter how inept the retelling. With all the over the top costumes, highly melodramatic style of dialogue delivery, daily soap style of direction, the makers of the show did have a jolly good try at spoiling it, but ultimately this is such a superb story that it redeems even this retelling. Why the latest Mahabharat is good One cannot give makers of the serial much credit for the story because it was Ved Vyasa after all who first documented this marvelous story, history, mythology, call it what you will.

This epic story is a part of the Indian ethos and as such each Indian should be familiar with it. If the story is told in a simple, accessible, serialised, dramatic format on TV, so much the better.

The phenomenal reach of the TV itself ensures that the Mahabharat serial now performs the function that grandfathers and grandmothers did, telling stories to kids. The near prime time slot for the serial each weekday and the daily soap style format of the show will ensure that people are hooked to the serial whether for entertainment, reasons of faith or any other motive. The title track is good and some of the alaaps in the beginning were decent too.

The sets are elaborate and glitzy, the show even has some amount of dancing and it generally entertaining and well packaged, never mind trifling details such as historical accuracy and authenticity. Why the latest Mahabharat is bad The makers of the serial have faithfully relied on calendar art to dress and deck up the characters in Mahabharat. Clearly no reliance is placed on actual research, and there is no concession made to how people might possibly have dressed thousands of years ago. We are stuck with extremely elaborate costumes, impossibly ornate head gear and jewelley (sometimes rather tacky) and some really serious make up.

The makeup is so over the top that you can clearly see Krishna’s lipstick and Satyavati’s fake eyelashes. If you shut your eyes while watching the serial you may be forgiven for believing that this is any old daily soap – it sounds so much like my mother’s TV each evening when she is immersed in her evening TV fix. The soaring, clashing background music, the highly melodramatic dialogue delivery (albeit in chaste Hindi, seeing that this is supposed to be thousands of years ago); all sound very daily soap-ish.

Even the camera angles, the slow mo, the exaggerated facial expressions are daily soap style. The first episode featured some slightly laughable ‘rakshashas’– the makers ought to have managed getups slightly more believable than a children’s fancy dress competition. And with the kind of technology now available to film and TV serial makers, the shooting arrows, backdrops, external palace scenes and the scene where the Ganga was dammed by arrows should have been far, far more realistic. As it is, they seemed shoddy and amateurish. The beginning scene featured Satyawati and Shantanu on a raft with some elaborate throne, resplendent with crowns and jewellery (and the fake eyelashes) – it seems a leisure trip of some sort, and Satyawati decides to go fishing. It is not clear where this sub-story or sequence is from. Oh and Krishna has a bit of a lisp.

They should have cast someone else or should have ensured the actor did not have to say so many words with ‘ch’ or ‘sh’ in them. How this Mahabharat compares with the B R Chopra version Quite simply the B R Chopra version was better. My memory may be colored by the passage of time and the fact that for its time, that version of Mahabharat was positively path-breaking. The tinsel crowns may also have been over the top, the plywood chariots may have been rickety, and the special effects rather rudimentary, but the casting was much better and the screenplay far superior. Becker Traffic Assist High Speed Ii Karten Update Firefox Download Free Adler 30 Mechanics Manual The Universal Jeep. there.