Mukesh Khanna speaks against Starbharata! - Page 7

@Shyam

sorry I feel like I am butting in but all I wanted to say was, Mahabharat (The Actual Written One) does not endorse selfish people, illegitimate children, etc etc. Instead it is an epic that portrays human nature and daily life lessons. At the end of the day, it shows you how important a woman's honor is, shows different levels of relationships between a mother and a son, a father and a son, a brother and a brother, a brother and a step brother, and uncle and a nephew and so on. It is there for us to see that in the end we must understand that truth wins over the evil. It shows all the different tensions that occur in families. It shows us to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors. It is like a reference book. And speaking of teenage pregnancy, at the time of the epic, marriages happened at young ages because life expectancy was awfully low. Each character from the epic makes mistakes and learns from them. It is for us to see/read and learn from those mistakes. It is not correct to insult the Mahabharat because personally although I have was born in India and lived there only for a few years, I have grown to respect it because it does teach you values you will cherish. Just how the Bhagwat Gita has the answers to all questions, Mahabharat illustrates another aspect of struggle we face within ourselves and others during our lifetime. While it is good to have an open mind, it definitely makes it offensive when the great epic is mocked. I take it offensive when the epic is mocked.

Originally posted by: DrModel

@Shyam

dude!! you did not just compare HP to MB

EVERYONE knows HP is FICTION.

And what do you have to say to people on FB who do not even spare Krishna in their criticisms?

If MB here is whitewashing the grey as per most people, then surely FB and the twitterverse would not say such deragatory things about Krishna, DPadi, Arjun, Kunti just because their favorite character was not favored by fate?

At the very onset I declare myself an 'ignorant viewer'😆. But I would still humbly display my so-called ignorance.

Firstly, about the video. I give it just the amount of respect an individual opinion demands. Nothing more, nothing less for at the end of the day irrespective of the fact that its a wonderful actor speaking,it is a personal opinion and no less or more valid than the forum's or mine.

And all the grievances held by him and quite well reflected in the discussion thread are justified. Yes, this new series is guilty of discrepancies and misrepresentations, some easy to justify some not so simple. And I really appreciate this 'People will get misguided' sentiment. However, one does not go into an T-20 match expecting a Dravid's innings!! If I signed up for a history course and was being taught what I perceive to be a distortion I have full rights to protest. But did I really expect a prime time show on the leading GEC channel to 'teach' me Mahabharat?? Well, then it questions my sensibilities more than the makers!

What I see the show to have achieved is-arouse interest in an ignorant viewer like me. My search history for the last week if full of Mahabharat related queries. And thus, I have been exposed to varying kind of literature-from the most superficial to the the most spiritual. And now I can weigh the arguments and arrive at 'my' view of Mahabharat.
Thus, one cannot ignore the impact of the visual medium and I would give credit where its due. Moreover, for all its faults, I never found the series to be lacking depth. That is one thing quite consistent-the political, moral, emotional and spiritual depths have been probed as much as was possible. Agreed, perhaps without accuracy.

But this is what bothers me the most. A text as great as the Mahabharat is actually defined by just the factual accuracies? Every other week we have lengthy expositions on how this event was distorted and this character was ill-portrayed. So, is there nothing over and beyond them? Who married whom and who is greater than whom,and who made what vow is what actually defines the worth of this text?

A text which has the seeds of The Gita, a story which has the living Presence of the incarnate is to be judged by costumes, dialogues and accuracy of facts? It makes me wonder if it is really so impossible to let go of this superficial inspection and evaluation of the series and actually look at the depths which sometimes glimmers through the web of mediocrity.

For now I guess I will not exchange my ignorance for the rigid set of beliefs that seems to come as a baggage with knowledge😊

He didn't force anyone not to watch the show. It was just a statement uttered by a concerned man. Continuing watching/quitting is an individual's choice.

There's an unparalleled difference between Distortion and Creating own daily soapish saga.
Interpretation is the explanation of someone's creative work. Starbharata doesn't resemble the original texts in any manner. So I don't get how it's an Interpretation.

Originally posted by: -Shruti

There's an unparalleled difference between Distortion and Creating own daily soapish saga.
Interpretation is the explanation of someone's creative work. Starbharata doesn't resemble the original texts in any manner. So I don't get how it's an Interpretation.

I am an idiot to have exprected/ to be expecting an 'interpretation' while the disclaimer clearly says it is FICTION

Originally posted by: shyam09

2 points really --

First off -- We will never be able to confirm that (part in bold). It's impossible. But because it is impossible to do that, it doesn't justify throwing in random tidbits of utter BS. The problem Mukeshji probably has it with the characterizations and possibly the plot. Would he have minded if Dhriti was played by a 6-pack model but the role he played showed off Dhriti as who he really was [[from the beginning]], no.

Second point -- learning what? No one learns anything from fictionalized stuff. It's like watching Harry Potter and saying "oh Hogwarts exists!!... Dammit.. I'm a muggle!" ... Some messages they promote are good, but if I, being 20 years old, have trouble understanding it the first time watching it ... how would it make sense for kids to understand the messages?

The way modern day society works is on the level of easiness. Why read a book when there is a movie you can watch... Why go to the library and look for books when we have Google...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the problem is that we define this as mythology ... with mythology people have the freedom to do whatever the hell they want ... but the moment we change it so it becomes history, it's set in stone and no one will dare mock it. If they do, it becomes labeled has historical fiction and everyone should know the definition of fiction.

But if you distort mythology -- you get mythology. And people are left confused! Is mythology no. 1 right or mythology no. 2??

Of course we can bring up the question of which version is correct since we don't know which version holds the truth, but we should be able to easily eliminate foreign versions, fictional / modern retelling, and choose the best among the few versions that are left (if there are even a few left)...

(if you think I felt rough somewhere above, I'm truly sorry. I'm just trying to be as frank as possible so my message is clear. No offense intended)

This show should be called Starbharata officially...that would be good!