Research & characterization has to the soul of mytho- Nitesh Bhara

tfs...we too hope that this team dont lack on research

Just take a look at the 8 episodes where they covered Krishna Leela!

In B.R. Chopra's version: Rohini went to prison and took Devki's pregnancy (WRONG: The pregnancy was transferred by Goddess Yogmaya and Devki didn't know this happened).

After Putana went to kill Krishna, Kans thought Krishna was dead. (WRONG Kans sent demon after demon to kill Krishna. He didn't think Krishna was dead.)

These are just some of the mistakes they had. I can't be bothered to type more. Nitesh Bhardwaj can't criticise other versions of Mahabharat, especially when the verison he starred in was so full of errors.

Originally posted by: ...Poojie...

Research and characterization has to be the soul of any mytho - Nitish Bharadwaj

Veteran film and TV actor Nitish Bharadwaj, better known as Krishna of B. R. Chopra's Mahabharat is now all set to direct his first Marathi film 'Pitruroon' which stars Tanuja and Sachin Khedekar.

So what is your take on the new Mahabharat which airs on Star Plus? "I have not been able to watch it, as I have been busy with my film. I would want to reserve my comments. But yes I had seen a few earlier episodes about Ekta Kapoor's Mahabharat (9X) which shut down in a jiffy. I guess it failed due to lack of research. You opened the show with Ved Vyas running helter-skelter which was wrong, for he was the second Krishna and because he was so detached that he was given permission to write the Mahabharat. It was belittling his great character."

"I think the problem happens when you try to apply the daily soap logic to a mytho, for these well defined characters are already etched in people's minds. When we first did Mahabharat back in the late eighties, we did not have technology to help us; we fired arrows in real time. To make up for loss of visual effects, we concentrated a lot on characterization and screen play. In Ekta's version it went totally opposite; they went berserk on six abs of the actors and lighting etc. However I wish to stress that this failure was more on Ekta's team than her, for she is known to give a free hand to them to get their research correct. One more example of falling back to drama was the sequence of vastraharan. You want to show the insult to womanhood, you just show a woman screaming and major important characters like Karan who's high point was not shown."

"I have seen the promos and hoardings of the new avatar; the gada (mace) of Duryodhana seems nice and ornate, but I just hope that have again not compromised on research and characterization which has to be the soul of any mytho."

Well said, Nitish!!!

Nitish ji sorry 😲😭 but you are bound to be dissapointed with this creation as well for they are indulgin in the same cheap way of belittling every character and oh not in such a gracegul way too
this mahabharat is a cheap immitation they try to be like old mahabharat but ended up being woing worse nevertheless now you judge which one is worse ekta kapoor's or this one 🤢

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