TOI: Mahabharat listed among the 20 best TV series on world television

It's no small feat, and definitely a matter of pride, when an Indian TV show is ranked among the top 18 shows in the world according to the viewers. Siddharth Kumar Tewary made us proud as his epic TV show 'Mahabharat' was listed on an American website to be among the best TV shows in the world according to audiences, competing with critically acclaimed hit shows like 'Westworld' and 'Peaky Blinders'. The list considered the user rating on popular movie website IMDB to rate the shows.
When contacted, an elated Siddharth said, "I feel blessed. When I started working on 'Mahabharat', all I wished was to create history. We wanted our work to be appreciated by people. Since ours is a different interpretation of the epic, targeting a much younger Indian audience, we were unsure of the outcome. All we knew was to give it our best, so this news makes us proud of our efforts. Also, our series is over 260 episodes compared to other series made in the West. Since they have a limited number of episodes which ensures that the product is of a certain quality, we telecast 26 episodes a month, and still we were able to maintain a certain standard and were mentioned in the same league as international series, makes us very ecstatic.
Siddharth Kumar Tewary is the Founder Creative Director at Swastik Productions. Born and brought up in Kolkata in a joint middle class Brahmin household, he received his early education from St. Xavier's School and College in Kolkata, eventually graduating in Mass Communication from Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune.
With this news, all eyes are on Siddharth's latest show 'Karamphaldata Shani' (Colors) which is gaining popularity rapidly. We hope that this show too required the list because this is great news for Indian content and it shows that our TV industry can produce quality content too!