rated as the most popular TV program on India's Doordarshan, the serial consists of 94 episodes each with a running time of 45 minutes - a total of 65 hours of Hindutav.ĪLL THE EPISODES ARE ENCODED IN '. TV has staked enormous resources, to bring to television audiences the richness and the grandeur of the period to which the MAHABHARAT belonged. To capture the magnificence, the grandeur and drama of this great epic was the dream of producer-director Dr. It encompasses all shades of human nature from the utterly base to the completely divine its high points is Lord Krishna's message to humanity, the Song Celestial - the divine GEETA, acknowledged to be the quintessence of all knowledge embodied in the Hindu ethos. Written by Rishi Ved Vyasa, the ancient philosopher-thinker who was known to be the fountain of all human knowledge, it has been translated into many languages and even presented in ballet form in western and oriental countries.īut the MAHABHARAT is not an abstruse philosophical or religious tract.
What Homer's ILIAD is to Greek Civilization and the great classics of yore are to different nations of the world, the MAHABHARAT is to India.
