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| According to producer Siddharth Kumar Tiwary the ''cheer haran''<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-cheer-haran-sequence-in-mahabharat-took-20-days-to-shoot/</ref> sequence, which Tiwary directed, took twenty days to shoot, highest for an Indian daily.<ref name=ch>{{cite news|last=Kanabar|first=Ankita R.|title=The cheer haran sequence in Mahabharat took 20 days to shoot|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-cheer-haran-sequence-in-mahabharat-took-20-days-to-shoot/|accessdate=10 April 2014|newspaper=Indian Express|date=2 April 2014}}</ref> | According to producer Siddharth Kumar Tiwary the ''cheer haran''<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-cheer-haran-sequence-in-mahabharat-took-20-days-to-shoot/</ref> sequence, which Tiwary directed, took twenty days to shoot, highest for an Indian daily.<ref name=ch>{{cite news|last=Kanabar|first=Ankita R.|title=The cheer haran sequence in Mahabharat took 20 days to shoot|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-cheer-haran-sequence-in-mahabharat-took-20-days-to-shoot/|accessdate=10 April 2014|newspaper=Indian Express|date=2 April 2014}}</ref> | ||
| ==Family tree== | |||
| This shows the line of royal and family succession, not necessarily the parentage. See the notes below for detail. | |||
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| '''Key to Symbols''' | |||
| * Male: <span style="border: solid 2px blue;">''' ''blue border'''''</span> | |||
| * Female: <span style="border: solid 2px red;">''' ''red border'' '''</span> | |||
| * ]s: <span style="border:solid 0.5px black; background:#8d8;">''' ''green box'' '''</span> | |||
| * ]s: <span style="border:solid 0.5px black; background:#ff0;">''' ''yellow box'' '''</span> | |||
| '''Notes''' | |||
| * '''a''': ] was a king of the Kuru dynasty or kingdom, and was some generations removed from any ancestor called ]. His marriage to ] preceded his marriage to ]. | |||
| * '''b''': ] and ] were fathered by ] in the '']'' tradition after ]'s death. Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura were the sons of Vyasa with Ambika, Ambalika and a maid servant respectively. | |||
| * '''c''': ] was born to ] through her invocation of ], before her marriage to ]. | |||
| * '''d''': ], ], ], ] and ] were acknowledged sons of ] but were begotten by ]'s invocation of various deities. They all married ] (not shown in tree). | |||
| * '''e''': ] and his siblings were born at the same time, and they were of the same generation as their ] cousins. | |||
| The birth order of siblings is correctly shown in the family tree (from left to right), except for ] and ] whose birth order is not described, and Vichitravirya who was born after them. The fact that ] and ] are sisters is not shown in the family tree. The birth of Duryodhana took place after the birth of Karna, Yudhishtira and Bhima, but before the birth of the remaining Pandava brothers. | |||
| Some siblings of the characters shown here have been left out for clarity; these include ], the eldest brother of Vichitravirya. ], half-brother to Dhritarashtra and Pandu. | |||
| ==Cast and characters== | ==Cast and characters== | ||
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2013 Indian TV series or program
| Mahabharat | |
|---|---|
 Title screen | |
| Genre | Mythological television drama |
| Created by | Siddharth Kumar Tewary |
| Based on | Mahabharat |
| Written by | Sharmin Joseph, Radhika Anand, Anand Vardhan, Mihir Bhuta and Siddharth Kumar Tewary |
| Directed by | Siddharth Anand Kumar, Amarprith G, S Chawda, Kamal Monga and Loknath Pandey |
| Starring | (For entire cast see below) |
| Opening theme | Hai Katha Sangram Ki |
| Composers | Ajay-Atul Ismail Darbar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| Production | |
| Producers | Siddharth Kumar Tewary, Gayatri Gil Tiwari and Rahul Kumar Tewary. |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Production company | Swastik Pictures |
| Original release | |
| Network | Star Plus |
| Release | 16 September 2013 (2013-09-16) – 16 August 2014 (2014-08-16) |
Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language mythological television drama series on STAR Plus based on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharat. It started broadcasting on 16 September 2013 on STAR Plus.
It has been produced by Swastik Productions Pvt. Ltd and stars Saurabh Raj Jain as Shri Krishna, Shaheer Sheikh as Arjun, Pooja Sharma as Draupadi, Aham Sharma as Karna and Arav Chowdhary as Bhishma.
Synopsis
Main article: MahabharataMahabharat presents the story of the throne of Hastinapur, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan where Kauravas and the Pandavas brothers compete for rulership. Both Duryodhan and Yudhisthir claim to be first in line to inherit the throne.
When Bhishma asked for Gandhari's hand in marriage for his blind nephew Dhritarashtra, her brother Shakuni got furious. Though he agreed later, he swore to himself that he would destroy the Kuru race.He sowed the seeds of the climactic battle of Kurukshetra during the adolescence of the Kauravas (Sons of Dhritarashtra) and Pandavas (Sons of Pandu) by poisoning the mind of Duryodhan; the eldest Kaurav against the Pandavas.This results in the Kurukshetra War where Shri Krishna imparts "Bhagwad Gita" (Holy Scripture of Hinduism) To his Pandav Cousin Arjuna.
The battle saw the deaths of Bhishma Pitamah; The warrior sage and kuru tutor Drona; The Mighty Karna; and among many. All the sons of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari died in the war. The Battle produces "conflicts of kinship and friendship, and instances of family loyalty and duty taking precedence over what is just."
Production and promotion
The set of this show is in Umbergaon in Gujarat. Star spent ₹100 crore (US$12 million) on the project and spent another ₹20 crore (US$2.3 million) on marketing the show, making it as India's most expensive TV series. The promotion of the show was massive. Early promos of the first look of the show were revealed as early as the month of March–April while the show was actually launched on T.V. on September 16. Huge larger than life posters were hung throughout important metropolitan cities across the country and even museums exhibiting the jewelries used by the characters in the show and the weaponry they were using were made in different shopping complexes across India. Some places even reported that the audiences were treated with a 3D visual experience of the making and sets of the show. All these were detrimental to the huge opening viewership of the show.
According to producer Siddharth Kumar Tiwary the cheer haran sequence, which Tiwary directed, took twenty days to shoot, highest for an Indian daily.
Cast and characters
- Saurabh Raj Jain as Shri Krishna & Lord Vishnu
- Shaheer Sheikh as Arjuna
- Pooja Sharma as Draupadi / Panchali
- Aham Sharma as Karna
- Arav chaudhary as Bhishma
- Praneet Bhatt as Shakuni
- Rohit Bharadwaj as Yudhisthir
- Saurav Gurjar as Bheem
- Arpit Ranka as Duryodhan
- Vin Rana as Nakul
- Lavanya Bharadwaj as Sahadeva
- Nirbhay Wadhwa as Dushasan
- Pallavi Subhash as Goddess Rukmini
- Ankit Mohan as Ashwatthama
- Atul Mishra as Ved Vyas
- Ratan Rajput as Amba
- Nissar Khan as Dronacharya
- Sayantani Ghosh as Satyavati
- Anoop Singh Thakur as Dhritarashtra
- Riya Deepsi as Gandhari
- Shafaq Naaz as Kunti
- Naveen Jingar as Vidur
- Kanishka Soni as Parashvi
- Vibha Anand as Subhadra & Goddess Yogmaya
- Paras Arora as Abhimanyu
- Richa Mukherjee as Uttara
- Shikha Singh as Shikhandini & Shikhandi
- Sudesh Berry as Drupad
- Karan Suchak as Dhrishtadyumna
- Nazea Hasan Sayed as Vrushali
- Aalap Shah as Shalya
- Sandeep Arora as Vikarna
- Ketki Kadam as Radha
- Nandish Sandhu as Vasudeva
- Preeti Puri Choudhary as Devaki
- Tarun Khanna as Balaram
- Ajay Mishra as Sanjay
- Ali Hassan as Takshak/Jayadratha
- Vivana Singh as Ganga
- Sameer Dharmadhikari as Emperor Shantanu
- Aryamann Seth as Vichitravirya
- Aparna Dixit as Ambika
- Mansi Sharma as Ambalika
- Nidhi Tiwari as Sukhada
- Arun Rana as Pandu
- Suhani Dhanki as Madri
- Garima Jain as Dushala
- Sabar Kashyap as Yuyutsu
- Hemant Choudhary as Kripacharya
- Aadil Thakkar as Virata
- Mallika Nayak as Sudeshna
- Vaishnavi Dhanraj as Hidimbaa
- Ketan Karande as Ghatotkacha
- Joy Mathur as Shishupala
- Puneet Issar as Lord Parshurama
- Mohit Raina as Lord Shiv
- Aditi Sajwan as Goddess Durga
- Nikhil Arya as Lord Indra
- Kunal Bhatia as Lord Agni
- Tinu Verma as Jarasandha
- Gurpreet Singh as Rukmi
- Jayantika Sengupta as Arshi
- Rio Kapadia as Subal
- Shweta Gautam as Sudarma
- Chandani Sharma as Kripi
- Raj Premi as Kalayavan
- Siddhant Gautam as Ekalavya
- Vikram Soni as Teenage Krishna
- Vidyut Xavier as Teenage Karna
- Aayush Shah as Teenage Ashwathama
- Rohit Shetty as young Yudhisthir
- Miraj Joshi as young Bhim
- Alam Khan as young Duryodhan
- Soumya Singh as young Arjun
- Raj Shah as young Dushasan
- Devesh Ahuja as young Nakul
- Rudraksh Jaiswal as young Sahadeva
- Ashnoor Kaur as young Dushala
- Gananay Shukla as young Karna
- Yagya Saxena as young Ashwathama
- Gurbani Thappar as young Malini
Reception
Writing for Rediff, Nishi Tiwari said the show "gets the details -- lexicon, background score, and the sets" right in comparison to the 2008 version by Ekta Kapoor, but the actors were lacking in comparison to the BR Chopra version that aired in the 1980s. Tiwari wrote that "If it maintains the quality of writing and able actors who portray key characters, we may have another winner among us". DNA praised the costumes, scenery, Krishna's flute theme, and most of the CGI special effects, but said the story pace was too fast. However, as the series progressed, it soon beat all its comparisons with the earlier hugely popular BR Chopra version and carved its own unique space in the history of Indian television, among all the types of audiences especially among the youth.The original series was supposed to be a 120 episode series but as the show raked in ratings as it progressed, two more extensions were given.
Its premier had a viewership of approximately 8.4 million people. The show has become the highest rated weekday mythology show in the last three years on Indian television.
It has been consistent in its ratings for its entire running tenure and has mostly maintained its position among the top 5 shows of all GECs(General Entertainment Channels). The game of dice leading to Draupadi’s ‘cheer haran’ took Mahabharat at its peak viewership(10.4 TVM) and helped the broadcasting channel Star Plus clock the highest GTVMs ever achieved by any channel in Indian Television History. In week 29 and 30 of 2014, Mahabharat with its gripping storyline of the famous kurukshetra war bagged the second position among all Indian TV shows with a TVM of 9.4, once again taking the GTVMs of the broadcasting channel beyond the 700 million mark. The show with its excellent background music,gripping storyline and powerpacked performancers by all the actors won the hearts of millions not only in India but also abroad, clearly being reflected in their Television Ratings.
It won the trophy for the Best Drama in Star Guild Awards 2013 as well as number of accolades in Star Parivar Awards 2014 and a number of other award shows.
Awards and Nominations
| Awards | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Role | Result |
| 2014 | Star Parivaar Awards | Best Kutumb | Mahabharat Family | To whole Crew (Mahabharat) | Won |
| Saathi Nayi Soch Ka Award | Aham Sharma | Karna (Mahabharat) | |||
| Favorite Naye Sadasya (Male) | Shaheer Sheikh | Arjun (Mahabharat) | |||
| Pehel Nayi Soch ki Award | Saurabh Raj Jain | Shri Krishna (Mahabharat) | |||
| Favorite Maa | Shafaq Naaz | Kunti (Mahabharat) | Nominated | ||
| Star Guild Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Siddharth Kumar Tewary | Creator (Mahabharat) | Won | |
| Best Mythological Series | Swastik Pictures | To Siddharth Kumar Tewary (Mahabharat) | |||
Dubbed versions
The show has been dubbed in other Indian languages including Bengali as Mahabharat, Malayalam as Mahabharatham, Telugu as Mahabharatham, Tamil as Mahabharatham, Marathi as Mahabharat and Odia as Mahabharat. The Bengali version is telecast on Star Jalsha channel, the Malayalam version is telecast on Asianet channel, the Telugu version is telecast on MAA TV, the Tamil version is telecast on Star Vijay channel, the Marathi version is telecast on Star Pravah, the Odia version is telecast on ETV Oriya channel. The show is also aired in Indonesia, and dubbed in Indonesian as Mahabharata, the Indonesian version is telecast on Antv channel.
References
- "Mahabharat (2013 TV series) Technical specifications". IMDb. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- TNN 15 Sep 2013, 10.27AM IST (15 September 2013). "Mahabharat launced for the youth of the nation! - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Shakuni's role in Mahabharat once in a lifetime: Praneet Bhatt - Times Of India
- Is Shafaq Naaz miffed with Mahabharat makers? - Times Of India
- Shaheer Sheikh and Rohit Bhardwaj’s Buddy Diwali! - Times Of India
- Riding high on 'Mahabharat' ratings, Star Plus tops the chart : Featured, News - India Today
- Deepanjana Pal. "The new Mahabharat is an epic fail". Firstpost. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- Actors take on Mahabharat - Times Of India
- Paranormal activity on the sets of Mahabharat - Times Of India
- Ajita Shashidhar. "Broadcasters betting big money on the small screen with Rs.100 crore shows". India Today. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/the-cheer-haran-sequence-in-mahabharat-took-20-days-to-shoot/
- Kanabar, Ankita R. (2 April 2014). "The cheer haran sequence in Mahabharat took 20 days to shoot". Indian Express. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- Neha Maheswri (27 October 2013). "Pallavi to play Krishna's Rukmini". Times of India. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- Ankita R. Kanabar (27 February 2014). "Rohit Shetty adds humour to Khatron Ke Khiladi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- Nishi Tiwari. "Review: Mahabharat, so far so good". Rediff. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- Chaya Unnikrishnan. "Show review: 'Mahabharat'". DNA. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- Debashish Mukerji. "Riding high on 'Mahabharat' ratings, Star Plus tops the chart". India Today. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- Priyanka Srivastava. "Major networks in epic ratings battle as mythological shows like Mahabarat take on reality TV for nation's viewers". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- "Rise in the ratings of TV shows this week - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- "Reality shows see a drop in ratings this week - Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- Star India to air Mahabharat, Mahadev in Marathi | Rapid TV News
- Epic Mahabharat 2013 TV Series going to Air in Odia | Entertainment Mercenie
- Mahabharata antv
External links
| Current broadcasts on StarPlus | |||
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| Currently broadcasting |
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