#mahabharat b r chopra

[jeevanjali]

Mahabharat: दुर्योधन ने अज्ञातवास में कैसे लगाया पांडवो का पता, जानें पूरी कथाMahabharat: अज्ञातवास का अर्थ है बिना किसी के द्वारा जाने गए किसी अपरिचित स्थान में रहना महाभारत कथा के अनुसार द्यूत में पराजित होने पर पांडवों को भी 12 वर्ष जंगल में तथा तेरहवाँ वर्ष अज्ञातवास में बिताना था

[theramblergal]

Thoughts on old Mahabharat (B.R. Chopra's I think)?

~ @nakulsword

Ooh yes, here's my thoughts:

The music, it's so soulful! My favourites are Binati Suniye Naath Humari (not a surprise there :P) and Sabsau Unchi Prem Sagai (I had to look it up, but this is genuinely one of my fav Kanha songs not less because of the visuals accompanying it).

Nitish Bhardwaj as Krishna is just *chef's kiss*. He's the softer Kanha, always respectful towards elders and just overall a bit more gentle than SRJ's Krishna. Also the dark skin, my lord I am in love.

I also enjoy how they frame the whole story over Bhishma's life; it ends with his death. And I like that because I really love Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma. He's the perfect one for that powerful warrior: all anger and power when needed, but the perfect devotion when addressing Kanha, and his love for Hastinapura.

I appreciate how they stick to KMG (not everything ofc but more on that later) for some stuff. Particularly, Arjuna and Krishna returning to camp after Abhi's death leaps out. They lifted that straight from the text and I like that.

The costumes were pretty cool too, ngl. (I'm always gonna be a fan of the fact that they made Arjuna wear white, and now it's a permanent association for me.)

Arjuna and Bhishma's bond? AHHHH KILL ME. I love all those scenes T-T

I also actually love that Dhritarashtra dream sequence where Bharata and all his ancestors blame him for stuff. Say it louder for that blind fellow!

Ooh ooh and the Arjuna-Subhadra vivaha too. I love that song sequence with them in bed the first night, Subhadra being all shy and Arjuna reaching out to her.

I also loved Vidura's character! He's so much more prominent in this version and constantly advising Dhritarashtra even though he never listened to him? Ahh the tragedy.

The negatives?

Draupadi. I'm still rather upset at how they treated my queen. The dark skin is fine. She looks pretty. But they butchered her character with all those hated scenes, and just showed her as a proud woman who cared more about herself than anyone. And she doesn't even respect her husbands that much, let alone love them. To date, the only episode I can watch with her in it is the Agyatvasa one, and that's mostly because of Arjuna's presence.

Yudhishthira too. He just looks really confused most of the time, and doesn't give me the Dharmaraja vibes. If I remember correctly.

Honestly, all of the Pandavas were pretty dull iirc. Especially Nakula and Sahadeva, I genuinely can never tell them apart. I enjoyed Arjuna's and Bhima's characters mildly, but the eldest and two youngest Pandavas are so forgettable it's sad.

I don't remember too much about the antagonists. Ig Duryodhana was pretty fine, Karna.. let's not go there, more out of my own disrespect for the character than the portrayal.

I did like the war sequences but it did get repetitive after a while.

Hmm, I think that's all, really.

[whimsiquix]

@bharatiya-naari-sab-pe-bhaari reminded me that this existed a couple of days back, and this. This exactly is how Star Plus failed Krishna. How could it not have failed him? When Krishna literally couldn’t breathe?

Vidur: “No bribe can part Krishna from Arjun. Arjun is not Krishna’s friend, he’s Krishna’s very breath.”

Episode 64: https://youtu.be/5fHhWT26GLQ?si=enWfGJj__Joc8ye2

Time Stamp: 27:49

[danzer91]

कर्ण और अर्जुन का विराट युद्ध | Mahabharat (महाभारत) Scene | B R Chopra ...

[cacatoto-2024]

Roopa Ganguly (lahir 25 November 1966) adalah seorang pemeran, penyanyi playback dan politikus asal India.[5][6][7] Ia adalah salah satu wajah paling populer dari pertelevisian India dan banyak dikenal atas perannya sebagai Drupadi dalam serial televisi hit garapan B R Chopra Mahabharat (1988).

[indiesole]

THE 136 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE KNOWN HISTORY OF INDIA ! (BASED ON THE ENTIRE LIST OF PADMA AWARD WINNERS & THOSE WITH COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMPS ISSUED IN THEIR HONOR)

Yt Link:

.Rajesh Khanna

.C.V. Raman

.Jayaprakash Narayan

.J.R.D. Tata

.Subhash Chandra Bose

.Swami Vivekananda

.Lal Bahadur Shastri

.Srinivasa Ramanujam

.Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

.Valmiki

.Bhagwan Shri Shirdi Sai baba

.Ramakrishna Paramhansa

.Bhagwan Shiva

.Bhagwan Ganesha

.Mata Parvati

.Bhagwan Krishna

.Bhagwan Ram

.Bhagwan Mahavira

.Maharana Pratap

.Jagadish Chandra Bose

.Major Dhyan Chand

.Govind Ballabh Pant

.Lala Lajpat Rai

.Dhirubhai Ambani

.Meena Kumari

.Mother Teresa

.Chhatrapati Shivaji

.Bal Gangadhar Kher

.Madan Mohan Malviya

.Kishore Kumar

.Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

.Dr. Bhagwan Das

.Guru Nanak

.Lokmanya Tilak

.Tansen

.Lord Hanuman

.Vithalbai Patel

.Atal Behari Vajpayee

.P.U.M. Thevar

.Nandlal Bose

.Rabindranath Tagore

.Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

.Prem Chand

.Jesus Christ

.Adi Shankaracharya

.K. L. Saigal

.N. T. Ramarao

.Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty

.B. R. Chopra

.Viswanathan Anand

.Sri Aurobindo

.Rani Laxmibai

.Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

.Milkha Singh

.Mirza Ghalib

.Dr. K.S. Krishnan

.Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose

.Dr. Zakir Hussain

.Dr. M. Visvesvaraiya

.Satyajit Ray

.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

.Ramana Maharishi

.Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

.Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi

.Mahatma Jyotirao Phule

.Savitiribai Phule

.Lt. Col. Maharaj Kumar Namgyal

.Shammi Kapoor

.Indira Gandhi

.Dev Anand

.Jijabai

.Sadhu Vaswani

.Raja Ravi Varma

.Saiyid Fazl Ali

.Ashok Kumar

.Dr. Madhav Shrihari Aney

.Gopal Das Neeraj

.Ajudhia Nath Khosla

.Shashi Kapoor

.Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

.Dr. Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar

.Bipin Chandra Pal

.Dr. Jnan Chandra Ghosh

.Paramhansa Yogananda

.Thiruvallavur

.Buddha

.Maharishi Patanjali

.Dr. Nambi Narayanan

.Dr. Verghese Kurien

.Dadasaheb Phalke

.Arjun (mahabharat)

.Waheeda Rehman

.Bhagat Singh

.Dr. P.V. Kane

.Jigme Dorji Wangchuk

.Veer Savarkar

.Thakkar Bapa

.Ahilyabai Holkar

.Rash Behari Bose

.Sane Guruji

.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

.Swami Ranganathananda

.Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

.M. S. Subbalakshmi

.Dr. Satish Dhawan

.Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

.Surdas (commemorative)

.A. Ramaswamy Mudaliar

.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

.Prafulla Chandra Roy

.Kabir (pre-independence poet)

.Zubin Mehta

.Kalidasa

.Suchitra Sen

.Tyagaraja

.M. G. Ramachandran

.Dr. Prabha Atre (classical singer)

.Kavi Pradeep

.Pt. Kishan Maharaj (tabla)

.R.K. Laxman

.Mira (commemorative)

.Tulsidas (commemorative)

.Uttam Kumar

.Dr. K. Kasturirangan

.Ashfaqullah Khan

.Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve

.Ram Prasad Bismil

.Chandrashekhar Azad

.Tenzing Norgay

.N.R. Narayana Murthy

.Kumaran Asan

.Bhai Vir Singh

.Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

.Dr. John Matthai

.Subramanya Bharati

.Pt. Omkarnath Thakur

IN EMBEDDED FORM:

[indiejones]

THE 136 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE KNOWN HISTORY OF INDIA (@INDIES) !

(Selected from a list of all levels of Padma award winners of India, & age-old historical Indian personalities with commemorative postage stamps issued in their honour)

1. .Rajesh Khanna 2. .C.V. Raman 3. .Jayaprakash Narayan 4. .J.R.D. Tata 5. .Subhash Chandra Bose 6. .Swami Vivekananda 7. .Lal Bahadur Shastri 8. .Srinivasa Ramanujam 9. .Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba 10. .Valmiki 11. .Bhagwan Shri Shirdi Sai baba 12. .Ramakrishna Paramhansa 13. .Bhagwan Shiva 14. .Bhagwan Ganesha 15. .Mata Parvati 16. .Bhagwan Krishna 17. .Bhagwan Ram 18. .Bhagwan Mahavira 19. .Maharana Pratap 20. .Jagadish Chandra Bose 21. .Major Dhyan Chand 22. .Govind Ballabh Pant 23. .Lala Lajpat Rai 24. .Dhirubhai Ambani 25. .Meena Kumari 26. .Mother Teresa 27. .Chhatrapati Shivaji 28. .Bal Gangadhar Kher 29. .Madan Mohan Malviya 30. .Kishore Kumar 31. .Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan 32. .Dr. Bhagwan Das 33. .Guru Nanak 34. .Lokmanya Tilak 35. .Tansen 36. .Lord Hanuman 37. .Vithalbai Patel 38. .Atal Behari Vajpayee 39. .P.U.M. Thevar 40. .Nandlal Bose 41. .Rabindranath Tagore 42. .Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar 43. .Prem Chand 44. .Jesus Christ 45. .Adi Shankaracharya 46. .K. L. Saigal 47. .N. T. Ramarao 48. .Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty 49. .B. R. Chopra 50. .Viswanathan Anand 51. .Sri Aurobindo 52. .Rani Laxmibai 53. .Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 54. .Milkha Singh 55. .Mirza Ghalib 56. .Dr. K.S. Krishnan 57. .Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose 58. .Dr. Zakir Hussain 59. .Dr. M. Visvesvaraiya 60. .Satyajit Ray 61. .Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 62. .Ramana Maharishi 63. .Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee) 64. .Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi 65. .Mahatma Jyotirao Phule 66. .Savitiribai Phule 67. .Lt. Col. Maharaj Kumar Namgyal 68. .Shammi Kapoor 69. .Indira Gandhi 70. .Dev Anand 71. .Jijabai 72. .Sadhu Vaswani 73. .Raja Ravi Varma 74. .Saiyid Fazl Ali 75. .Ashok Kumar 76. .Dr. Madhav Shrihari Aney 77. .Gopal Das Neeraj 78. .Ajudhia Nath Khosla 79. .Shashi Kapoor 80. .Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 81. .Dr. Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar 82. .Bipin Chandra Pal 83. .Dr. Jnan Chandra Ghosh 84. .Paramhansa Yogananda 85. .Thiruvallavur 86. .Buddha 87. .Maharishi Patanjali 88. .Dr. Nambi Narayanan 89. .Dr. Verghese Kurien 90. .Dadasaheb Phalke 91. .Arjun (mahabharat) 92. .Waheeda Rehman 93. .Bhagat Singh 94. .Dr. P.V. Kane 95. .Jigme Dorji Wangchuk 96. .Veer Savarkar 97. .Thakkar Bapa 98. .Ahilyabai Holkar 99. .Rash Behari Bose 100. .Sane Guruji 101. .Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 102. .Swami Ranganathananda 103. .Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 104. .M. S. Subbalakshmi 105. .Dr. Satish Dhawan 106. .Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 107. .Surdas (commemorative) 108. .A. Ramaswamy Mudaliar 109. .Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 110. .Prafulla Chandra Roy 111. .Kabir (pre-independence poet) 112. .Zubin Mehta 113. .Kalidasa 114. .Suchitra Sen 115. .Tyagaraja 116. .M. G. Ramachandran 117. .Dr. Prabha Atre (classical singer) 118. .Kavi Pradeep 119. .Pt. Kishan Maharaj (tabla) 120. .R.K. Laxman 121. .Mira (commemorative) 122. .Tulsidas (commemorative) 123. .Uttam Kumar 124. .Dr. K. Kasturirangan 125. .Ashfaqullah Khan 126. .Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve 127. .Ram Prasad Bismil 128. .Chandrashekhar Azad 129. .Tenzing Norgay 130. .N.R. Narayana Murthy 131. .Kumaran Asan 132. .Bhai Vir Singh 133. .Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 134. .Dr. John Matthai 135. .Subramanya Bharati 136. .Pt. Omkarnath Thakur

[poonamranius]

Mahabharata : कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध के बाद कौरवों की पत्नियों का क्या हुआ?

Mahabharata : कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध के बाद कौरवों की पत्नियों का क्या हुआ?

Mahabharata : महाभारत युद्ध समाप्त होने के बाद Kisari Mohan Ganguli द्वारा लिखित महाभारत के अनुसार पांडव अनुष्ठान संपन्न करने के बाद सिंहासन पर बैठते है. जब युधिष्ठिर को पता चला की विदुर महल छोड़कर जंगल जा रहे है तो ��से रोकने की बहुत कोशिश की गयी । लेकिन विदुर द्वारा समझाने के बाद युधिष्ठिरने उन्हें जंगल में जाने दिया और सभी पांडव उनके साथ जंगल में गए और उनके जीवित रहने के लिए सभी आवश्यक साधन…

[nisthadhawani]

क्यों पितामह भीष्म को लेटना पड़ा बाणों की शैय्या पर , जरूर सुने अनसुने तथ्य | Nistha Dhawani

क्यों पितामह भीष्म को लेटना पड़ा बाणों की शैय्या पर , जरूर सुने अनसुने तथ्य | Nistha Dhawani

[cyndaquillt]

Shantanu first falls for Ganga, a river goddess and then Satyavati, who literally smells like fish. Guy has a type

[justpostsyeet]

So karn is one of the best warrior. He's hyper masculine, strong, quick tempered, social climber, oppressed etc etc. What color costumes should Pankaj Dheer wear?

B. R. CHOPRA - Oh! Shades of pink will do?

Even in war he's like I'm pink

Noticing side characters

Old mahabharat edition part 1

[bollywoodirect]

Behind the Scenes- B R Chopra and some of the actors in the first casting of Mahabharat.

(L To R): Virendra Razdan (Vidur); Gajendra Chauhan (Yudhishthir); Baldev Raj Chopra (Producer); Vishnu Sharma (Vasudev); Arjun Feroz Khan (Arjun); Pawan Shukla (Shalva Kumar); Mukesh Khanna (Bhishma); Gufi Paintal (Shakuni); Daboo Malik (Devavrath); Rishabh Shukla (Shantanu); Mulraj Rajda (Rajguru of Hastinapur/Gandharva Mukhiya); Rasik Dave (Nandrai).

[demonkidpliz]

Things I learned while re-watching Star Plus Mahabharata (Part 4/many):

1) Finally, Dronacharya is in the picture and he has some major attitude and aukaat. This will spice things up amidst the vanilla, pansy-ass Kurus.

2) Mahabharata is here fulfilling all my brother-in-law angst.

3) Kripa hitting Drona where it hurts..uff.

4) I solved the mystery of why Kripa is motherfucking old, he’s an immortal.

5) Kunti praying to Shiva…if I were Shiva I would be scared and give her what she wants. These Yadavs are not to be taken lightly.

6) Bhishma is not fooled by a single one of his grandsons, is he?

7) I’ve said this before but I love Shakuni’s dramatic ass.

8) Not Ram. Arjun is the best of men. Even as a child, it’s so clear why he was Kunti’s favourite, Drona’s favourite. And Bhishma’s favourite. Arjun is Draupadi’s favourite and Krishna’s favourite. When you’re God’s favourite, you obviously are the best of men.

9) ‘Parth’ is canon eeeeee

10) Yudhisthir trying to teach his brothers to be pansies just like his father taught him. Thank God Kunti and all her Yadav sense was there to knock some sense into them.

11) Poor Bhishma trying to so hard to be human and to care like one and failing mostly. Not everyone has nailed this avatar thing properly.

12) Bhishma reminding Dhritarashtra that he’s not the first blind person in the world lmaoooo

13) Drona appears to be a little extreme but a rational person at the end of the day. How did he end up with the bad guys?

14) Also, his mild obsession with Drupad makes me think that there was more to that story than meets the eye.

15) No wonder Drupad wanted Arjun to be his son-in-law, the one person Drona loved the most.

16) Drona’s statue built by Ekalavya looks a lot more like Kripa.

17) I feel like I should feel bad for Ekalavya as he’s going to become one of the first victims of casteism in India…oh no, wait, he just shot three arrows into a dog’s mouth, he’s dead to me now.

18) What happened with Ekalavya, is so poignant, and a proof of how for millennia we have been complicit in the subjugation of our scheduled castes and tribes - this story really has everything in it. Also A+ 10/10 for the background score.

19) I love Drona. I didn’t think I would this much, but I do. There’s something so otherworldly and primal about him - like Ganga. And the actor, he doesn’t appear to be acting at all. Drona is his role of a lifetime.

20) The reason I love Arjun the most is because of all the qualities we have identified in the best of men - bravery, loyalty, intelligence and ambition - he is a combination of all four.

21) I can just imagine Ganga cackling to herself as she sends this big-ass crocodile to take a chonk out of Drona thinking, ‘this is going to be so much fun’.

22) Karna obviously did not get the memo that Drona is the biggest casteist this side of the Indus because he thinks he’s going to teach him, a Sut kid.

23) I just realised that the actor who played Duryodhan in B R Chopra’s Mahabharat plays Parashuram in Starbharat! Good for you, Puneet Issar!|

24) Goddamit Karna is going to get bitten by that fake looking bug.

25) I was just going to say that Dronacharya probably learned his casteism from Parashuram but it appears that they had to make Parashuram a legit Vishnu avatar. He seems okay. Where did we go wrong, Ram?

26) Aww, even Kakashri Vidur and Drona are friends. What’s the deal with Vidur anyway?

27) Duryodhan and his L’oreal hair.

28) Yudhisthir straight up bungee jumped into the playground bro.

29) My man, Kuntiputra Arjun, maybe just a prince, but he sure is the king of trash talk.

30) They were right. This story really has everything. But most interestingly I like how this story is mostly about selfish parents, even the Gods, wanting to leave a legacy for their children. Ganga wanted Bhishma to be king. Satyavati wanted her sons to be kings. When her sons died without heirs, she wanted her illegitimate son’s bloodlines to inherit the throne. Dhritarashtra wanted Duryodhan to be king. Pandu wanted Yudishthir to be king. Kunti wanted Arjun to survive over her illegitimate firstborn. Duryodhan wanted Lakshman to be king. Subhadra wanted to Abhimanyu, and after him, Parikshit, to be king. Krishna crowned Pradyumna crown prince in the hope that he would be Lord of Dwarka after him. And at the end of the day, the Kauravas and the Pandavas fought the war but the war was won by the Yadavs that played the long game. This story indeed has everything. But in the end when it is being narrated to Janamejaya and Vajranabha, the kings of Hastinapur and Indraprastha respectively, one is the are grandson of Subhadra and the other is the great-grandson of Krishna, and that tells you that men and Gods alike have one and only one primal instinct - to leave behind a legacy for their children.

31) Did they change Kripacharya? Looks like being an immortal is like being an icchadhari naagin.

32) The biggest disservice any retelling of Mahabharat can do is to downplay the relationship between Karna and Duryodhana. Yes, Karna was a social climber and Duryodhana only made friends with him in the hope that he would come in handy against Arjun. But it didn’t start and end there. Karna was loyal and he loved Duryodhan. Duryodhan never begrudged Karna’s low birth and treated him like a friend and equal. Karna was as much a part of his family as any of his brothers. Karna was friends with his wife, was an uncle to his children. That sort of thing is not born from just convenience. People need to stop whitewashing Karna as some guy who was compelled to fight for Duryodhan against his will. What makes Karna’s character so great was the fact that he was so flawed and hitched his ride to the wrong wagon but stuck by it.

33) Duryodhan pointing out that the five Pandavas are not Pandu’s biological children, which is 100% fact but somehow is considered scandalous. Also, how does it even matter? None of them are Shantanu’s bloodline. That died with Bhishma, Chitrangad and Vichitraveerya. They are all sons and grandsons of randos. Important randos but randos.

34) The Pandavas and Kunti always get to me. Is there anything as pure as the love of a single mother and her sons?

35) Arjun so soft. Cries in court.

36) As a person who grew up in a family that loved them only to be estranged as ambitions diverged, I can feel the story of Dhritarashtra, growing up loving Pandu, only to hate his sons. Sometimes, in Indian families, love isn’t enough.

37) How does everyone not immediately shit their pants when Dronacharya stares down at them? That man gives me crazy Vishwamitra vibes.

38) Every time you think you know what the Mahabharat is about, it changes. It goes from being the story of a war between the Pandavas and Kauravas to Bhim and Duryodhan’s enmity to Arjun and Karna’s stand-off to a story of revenge. Drona’s revenge on Drupad. Drupad’s revenge on Drona. Gandhari and Shakuni’s revenge on the Kurus. Draupadi’s revenge on the Kauravas.

[avani008]

"Give me a character and I will tell you…" Draupadi, the Pandavas, Karna, and Duryodhana please? Also Krishna and Balarama. (please feel free to pick and choose from this wide selection; I apologise for my thinly disguised greed. :P)

(Don’t apologize! Greed is good–in this situation alone ;)

Behind the cut because this is LOOONG. 

Draupadi

* How I feel about this character

One-half of my top two favorite characters in the entire epic and obviously a best beloved.

* All the people I ship romantically with this character…In a likely unpopular opinion, I only ship Draupadi/her husbands, and, honestly my preferred version is very much without angst at having to marry all five. My!Draupadi also doesn’t really have a favorite, other than a mild wistful partiality for Arjun; but both of them know for her to be married to him alone would work better in theory than practice, and that neither would really be happy were it so.

* My non-romantic OTP for this characterTEAM KRISHNA(A) FOR LIFE.

* My unpopular opinion about this characterRupa Ganguly was the One True Draupadi *tries to look fierce, fails*.

* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.B.R. Chopra brings up the tantalizing possibility of Draupadi volunteering to ride on Arjuna’s chariot when the Pandavas and Krishna are coming up with the plan to defeat Bhishma, and though they end up going with Shikandi instead….True, my headcanon-Draupadi is no warrior, but the thought of allowing her some agency in avenging herself is wonderful.

* Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

….Not true, necessarily, but one of the more-realistic-alternatives for Draupadi’s miraculous birth I really love is that of it representing a rebirth in the form of a oath witnessed by fire that two of Drupad’s pre-existing children took to wreak revenge on the Kurus.

Pandavas

* How I feel about this character

Five arrogant, dorky, but essentially good-hearted heroes whose best quality is perhaps their devotion to each other against all odds. (Their brotherly love survived being wagered away by their big brother without losing their temper–how, I can’t imagine.)

* All the people I ship romantically with this character

Mostly Draupadi, honestly–though also Hidimbi for Bhima, and Subhadra/Ulupi/Chitrangada for Arjuna* My non-romantic OTP for this character

I don’t know if I could choose just one, though: but their relationship with Pandu as kids and Kunti much later fascinates me, just in the way they are kept together by love for their parent. * My unpopular opinion about this character

I…actually think that, while they are flawed, my favorite versions are still likeable and sympathetic protagonists as opposed to jerks who are just as bad as their cousins. * One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

…I wish the twins had gotten seperate personalities, and even the other Pandavas more characterization to get rid of the “goody-two-shoes other than the gambling thing”/ “strong but stupid” / “insufferable Designated Hero” flanderizations you so often see. * Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

The Year of Disguise was one of the defining episodes in their lives. Prior to this, they’re so often casteist/classist/less concerned with the sufferings of others, and the forced walk in servants’ shoes must have done so much to make them better people.

Duryodhana

* How I feel about this character

Entertaining villain, often scores one of the most entertaining and talented actors out of the casts in most adaptations. * All the people I ship romantically with this character

I’m come around to Duryodhana/Bhanumati, but Duryodhana/Karna is also a Valid ‘ship. * My non-romantic OTP for this character

Duryodhana/Karna, even otherwise. Give me a version where Duryodhana is just using an sweet-ignorant-and-innocent Karna and you have a very unhappy Avani *side-eyes Starbharat, and, even more so, Suryaputra Karn** My unpopular opinion about this character

I–truthfully, I think the most unpopular opinion is irritation at how much pop culture wants to blame Duryodhana and Shakuni for everything, where Karna and other characters are…actually mostly responsible in actual canon.  The whitewashing of all other characters while Duryodhana is ridiculously evil to the extent where you wonder why no one drowned HIM at birth, is just….illogical. So that’s my grumpiest opinion. * One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I want to know so much about how he actually was as an administrator! The only indication we have Duryodhana’s dying speech about how he was an awesome King and is going to heaven, that’s….showered with flowers by the gods and not disputed by Krishna, and it just makes me wonder. * Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

Duryodhana was a very loving and indulgent father and brother (to Dushala), albeit a hypocritical one–despite his treatment of Draupadi and others, he insisted that the women he cared for be held to a higher standard.

Karna

* How I feel about this character

Rather more irritation than most people in the fandom, I’m afraid. * All the people I ship romantically with this character

I never really–grew up with stories of Karna/His Wife, so I don’t really ship him with Vrushali/Urvi/Supriya/other variations of this character. Truthfully, it’s pretty much Karna/Duryodhana, or nothing. * My non-romantic OTP for this character

Karna & Arjuna as good, old-fashioned mutual loathing, rather than Starbharat’s near-constant ~SECRET BROTHERS~ song, is….always amusing. B. R. Chopra (I know, I know, despite its flaws, a whole bunch of its little character moments have stuck with me) has this part during Draupadi’s swayamvar where Arjuna watches Karna string the bow and just…smirks. He seems almost genuinely pleased, because well–of course his rival would be good enough to string the bow. He would expect no less of Karna.* My unpopular opinion about this character

Though Karna admittedly suffers quite a bit, and is unfortunately affected by bigotry, a) there are other characters who suffer just as much if not more and b) in no way does that justify the suffering he inflicts on other characters. It’s the Snape conundrum all over again. * One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Look, the only fanon I reliably want from any Mahabharat adaptation is the impossible scene where Duryodhana finds out Karna’s true origins after his death and mourns. I’ve said this before, but the “you [the Pandavas] have no right to perform his last rites! Only I do! He was MY friend!” made quite the impression on baby Avani. * Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

Like many a solar hero before him (I’m thinking Gawain/Gwalchmai from Arthurian myth in particular, but I don’t think that’s the only one), Karna’s strength waxes and wanes with the rise and fall of the sun.

Krishna

* How I feel about this character

A warning: I am admittedly biased, because Krishna is the deity dearest to my heart: but a god dedicated to doing the right thing rather than blindly obeying law and tradition, whose response to a devotee saying “I don’t understand” is not to command them to stop asking questions, but rather to explain again and again, is one that I believe in. * All the people I ship romantically with this character

Krishna/Everyone is….pretty much canon, but I have a soft spot for Krishna/Rukmini* My non-romantic OTP for this character

Krishna & Arjuna (if you don’t ship them) is certainly an option, but *points upwards* I’m Team Krishna(a) forever.* My unpopular opinion about this character

I have to hope that Krishna’s offer to Karna that Draupadi would be his is more of a bluff–or rather, a way of guilting Karna rather than a sincere prediction of what would, or even should, happen. * One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.* Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

Krishna’s “women are unreliable, so just go ahead and kidnap my sister instead of proposing” spiel to Arjuna re:Subhadra is honestly tongue-and-cheek and largely because Subhadra begged Krishna to make Arjuna actually get a move on instead of waiting until she got married off against her will. I don’t care that it’s blatantly ignoring canon; but it’s one of the few scenes of Krishna in the Vyasa Mahabharata that don’t fit in with my understanding.  

Balarama

* How I feel about this character

I really like Balarama! I feel like he hardly ever gets any attention, and many of the interesting stories/episodes concerning him often get glossed over. * All the people I ship romantically with this character

I’ve started shipping Balarama/Revati something fierce after getting on Tumblr! But consider: she’s literally from another age entirely, and they still find each other! She’s taller and wiser and stronger than he is! They have no son, only a daughter, and he still never marries anyone else!* My non-romantic OTP for this character

Krishna & Balarama snarking at each other is always great, no matter what the adaptation. * My unpopular opinion about this character

Not unpopular, but I suppose not universally accepted: Balarama is the reincarnation of Lakshmana/Shesh Nag, because Balarama trying to enjoy getting to be the big brother in this birth while Krishna continues to be cheeky and do as he pleases is great. * One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I would have loved to hear more about Yadava politics than what we get, and definitely even more about Revati and Balarama–there’s hardly any mention of her in the Mahabharata. * Something about them I consider true, even though it’s only my head canon/fanon

Balarama and Krishna have perfected bad cop/good cop (or grumpy raging Yadava/ charming compromising Yadava) to an art. Both of them are perfectly capable of exploiting their reputations for political gain.

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Praveen Kumar Sobti, Bheem in Mahabharat dies at 74

Praveen Kumar Sobti, Bheem in Mahabharat dies at 74

Praveen Kumar Sobti who played the role of Bheem in B R Chopra’s Mahabharat died on 7 February at his Delhi residence. He was born on 6 dec, 1974 at Sarhali Kalan, Punjab. In family he has wife,two kids, and five siblings. He was an Indian hammer and discus thrower, film actor, and former soldier of the Border Security Force.  He died after suffering a heart attack, “ He had a chronic chest…

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I GREW UP WATCHING THE MAHABHARAT, A STORY OF LIFE, PRINCIPLES, MORALES AND ETHICS. I HAVE NEVER BEEN BIASED WHEN STUDYING RELIGION. FROM BIRTH TO THE PASSAGE TO IMMORTALITY, SRI KRISHNA NARRATES AND GUIDES ARJUN ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF KURUKSHETRA.... - Deokumar Gandharry