Mahabharat is Back and How!

After a long long saga of saas-bahu serials there comes some relief with the return of Mahabharata though I know that is not the name of the show. The only one serial that I enjoyed watching was Sarabhai vs Sarabhai which for some reason discontinued and never came back even after rumours of a second season. Since then I went back to being Homer Simpson, switching channels and occasionally saying 'Boring!' while doing so. 

However, now that Mahabharata is back, I end up watching at least one Indian television show apart from the other American and Australian ones (Yes. Masterchef Australia. Already drooling).

I strongly believe that mythological shows always work better as compared to any other shows. More often than not, everyone knows the story or has read about it at some point in life and wants to see what it will look like and how close it is to their imagination. It is a lot like how people wanted to watch Harry Potter after reading the books and if it exactly the way like we imagined it in our head.

The new Mahabharat on Star Plus is sure a breath of fresh air from the everyday drama on television (or at home). Everything is high definition and better than the previous ones (though some of my graphic designer friends might say otherwise) I quite enjoyed the story all over again since the one by BR Chopra. It begins from Shantanu, the Kuru King of Hastinapur and as the story began to unfold I began to lose interest. It got really confusing.  

Though some of the fight sequences were pretty good I seriously think that they could have been much better, the question of who is whose child still remains unanswered. The acting gets worse with the introduction of every new character. (Please someone do something about the guy playing Shakuni. He is unbelievable. No really, I don't buy it and he is awfully annoying.)

Yet another thing that really irked me was, how is the narrator, Krishna, so fair? There are just too many questions that go unanswered like who Maharishi Ved Vyas really is or who really fathered Dhritarashtra and Pandu. These facts have been conveniently left out. For someone who hasn't ever watched it before can get really confused with everything. My enthusiasm to watch that show is not coming back anytime soon and I am back to the Homer mode of switching channels.