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MAHABHARATA TV SERIES SERIES

The title song has been song by Mahendra Kapoor, the Indian playback singer. Time also occasionally provides a narration while human-scale action is shown.Įach episode ends with a sung verse either summarizing the physical or emotional state of the episode's main characters, or a moral lesson that can be drawn from the action. Time often speaks of perceiving or revealing patterns in the epic that only it can know from its cosmic perspective. During these sequences, a backdrop of stars and planets is shown overlaid with a transparent image of a statue's head and/or a slowly turning wheel. At or near the beginning of each episode, Time reviews relevant events that have gone before and sets the stage of the action happening in the present episode. The voice of Time ( Samay in Hindi, voiced by Harish Bhimani) narrates the series. The sung verses at the end of the credit sequence are Verses 7 and 8 of Chapter 4 of the Gītā: "Whenever and wherever a decline of righteousness and a predominance of unrighteousness prevails, at that time I ( Krishna) manifest myself personally, O descendant of Bhārata for the protection of the devotees and the annihilation of the miscreants and to fully establish righteousness, I appear millenium after millenium."

The Society and its founder, Swami Prabhupada, are credited for these illustrations.

The opening credits are shown over a backdrop of illustrations from ISKCON's edition of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is.

Gopi Krishna as Chitrasena (Arjuna's dance teacher in heaven).

Shivendra Mahal as Parashurama and Lord Shiva (Parashurama was the guru of Bhishma,Dronacharya and Karna).

Chandni Sharma as Sudeshna (Uttaraa's Wife).

Varsha Usgaonkar as Uttaraa (Abhimanyu's Wife).

Chana Ruparel as Rukmini (Krishna's Wife).

Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi (wife of Five Pandavas).

Roma Manik as Madree, Pandu's Second Wife.

Nazneen as Kunti (mother of Yudishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, and Karna, wife of Pandu, maternal aunt of Krishna).

Virendra Razdan as Vidura (half-brother to the kings Dhritarashtra and Pandu, student of Bhishma).

Renuka Israni as Gandhari (Kauravas's Mother).

Girja Shankar as Dhritrashtra (Kauravas's Father).

Sabrina as Bhootana (The woman with a musical instrument).

Ajay Sinha as Akroora (Kans's Minister).

Sagar Salonke as Balarama (Krishna's Elder Brother).

Goga Kapoor as Kans (Krishna's Maternal Uncle, evil ruler of Mathura).

Ramlal Gupta as Ugrasena (Kans's father).

Kshama Raj as Rohini (Balarama's Mother).

Sheela Sharma as Devaki (Krishna's Mother).

Vishnu Sharma as Vasudeva (Krishna's Father).

Sudesh Berry as Vichitraveer, Shantanu's third son.

Debashree Roy as Satyavati (queen of the Kuru king Shantanu).

Rishabh Shukla as Shantanu ( Bhishma's Father).

Kiran Juneja as Ganga (Goddess of the river).

Ashalata as Queen Mother (Shakuntala, Bharat's mother) (mother of Emperor Bharata and the wife of Dushyanta who was the founder of the Paurava Dynasty).

Raj Babbar as Bharat (grandfather of Kauravas and Pandavas).

Arun Bakshi as Dhrishtadyumna (Draupadi's Brother).

Nitish Bharadwaj as Krishna, Shampa as young Krishna (seen dancing on snake), Kewal Shah as Young Krishna.

Arjun as Arjuna, Ankur Javeri as young Arjuna.

Gajendra Chouhan as Yudhishtira, Sonu as young Yudhishthira.

Rajesh Vivek as Vyasa (author of the Mahabharata).

MAHABHARATA TV SERIES SERIES

It was also the first programme broadcast on BBC2 after its 1991 revamp, but was also shown late at night on BBC 1 the previous year Īccording to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was Rs. It was shown in the UK by the BBC, where it achieved audience figures of 5 million, unheard of for a subtitled series being aired in the afternoon. It followed the highly successful Ramayan broadcast in 1987–1988. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes long. The music was composed by critically acclaimed music director Rajkamal. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The 94-episode series originally ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990. Mahabharat is a successful Indian television series based on the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. For the 2008 TV series produced by Bobby Bedi, see Mahabharat (2008 TV series). For the 2008 TV series produced by Balaji Telefilms, see Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki.