Genre: TV > Mahabharat

Dhritarashtra, Gandhari and Kunti prepare to embark on their exile when the Pandavas come to see them. Dhritarashtra says he is glad that Hastinapur finally has a king who is not blind and will be able to make better judgments than he did. He says he has realized that Vidur was right when he opposed a blind king and he should have listened to him.

 

Draupadi, who is standing outside the chamber, is brought inside by Gandhari. Draupadi tries to convince them to stay back at the palace. But Dhritarashtra cannot overcome the guilt he feels for being the cause of the destruction Hastinapur went through. Draupadi says if Dhritarashtra has truly forgiven the Pandavas, he cannot leave them.

 

Dhritarashtra finally gives in to Draupadi's insistence and agrees to stay back in Hastinapur. Gandhari asks Dhritarashtra to meet Bhishma and inform him that Hastinapur is finally safe but Dhritarashtra refuses to see Bhishma by saying he does not want Bhishma to see him in his final moments of life.

 

The Pandavas and Krishna go to meet Bhishma on the battlefield. Bhishma had been waiting for precisely the same moment as he wants to see Krishna one last time before he can go to heaven.

 

 

 

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Produced by B R Chopra and directed by his son Ravi Chopra, the television series Mahabharat met with great success when it was telecast on Doordarshan from 1988 to 1990.

The series consisted of 94 episodes of 45 minutes each and left the audience captivated. Most actors in the series like Nitish Bharadwaj (Shri Krishna), Mukesh Khanna (Bhishma Pitamaha) and Roopa Ganguly (Draupadi) among others attained iconic status.

Mahabharat is inspired from the great epic Mahabharat, one of the most important texts of India. It discusses the human goals of purpose, pleasure, duty and liberation.

Written by Sage Ved Vyasa, the epic Mahabharat is the story of the Kuru clan. The epic chronicles their struggle for the throne of Hastinapur.

The evil Kauravas and the righteous Pandavas of the Kuru clan go to war, which finally culminates into the fierce battle of Kurukshetra. The story revolves around complex conflicts, relationships, hatred, deceit and the ultimate win of bad over evil.

Mahabharat also records the life of Lord Krishna from his childhood days in Gokul to his advice in the form of Bhagvad Gita to Arjun.

 

Cast:

Harish Bhimani (Samay), Mukesh Khanna (Bhishma), Nitish Bharadwaj (Krishna), Girja Shankar (Dhritrashtra), Renuka Israni (Gandhari), Nazneen (Kunti), Virendra Razdan (Vidura), Surendra Pal (Dronacharya), Vinod Kapoor (Dushasan), Puneet Issar (Duryodhan), Praveen Kumar (Bheem), Gajendra Chouhan (Yudhishtir), Arjun (Arjun), Sameer (Nakul), Sanjeev (Sahdev), Razak Khan (Ghatotkach), Sagar Salunke (Balram), Pankaj Dhir (Karna), Gufi Paintal (Shakuni), Roopa Ganguly (Draupadi), Raj Babbar (Bharat), Rishabh Shukla (Shantanu), Kiran Juneja (Ganga), Debashree Roy (Satyavati)

 

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