Nov 05, 2008 04:02 PM
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It has been firmly established that ekta kapoor’s mahabharat is a brainless & horrible version of the indian epic. However, i feel that she is still a very smart business woman…she knows that the 9 pm prime time slot is majorly watched by the house wives & so she has made sure to provide them with lots of eye candy. This trick will ensure that her trps will never drop…**all the desperate indian housewives will be glued to their tv sets and their poor husbands & kids will have no other option but to watch along with them.
To hell with the script !!! To hell with authenticity !!! To hell with good actors & superior dialogue delivery !!! Ekta kapoor has proved that in today’s world money is all that matters & the means that you employ to earn that does not make any difference. She already knows that a huge chunk of the indian junta, especially the real-life saas bahus & desperate housewives already watch her irritating daily soaps, as they have nothing better to do with their time by casting the same set of pathetic actors & actresses in this insipid version of a serial, she has ensured that she has a ready made audience & also cut corners…becoz all the ronit roys, sakshi tanwars & kiran karmarkars would lick her feet to have themselves work in her serials…
Br chopra’s mahabharat was superlative & is far, far above this junk….so it is not fair to compare his serial with this travesty…the special effects used by him even in those days was much superior to ekta kapoor’s…we can say that br chopra’s mahabharat was truly a labour of love, crafted by him lovingly to perfection. Even today i can watch that serial & not feel bored…in fact i have learnt a lot, the philosophical gyan, the perfect portraying of relationships.no wonder people used to go wild about mahabharat in those days & it still rocks !!!
Ekta kapoor on the other hand is nothing better than a woman who has raped the great indian epic for her own financial gains. She is a cheapo who shamelessly plagiarises from hollywood movies** (the scene of devavrat’s childhood fight with the wolf - a cheap & shoddy frame to frame lift up from the movie 300)…she seems to have been heavily inspired by roman & greek war movies & as such has made up her characters to look like them. She has not wasted her time, money or effort in finding good actors, rather going in for chisselled physiques. That too only for some of the lead characters. The others look like bad, underpaid, demotivated extras, who have no idea how they landed up in front of a camera (dhirtrashtra, pandu etc)…santanu was supposed to be a wise & benevolent king…ekta’s santanu looks & acts more like an arrogant tyrant that i feel like kicking his ass…
I accept that we don't know how the kings & warriors of that period used to dress up…however that is no excuse for dressing them up as a mixture of romans, greeks…even the elephant god ganesha looks squint eyed & surly. Makarand deshpande as ved vyas is more in to dramatics & antics like standing on one leg, while reciting mahabharat. I wont be surprised, if in some future episode, he stands on his head !!!*
The title song of br chopra’s mahabharat was so unique, so divinely beautiful that even today if i hear it somewhere, i feel moved to tears. Ekta kapoor has opted for some horrible & unconvincing title song, which i cannot recollect right now.
The special effects used in this movie are so silly & cheap, that i am horrified if somebody from another country sees this, they will think that india is still in the stone ages & cannot manage decent special effects…i am sure that things will only deteriorate as this serial goes on…
Ekta kapoor has ensured that there is no aesthetic, devotional or spiritual appeal in her serial, only mind numbing dramatics, cheap histronics & a commercial venture aimed to make more money. However, i am sure that there will still be some dumb, half-witted people glued to watching her serials & praising her.
