Story of Bhima. Review on Randamoozham - M T Vasudevan Nair

I think this is the simplest way Mahabharatha has been ever told. Narrating the story of Bhima's point of view, MT stripped off the divine powers from the characters and presented them as mortal human beings with emotions. So you don't get to see Krishna supplying an infinitely long sari to save Draupadi or King Jarasandha's body rejoining and coming back to life whichever way Bhima tries to tear him into two . But you can see Bhima being jealous of Arjuna for being Draupadi's favourite among five brothers as well as Arjuna mocking Karana for being of lower caste to satisfy his superiority complex. To an extent the Pandavas become mere puppets in the hands of Kunthi and Draupadi lures them with their next chance to live with her . the last few pages reveal some shocking facts about the Pandavas' parenthood. MT explains that he read different versions of the story written over different periods and found that divine powers granted to the characters were mostly imaginations of the story tellers.