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Harish Bhimani On Ekta Kapoor's Mahabharat: ‘She Could Not Justify The Essence Of The Epic’
BR Chopra’s Mahabharat is currently enjoying a second re-run on Colors TV for audiences in the lockdown. And now, the narrator of the iconic show and renowned voiceover artist Harish Bhimani has opened up about Ekta Kapoor’s failed attempt at re-telling the epic in a contemporary fashion with Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki (2008).
Harish told TOI, “Ekta Kapoor modernized it and could not communicate the essence of the epic. Filmmaker Shyam Benegal made a movie Kalyug (1981), which was a modern take on Mahabharat. So, if you want to streamline Mahabharat, you have to take into consideration the theme, plot points and several other things before putting them as per the current scenario.”
He
went
on
to
add,
“One
more
version
of
Mahabharat
was
made
by
Dr.
Chandra
Prakash
Dwivedi
and
he
had
changed
the
screenplay
to
a
flashback
format.
He
started
with
the
battle
of
Kurukshetra
and
then
went
back
to
the
beginning
of
the
story.
I
believe
that
a
complicated
story
like
Mahabharat
should
always
be
shown
in
a
linear
narrative
format
so
that
it
becomes
easier
for
the
audience
to
understand.”
It must be collected that Mukesh Khanna, who played the role of Bhishma Pitamah in the original series had also taken a jibe at Ekta Kapoor for her misfired adaptation a while ago. He has said, “She made a mockery of Mahabharat. She took all the daily soap actors and tried to make Mahabharat. They were flaunting tattoos and six-pack abs. If you want to make Mahabharat rise about it and don't try to ape it. Ekta must be very angry with me because I have spoken a lot about the kind of content she makes. I am against the way she projects women in her daily soaps."
