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MUMBAI:Mahabharatis Jayantilal Gada’s ambitious effort and boasts of the greatest casting coup on Indian screen. The film’s animated characters are modelled on the popular Hindi film stars. And, to complete the effect, the actors themselves have given voice to their screen images.
Mahabharatis said to be the greatest epic ever written and though proud of the tome, not many know how to make kids aware of it! Though in abridged version, a film like this helps. The story, which has inspired many an Indian film scripts, is about Kauravs’ greed, backed by their guile, to rid their cousin, the Pandavs, of their hierarchical right to inherit the kingdom of Hastinapur. The kingdom is ruled by Dhritrashtra, who is blind but the final word is always that of Bheeshma, referred to as Pitamah (Amitabh Bachchan). The villain of the piece is Duryodhan (Jackie Shroff), the eldest of the 100 strong Kaurav clan ably aided by his manipulative maternal uncle, Shakuni (Anupam Kher)!
Mahabharatis said to be the greatest epic ever written and though proud of the tome, not many know how to make kids aware of it! Though in abridged version, a film like this helps. The story, which has inspired many an Indian film scripts, is about Kauravs’ greed, backed by their guile, to rid their cousin, the Pandavs, of their hierarchical right to inherit the kingdom of Hastinapur. The kingdom is ruled by Dhritrashtra, who is blind but the final word is always that of Bheeshma, referred to as Pitamah (Amitabh Bachchan). The villain of the piece is Duryodhan (Jackie Shroff), the eldest of the 100 strong Kaurav clan ably aided by his manipulative maternal uncle, Shakuni (Anupam Kher)!
