The terribly miscast and ill-fated Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki - an opulent televised retelling of the epic that was populated with overly familiar faces from her saas-bahu serials and ridiculous clothes. Oddly enough though, the show didn’t spawn any remakes despite its mythical stature until Ekta Kapoor, in a misguided move, created her own version of the show in 2008. It was a time when streets wore a deserted look on Sunday mornings as families, and entire communities in villages, huddled around TV sets to pay obeisance to their gods on screen. If Mahabharat maintains the quality of writing and cast, we may have another winner among us, feels Nishi Tiwari.īR Chopra’s Mahabharat, which ran from 1988 to 1990, went on to become a significant phase in the history of Indian television (still in its nascent stage back then) and, by extension, of Indian pop culture.
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