Reasons why Star Plus Mahabharat is Bad (part 2).

I will discuss between episodes 13 until episode 25.

Link to previous posT - ? https://logicastra.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-reasons-why-star-plus-mahabharat-is.html

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RWSPMIB (an easier way to term this post) "Reasons why star plus mahabharata is bad."

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Episode 13:

Problem's.

1 - Bhishma meeting Ganga and seeking her out for advice, this fake trope/trend was invented by B.R. Chopra's mahabharat tv serial, then followed-up by Sagar's "Shri Krishna" series after that it's being resumed by star bharat. But in the actual book of Mahabharat their isn't even one chapter or line of text mentioning a meeting between bhishma & ganga after she gave him away to king Shantanu.

2 - When prince Dhritrashtra is practicing or rehearsing for his speech (cause he believes he will be selected as the king/emperor) then he claims that he will ensure that Hastinapore's wealth (or treasury) will compete with the treasury of Kuber himself. But since it was already established in earlier episodes by Sakuni that Hastinapore's wealth is greater than or equal to whatever Kuber has owned this didn't make much logical sense for Dhritrashtra to mention this.

Episode 14:

1 - Contrary to popular belief/tv series Vidura's role in the incident where Dhritrashtra was denied a right to the throne/position of King is actually not present in the epic itself. It was a joint decision made by other people.

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"Pandu became king, for Dhritarashtra, owing to the blindness, and Vidura, for his birth by a Sudra woman, did not obtain the kingdom."

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https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01110.htm

Logical explanation - it's clear that Dhritrashtra getting denied the throne was not done by Vidur, it's just not mentioned who exactly prevented him from ascending to that throne. My opinion is that it was a decision made jointly by multiple influential people & family members.

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2 - Satyavati looks too young to be considered two generations older than the sons of Ved Vyas. She looks like she is the sister of Dhritrashtra, Pandu & Vidura not like a grandmother to them at all.

3 - Sakuni remaining in Hastinapore during the time where dhritrashtra is denied the crown is a problem, he was not supposed to be their as per the authentic versions of Mahabharat neither were the parents of "Gandhari" supposed to be their.

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Episode 15:

1 - in the five minute mark when Dhritrashtra said that the kuru dynasty would continue with pandu then he said his past is now bonded with darkness. The reason this line made no sense or the reason it's a problem is because Dhritrashtra's past can not possibly be affected now during the present time, the only things that could be affected in his life are the present or the future not the past as it has already been left behind.

2 - Their was no need to make Sakuni's character a limp/handicapped individual, especially when they show him fighting with a mace/club weapon against Yudhisthir during the Kurukshetra episodes. And as a born kshatriya he would never weaken his own body like this.

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Episode 16;

1 - They start to talk about Jarasandha before his time (the time where he should actually be important) arrives before he makes an appearance. And the ones who talk about him are Satyavati (a woman would never get such a influential position in the political monarchy during mahabharat) & Vidura.

2 - A claim is made that Jarasandh is surrounding Hastinapore that hastinapore has no friendly neighbor's (like ally nations) which made no sense. As hastinapore would still have the kashi kingdom & gandhar kingdom as two allies.

3 - If panchal is in the north, vidarbha is in the south, mathura is in the west and magadh is in the east then that should mean Hastinapore is practically surrounded, so their should at least be a line in this episode like "all trade routes leading to Hastinapore have been cut off by Jarasandha & his allies"

4 - This becomes a problem alot as the character's mention Jarasandha even more times (Arjun does during the Kalyavan/Subhadra track & Sakuni does in a episode after karna is given anga desh.) Yet they never show him or do anything much with the Jarasandha character. Despite having a thing called "creative liberty"

5 - During episode 16 their is a mistake because Satyavati claimed Kunti being the daughter of Shurasena {& not Kuntiboja} should never be considered a royal female.

Not only did Satyavati literally ignore her own position (being descended from fisher-people/nishadas basically not of royalty) she also ignored that Kunti was actually a princess, since Shurasena was a royal Kshatriya.

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Episode 17.

Not much to say besides the fact that when Kunti sung a lullaby or a song then it seemed like a bolly wood themed song, it shouldnt have been done.

Kunti having a servant who knew about her secret lost child is completely false and shouldn't be shown here at all, so it is a very bad mistake. Regardless the only servants of kunti that had anything to do with Karna are the ones who were spying on him informing Kunti of his location but none ever knew that he was related to her by blood or a son to her.

Also in this episode their was a mistake that Kunti's suitors needed to answer her question related to Ahalya and Gautama in the Swayamvar.

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EPISODE 18.

Here Pandu insulted Kunti's real father (Surashen) by saying he is unworthy of respect. Its not realistic for a king like pandu to say that.

Kunti admitted in-front of multiple servant girls that karna is her son.

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Episode 19:

Dhritrashtra's wife Gandhari chose to disobey him and greet/welcome Kunti/Pandu, so it is another reason why this tv serial is bad in my opinion.

Nobody ever listens to the wishes of dhritrashtra, he did not ask for anything big at all he just asked for his wife to not assist in the greeting of pandu and kunti, theirs nothing wrong with that.

But a typical indian soap opera/tv series always portrays a woman as being disobedient toward her husband, lying to him, plotting behind his back and gossiping about him.

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Episode 20:

Hastinapur sends its army to fight off a invasion on a friendly kingdom. Earlier this tv series talked of Jarasandh and claimed hastinapore needs ally kingdoms. But if it already had madra desh as a supporter why need the alliance with kuntibhoj & shura sen?

If it was because they doubted that the kingdom where Vasudeva's sister lived (hastinapore) will be invaded by Jarasandh/Kamsa then they should mention it as a reason. Also their has never been a recorded incident in mahabharat where the kingdom of madraka was defended by a king of hastinapur.

And in this tv series it was mentioned that the reason for this nameless person that invaded madra (their reason for attacking) was cause they thought Pandu wouldn't take any action cause he was recently married, but in this same tv serial they showed that the throne of hastinapur was empty for 25 YEAR'S!

So why care about a new kings marriage when the throne was in itself empty for more than 2 decade's? The invader had all the time in the world to harass friendly nations that were allied with hastinapore, why wait until it actually has a king on the throne?

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Episode 21:

Mistake A - Vidura wasted alot of time stalling before he mentioned that pandu got married.

Mistake B - the marriage between Madri/Pandu was arranged by Bhishma as per Mahabharat, but in this fake bharat (Star Bharat) serial it's mentioned that madraka's king requested that pandu marry madri his daughter.

Shouldnt elders have been invited in hastinapur to take part in the wedding? But no we do not even see the marriage, the character of Madri gets nerfed and put in the shadow's to highlight Kunti onscreen instead.

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In Episode 22 when Rishi Kindama is killed then pandu said his name ("Kindam") before he ever found out, how can he tell a brahmins name without meeting or asking him?

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In Episode 23 Sakuni still residing in Hastinapore, not even forming a conspiracy, just having conversations with Dhritrashtra.

I dont see how this helps his goal of revenge, particularly when Sakuni of Mahabharat already left hastinapore, was never their before the poisoning of bhima except for the incident where he gave Gandhari away to Dhritrashtra & met Bhishma.

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In episode 24 when Kunti told Pandu about her gift from the brahmin durvasa then the writer's made Pandu get over excited and thus basically tried to white wash Kunti (making it look like she wanted to inform pandu of karna's existence and demonize the father "Pandu").

Again a mistake is made when it comes to how old a particular character looks, though satyavati and Bhisma continue to have that problem, now another character, this time a brahmin named "Jaimini" has it too. Over here before Yudhisthir's birth jaimini gets introduced with pure white hair, but multiple decades later he looks younger than he did originally.

["Jaimini" in episode 24]

["Jaimini" in episode 178]

So: Not only did the actors face change (re-casting) but he also lost his white hair, it was replaced by gray hair...

And if we calculate the amount of years then 45 years passed (minimum) if we assume that Nakul/Sahadev were both 20 in the rangbhoomi and then 12 years went by for arjuna's exile and another 13 years for the dice game exile after that another year until the war happens.

Since Sahadev and Nakul are supposed to be younger than yudhisthir by at least 4 years. So jaimini cant look younger than he was nearly 50 years ago. Starplus's lame attempt to stay true to its original source failed, they tried introducing a lesser known character (Jaimini) but ended up embarassing themselves yet again.

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Episode 25;

Of course a obvious error is the presence of Sakuni, he should be in Gandhar at this moment, but instead the writer's made him remain in Hastinapore. On the 8 minute 50 second mark of the episode when Sakuni said "sau putra" it sounded too much like "soot putra" instead, so the actor basically made a dialogue delivery mistake.

One more mistake that ruined the series is that Yuyutsu's mother is a servant maiden of Gandhari and that's not what i heard in Mahabharat, whether that be Kmg, Sarala Dasa's tale or even in Bori CE. The only identity of Yuyutsu's mom is that she was from the vaisya caste and submissive to Dhritrashtra only, so starplus messed up yet again.

I also fail to see the point of her being in the series when Yuyutsu himself is never shown at all! Though.. i must say that the actress here looks much better than the overrated actresses who played Droupadi, Kunti & Rukmini in this tv serials.

I would take this woman over pooja sharma anyday.

Yet another mistake which makes the series a bad one is that in mahabharat Gandhari hit her stomach on the day Yudhisthira was born but in this TV series she did it on a different date instead, she did it a few minutes after Yuyutsu's mother had intercourse with Dhritrashtra, this would make Suyodhana younger than Yuyutsu, which's not correct at all as per Mahabharata (the book).

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Message:

I was done typing this post a month ago, except for the twenty fifth episode, i had severe difficulties trying to finish watching that episode and other goal's hence the delay. Next post will hopefully be up quicker.