Reason's Why Starplus Mahabharat is bad (part 3).

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Intro:

I originally intended on going on till episode 40 at least but due to the sheer number of errors, problems and reasons why the following episodes are bad i was only able to cover between episodes 26 till 32. My next post will certainly be longer.

Link to the former post - https://logicastra.blogspot.com/2023/06/reasons-why-star-plus-mahabharat-is-bad.html

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Episode 26.

The mistake is right under on the photo.

Problem - it shows Dhritrashtra with a mukut (crown) while he also had armor on, the major issue is the mukut itself, why does dhritrashtra have a mukut when he has a desire of going on a dig-vijay. But Arjun, Duryodhan, Bheem etc and none of the characters have mukut's when going to wars later on between episodes 48 to 267?

Another mistake is that Dhritrashtra for some reason before getting invading another country needs Bhishma's permission, which made no sense as the independent lord of hastinapore is Dhritrashtra, even in the book itself Dhritrashtra had the ability to make his own decision's it was him who gave permission to others.

In the dice game he returned everything back to the pandavs before the decision for a second game was made. It seems like the starplus writer's team wanted to unnecessarily highlight Bhishma to make him relevant again.

Once again a new entry happen's a character is introduced, his name is "Vyaas" (how the actors pronounce it), he was supposed to be the singer of Mahabharat, but nothing is mentioned about how Ganesh aided him in writing it (only ekta kapoor jee gave Ganesh respect). For a important character like Vyaas this seem's to be a very lame and unimpactful entry.

Oh by the way here it seems like (based off looks only) vyasa was Satyavati's father as he looks older than she does..

What a nice change made by Starplus (sarcasm should be sensed as the truth is that this is a dumb change, they really need to make the woman look older, shes supposed to be even older than Kunti was in Kurukshetra).

Also the inclusion of Sanjaya is a mistake, i don't think i mentioned it in the previous post (cause Sanjay's character entered in between those episode's) but he is included in the 26th episode and that is a mistake, because according to the book he's not supposed to come in Mahabharat until a later time period of Dhritrashtra's life span.

At the 18th minute mark of the episode not only is it a misfortune to hear the annoying theme song of Bheem, but also a mistake is done yet again as Vayu Dew said "half of bheems body is made of Vajra" which is clearly not true as even in this TV SERIES we see as a audience how often bheem bleeds, gets wounded etc. The normal arrows of even Karna were able to injure this fat boy (the real bheem wasn't so fat but he also did not have limb's akin to Vajra).

Lastly here Bheem's birth occurred before Duryodhan's did which makes no sense, they were supposed to either be born at the exact same time or Duryodhan was supposed to be older by a few hour's.

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Episode 27:

On the 1 minute 26th second mark of this episode Bhishma asked Kripa why their are so many bad omens and natural disaster's in Hastinapore. Now although i'm glad they are finally using the character of Kripa i have one problem. Bhishma was the student of many knowledgeable people (not just Indra & Parshurama) so he should not need to seek advice from another person, even a brahmin.

Lastly what Kripa said is unbelievable (that bad omens happen whenever a human with asuric nature is born) cause when the birth of Ghatotkaca happened in this TV series then their were no bad omen's, not in hastinapore, the hidimva forest or any place in what is known as "the Earth" in Mahabharat. So Kripa was used incorrectly and the tv serial falls flat on it's face again, it should learn from Ekta Kapoor instead.

And what about when Krishna's uncle, Ugrasena's son Kamsa was born huh? He was of the same generation as Dhritrashtra & Pandu so Bhishma should've asked about bad omens then, meaning he must have already gotten the answer to his useless question about bad omen's yet for some reason he's a clueless individual here.

The actor that plays Indra for this episode is this one.

{this's a big problem as everyone knows its not the same person who portrayed Shri Indra Dev for most of the series, their was no need to change the actor again}

The writer's of starplus should be slapped for this error.

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Madri mentioned a "vanara" family, which just made me dislike this TV serial again, as no vanara was shown besides the overrated hanuman. They could have shown Sahadev defeating Dwividha & Mainda (the vanaras more powerful than Hanutati), but no instead they show Droupadi mentioning vanaras to karna when he has a conversation with her in the dice game.

During the 18 minute 40 second mark Pandu mentioned 104 anujas (younger-brother's) of Yudhisthira indicating that Yuyutsu was not born or he does not exist in this television series, even though Yuyutsu's mom (Sugadha) had intercourse with Dhritrashtra before the birth of Duryodhan.

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Then lastly just in order to make Kunti's character look better/good the writers decided to make her have sympathy for Madri, instead of following the actual book which shows that Madri was the one who asked Pandu to get her taught the mantra instead of Kunti offering it.

And Kunti believed Madri to be a wicked women she feared her that she might surpass her in a number of son's, she felt betrayed by her. You can read it all in this link - https://sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01125.htm

But since such truths and incidents will be seen as CONTROVERSIAL they are not shown in TV serial's especially not a saas bahu drama like star plus. The real Kunti was not a very positive character at all despite being a mother to the pandavas, she was a negative character who had her flaw's.

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Episode 28;

The amount of hair on Sakuni's face/beard was intolerable & disgusting to even look at.

And their was a 15 year time leap, which's dumb and a waste of time, so many key events are literally skipped & not shown.

Then during the four minute mark of that episode Karna despite having his kavach kundala (and i know he's an overrated lallu) is not able to successfully lift a chariots wheel, he struggles way too much to pull it out of the mud (this's before any curse is given to him). And Bhishma still has not gained a single strand of grey or white hair on his beard, so an error (by this time of the serial he's 96 years old at minimum).

Old enough to be a great grandfather (four generations older than Karna) but no grey hair is BS, when in this tv serial Kunti as a mother had one strand of gray hair & Dhritrashtra as a grandfather (25 years after Khandav Dahan) had grey/white hair too. All director's of Star Plus are chutiyas.

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Other issues in this episode alone are,

[biggest problem]

My comment: You might not have noticed but here Karna took an arrow from what exactly? a QUIVER that's the issue, the massive mistake done! If the writing team of starplus mahabharat could use quivers originally in conflicts, battles or co ntests then why did they have to make arrows appear out of the air itself in episodes after this moment?

Why did all the quiver's disappear after this incident? Why'd they stop using them? It would have saved them from spending more money on special effects, their budget could last abit longer if they choose to stick to quivers.

Other problem;

Karna (teenager) was crying only cause Bhishma said he believes Karna will a great driver for the future generation of kuru prince's. Despite being a karna hater i dont consider this a good scene as first of all it misrepresents what position the suta caste originally was in 2nd of all its a dumb reason to cry, it would be better if they wanted to show karna crying then they should have shown karna's foster brothers death in virata parva, but instead they prefer to add fake $hit. Here Karna was granted an award of 100 gold coin's yet he cries, its such a dumb incident.

In the 11 minute mark Bhishma called Adhiratha the name "sooshen" my problem is i dont get why he's referring to him as Sooshen/Sushen when that's not his name at all.

Entry of young kourava brother's:

The actor who play's Dushashana is my problem, he clearly looks an aryan invader due to the caucasian features on his face.

But he looks nothing like the actor for adult Dushashana.

As u can see his eyes got bigger and facial structure/anatomy has been altered, so its a bad change. Not what Arpit Ranka said in his interview "is mahabharat ko hamney as REALISTIC as possible bananey kee koshish kee hai!" (Arpit said this to a guy who asked him about all distortion's made in star bharat).

This's how people actually age in real life;

{The photos are of SRK a bollywood actor} as you can see this human being's facial structure did not change much.

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Episode 29:

Now i've finally reached this episode after the long list of errors in the previous one. So for this episode the first problem i have is that Satyavati still gets labelled "RAAJ MATA" that mean's queen mother, but in factual terms Satyavati is the grandmother of Dhritrashtra, the mother to his father (Vyasa). So she should be called raaj DADHI instead of mata.. It would appear like the director's and scriptwriter's of star bharat failed to graduate from 2nd grade Hindi language classes, they probably need to retake 1st grade too.

My next issue is that in this episode Bhishma claimed that a kings order is like gods order, and that he can't oppose it but only make a request to the king a plea to change his decisions. The problem in that scene is due to how in a later episode (after draupadi's swayamvara) when Dhritrashtra tried to coronate Suyodhan (to the throne of Hastinapore) then Bhishma opposed this & said he would fight a war if he sees ADHARMA on Hastinapore's throne.

Next during the 9 minute mark of this episode a old guy whose photo is below;

Called Satyavati his sister, this proves that she is in the same age bracket as him, so for her to not have any white hair yet still get called budhi (meaning old female not intelligence) made no sense. Its a big BLOT on indian logic and to the audience that the writers of Star Plus couldn't make Satyavati ever age!

And another thing here her brother looked shorter than her;

Yet here he look's taller;

I thought height faker's of India were only in Bollywood not television show's.

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Lastly for the 29th episode, the remainder of problems are.

A - it made no sense for Duryodhan's younger brothers to target the fisher people despite knowing that Satyavati was a relative to them

B - why Satyavati's own brother remained in poverty or bereft of any wealth/riches despite being the brother of what is arguably the most politically powerful woman of Hastinapore.

C - The brother of Satyavati had no clue where king Pandu or his children were, yet he's a direct in law of the kuru royal family!

D - Arjuna is protrade as already being a masterful archer, able to hit water droplets from kilometer's away, despite being a young boy, so it boggle's my mind why this Arjuna ever needed to gain knowledge from Drona, Shiva, Kripa etc for learning archery then.

E - the food joke done by adolescent Bheem was a very poor attempt at comedy relief. They did attempt an action scene with king Dhritrashtra (i presume that was a part of his fitness routine as kshatriya king's needed to be alert) but it was too short not long enough at all.

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Episode 30;

Now this episode is going to be judged/critiqued as well. Its first minute in itself is extremely annoying as it disrespected the character of Bheem they portrayed him as a fat glutton who is obsessed with ladoos and sweets. Another annoying error/problem occurs in this episode/series, the character of Ganga makes an entry. This polluted river female deity did not have such importance or relevance in the actual books known as "Mahabharat" the directors have given female characters far more importance than they are due.

The only female characters that were really important were "Kunti", "Droupadi" & "Satyabhama" not one other lady had as much importance or spoke in Mahabharat, so Satyavati and Ganga need to both be removed. Their is no quote or line or single sentence in Mahabharat which states Bhishma meeting Ganga the river or deity after she returned him to his father king Santanu either.

Also according to their conversation (between Ganga and Satyavati) in this show itself the time line tell's us that Bhishma was 25 before he met Santanu, which is too long for my taste, that's a long enough time for Bhishma to have already been a father before his meeting with his father and he lacks any facial hair.

Lastly the final problem's in this episode would be Sakuni giving the children of Dhritrashtra their new name (Kourava) along with Pandu educating Arjuna in archery (what's the point of Indra, Drona, Shiva training Arjuna then)? One thing i will say that i liked is that Sahadev was given some form of relevance by giving him the fake invention (being able to see the future that Pandu will die trying to make love with Madri).

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Episode 31:

Yet another disgusting attempt is made to degrade & demonize the character of Queen Madri by the writing team who claims that she always viewed Kunti as a rival and lost against the whore Kunti time and again, once more they have tried to white wash Kunti and make Madri look bad. At the expense of other character's they try making kunti look good.

Apparently in this TV Serial Madri was able to commit suicide by doing what? By closing her eye's that's how she did it, which is not logical at all, if this were the case then each time someone closed their eyes then their life span would've came to an end.

Another annoying error is to make Satyavati's character give advice to the Pandava's, the writers of star bharat could've introduced Dhoumya the priest who was a lesser known character, they could have made him give them advice instead, or maybe Vyasa but they instead always wanted the saas bahu aspect to remain alive in this show.

Also in this tv series Satyavati never gave any advice to the sons of Dhritrashtra but for some reason she gives the sons of Kunti advice instead.

FINALLY - They gave the ageless Satyavati who look's like she is the younger sister of her grandsons (Vidura, Pandu/Dhritrashtra etc) and even younger than the mother of the pandavas (Kunti, also wife to Satyavati's grand-son). They gave her a fanmade MAHA PRASTHANIKA.

If anyone read Mahabharat they'd know the 17th kanda (fruit of the Mahabharata tree as the book is at times referred to a tree instead of an epic) is title Maha Prasthanika, which details the final journey of the pandavas before they die, so why does this tv serial not show that?

Instead they choose to give it to Satyavati who was not even as important as Nakul in star bharat...

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Episode 32.

The incident of Bhishma breaking the dice of Sakuni is extremely similar to the dice breaking done by Yudhisthir (later on) & then Sri Krishna himself. I know about these two incidents due to watching the latter half of Star Bharat years earlier, i simply did not see the beginning until recently. The problem is that it's a original scene which is repeatedly copied later on by other character's, as if nothing else could be used, the writers could not come up with anything.

It was fine when only Bhishma did it, then when Yudhisthir did it i thought it was just the cry/howl of a frustrated soul (that didnt have intelligence to stop being involved in a stupid game), when saurabh raj jain (doesn't deserve to play krishna's role) did it then to me it just seemed like they were dragging the story out by remaking a scene.

Bhishma is also later on this series said to be against gambling/the-game-of-dice yet here in episode thirty two he offered Sakuni to play the game with him. And their's one more problem as usual the theme of portraying female characters in a negative or argumentative manner is always prevalent here. The tradition of making a villains wife (in this case Dhritrashtra's wife) oppose him, have different opinions, never agree to his belief's happened.

In a earlier episode when dhritrashtra was denied the throne then Gandhari felt it was a injustice, now Gandhari (in a later episode after her son Duryodhan is fifteen) claim's that whatever Vidur does is right, so her character is definitely not consistent in this tv serial.

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End;

If anything then this should be awarded title of "most cringeworthy mahabharat serial ever" not best mahabharat. I would take the mahabharats shown by Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Khan & Ramanandan Sagar any day over this garbage star bharat.

Of course Br Chopra's is the finest, but a 2nd best should be either ekta kapoor's or khan/sagar, not star bharat in any way.

On a side note Arav Chowdhary looks like a young Steve Reeves.