Why Starplus Mahabharat is bad (part 4).

Prelude - I know that this tv series began and ended a long time ago. But at the same time its existence sparks debate, arguments & dispute's all the time. So it needs to be addressed called out & exposed as being one of the shows that suck's and did not do any real justice to it's source material and audience.

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33rd episode;

Automatically when Vidur, the pandava's & Kunti enter Hastinapore then Vidur tells Kunti "their are one hundred children opposed to your five children" not only is Yuyutsu missing but Vidur appeared to say this to criminalize the sons of Dhritrashtra before they even meet the Pandava's so not only do the pandavas but even Kunti has a bad impression of the 100 kids, when they have yet to meet or harm the pandava brother's.

Their was a annoying flashback with stupid music completely unnecessary, then a meeting Kunti had with Karna, as if Karna somehow felt like he had a blood connection to the pandavas already. Which is another unnecessary scene. For some dumb reason multiple other citizens of Hastinapore not just karna touched her feet.

A wrestler from Magadh came to Hastinapore accompanying the pandava's which made no sense as in a earlier episode it's mentioned that Magadh is a enemy state to Hastinapore.

It's like starplus deliberately makes inconsistencies.

The wrestlers of Magadh claim to be servant's of Bhishma as they follow his order's, but it makes no sense for them to not be servants of Jarasandha instead, so bhishma should have never been their boss.

Another thing Yudhisthir tells Nakul/Sahadev to touch the feet of Duhsasan but that made no sense as Duhsasan did not introduce himself, he said a insult but he did not mention his own name at all so it makes no sense for Yudhisthir to know his name when this's the first moment he met him.

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34th episode;

The introduction of Purochan, why it's a problem lies in the actor who is playing his role, as this actors face is changed, basically he is replaced.

{the original purochan}

When Sakuni had a private conversation with child Duryodhan (or teenager whatever u call the 15 year old with facial hair) then he said that Bhishma is his uncle. We all should realise that this's another mistake, cause bhishma was duryodhan's grand uncle (uncle to father) not his uncle so star plus made themselves look stupid again. The jokes, gaali's, insult's & roasts used by the kourav brother's (whose leader when duryodhan is not around is duhsasanh) are extremely lame and low tier.

They said "you cant eat without permission" to the pandavs then "these forest dwellers dont even know the manners and etiquette of living in a royal mansion" after that "this happens whenever you live with forest dweller's" it makes no sense for anyone to think those words are funny, it would have been better if they came up with a real insult.

The hooded figure (Duryodhan) being able to recognize bheem and the kourav's by their voices does not make any sense as their are 99 kouravas (excluding Suyodhan) so he should not have been able to recognize a person based on their voice unless it was an important person like Duhsasan.

Since that hooded person was Duryodhan then it still made no sense cause he has only ever heard the voices of three pandavas not all five of them. And why Sahadev who can see the future in this tv serial is not able to warn the pandavas that they will be disrespected by their uncle's children made no sense, he should have alerted them earlier.

By the way....Sugadha is still in the show but her children do not exist for some unknown reason & now she's becoming friends with Kunti. And the introduction of Duhsalaa proves the gender bias that the screen writer's have, they have no issue with making each kourava a hater of the pandavs, but just cause Duhsala is a female the writers decided to make her's a positive character that has no hatred at all, very disgusting double standard of the writing team.

When Vidur talked to the prince's at the dining table then he made a mistake, he mentioned two names "dushalan" "shraman" but if you read Mahabharat, or just this post which has their names, then no prince had those two names at all.

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35th episode:

Not much for me to label an error. Besides the obsession that they have with food, and the fact Bhishma still looks too young to be 2 generation's older than Dhritrashtra. Also a important mistake is that Sakuni was supposed to be kicked out of hastinapore in the same episode that Bhishma tore the dice in. He should've been sent back to Gandhar (his home-state) but instead we see he's still in Hastinapore.

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36th episode:

In the 3 minute mark of the episode when the kouravas encircled the pandav brother's their should be at least 98 of them, unfortunately their are only 18 instead.

{count it yourself}

Sakuni still being in hastinapore despite Bhishma's warning in the tv series, it seems like now they are trying to follow Adi Parva of Kmg Mahabharat instead, as Sakuni was their in the chapter where Bheem was poisoned, but as per the show itself this is indeed a mistake.

During the 10 minute mark Kunti said "in 15 year's so much changed in Hastinapore" but it makes no sense cause Arjuna (who is younger to Duryodhan/Bheem) is 15 or maybe Nakul/Sahadev were 15 (as their births were shown before the fifteen year time skip) so if anything Kunti should have said either 16 years OR 17 years (cause that is the last time she was in Hastinapore before leaving with Pandu).

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37th episode.

Here Drona looks older than Bhishma as he had gray hair, i assume this's due to the bias people have against Drona (mahabharat fans are angry that drona was better than namard's like parshuram, hanuman, bhishma, karna etc).

Yet Bhishma himself had nothing besides black hair in the same episode. Drona is supposed to be younger than Bhishma.

Mother Kunti told the pandavas in this same tv serial to always stick together yet instead of doing that Bheem decided to get led astray by Duryodhan, he got separated from the herd. And more importantly during the 18 minute 40 second mark of this episode, Bheem said to Duryodhan "you are my ANOOJ you eat first" Anooj mean's younger brother so this's even worse as Bheem was supposed to be the same age instead of older than Duryodhan.

Also Duryodhan as a child had facial hair, bheem in his childhood as a mota lacked any facial hair. Duryodhan also second's later mentioned that Bheem is older than himself..

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38th episode;

It's mentioned that Drona would become the guru of the kuru prince's but in Mahabharat the book the story is different compared to the TV series. Their it's stated that the first mentor was Kripa right after the poisoning incident of Bheem at PramanaKoti then the next tutor became Drona. The time the kuru prince's spent studying under Kripa was actually very little, their main teacher was Drona only.

Other mistake - The place where Kunti was doing her worship to a phallus/lingam is clearly the same region where Krishna (saurabh gay jain) talk's to the audience directly informing them of things that seem to be wise but are not in actuality.

But it is clearly obvious that is the same region so the writers need to correct this instead of letting a mistake like this just slide.

Another very big error.

This one has to do with age, all viewer's can see the time slot's, how did Kripa gain a couple strand's of white/grey hair in less than 3 minutes?

Mistake is this, what the ganga river appears to look like below.

First of all it is the ganga river because Sakuni told Duryodhan to throw Bheem their (as then he would go to heaven after death & the magnitude of the crime/sin/adharma/paap will decrease). So it has to be it (ganga/gange's).

Now i'd also like to mention that in the 1500's (A.D.) Babur the moghul emperor said that ganga's river is clean, better than nectar itself, he never mentioned that it was green, dirty or impure. This Mahabharat story in Adi Parva takes place before Babur invaded northern india, so theirs no excuse for ganga to look so disgusting compared to back then.

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39th episode:

The scene of Bheem disguised in a hoodie, covering his face etc is not only akin to the TV serials (saas bahu crap drama) that show female characters and males covering their faces with a piece of cloth (like Ashok's mother from "Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat" a 2015 tv series) but it is also a direct copy of a earlier scene involving Duryodhan refusing to grant bheem the permission to eat food (in episode 34).

So this problem is basically a lack of any originality, completely copying from it self. If the writers of star bharat desired to copy anything then they should've copied from Kmg Mahabharat or Bori Ce mahabharat or even sarala das/kashidasi mahabharat.

And another problem would be this.

You may not get it but this's what Yudhisthir looked like before he turned into an adult as per this TV serial.

Then he becomes (this) instead.

Would it not make more sense if that photo of the teenager yudhisthir was a young shaheer sheikh? He also had the same clothing (white robes/golden ornament's).

But instead Shaheer is playing the role of Arjuna (who as a kid in this tv show had smaller eye balls as a child).

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Anyways to continue with episode 39 instead of getting off topic...

The serial writer's made another annoying mistake by having Vasuki tell Bheem that he was told by the wind god to send troop's. And the ancestor of bheem who was a naga is Aryaka, not Vasoo (so what vasuki said isn't correct at all).

Lastly Vasuki mentioned "my soldier's got to know of your strength by meeting you" but a fight is never shown on screen in this episode, so the fans who watch it for action will be displeased, dissatisfied. And according to the tv series he had the drink called "Soma Juice" instead of Rasa Kunda.

Read the content in this link & see for yourself - https://sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01129.htm the drink's name is "Rasakunda" not "Soma" and also in the tv serial Vasuki said bheem would gain the power of 100 elephants.

But in the book he's supposed to have the power of 10 thousand elephants (he was born naturally with power of 1 thousand elephants before drinking 9 jar's of rasakunda). Finally done with episode thirty nine now onto the finale.

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EPISODE 40:

Here a obvious problem is that Vidura's role is neglected, he was the one who told bheem to choose inaction instead of retaliation against Duryodhan as per the book, another mistake is that in this tv serial we never see how Bhishma, Dhritrashtra & Kunti found out it was Duryodhan who was behind the tragedy that Bheem just had.

It seemed like a conversation happened off-screen between the character's where Duryodhan got exposed as being the one who tried murdering bheem. And then their's a incident where Bhishma bossed king Dhritrashtra around ordering him what to do yet in earlier episodes Bhishma claimed to be a slave with no free will or authority.

Then it's stated by Bhishma "your sons & the pandavas will spend 12 years in the academy of Guru Drona, far from hastinapore"

Issue - Their should not be a time skip that is even close to a decade long between the Praman-koti poisoning and the Tournament where the prince's display their power.

Because of this quote;

"On the death of their father the Pandavas came to their own home. And within a short time they became well-versed in archery."

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https://sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01062.htm

Comment - it shows and says that a very small period passed in terms of time, i deem this to be a reference to the length of time it took for them to learn under guru Drona. Certainly not twelve years.

SO... IT'S another problem.

And since they made Sakuni the king of Gandhar so early i can easily assume they are choosing to not show Naganjit (the other king of Gandhar) and they wont show Sakuni's father (he participated in Droupadi's Swayamvara).

They also will now exclude other character's (like the younger brothers of Sakuni who fought in the war). Meaning this tv series will refuse to give lesser known characters any importance.

The only thing i liked about this episode is that Bheem said he was stronger than Hanuman, as Hanuman is a overrated gandu.

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