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Similarly, Mahabharat’s most iconic plot twists are full of timeless debates. Its ratings went from a steady 90 per cent+ for the first seven seasons to a paltry 55 per cent for the eighth, proving that today’s audience isn’t swayed much by VFX-heavy, sensationalised content. The show’s last season, however, chose to substitute a well-written storyline with Hollywood-esque special effects, destroying the show’s decade-old legacy in a matter of a few weeks. In India, for instance, Game of Thrones was a huge hit with millennials, garnering 10 million viewers through piracy alone, nearly twice the average viewership of an IPL match. HBO’s Game of Thrones witnessed supreme popularity in its first seven seasons, riding on the high of its unpredictable plotlines, complexity of character arcs, and the recurring theme of ethical dilemmas of people in power. It’s what the hip millennial would call the OG ‘desi’ Game of Thrones, but only if they were truly exposed to the depth of the epic in the same grand fashion. While YouTube views and box office numbers are rustic yardsticks to measure young India’s interest in the epic, the central argument is that the Mahabharat is deeply embedded within the Indian psyche a psycho-social influence that is strong enough to keep its cinematic potential timeless.Īlso read: Ramayan kept an entire country indoors 33 yrs ago, but some doubt if it can do it again A mine of intricate contentĪt its heart, the Mahabharat is a multi-generational dispute for sovereignty over a kingdom, with supernatural forces, questions of ethics, and fantastic war sequences peppered in.
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Disney Hotstar’s hugely successful crime series ‘Aarya’ not only rescued Sushmita Sen’s career, but thematically dedicated itself to ethical dilemmas observed in the Mahabharat - so much so that the flagship soundtrack is called ‘The Bhagavad Gita Song’ Moving beyond the big screen, Netflix’s first ( and only successful) original India production, ‘Sacred Games’, has a Vedic/Karmic hue to its plotline and names its first episode ‘Ashwathama’ after a legendary Mahabharat character.
Chitra Banerjee’s international bestseller The Palace of Illusions - Draupadi’s retelling of the Mahabharat - is so popular as feminist literature that Deepika Padukone has put her nascent film producing career behind the idea. Recently released film dramatisations of Indian history – Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat and (even) Tanhaji – raked in over Rs 500 crore each (inflation adjusted) at the box office and were favourably received by audiences across ages. For comparison, this number exceeds the total views on all but three videos on AIB’s viral comedy channel. Nothing can be further from the truth.Ī 7-month-old, fan-made trailer of a Mahabharat movie (with the audacity to cast a Muslim actor – Aamir Khan – as Krishna) has garnered 20 million views on YouTube. Thus, any attempt at a Mahabharat series/trilogy/anthology, no matter how genuine, will fail to impress fickle-minded social media junkies. The premise is that we are far less interested in our mythology and have been captivated by Western ideas. Young India awaitsįirst things first, the simplest argument against a Mahabharat re-hash is a middle-aged uncle’s rebuke of ‘today’s generation’. But it’s 2021 and we’re long overdue for a refresher. That the epic continues to percolate into popular consciousness, despite having no formal representation in the Indian education system, is a testament to India’s strong oral tradition. While the series swept television ratings in India, the fact is that it ran over 30 years ago. Almost half of India’s population is less than 25 years old now, which implies that they have had no access to a genuine audio-visual adaptation of this great epic (we will address Ekta Kapoor’s 2013 version in a bit). Chopra’s spirited 94-part television series that aired from 1988 to 1990. Mahabharat’s last respectable rendition was B.R. If India demands a global position, it must be matched with its cultural power. Turkey’s 2014 drama about the founder of the Ottoman Empire ‘ Ertugrul’ has spread like wildfire across the Islamic world, with none other than Pakistan PM Imran Khan recommending it to his citizens. It’s time for young Indians to be presented with an engaging and persuasive, modern cinematic version of humanity’s longest poem. But what is unclear is how such an elaborate epic gets passed down to us millennials, and why it’s so significant.
Most Indians are also familiar with the subplots: Krishna’s politics, Karna’s illegitimacy, Draupadi’s ill-fate in matrimony, and so on. The righteous Pandava brothers spend years in exile to return and re-conquer their kingdom from their villainous cousins, the Kauravas. All Indians know the essential plot of the Mahabharat.