I also know how Kapoor would look without eyebrows or eyelashes (definitely not pretty). I say вЂvaguelyвЂ™ because until I saw Mahabharat I had no idea what Balan would look like if she were ever zombified. And just in case you canвЂ™t recognize the voices, the characters have been drawn to vaguely resemble the actors providing the voices. Some of BollywoodвЂ™s biggest names make up the voice cast of this film: Vidya Balan as Draupadi, Amitabh Bachchan as Bhishma, Ajay Devgn as Arjun, Anil Kapoor as Karna, Sunny Deol as Bhim, Jackie Shroff as Duryodhan, Shatrughan Sinha as Krishna вЂ“ this is a star ensemble. This prepares the audience for large chunks of the epic to go missing, but not what does lie ahead. Produced by Kushal Kantilal Gada and Dhaval Jayantilal Gada and directed by Amaan Khan, this animated Mahabharat states at the very start of the film that itвЂ™s an edited version of the epic and its intention is to promote Indian culture among the youth. The newest take on Mahabharata is for the silver screen. This is why itвЂ™s particularly disappointing that in the 21st century, the retellings of the Mahabharata are so terribly lacking in finesse and imagination despite our sophisticated arsenal of technology and storytelling devices. What we have inherited is a fascinating tapestry of ideas and beliefs. There must be thousands of details that have been lost over the thousands of years of oral storytelling but by the same token, thousands of nuances have been added by different storytellers. However you see it, the Mahabharata is a triumph of storytelling and the imagination.

To some, it is a fabulous tale, teeming with myths and ancient lyricism. To many, the Mahabharata is a religious text. Perhaps this was Vyasa tooting his own horn, but repeatedly the reader is told that if they read the whole Mahabharata, they need not bother with the four vedas for in this one epic lies all that is needed to feed human consciousness. The Mahabharata, an epic believed to be composed by the sage Vyasa, is often described as the fifth veda.

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