This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This show was legend and still is ! There were lots of mahabharata serieals after this but nothing can beat this masterpiece, no matter how much time u watch this u cant get bored. I cant rewatch any movie of serial except some few and this is one of them. Old is gold and latest is trash. Its pure simple and characters look real. While im todays serials overacting, useless music over drama, they are not watchable.

Mahabharat is the finest story in the history of Hinduism and India (then known as Bharat), and one of the finest in the world. It teaches us so many things - family, friendship, love, patience, truth and truth amongst a few. Regardless of your religion or culture, it is something every individual should have the chance to experience. A key factor to the success of Mahabharat is the characters that have been chosen. You really struggle to find someone who doesn't suit their role. The obvious stand outs are Nitish Bhardwaj as Krishna, Mukesh Khanna as Bheesma, Feroz Khan as Arjun, Virendra Razdan as Vidhur and Pankaj Dheer as Karna but every single character plays their role so well. They are all power houses in their own rights! I feel bad to leave out the likes of Gajendra Chauhan as Yudishtir, Roopa Ganguly as Drapaudi, Puneet Issar as Duryodhan and Gufi Paintal as Shakuni, but the characters mentioned were just above everyone else in terms of their performances. My favourite scenes (in chronological order): - Vasudev walking across river Ganga with baby Krishna - Pandavas and Kauravas exhibition - Draupadi Swamvyaar - Gambling game - Arjun's meet with Lord Shiva - Krishna going to hastinapur as peace messanger - Krishna virat roop - Kurushektra entrance song - Arjun and Yudishtir returning Bheesma's blessings - Bheeshma's falling - Arjun and Karna fight scenes - Karna's death The attention to detail is brilliant too. Little things like Krishna, Drona and Draupaudi were known to have darker skin tones - this was shown. Unfortunately there is a lot of major stories that were missing, but it's understandable that not everything can be shown. For instance, Arjun's marriage to Ullupi and Chitrangda were not shown (although were shown in Mahabharat Katha) and Karna's marriage (also shown in Mahabharat Katha). I know there has been many remakes of this epic - Sanjay Khan's version, Ramakant Sagar's version and the more recent Star plus one but my god they're all miles away! Visually this Mahabharat isn't fantastic - in the late 80s they wouldn've have had such visual skills available to them but they've still managed to achieve a lot. The focus on the story, character choice and the acting is more important, and that is something this Mahabharat will always have over the other versions. I've watched Mahabharat endless amount of times so I pretty much know the story off by heart now. It's amazing and something I will always watch, and hope my kids will enjoy too. I would love to meet the actors to listen to their stories and what happened behind the scenes.

Mahabharat,the battle for Bharat,now the modernize India is the grandest and greatest epic serial i have seen in my whole life.The war that was fought for all the rightfully reasons.For some the greed,for some the revenge,for some the pride,for god just to show his divine power.This is the best we see from the Indian Television Cinema.B.R Chopra,what a proud man he would be after portraying us the grandest and biggest unforgettable epic ever to see.A startling insight of the life of God Shri Krishna,making of many legends like Bheem,Karana,Arjuna & Bhishma ,also one of the most ferocious and epic battles you will ever see.This battle was fought for various different reasons.A thousand reasons may be.All characters are just perfect.Bhima looks definitive Bhima,Karana looks remind us of how in that period Karan would have looked like.Casting of Krishna is perfect.It can't get better then this.You should just see Shikhandi and Duryodhan for the perfection matter.Fabulous.Casting hits the top in Mahabharata with Beautiful Draupadi taking most of the lime light.Fight scenes are gruesome.Lot of blood but truly in those ages war would have been fought like that only.Lot of divine and magical stuff.Some battle scenes are emphatic.Just try and remember the fight between Bhima and Jarasandh.Also,fight between Arjun & rest of the Hastinapur known as Virat Yudh.The fight scenes of Karna and Arjun are a sight to see.Bhishma too with Abhimanyu lives up to be the most emphatic battles you would see.And the breaking of the Chakarvyu by Abhimanyu was simply amazing.Death of Abhimanyu and the arrival of Ghatotkatch.I can remember every scene till the end.The 94 episodes get to you.But still every episode is unique in its own and portrays different attributes of India at that time.We are all fascinated by wars but this is grand,more than a war.Some scenes like Krishna taking the divine form and Bhishma vow are just astonishing.Krishna and Karna talks just seem endless.We cannot forget the Samay(meaning time) here who narrates this fascinating epic story to us.Nor can you forget the game of dice neither the Draupadi harassing scene.The soundtrack is surely divine.The voice of Mahendra Kapoor on the start of each episode just sets the mood to watch it even more.I am not sure if i will see a better Indian epic serial then this.This is Indian Cinema at its zenith.Even if God would see this serial he would surely bow and applaud the commendable work done by B.R Chopra.I can't stop applauding him anytime.The dialogs and all,they still echo in my ears.Starting from King Bharat to Krishna to Arjun to Bhishma to Shikhandi to Shakuni to Karana to Bheema to Duryodhan to Balram to Parshuram.I feel i have already touched the feet of God.That's only because of this.I can't stop watching this.Its just my moral now that does not allow.Geeta Saar still echo's in my ears.The beautiful visions of Shri Krishna truly comes in front of me every time.This is grand.This is magnanimous.This is class.If God could walk on earth ,surely it is due to this epic serial only.I cannot say more.I am lost for words.

This is was made in late 1980s and I watched it as I was young in India. But when I bought the all 16 DVDs. It was amazing...the special effects may look old but the acting is superb...the acting done by the leading cast is unbelievable..this epic is about the meaning of life and Bhagavad Geeta spoken by Lord Krishna looks so real and understandable. Highly recommend this version..I know there are many versions but this is the best and the original. I think everyone in life should either read this great epic or watch it...it's not about Hinduism its about your Dharma (Duty) as human being. And if you are interested in great story telling you won't be disappointed.