Just saw Ronit Roy’s intro as adult Bheeshma. Man, that settles it.

A door opens and a elephant walks out peacefully, totally in peace and self control…an unknown guy intercepts the peaceful animal in its path..the gentle giant lifts his trunk to demand his way like a gentleman..the guy jumps up in the air and punches the pachyderm on its massive forehead..the wise and intelligent pachyderm, quite assured that it has come face to face with a madman on loose, adopts a pacifying posture by sitting down. the man looks truimphant and looks up…and gasp !!! it is Ronit Roy as Bheeshma….

thats just pure madness….

the reply from producers might be: This is not madness..this isss Spaaaaaarta…err…kahani hamarey mahabharat ki….

In some other episode, I saw a 12 th standard student wearing the peacock thing on his cap. And it slowly dawned on me, this is Krishna…okkkkkk….

Well, we know one more place to turn to, to have rip roaring time with friends and booze

Great job catching the blatant 300 lift. I was hoping somebody would mention it somewhere

I think the producers got an overdose of 300 as the effect is obvious everywhere from the 6 pack chiseled bare body display to the xerxes-inspired Shakuni to the (blatant) copy of leonidas training with the wolf. Lets see where they go from here.

While, I commend her for her effort of trying to match up to the legacy left by the peerless chopra saab, she has also added her own bloated ego into the question. While, I admit that modernizing the cast, and the theme in which the soap is made is very much needed, she has just done what she wants without considering the ramifications.

If she thinks by making the female actors wear some skimpy attire, (although it is not overboard, thank god) and the male actors flaunt their physiques while adding unnecessary special effects, she can reap TRPS and viewers, she is sorely mistaken.

And in her massive ego, she has made many changes to the original script of the epic itself, which is unacceptable. All these cosmetic changes I can accept, but changing of the story of the epic itself to make it fit her needs is just one step short of blasphemy!!

As for the cast, while Ronit Roy looks good (surprisingly) she has somewhat turned him into a superman. Aryan Vaid as Duryodhan looks more like a wrestler in the wwe than a actor, while some of the pandavas, I can’t even imagine those faces to match their characters. Actually Chetan Hansraj seems more suitable to be Duryodhan while Aryan vaid actually seems more suited to be Bheem. And Damn it, that idiot who plays Bhagwan Krishna, what was she thinking when she chose a man who looks like a hybrid of a monkey and a ass to play that role? She should have at least chosen someone who at least looks better, considering the importance and image of that character. But no, she can’t listen to anybody’s suggestion. She does what she wants, because she thinks nobody can say anything to her. Idiot. As for the story themes, Indian mythological characters do not dress like greeks!! This is India!! While a change in theme was needed, she has just ripped off the movie 300!!!

Draupadi scene was horrible, and a terrible performance. It does not compare to the intense and aesthetic performance done by Rupa Ganguly in the original. If Ekta kapoor thinks just throwing in all her K serial actors and do the usual juggling of scripts, she can match B.R. Chopra, she is sorely mistaken.

I admit, that trying to do this serial was a bold step, but unfortunately this has been a extremely ill advised attempt until now, & I only hope she either realizes her mistakes and rectifies them. If not, it would be better to scrap this serial. Unless she gets her act together, this is going to be a total disaster. Just compare it to the new Ramayan in NDTV Imagine, it is thousands times better than this.

Just having a reputation, the resources and the money to afford it does not a epic make!!!

and abhigyan your points are pertinent.