This remake of the epic sucked big time. Compared to B.R Chopra's Mahabharat , this one was awful. While the earlier one had bad special effects and other faults, this one featured bad acting, bad dialog and worse special effects (if that was possible).
The special effects look so low quality Cgi that it looks like a Prince of Persia video game. The war sequences are worse. The sky remains yellow and the background (with standing soldiers) looks like (and probably is) a oil painting.
The director didn't follow the real Source also. Major characters were omitted and the story modified at will. The terrible acting/overacting by the actors made matters worse. Bhisma's overacting was intolerable. Karna wore a permanent wooden expression. Duryadhan , Yudhistir et al were also insufferable. Krishna carried a flute always for no apparent reason (He used it in his youth only when he was a cowherd) The ladies do not age here. Gandhari, Kunti look very young even when at the time of the war. (They were supposed to be over 100 yrs old)
The dialog was also bad. Part of it was copied from the B.R Chopra version. Except it was delivered in a worse way (slow and laborious) Also Balaram calling the fight between Bheem and Duryadhan - "the last fight of mahabharat" is funny. (Balaram of course didn't know that Vedvyas was going to call this story Mahabharat!)
All in all this is a terrible mess. The director should take a course on film direction asap. And the actors should go back to acting school. Also an apology to all Indians in is order - for insulting the great epic in this manner.
The special effects look so low quality Cgi that it looks like a Prince of Persia video game. The war sequences are worse. The sky remains yellow and the background (with standing soldiers) looks like (and probably is) a oil painting.
The director didn't follow the real Source also. Major characters were omitted and the story modified at will. The terrible acting/overacting by the actors made matters worse. Bhisma's overacting was intolerable. Karna wore a permanent wooden expression. Duryadhan , Yudhistir et al were also insufferable. Krishna carried a flute always for no apparent reason (He used it in his youth only when he was a cowherd) The ladies do not age here. Gandhari, Kunti look very young even when at the time of the war. (They were supposed to be over 100 yrs old)
The dialog was also bad. Part of it was copied from the B.R Chopra version. Except it was delivered in a worse way (slow and laborious) Also Balaram calling the fight between Bheem and Duryadhan - "the last fight of mahabharat" is funny. (Balaram of course didn't know that Vedvyas was going to call this story Mahabharat!)
All in all this is a terrible mess. The director should take a course on film direction asap. And the actors should go back to acting school. Also an apology to all Indians in is order - for insulting the great epic in this manner.
