![]() The best part of New Mahabhrat – Costumes & OrnamentsĪpart from the exotic locations and avant garde cinematography with 3D effects costume is another receding factor for its popularity. ![]() Even the camera angles, the slow mo, the exaggerated facial expressions are daily soap style. The soaring, clashing background music, the highly melodramatic dialogue delivery (albeit in chaste Hindi, seeing that this is supposed to be thousands of years ago) all sound very daily soap-ish. If you shut your eyes while watching the serial you may be forgiven for believing that this is any old daily soap – it sounds so much like my mother’s TV each evening when she is immersed in her evening TV fix. ![]() The makeup is so over the top that you can clearly see Krishna’s lipstick and Satyavati’s fake eyelashes. We are stuck with extremely elaborate costumes, impossibly ornate head gear and jewelry (sometimes rather tacky) and some really serious make up. Clearly no reliance is placed on actual research, and there is no concession made to how people might possibly have dressed thousands of years ago. The makers of the serial have faithfully relied on calendar art to dress and deck up the characters in Mahabharat. The sets are elaborate and glitzy, the show even has some amount of dancing and it generally entertaining and well packaged, never mind trifling details such as historical accuracy and authenticity. The title track is good and some of the alaaps in the beginning were decent too. The near prime time slot for the serial each weekday and the daily soap style format of the show will ensure that people are hooked to the serial whether for entertainment, reasons of faith or any other motive. The phenomenal reach of the TV itself ensures that the Mahabharat serial now performs the function that grandfathers and grandmothers did, telling stories to kids. If the story is told in a simple, accessible, serialized, dramatic format on TV, it would have been better then. This epic story is a part of the Indian ethos and as such each Indian should be familiar with it. One cannot give makers of the serial much credit for the story because it was Ved Vyasa after all who first documented this marvelous story, history, mythology, call it what you will.
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