Mahabharata

Finally, I have found a more, er, convenient way to know about the Hindu classic Epic, the Mahabharata, where else but through, uh, http://www.youtube.com.

I once encountered the Masterpiece that inspired nations and creeds for centuries and millennia, while browsing in a secondhand bookstore. I could still vividly recall the impact of its profound presence amid those shelves of human endeavors. The sheer size of the books however, excacerbated by its awesome number of volumes had left me aghast. Reading though all those vast pages seemed too 'overwhelming' even to contemplate.

Thanks to the individual who downloaded these videos through youtube, the typical mortal on the street is transported back to the eon ages as one glimpses a seeming part of him/her in the ancient era of Indian civilization, back to the olden city of Hastinapur. Here one encounters Bhishma (also known as Dyaus), Krishna and the seeming, eerie similarity of his life and teachings with Jesus more than three millennia before his birth; it also portrayed the noble and heroic Pandava brothers and their common fiery wife Draupadi, the cunning and treachery of Shakuni and Duryodhan and the aftermath the great war of Kurukshetra from where narrated the classic masterpiece Bahagavad Gita.

Here one observes the Power of the Human Phenomenon amid his/her strength and weaknesses, which I found profoundly and intellectually refreshing to compare with imposed conventionalities that instead portrayed the human seemingly likened to an unknowing sheep.

Never mind the mediocre quality of the film, the dull cinematography, or the clumsy acting. Brace instead the profoundness of its ageless message that simply transcend beyond the film's shortcomings as it confounds one's bigotry, awakenes the dormancy, and speaks through one's very own Human soul.

Brace also the sheer length of it. It composed more than 90 episodes approximately averaging 43-45 minutes each. (As of this writing, I'm still in the episode 70's.).


Link:

Mahabharat, Episode 1 (w/ English subtitles)