Mahabharat
Genre	Mythology
Created by	Baldev Raj Chopra
Narrated by	Harish Bhimani
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	94
Production
Running time	45 minutes approx
Broadcast
Original channel	DD National
Original run	1988 – 1990
Chronology
Related shows	Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki Mahabharat (2008 TV series) Vishnu Puran

Mahabharat is a successful Indian television series based on the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. The 94-episode series originally ran from 1988 to 1990. It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra The music was composed by critically acclaimed music director Rajkamal. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes long. It followed the highly successful Ramayan broadcast in 1987–1988.

It was shown in the UK by the BBC, where it achieved audience figures of 5 million, unheard of for a subtitled series being aired in the afternoon.^[1]

According to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was Rs. 90,000,000.^[2]

[edit] Cast

• Harish Bhimani as Samay (Time)
• Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma
• Nitish Bharadwaj as Krishna
• Girja Shankar as Dhritrashtra
• Renuka Israni as Gandhari
• Nazneen as Kunti
• Virendra Razdan as Vidura
• Surendra Pal as Drona
• Shivendra Mahal as Parashurama
• Vinod Kapoor as Dushasana
• Puneet Issar as Duryodhana
• Pradeep Rawat as Ashwathama
• Praveen Kumar(actor) as Bheem
• Gajendra Chouhan as Yudhishtira
• Arjun(actor) as Arjuna
• Sameer(actor) as Nakula
• Sanjeev as Sahadeva
• Razak Khan as Ghatotkacha
• Sagar Salunke as Balarama
• Pankaj Dheer as Karna
• Gufi Paintal as Shakuni
• Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi
• Raj Babbar as Bharat
• Arun Bakshi as Dhrishtadyumna
• Sumeet Raghavan as Young sudama

• Kiran Juneja as Ganga
• Paintal as Shikhandi and also for a single episode as adult Sudama
• Dara Singh as Hanuman (one episode)
• Debashree Roy as Satyavati
• Vishnu Sharma as Vasudeva
• Shampa as young Krishna (seen dancing on snake)
• Sonu as young Yudhistira
• Ankur Javeri as young Arjuna
• Rishabh Shukla as Shantanu
• Chetan Hansraj as Young Balram

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mahabharat at the Internet Movie Database
• Mahabharat TV series online

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