
If you
happened to be a child of the ’80s, growing up in India, chances were Sunday
mornings bore witness to empty streets as families gathered around television
sets for mandatory viewing of the epic ‘Mahabharat’.
So great was its fan following between 1988 and 1990, that even
the BBC snapped up its rights to air it on Sunday afternoons with subtitles;
something that was virtually unheard of back in the day.
Few have dared to recapture that B R Chopra magic and the
legendary production, but all...