Mahabharat 1988 TV series (94 episodes) - B. R. Chopra
Directed by: B. R. Chopra
<div>Set of video files covering the 94 episodes of the series.</div><div>Language: Hindi</div><div>Embedded subtitles: English</div><div>Note: some of the files had gaps in the English subtitles; for some of them, alternative files with improved subtitles were found and included here.</div><u><b></b></u><div><u><b><u><b><br /></b></u></b></u></div><u><b>About the series, from the Wikipedia article (*):</b></u><br /><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><i><b>Mahabharat</b></i> is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_epic" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit epic" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Sanskrit epic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">of the same title</a>. The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doordarshan" title="Doordarshan" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Doordarshan</a>. It was produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Chopra" title="B. R. Chopra" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">B. R. Chopra</a> and directed by his son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Chopra" title="Ravi Chopra" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Ravi Chopra</a>. The music was composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kamal" title="Raj Kamal" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Raj Kamal</a>. The script was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandit_Narendra_Sharma" title="Pandit Narendra Sharma" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Pandit Narendra Sharma</a> and the Hindi/Urdu poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahi_Masoom_Raza" title="Rahi Masoom Raza" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Rahi Masoom Raza</a>, based on the epic by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa" title="Vyasa" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Vyasa</a>. [...] The serial claims to have used the Critical Edition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhandarkar_Oriental_Research_Institute" title="Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute</a> as its basic source with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Sitaram_Sukthankar" title="Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar</a> and Shripad Krishna Belwalkar as its primary editor.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">Each episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita" title="Bhagavad Gita" style="color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;" rel="ugc nofollow">Bhagavad Gita</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">* source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharat_(1988_TV_series), accessed on February 18, 2023.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><br /></p>