The show begins with Emperor Bharata giving more importance to 'Capacity' than to 'Birth'. The series covers the incidents of epic Mahabharata revolving around Lord Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas, Draupadi, Karna etc. Mahabharat Katha, another part of the serial was aired on 1997 which covers all the untold stories about Karna's marriage with Padmavati, Arjuna's marriage with Chitrāngadā and Ulupi, and stories about Ghatotkacha, Barbarika, Virshaketu, Babruvahana, Conspiracies of Viprachitti, Ashwamedha Yajna, Dushala's story and aftermath of the War, which are not covered in the original series. It is the most successful Mahabharata series ever produced for television. The title song is followed by a narration by Indian voice-artist Harish Bhimani as a personification of Time, detailing the current circumstances and highlighting the spiritual significance of the content of the episode. The title song was sung and the verses rendered by singer Mahendra Kapoor. The serial claims to have used the Critical Edition of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute as its basic source with Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar and Shripad Krishna Belwalkar as its primary editor.Įach episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and the Hindi/Urdu poet Rahi Masoom Raza, based on the original story by Vyasa.

Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra.

The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan. Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabarata.

Mahabharat song lyrics