B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharat which was first aired in 1988, holds the record of the most viewed television show in the history of Indian television
It had broken the record of Ramananda Sagar’s Ramayana which was also the first religious show on Indian TV (1986).
The streets were emptied and the gap between generations were bridged by this magnificent epic brought to life on the small screen which itself is more than a millennia old.
Since then, Mahabharat was recreated many times on TV. The latest was released on Star Plus, which is now being aired in Russia also, dubbed in Russian.
The Cast of Mahabharat
Nitish Bhardwaj as Shri Krishna
Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi
‘Arjun’ Feroz Khan as Arjun
Puneet Issar as Duryodhana
Pankaj Dheer as Karna
The Cast of Mahabharat
Gajendra Chauhan as Yudhishtira
Praveen Kumar as Bhima
Sameer Chitre as Nakul
Sanjeev Chitre as Sahadev
Nazneen as Kunti
Arun Bakshi as Dhrishtadyumn
Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma
Rishabh Shukla as Shatanu
Debashree Roy as Satyavati
Kiran Juneja as Ganga
Girija Shankar as Dhritrashta
Renuka Israni as Gandhari
Surendra Pal as Dronacharya
Dharmesh Tiwari as Kripacharya
Pradeep Rawat as Ashwatthama
Virendra Razdhan as Vidhur
Raj Babbar as Bharata
Gufi Paintal as Shakuni
Vinod Kapoor as Dusshasan
Deep Dhillon as Jayadratha
Sharat Saxena as Kichaka
Goga Kapoor as Kans
Mayur as Abhimanyu
Aloka Mukherjee as Subhadra
Varsha Usgaonkar as Uttara
Sameer Rajda as Uttar
Vishnu Sharma as Vasudev
Sheela Sharma as Devaki
Rasik Dave as Nanda
Manju Vyas as Yashoda
Sagar Salunke as Balarama
Dara Singh as Hanuman (sp app)
Shivendra Mahal as Shiva/Parshuram
Harish Bhimani as ‘Samay’
Rajesh Vivek as Ved Vyas
Produced and Directed by Baldev Raj Chopra and Ravi Chopra
Music by Rajkamal
Title track sung by Mahendra Kapoor
Constumes by Maganlal Dresswala
