Mahabharat (TV Series)

Mahabharat (TV Series)

Mahabharat is a successful and popular Indian television series based on the Indian Hindu epic Mahabharata. The 94-episode Hindi series originally ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on DD National. 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 United Kingdom by the BBC, where it achieved audience figures of 5 million, unheard of for a subtitled series being aired in the afternoon. It was also the first programme broadcast on BBC2 after its 1991 revamp, but was also shown late at night on BBC 1 the previous year. Currently, it is shown on FBC TV in Fiji and Star Utsav . The dubbed versions of this program are aired in Tamil, Telugu, and Bahasa Indonesia (reason of airing states that the Mahabharat legend is shared with the Hindus of Bali and other parts of Indonesia) in the early 1990s.

According to production team member Kishore Malhotra, the total cost of producing the series was ₹90,000,000 (US$1,638,000).