Mahabharat (TV Series) - Episode Structure

Episode Structure

• The title song has been sung by the Indian playback singer Mahendra Kapoor.

• The sung verses at the end of the credit sequence are Verses 7 and 8 of Chapter 4 of the Bhagavad Gita: "Whenever and wherever a decline of righteousness and a predominance of unrighteousness prevails, at that time I (Krishna) manifest myself personally, O descendant of Bharata; for the protection of the devotees and the annihilation of the miscreants and to fully establish righteousness, I appear millennium after millennium."

• The voice of time (samay in Hindi, by Harish Bhimani) narrates the series. At or near the beginning of each episode, time reviews relevant events that have gone before and sets the stage of the action happening in the present episode. During these sequences, a backdrop of stars and planets is shown overlaid with a transparent image of a statue's head and/or a slowly turning wheel.Here time is shown as a sage or "Kala Muni" . It is shown as it is immortal it was before the epic and after the epic . So it tells that he is the only "Time" that can tell the story of the whole Mahabharat, and no one else. Time often speaks of perceiving or revealing patterns in the epic that only it can know from its cosmic perspective. Time also occasionally provides a narration while human-scale action is shown.

• Each episode ends with a sung verse either summarizing the physical or emotional state of the episode's main characters, or a moral lesson that can be drawn from the action.

• The opening credits are shown over a backdrop of illustrations from International Society for Krishna Consciousness's edition of the Bhagavad Gita (known as Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is). The International Society for Krishna Consciousness and its founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, are credited for these illustrations.