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Highlight
- Mukesh Khanna spoke about the Shaktimaan sequel
- He also spoke about Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki of Ekta Kapoor
- “Who gave you the right to kill an epic?” he said
New Delhi:
Mukesh Khanna, popularly known as Shaktimaan, accused Ekta Kapoor of “murder” Mahabharat in his 2008 show Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabharaat Ki. The actor, who played Bhishma in BR Chopra. Mahabharat, criticized the producer for “killing” the epic by “putting a tattoo on Draupadi’s shoulder” and “creating a vampire image for Satyavati” (great-grandmother of the Pandavas and Kauravas) in a recent interview with Mumbai Mirror. Talking about his vision for the new version of ShaktimaanMukesh Khanna, who previously hinted at a possible sequel to the show, said: “The new version of Shaktimaan It can’t be the way Ekta Kapoor did Mahabharat (in 2008) by putting a tattoo on Draupadi’s shoulder. She had said that she was doing Mahabharat for modern people. Sanskriti kabhi modern nahi ho sakti, putri. Jis din Sanskriti ko modern karoge, khatam ho jayegi ‘ (Culture can never be modern. The day you try to make culture modern, it will be over.)
Produced by Mukesh Khanna and directed by Dinkar Jani, Shaktimaan It is said to be India’s first superhero show. Khanna played the famous superhero and his alter ego Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri in him.
Revealing that many people wanted to buy the rights to Shaktimaan of him, Mr. Khanna said he rejected his offers as he cannot let anyone “murder” Shaktimaan as Ekta Kapoor “killed” Mahabharat. “I can’t let anyone murder Shaktimaan as Ekta has murdered Mahabharat. I had conversations with large television producers, but things did not work because it did not fit into their strategy. It’s your loss like who does Shaktimaan He will make money. Now I have a deal with someone, “he told the Mumbai Mirror.
Mukesh Khanna also accused Ekta Kapoor of playing with facts in Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki and said, “If the serial name would be ‘Greek Kyunki Bhi Kabhi Hindustani El, ‘then I would accept the Mahabharat of Ekta. Who has given you the right to kill an epic? They have changed the actual version of ‘Bhishma Pratigya’ from Devarath to something else and created a vampire image for Satyavati, among other things on the show. They tried to be smarter than Vyas muni (Ved Vyasa, who wrote Mahabharata) to which I have an objection. I want to point out that Ramayana and Mahabharata are not mythologies, they are our stories. “
B.R. Chopra Mahabharat, which aired from 1988 to 1990 in Doordarshan, featured Gajendra Chauhan, Praveen Kumar, Arjun, Sameer Chitre, and Sanjeev Chitre as Pandavas, Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi, Nitish Bharadwaj as Krishna, Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma Pitamah, and Punit Issar as Duryodhan.
90’s cult shows like Ramayan, Mahabharat Y Shaktimaan among others, they have returned to the small screen due to public demand amid the 21-day blockade. Earlier in an interview with the Bombay Times, Mukesh Khanna hinted at the second edition of Shaktimaan. “For the past three years, we have been working to present the second edition of Shaktimaan, which is contemporary but based on our values. We were working on the sequel because people wanted to know, aage kya hua“, he was quoted saying.
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