The Mahabharata eventually acquired 100,000 shlokas (verses)! Both must have taken shape in the pre-Buddhist period, though additions were no doubt made later.
Nehru opines that the Ramayana was an epic poem with a certain unity of treatment, while the Mahabharata was a vast and miscellaneous collection of ancient lore. These narratives and shows represented the typical Indian method of catering for various audiences, from the highest intellectual to the simple unread and untaught villager. His mother and other ladies told him stories from the epics, taking him every year to the popular open-air performances where the Ramayana story was enacted as Ramlila and vast crowds came to witness it. Indeed the Ramayana and Mahabharata were the oldest names familiar to Nehru from his earliest childhood. When the fiery Pandavani performer Teejan Bai from Chattisgarh, holding aloft an Ektara and alternating verse with prose describes the dialogue between the Pandava King Pandu and Queen Kunti, she is recreating familiar episodes from the Mahabharata.
Raina as Vidur, Devendra Malhotra as Bhishma, Anjan Srivastava as Dhmarashtra, Pandavani as Teejanbai & Party, Upasana Dance Academy as Kathakali, Yuvak Biradari as Odissi, Gopal Dubey & Trinetra as Chlau With Salim Ghouse as Krishna, Lalit Tiwari as Arjun, Vijay Kashuap as Shakuni, Om Puri as Duryodhana, Sujata Mehta as Draupadi, K.K. A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster
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