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# The Mahabharata [DVD] [1989]

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THE MAHABHARATA A film by Peter Brook The Mahabharata is at the very heart of Indian culture - in religion, myth and legend. One of the oldest stories in the world, and certainly considered the longest at over 100,000 stanzas, it has provided fertile ground for artists and their audiences since time immemorial. Long-time collaborators Peter Brook (director) and Jean-Claude Carrière (screenwriter) created the three separate plays that comprise this version of the epic, producing a globally successful nine-hour stage production, a three-hour TV version and this DVD release, as just over five hours. The central story is of the lifelong feud between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, two closely related regal families, but the many subplots, diversions, fables and legends turn this mythological epic into a story of and for all mankind, This double DVD set also includes a booklet with introductory and explanatory text written by Brook and Carrière, as well as synopses of the three stories and full production credits. USA, UK, France | 1989 | colour | 312 minutes | English language, optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | Region 2 DVD

Review: Fantastic - Peter Brook is amazing. And findng this DVD was a stroke of luck. I had tried streaming the production, but it was beyond the capacity of my internet connection. I am now watching it on my television monitor, but given my DVD player is 30 years old, I am getting some distortion. Never mind, I can still see the play. The Mahabharata is one of the world's great epic stories. I got interested when I read the novel "Palace of Illusions", which tells the outline of the tale from the point of view of Draupati, the wife of the Pandava brothers and is brilliant. The novel will give you an outline of the main plot -- an epic which takes twelve nights to recite has plenty of subplots. The play condenses the telling into 5 hours, but is told from the point of view of the Pandava brothers. (Of course, they won the war. We don't get retellings of the Illiad from the point of view of the Trojans, do we?) So, this play from the point of view of the brothers gives more depth into the characters of the males in the story . . . The acting, the direction, the casting, the stage settings, etc are wonderful for helping to visualise the story. We had some trouble finding the English subtitles and/or version that is dubbed, but I put that down to the age of my DVD player and the fact that the supporting leaflet for the DVD is all in German, which we don't speak. It was worth persisting. I am now looking forward to the third part of the story, the war itself, but waiting until I feel relaxed enough to deal with the violence and gore.
Review: Sincere and compelling - Not a Hollywood movie, but an English language film based on the theatre play, and in three parts, each just under 2 hours long. So don't expect SFX or even outdoor scenes. It is a religious allegory rather than an adventure story, and at times very wordy. Having said that, the staging itself is excellent and the dramatic elements are very powerful, conveying the characters' internal moral conflicts to great effect, I felt that the multi-ethnic cast was a positive, enhancing the universality of the underlying messages. Maybe not for the academic experts or the purists, but I would recommend it to anyone who is open-mindedly sympathetic to broadly religious, and especially Hindu or Buddhist philosophy. Hugely ambitious, and personally I loved it.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Peter Brook |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 215 Reviews |
| Format | PAL |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Bfi |
| Number of discs | 2 |
| Runtime | 5 hours and 12 minutes |
| Studio | bfi |

## Product Details

- **Format:** PAL
- **Contributor:** Peter Brook
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 5 hours and 12 minutes
- **Studio:** bfi

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic
*by J***N on 13 June 2020*

Peter Brook is amazing. And findng this DVD was a stroke of luck. I had tried streaming the production, but it was beyond the capacity of my internet connection. I am now watching it on my television monitor, but given my DVD player is 30 years old, I am getting some distortion. Never mind, I can still see the play. The Mahabharata is one of the world's great epic stories. I got interested when I read the novel "Palace of Illusions", which tells the outline of the tale from the point of view of Draupati, the wife of the Pandava brothers and is brilliant. The novel will give you an outline of the main plot -- an epic which takes twelve nights to recite has plenty of subplots. The play condenses the telling into 5 hours, but is told from the point of view of the Pandava brothers. (Of course, they won the war. We don't get retellings of the Illiad from the point of view of the Trojans, do we?) So, this play from the point of view of the brothers gives more depth into the characters of the males in the story . . . The acting, the direction, the casting, the stage settings, etc are wonderful for helping to visualise the story. We had some trouble finding the English subtitles and/or version that is dubbed, but I put that down to the age of my DVD player and the fact that the supporting leaflet for the DVD is all in German, which we don't speak. It was worth persisting. I am now looking forward to the third part of the story, the war itself, but waiting until I feel relaxed enough to deal with the violence and gore.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sincere and compelling
*by D***D on 16 December 2012*

Not a Hollywood movie, but an English language film based on the theatre play, and in three parts, each just under 2 hours long. So don't expect SFX or even outdoor scenes. It is a religious allegory rather than an adventure story, and at times very wordy. Having said that, the staging itself is excellent and the dramatic elements are very powerful, conveying the characters' internal moral conflicts to great effect, I felt that the multi-ethnic cast was a positive, enhancing the universality of the underlying messages. Maybe not for the academic experts or the purists, but I would recommend it to anyone who is open-mindedly sympathetic to broadly religious, and especially Hindu or Buddhist philosophy. Hugely ambitious, and personally I loved it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Supreme TV making
*by P***K on 23 April 2014*

I saw this version of the Mahabharata first in my early twenties on Dutch public TV, broadcast in its entirety in one go (surely only possible before the advent of commercial TV). I remember that the sparsity of the production, the stylized elegance, the effectiveness of the international cast (do not expect BBC English pronunciation!), the incredibly sung score, and the philosophy of the last scenes left me deeply touched, even flattened. Seeing it again on my own copy some 25(!) years later, with of course more mature and more critical eyes, still makes me call this a unique masterpiece, with perhaps a slowish start. In the meantime I also own the Indian version by the Chopra brothers, completely different, probably much more complete (though there are elements in Brook that are in the original texts but not in the Chopras' version) and very interesting to get a more "Indian" and Hindu feel, and significant background. The Brook version has a transnational, trans-culture quality. Simply stunning. I would have loved to see the stage-play original of this TV production.

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