As such, Krishna would not just tell us the story of the great epic but also pose questions to us which we must ponder on later,” added Madhok. Thus, we will be telling the story, but unlike the classic retelling of the story through the eyes of ‘samay’ or time, this time it would be from Lord Krishna’s viewpoint. Again, it is difficult to pass it down from generation to generation through storytelling. It is not linear, it has many characters and similarly many viewpoints. Mahabharata, though an epic, is not so well known in its details because, one, it is complex. “Star Plus is a storyteller to the nation. By bringing the story into our lives again, we want the younger generation to learn the saga and the history,” said Nikhil Madhok, Vice-President – Marketing at Star India. But if you see, the current generation of under twenty-fives, that is, those who had not grown up watching Mahabharat on Sunday mornings, would probably not know about the complexity and enormity of the story. “The story of Mahabharata has been told and retold several times over.
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