Mumbai: Mukesh Khanna who is popularly known as Shaktiman slammed Ekta Kapoor for 'murdering Mahabharat' in the show Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki, produced in 2008.
Besides Mahabharat, Shaktimaan will also return on TV. Mukesh said that he wouldn’t make the new version of Shaktimaan like her ‘modern’ Mahabharata of 2008.
He told to a leading daily, “The new version of Shaktimaan cannot be the way Ekta Kapoor made Mahabharata (in 2008) by putting a tattoo on Draupadi’s shoulder. She had said that she was making Mahabharata 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, the culture will be over).”
Mukesh had featured the role of Bhishma in the BR Chopra’s Mahabharat that went on air in 1988 and has returned for rerun during lockdown.
He further said, “If the serial name would be Kyunki Greek Bhi Kabhi Hindustani the, then I would accept Ekta’s Mahabharat. Who has given them the right to slaughter an epic? They have changed the actual version of Devarath’s ‘Bhishma Pratigya’ to something else and created a vamp-like image for Satyavati, among other things in 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 histories.”
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Helmed by B.R. Chopra, Mahabharat featured Gajendra Chauhan, Praveen Kumar, Arjun, Sameer Chitre and Sanjeev Chitre as the Pandavas, Roopa Ganguly as Draupadi, Nitish Bharadwaj as Krishna, Mukesh Khanna as Bhishma Pitamah and Punit Issar as Duryodhan.
