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- Super diverse array of actors for this movie
- Really gives me a visual idea and better understanding of the Mahabharata so far.
- Young boy is seen wandering around a deserted building. Possibly in his early teens
- He stumbles upon what a man, later identified as Vyasa
- Vyasa asks he boy if he knows how to write, but the boy says he cannot.
- Vyasa says he wants to have a written account of the story of his race.
- Ganesha, with what appears to be the head of a white elephant, shows up and agrees to be Vyasa's scribe for this epic tale.
- Vyasa starts off with the story of his mother
- His mother reeked of fish, for she was born from one.
- A stranger came and offered to make love to her in exchange for replacing the fishy stick for a lovely fragrance.
- Initially she refuses, for fear of being seen by the lake. The stranger brings a heavy mist to surround them and she gives in.
- Vyasa was born of this union.
- Bhishma is a prince who cannot become king.
- His father fell in love with Satyavati
- She refused to marry Bhishma's father, King Santanu, because she feared that her sons would never become king.
- Bhishma swore that her sons would precede him in line to the throne and that he would never know the love of a woman.
- Satyavati had a son who was extremely weak.
- Bhishma went and won this son three brides
- Amba, Ambika, Ambalika
- Amba loves another and wants to be set free, and Bhishma agrees
- The man she loves rejects her because she is someone else's prize
- She askes Bhishma to take her back and he refuses
- Amba curses Bhishma
- Satyavati's son dies before conceiving children with his two wives
- She asks Vyasa to father children with her two daughter in laws
- One is disgusted by his wild appearance and was destined to have a son, but he would be blind
- Dhritarashtra
- The other goes pallid at the sight of him and is destined to have a son pale as milk
- Pandu
- Pandu becomes King, because his brother was blind, and could not at the time
- Pandu is out hunting and accidentally shoots a deer who was really a sage in disguise mating. He is cursed to die as soon as he tries to become intimate with one of his wives
- Pandu is resigned to having no children
- One of his wives, Kunti, reveals that she can summon a god and bear a child by him. She has three sons, by Dharma, Vayu, and Indra
- Yudhishthira
- Bhima
- Arjuna
- The second wife, Madri, asks for her mantra so she may have children by the Ashwins, the twin gods with golden eyes
- Nakula and Sahadeva
- Dhritarashtra, the blind brother of Pandu marries Gandhari and she covers her eyes to be blind like her husband
- Gandhari is pregnant for two years and has not given birth.
- She asks to be hit in the belly with an iron rod and a ball of flesh comes out
- This ball of flesh is divided into one hundred pieces and she is promised one hundred sons.
- Duryodhana, the first born, is received with ill omens. Seen as one come to destroy
- Gandhari and the King were urged to sacrifice him but they refused.
- Pandu gives in and dies trying to become intimate with Madri. She requests to die with him.
- Asks Kunti to care for her twin sons as her own.
- Karna arrives during the Pandu's training and boasts to Arjuna that he will always be better than him.
- Challenges Arjuna to battle
- Made king by Duryodhana so he may battle Arjuna; asks for friendship in return from Karna.
- Karna's rejection from Arjuna prompts him to promise a future battle between them. He promises to kill Arjuna.
- Arjuna won a bride in a tournament, Draupadi
- Kunti mistakenly tells the brothers to share her
- Draupadi marries all five brothers.
- SURPRISE SURPRISE. Ganesha takes of his elephant mask. He's a normal man. My life is a lie.
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