A work of beauty and eloquence...an exhilarating experience - Los Angeles Times.
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook (Marat / Sade, Lord of the Flies) who helms this multinational production of India's greatest epic myth. This collection of ancient sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) compromises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind". Brook and award winning writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the pandavas and the kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, contradictions, and dreams, filled with subplots which are alternately comic and tragic but always gloriously entertaining. A seemingly simple tale of two sets of semidivine brothers vying for the throne spirals out to include wider themes of fate, free will, and the problems of behaving dishonorably to preserve the greater good.
Now newly remastered and restored for a dazzling audio-visual experience you'll
never forget....
CHAPTERS
DISC 1:
01. Vyasa
02. Bhisma and Amba
03. Kunti and Madri's children
04. Dhritharashtra and Gandhari's 100 sons
05. Pandu and Madri's death
06. Drona
07. Karan's Arrival
08. Draupadi and Krishna
09. Pandavas & Kauravas
10. The game of dice
11. Draupadi saves the pandavas
12. Exile
13. They all follow their Dharma
14. Bhima's son Ghatokacha
15. Keeping the peace.
16. Pashupata and the curse.
17. Death announced, questions answered
18. The court of king virata
19. The masks fall
20. Alliances for War.
21. Krishna the peacemaker
22. Karna's origins revealed
23. Preparing for battle
24. The Bhagwad Geeta
25. First day of battle
CHAPTERS
Disc 2 :
01. Shikhandi :
The end of Bhishma
02. Karna and his brothers
03. Ghatokacha's help
04. The disc
05. Reflections on Abhimanyu's death
06. Drona's weakness
07. Draupadi's revenge
08. Karan's Chariot wheel
09. Duryodhana in the lake
10. The end of war
11. Insight and blindness
12. Paradise, Hell and the last illusion.