Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki was an Indian television epic series produced by Ekta Kapoor

Ekta Kapoor

Ekta Jeetendra Kapoor is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the Creative Director and Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company.-Biography:...

 of Balaji Telefilms

Balaji Telefilms

Balaji Telefilms is a production house based in Mumbai, India, and is promoted by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Jeetendra and Tushar Kapoor.-History:...

. Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki premiered on 9X

9X

9X is an Indian Hindi general entertainment channel based in Mumbai. It is owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The channel was launched on November 12, 2007 in India...

 July 7, 2008. It was a modern and westernized version of the epic Mahabharata

Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....

 and aired every Monday - Thursday at 9pm. It was discontinued much before its original completion date because of low TRP ratings & criticism from all quarters.

Synopsis

It tells the story of a dynastic struggle for the throne of Hastinapura

Hastinapura

Hastinapur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.-History:Hastinapur was the capital of the kingdom of the Kauravas, belonging to the Kuru dynasty of kings. The throne of this city was the prize over which the Kurukshetra War of the epic...

, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan. The two branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kaurava

Kaurava

The term Kaurava is a Sanskrit term, that means the descendants of Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the Mahābhārata.The term is used in the Mahābhārata with two meanings:...

 and the Pandava

Pandava

In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu , by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Although, Karna is told by Lord Krishna that according to the laws and ethics he is the first son of Kunti making...

. Although the Kaurava

Kaurava

The term Kaurava is a Sanskrit term, that means the descendants of Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the Mahābhārata.The term is used in the Mahābhārata with two meanings:...

 is the senior branch of the family, Duryodhana

Duryodhana

In the Hindu epic the Mahābhārata, Duryodhana is the eldest son of the blind king Dhritarashtra by Queen Gandhari, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, Emperor of the world at that time which means Emperor of India or Bharatvarsha as it was known at that time, cousin and the chief...

, the eldest Kaurava

Kaurava

The term Kaurava is a Sanskrit term, that means the descendants of Kuru, a legendary king who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the Mahābhārata.The term is used in the Mahābhārata with two meanings:...

, is younger than Yudhisthira

Yudhisthira

In the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, Yudhisthira , the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti, was king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura. He was the leader of the Pandava side in the Kurukshetra War...

, the eldest Pandava

Pandava

In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu , by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Although, Karna is told by Lord Krishna that according to the laws and ethics he is the first son of Kunti making...

. The seeds of the climactic battle of Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra is a land of historical and religious importance. Historically the land belonged to Punjab now a district in Haryana state of India. It is a holy place and is also known as Dharmakshetra . According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and...

 were laid in the boyhood days of the Kauravas and Pandavas, when Shakuni

Shakuni

Shakuni , an avatar of Dvapara, the personification of Dvapara Yuga, was the brother of Gandhari in the Mahābhārata. He was portrayed as an extremely intelligent but devious old man, who was very fond of his nephew Duryodhana. He won the kingdom of the Pandavas' for his nephew, as a wager in a...

 the maternal uncle of the Kauravas poisoned the mind of Duryodhana

Duryodhana

In the Hindu epic the Mahābhārata, Duryodhana is the eldest son of the blind king Dhritarashtra by Queen Gandhari, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, Emperor of the world at that time which means Emperor of India or Bharatvarsha as it was known at that time, cousin and the chief...

.

Adaptation

The show Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki is an adapted version of the previous (original) and first remake adaption:

Name	Premiere	Creator	Level
Mahabharat Mahabharat (TV series) Mahabharat is a successful Indian television series based on the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. The 94-episode series originally ran from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990. It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra. The music was composed by critically acclaimed music...	1988	B. R. Chopra	Original Adaptation
Mahabharata Mahabharata The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....	Ancient Indian Epic	Veda Vyasa (वेद व्यास) Vyasa Vyasa is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa , or Krishna Dvaipayana...	Original

Cast

Main Cast
Pandavas		Kauravas		Bharatvansh
Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
Uma Shanker	Yudhishtira	Aryan Vaid Aryan Vaid Aryan Vaid is an Indian male model who won the Graviera Mr. India modelling pageant in the year 2000.-Career:Vaid is a qualified chef and a lifestyle columnist with The Hindustan Times. He has been actively involved with theatre and has done a few street plays at the Prithvi theatre in Mumbai...	Duryodhan	Kiran Karmarkar	Santanu Santanu Shantanu was a Kuru king of Hastinapura, who is mentioned in the great epic of the Mahābhārata. He was a descendant of the Bharata race, of the lunar dynasty and the ancestor of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The Rigveda mentions Shantanu. He was the youngest son of King Pratipa of Hastinapura...
Chetan Hansraj	Bheem	Eijaz Khan Eijaz Khan Eijaz Khan is an Indian television actor.He lost his mother early, now living in Mumbai with his father and a younger brother Imran and a sister who lives in Hyderabad....	Dushasana Dushasana Dushasana was the second son of the blind king Dhritarashtra and Gandhari in the epic Mahābhārata, and the younger brother of Duryodhana.-Birth and development:...	Saakshi Tanwar Saakshi Tanwar Sakshi Tanwar is an Indian television and film actress. Sakshi is one of the leading ladies of Indian Television. Sakshi's consequent continued patronage of the largely female audience of the show had been instrumental in changing the fortunes of the production house Balaji Telefilms and in...	Ganga
Harshad Chopra Harshad Chopra Harshad Prakash Chopra is an Indian television actor. He was born on May 17, 1983 in Gondia, a town near Nagpur in Maharashtra, but later moved to Pune. Chopra made his debut in Zee TV's Mamta, followed by Left Right Left and the short-lived Amber Dhara. His main lead role has been in Balaji...	Arjuna Arjuna Arjuna in Indian mythology is the greatest warrior on earth and is one of the Pandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Arjuna, whose name means 'bright', 'shining', 'white' or 'silver' Arjuna (Devanagari: अर्जुन, Thai: อรชุน, Orachun, Tamil: Arjunan, Indonesian and Javanese: Harjuna,...			Vishal Thakkar	Devavrata Bhishma Bhishma or Bheeshma or Devavrata or 'Bhishma Pitamah' was the eighth son of Kuru King Shantanu who was blessed with wish-long life and had sworn to serve the ruling Kuru king. He was one of the most prominent characters of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. He was the grand uncle of both the...  - (Teenage)
Jatin Shah	Sahadeva Sahadeva Sahadeva was one of the five Pandava brothers according to the epic Mahābhārata. He was one of the twin sons of Madri, who invoked Ashvins using a mantra shared by Kunti for a son. His twin brother was named Nakula...			Ronit Roy Ronit Roy Ronit Roy is an Indian television and Bollywood actor, known for the roles of Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi, Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He is now in the serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of small screen...	Bhishma Bhishma Bhishma or Bheeshma or Devavrata or 'Bhishma Pitamah' was the eighth son of Kuru King Shantanu who was blessed with wish-long life and had sworn to serve the ruling Kuru king. He was one of the most prominent characters of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. He was the grand uncle of both the... ... (adult Devavrata)
Deepak Sandhu	Nakul			Ravee Gupta	Satyavati Satyavati Satyavati was the queen of the Kuru king Shantanu of Hastinapur and the great-grandmother of the Pandava and Kaurava princes . She is also the mother of the seer Vyasa, author of the epic...
Anita Hassanandani Natassha Anita Hassanandani , also known as Natassha, is an Indian model, film and television actress.- Career :Hassanandani is best known for acting in Balaji Telefilms and has also acted in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu films...	Draupadi Draupadi In the epic Mahābhārata, Draupadi, also known as ' is the "emerged" daughter of King Drupada of Panchāla and the wife of the five Pandavas. When Yudhisthira becomes the king of Hastinapura at the end of the war, Draupadi becomes the queen of Indraprastha...			Sonal Udeshi	Ambalika Ambalika Ambalika was the daughter of Kashya, the King of Kashi and queen of Vichitravirya, King of Hastinapura.Along with her sisters Amba and Ambika, she was taken by force by Bhishma from their Swayamvara, the latter having challenged and defeated the assembled royalty...
				Nidhi Tiwari	Ambika
				Jaya Bhattacharya Jaya Bhattacharya Jaya Battacharya is an Indian television actress. She has also done small roles in movies. She is of Bengali descent.-Acting career:In the Hindi movie Saathiya, she played a small role being the sister-in-law of the main character, Vivek Oberoi. She also played a small role in the 2002 Bollywood...	Kunti
Supporting Cast
Notable Appearance			Others
Actor	Role		Actor	Role
Makrand Deshpande Makrand Deshpande Makarand Deshpande is an Indian actor, writer, and director in Hindi and Marathi films and theatre. He is often seen in supporting and pivotal roles in various films like Jungle, Sarfarosh, Swades, Makdee, and Darna Zaroori Hai where he often plays drunkard, wayfarer roles. He has directed over 5...	Veda Vyasa (वेद व्यास) Vyasa Vyasa is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa , or Krishna Dvaipayana...  - (Narrator/Actor)		Ritu Raaj	Kashi Naresh
Kali Prasad	Shakuni Shakuni Shakuni , an avatar of Dvapara, the personification of Dvapara Yuga, was the brother of Gandhari in the Mahābhārata. He was portrayed as an extremely intelligent but devious old man, who was very fond of his nephew Duryodhana. He won the kingdom of the Pandavas' for his nephew, as a wager in a...		Akashdeep Saigal	Kansa Kamsa In Hinduism, Kamsa or Kansa , often known as Kans in Hindi, is the brother of Devaki, and ruler of the Vrishni kingdom with its capital at Mathura. His father was King Ugrasena and mother was Queen Padmavati...
Rakshandha Khan Rakshandha Khan Rakshanda Khan is a former Model and a Television Actress, Anchor in the Indian Television Industry. She is better known for her role as Mallika Seth in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, Tanya Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, and Roshni Chopra in Kasamh Se.-Personal life:Rakshanda Khan was born on...	Amba		Master Krrish Karnavat	Krishna Krishna Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...  - (Child)
Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor from Mumbai, India.-Early life:Tejwani was born and brought up in Mumbai, to a cloth merchant father and a home maker mother. He has two younger brothers...	Karna Karna Karna or Radheya is one of the central characters in the epic Mahābhārata, from ancient India. He was the King of Anga...
Mrunal Jain	Krishna Krishna Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...
Pooja Bose Pooja Bose Pooja Bose is an Indian Television actress. She had played the role of Radha in Balaji Telefilms' Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki. She played the lead role Vrinda in the Balaji serial Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna with her co-actor Kunal Verma, which aired on STAR Plus.After starting her...	Radha Radha Radha , also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is the childhood friend and lover of Krishna in the Bhagavata Purana, and the Gita Govinda of the Vaisnava traditions of Hinduism...
Gautam Gulati Gautam Gulati Gautam Gulati is an Indian television actor. He became popular through the television series. As of 2011 he plays in Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani as Shaurya Chauhan/ Khanna and then he was in the role for Vikram on Star Plus Diya Aur Baati Hum....	Duryodhan - (Teenage)

Replacement

• "Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki" replaced the soap Kahe Naa Kahe
  Kahe Naa Kahe
  Kahe Naa Kahe was an Indian soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The soap was not intended to last any longer than it had aired for since it was just a special way of introducing the new channel 9X...
  
  which was the first Balaji Telefilm produced show on 9X.

Dubbed Version

• This show can now be seen in Tamil and its telecasting on Raj TV from Monday - Friday at 7:00pm.

External links

• Mrunal Jain as Krishna in Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki
• Official Site
• Original Mahabharata TV Series - All episodes