If you ignore the fact that every other guy who walks on the scene flexes his muscles and that most of the cast delivers their dialogues as if sleep-walking, KEkta KKapoor’s Mahabharat seems okay enough, nothing spectacular. One of last week’s episodes had a hilarious glitch though. When Lord Vishnu is shown to so dramatically float to Devki’s womb in the form of a peacock-feather, He approaches earth and we can clearly see the map of modern India imprinted on the globe (Kashmir is in place, no dispute there) :-)

I shuddered more violently than Vasudeo and Devki did when I saw who walked in as Kans. Aakashdeep Saigal! His mannerisms are more like a Hindi movie villain than the dreaded king of Mathura who was hell bent on killing his nephew. And he actually manages a worse dialogue delivery than the junior cast. It’s not only just the people of Mathura but we hapless viewers also deserve a deliverance from this guy :-)