Epics are such great works of literature that with every passing day, our attraction towards the epics seem to be ever increasing. Correct us if we are wrong. In India, since the times B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharata and Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana were telecasted on National Television, the saga of dealing with our epics increased 10-folds. But, if you ask us who has been the perfect one so far, we’ll say, ‘the best is yet to come’. In fact, we are secretly longing for that day when none but Peter Jackson would direct the grand epic, Mahabharata.

Yes, we know that you’ll have different directors (like the casting, creative, art, etc.) while filming a movie, but since everything is administered by the director, we simply have to bestow Peter Jackson with all the accolades in terms of characterization as well. Each of the characters seemed tailor-made for their roles. In fact, some of them even seemed perfect to don the garb of some characters from Mahabharata. For example, don’t you think Ian Mckellen, who plays the role of Gandalf in LOTR, simply perfect to play Bhishma Pitamah? And, unlike BR Chopra’s Mahabharata (we loved that, no doubt) this time, you won’t get to see any young man playing the role of an immortal grand old man!

No More “Retelling”, Focus on the Original!

Nowadays, people are more in favor of “retelling” these epics for they think that with all the “absurd” special effects and the age-old technology-less plots are definitely going to let them fall flat at the box office. Well, with Peter Jackson, it’ll be a different story altogether. At least we hope so, especially after the giant successes of the LOTR series! We should learn from him to capture all those special effects par excellence, to the extent of rubbing away the fine line between the virtual and the real! Thou art indeed a genius, Mr. Jackson.