Brad's Indian Epics Blog

Bhima, Wikicommons Bhima the Ungrateful Bhima was very well known for being a Pandu, but he was equally known for his hunger. Bhima always had a club in hand, weapon or sandwich. Bhima's favorite was sandwich consisted on flat bread, naan, and two mackerel. Hastinapur being a city of importance saw a lot of trade in its day. There would be fisherman that would navigate the river adjacent to it with their bounty of fish. Fish was even caught in Hastinapur, but never in the large numbers that the fishmongers had. Naturally Bhima was attracted to the fishmongers as they were the couriers of his favorite food, mackerel. Bhima would be the first one to greet the fishmongers as they entered the city of Hastinapur. Bhima would chat about what they had caught and how many. The fishmongers would often entertain Bhima and even offer him free fish for the chat. Bhima would always light up when he was rewarded with a fish, because that meant he would soon be eating. This cycle of Bh...

Surya Dev, Wikicommons The story of Surya Dev and Kunti is very well told The storytelling at this point is much slower and there is more detail as compared with the first part The story of Pandu is also told very well The recap on each episode is a nice addition, but not very useful for this instance of watching them all in one go The story of the birth of Kunti's sons is detailed and gives good information about each son The Pandus anger Duryodhan  The highlighted story of Bhima was very well told The story of Eklavya was also told very well The images for this session were also really good The music also was different and added to the tone of the story

The Story of the Mahabharata, Wikicommons The Mahabharata - Epified The introduction gives a decent amount of backstory, but it is a bit lacking The tone of voices are very dramatic The story is very abbreviated The music is an interesting aspect The drawings helped to portray the words Sometimes the guy reading in the video shouts into the video It did a good job highlighting the kings of Hastinapur The story telling is very dramatic and ends with cliff-hangers