Mahabharat

This peace and satisfaction.

I get it only when I am with you, Satyavati.

The responsibilities of the kingdom, war

struggle, schemes, strategies.

The debate about justice and injustice.

Everything is just lost to me.

What more could anyone wish for, Satyavati?

The desire to live, Your Highness.

During the time of struggles we realise

that we are alive.

This means you like struggles

and not peace.

The ones who have all the pleasures

value peace.

The ones with only peace

would desire for pleasures first.

And peace is attained only after struggle

isn't it, King Shantanu?

Satyavati!

What are you doing, Satyavati?

Trying to attain pleasure.

Let it go, Satyavati.

That's a very powerful fish.

You wouldn't able to catch it.

Really? I'm the daughter of Matysaraj.

Stop, Your Highness!

I place you under an oath. You shouldn't try to help me.

Leave it, Satyavati. I will order the fishermen.

They will catch the fish for you.

I cannot wait until then, Your Highness!

A fish and an opportunity

should be grabbed once spotted.

Satyavati!

I wasn't aware that these delicate hands were so powerful.

King Shantanu, you are a warrior.

You are the king of a great kingdom like Hastinapur.

You must be aware that power doesn't lie in our hands

but instead in our hearts.

A desire is the strength of the heart.

As much as can be gathered in the cusp of one's palms

desires stay good only in that measure, Satyavati.

Your Highness, God has given us such tiny eyes.

But the same eyes

have the power to see the limitless skies.

Am I not right, Your Highness?

How can I then humiliate God by having such humble desires?

Desires, hopes

expectations, ambitions

are the driving forces of a human society.

Aren't they?

If someone asks you

of your identity

what would be your answer?

Think about it.

You will immediately realise that your desires

define your life.

The success after achieving something

and the failure after not achieving something

describes your identity.

Many people live a life

dying to achieve many things

but their desires never do really die.

Desires make them run around

akin mirages of oasis make cervids chase them.

But in the very womb of these desires

lies the light of knowledge.

How?

When the desires are unfulfilled

and they shatter

from the same, rays of knowledge enter into

the human heart.

No.

This isn't a story about the battle of desires.

It isn't a story of any horrific battue born of ambitions.

This story is about

the knowledge which arises from the womb of desires.

I

Vasudev Krishna

invite all of you join this journey

which would teach you the meaning of life.

It will teach you the duty of a human being.

It would teach you the deeds to rise and shine from the dirt.

The name of this journey is

Mahabharata.

'A village in Hastinapur.'

Where are you, King Shantanu!

Protect your subjects!

Hastinapur has been cursed!

The king has no wife.

The king cannot conduct a 'yajna'* without a wife. * Sacrificial ritual.

A kingdom which doesn't conduct 'yajna'

is cursed by the Gods.

Who will now save the kingdom of Hastinapur?

Pushpak!

Who are you, who has dared to challenge demon Hida?!

Challenges are thrown at warriors.

Dacoits are warned, Hida!

Demons like you must stay at Rakshashvarth.

You are restricted from entering the realm of the Bharat lineage.

People of the Bharat lineage chop down forests of our realm.

They attack on our lands.

If that is true

I promise you

hereafter the people of the Bharat lineage and the demons

wouldn't enter into each other's lands.

You should free the villagers.

Stop!

How dare you enter into Shantanu's kingdom, demon?

No demon will be spared now.

Attack!

Stop!

These demons have accepted our refuge.

Hereafter, they wouldn't attack the land of Bharat.

And now

no one would attack them.

Who are you to order?

What's the power that grants you such audacity?

The proof of power should always be any combat

is not deemed a mandate.

Not with words

but you should prove your power by your deeds.

How will you protect the demons?

My army is standing before them.

There is no way they could escape.

The river Ganga would stop flowing.

And the pathway of river Ganga

will become their way.

No one can stop river Ganga from flowing.

Who are you?

How could Ganga answer your prayers and stop flowing?

'Because not even Lord Shiva can decline His child's pleas.'

Greetings, mother.

Is he your son?

Nof mine but ours, King.

25 years ago when I was taking our child along with me

I had promised you

that I will make Devarath capable of becoming your heir.

Devarath, my son.

No, son.

Your place is in my heart.

Son, you do not know

I was waiting for you day and night.

Your son has been trained by Parashuram* himself, King. *Rama with the Axe (parashu). The sixth incarnation of Vishnu.

I have fulfilled my promise.

Ganga never falters from her promises.

I was the unfortunate one

to break the promise that I had given you.

Else

today you would have been my wife

and the Queen of Hastinapur.

I has asked for such a promise

that you had to break sometime.

And about being the queen

then a river is the queen of all the places that are her shores.

Mother.

I am not distancing from you.

Whenever you call me

I will appear before you.

Leave. Now you should go with your father.

The purpose of your life is to serve him.

As you command, mother.

Look, King Shantanu is coming this way!

Your Highness?

King Shantanu

what is Hastinapur celebrating today?

Satyavati, my son has returned today.

25 years ago

Ganga had married me in the form of a woman.

After our son Devarath was born she took him away.

But she had promised me

that once our son is capable enough

she would bring him to me.

And today

she has fulfilled the promise, Satyavati.

Today he will be enthroned as the crown prince.

Sa... Satyavati?

Let's go, Satyavati. I am here to take you.

Why are you staring at me, Satyavati?

Your Highness, I was looking at your face.