

The title song was sung and the verses rendered by singer Mahendra Kapoor. The serial claims to have used the Critical Edition of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute as its basic source with Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar and Shripad Krishna Belwalkar as its primary editor.Įach episode is 40–46 minutes long and begins with a title song that consisted of lyrical content and two verses from the Bhagavad Gita. Costumes for the series were provided by Maganlal Dresswala. The script was written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and the Hindi/Urdu poet Rahi Masoom Raza, based on the epic by Vyasa. Chopra and directed by his son, Ravi Chopra.

The original airing consisted of a total of 94 episodes and were broadcast from 2 October 1988 to 24 June 1990 on Doordarshan.

Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic of the same title.
