I had the very good fortune to attend the live performances of Brook's Mahabharata when it came to Los Angeles as part of the Olympics festivities in 1984. Bless my mother, who took me to each show (I think it was three performances, each of three hours) - to say that I was dazzled would be an understatement. Most of the cast in the film seem to be the same we saw in the show (I'm not sure which came first). It was all very powerful for a 16 year old with a growing passion for India.
I had the very good fortune to attend the live performances of Brook's Mahabharata when it came to Los Angeles as part of the Olympics festivities in 1984. Bless my mother, who took me to each show (I think it was three performances, each of three hours) - to say that I was dazzled would be an understatement. Most of the cast in the film seem to be the same we saw in the show (I'm not sure which came first). It was all very powerful for a 16 year old with a growing passion for India.
The song set to the Svetasvatara Upanishad still give me chills. This is the one I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LUtO1_E1I
Edit: Ah, just saw that you say the film was from 1989, so the live performance came first. I think a lot of the cast was the same.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you once again,
for bringing up some treasures before my, ?, prescience of mind! Feeling very Indian recently.
I am certain you must have read "the Human Icon"? a very fair conversation between Hinduism and Orthodoxy.
But back to the screen!
I am excited to begin...
i like epics.
-mb