Mahabharat

Pandu and Dhirtrashtra rule Hastinapur, but their differing choices in heirs, betrayals, marriages, and exiles lead to a war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, with the intervention of Lord Krishna. Mahabharat is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language Action Adventure movie starring Abhi Bhattacharya, Pradeep Kumar, Dara Singh, Padmini Ramachandran, Manher Desai, Bhushan Tiwari and Johnny Whisky. Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox Television. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) A. A. Nadiadwala. Mahabharat is written by Pandit Madhur, C.k. Mast, Vishwanath Pande, Vedavyas and Veda Vyasa and it is directed by Babubhai Mistri. 20th Television acquired the distribution rights for the film. Mahabharat was released on 1st January 1965 and takes a screen time of 163 minutes. Mahabharat was made on a budget of ₹25 crore and at the box office it grossed only ₹1 crore. Cinematography was done by Narendra Mistry and Peter Parreira and editing by Kamlakar Karkhanis. The music was composed by Chitra Gupta along with Chitragupta.