The Mahabharata
1990 · 318 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 1,261 VOTES · DIR. Peter Brook
Overview
One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,378 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:30 Bhima!
00:04:28 The sight of a woman made men laugh.
00:08:25 One day, Draupadi
00:13:28 I think of nothing else.
00:17:49 What's this riddle? I don't understand!
00:23:08 - My father! - Yes, it's me. Come!
00:27:18 Take off your veil.
00:32:43 You can do nothing to me. I master you.
00:36:31 I will find you again.
00:41:24 and I have many well hidden secrets.
00:46:52 Who stroke them down?
00:50:44 For the thirteenth year you must hide
00:56:04 I'm both, a man and a woman.
01:01:38 I don't care anymore, I think all your brothers are dead!
01:05:56 And here is my brother Bhima
01:10:37 So, what's the use of fighting?
01:15:15 Touch it. Feel how it vibrates.
01:18:42 "Never a woman, never a child".
01:22:32 then disaster catches up with him.
01:26:57 ...because of this war which is drawing nearer and nearer...
01:31:10 Put Arjuna in front of me, and do not tell him I'm his mother's son.
01:37:36 Speak.
01:42:44 He's telling Arjuna that victory and defeat are the same.
01:47:19 I'm appearance and disappearance.