'It is definitely the teacher's job to teach..'
'..but it is the family elders' duty to create..'
'..a conducive atmosphere for learning.'
'Which is perhaps why the practice began..'
'..of sending children to stay in the guru's school.'
'So that the tensions of the home and family did not affect them.'
'However, the guru's school should not be confused with modern hostel life.'
'In ancient society, the teacher was next only to God.'
'But man was the basis of ancient society..'
'..and man is bound to have weaknesses.'
'If the king wanted to ensure..'
'..that all students didn't get to learn equally..'
'..he did not have to tell the teacher..'
'..to teach them in a way that would ensure..'
'..that they fell behind the class.'
'He wouldn't allow the family sage to remain at school.'
'He would call him on the slightest pretext.'
'Something similar happened in Hastinapur's guru's school.'
'Dhritirashtra did not want the Pandavas..'
'..to study in peace so, even if the king's charioteer..'
'..wished to leave job it was enough pretext..'
'..for Dhritirashtra to call Kripacharya from the guru's school.'
'So, even before studies could begin, Kripacharya was called.'
'But Dhritirashtra did not think..'
'..that these acts would pave the way for Dronacharya's entry.'
'And if I did not know..'
'..that Kunti's eldest son was in Adirath's care..'
'..then perhaps I may not have gone to the palace with Kripacharya..'
'..because my new generation of characters are in the guru's school.'
'But then, I cannot give up action.'
'Which is why I invite viewers to Hastinapur's palace..'
'..where they will meet Adirath and Sanjay.'
But Adirath's problem was not a problem, King..
..that required Kripacharya to be disturbed.
Grandsire, he's now the family's sage.
So, I thought it appropriate to send for him.
But the Pandavas have gone there today itself.
It was necessary for Kripacharya to be there today.
Grandsire, Duryodhan is there to look after his brothers.
- Respects, King. - Come, Teacher.
I've brought Vidur along.
Please have a seat.
I hope the Pandavas are studying well.
Don't worry, King.
A student is like a piece of land.
If it is fertile, a seed will surely sprout.
If not, the seed should not be blamed.
But the Pandavas are diligent students.
What about Duryodhan, Teacher?
Prince Duryodhan is no less a deserving student.
But the mind, like a horse, has to be reined..
..or else it will stray.
However, you needn't worry, King.
Prince Duryodhan can be very generous..
..if he wants to give something.
But he can be very stubborn.
If he does not want to give, he won't budge.
But is he studying diligently?
I am teaching him diligently.
So, I need not worry.
Undoubtedly.
Okay, Grandsire.
Let us consider the problem raised by Adirath.
Of course.
- Yes, King? - Call Adirath.
Yes, my king.
What is Adirath's problem, King?
I'll tell you in a minute.
Blind kings have peculiar problems, Vidur.
I'm wearing younger Pandu's crown..
..and sitting on the throne of Hastinapur no doubt.
I am on the throne only because it can't be left vacant.
But who will know better than I..
..what it means to be blind?
Grandsire is looking after the nation..
..and you, Vidur, are helping me.
Maybe that is why, Hastinapur's borders are safe and secure.
But now Adirath wants to leave.
Why?
He says that if he stays tied down to me..
..Radheya's education will suffer.
Who's Radheya?
Charioteer Adirath is here.
Come, Adirath.
Respects, King.
Vidur wants to know who Radheya is.
Radheya is my son.
Your son?
He is not actually my son..
..but I look upon him as my son.
Whose son is he?
I do not know that, Sire.
King, you know that my house..
..is on the banks of river Bhagirath.
One day, my wife Radha..
..did not return all night.
Frightened, I was about to go to her friend Sulabha..
'Where were you all night? You thought of me in the morning? '
'My friend Sudha has given birth to a boy.'
'It is a matter of fate, my dear.'
'Why am I so unlucky? '
'Don't say that.'
'Maybe God wants to gift us with a special infant.'
'Don't you know that God's justice is delayed, not denied?'
'Whose is this child who's crying? '
'Let's find out.'
'Who knows? It may be the child intended for us.'
'Come.'
I cannot hide anything from you.
So, I told you the truth..
..but no one knows about it. Not even the child..
..that he is not my son.
Because he is not my son, my responsibility increases.
That's why I want to leave, King.
You are right.
But how can a blind king live..
..without a loyal charioteer?
I have brought another devoted and loyal charioteer, King.
He is no less than I in devotion and loyalty..
..and exceeds me in knowledge.
Who is he who's as loyal as you, Adirath?
His name is Sanjay, Sire.
- Call him. - As you wish.
Grandsire?
If Adirath has such faith in Sanjay's loyalty..
..I don't think there's any harm in retaining him as your charioteer.
What do you say, Teacher?
I agree with Bheeshma, King.
Ask Vidur, if he agrees, too! Because he tends to disagree.
I only agree to what..
..my intelligence says is right.
Accept Sanjay's greetings, Hastinapur's king!
Sanjay, what is a charioteer's prime duty?
His first duty is a willingness to die for his master.
And his second duty?
His second duty is..
..to say whatever is good for his master without fear..
- ..whether the master likes it or not. - And?
To protect the master from the heat and dust, like a mother's veil.
- And? - To be alert after the master's good.
- And? - To consider the master's honour greater than one's life.
I think he is worthy of being your charioteer.
What do you say, Family Sage?
King, I agree with Ganga's son, Bheeshma.
Okay. You are my charioteer from today, Sanjay.
May you live long.
Be happy!
My responsibility has ended, King. Allow me to take your leave.
Go!
But you will always be in my thoughts.
Bless me, King..
..so that I can complete my other responsibility.
Go. May the light of your courtyard light up the entire world.
Narayan. Narayan. Narayan. Narayan.
Be generous.
Can you give me a handful of grain?
Sure, sire.
But I'd asked for only a handful, child.
I have a small hand, sire.
Ask for a blessing, my child. Ask for a blessing.
Sire, I don't like to ask.
Generous child! May God fulfill your every wish.
May your name go down in history as the bravest among the brave.
May you live long.
From tomorrow, I will teach you chariot riding.
I don't wish to be a charioteer, Father.
Then what do you wish to be, Son?
I want to train in weaponry, Father.
But that is for warriors, Son.
But I'd heard that formerly..
..action and not birth determined caste.
That's true, Son.
But first..
..we all have to bear the burden of our birth, don't we, Son?
Let's see about that, Father!
"Between birth and death.."
"..is a life of action."
"The one whose actions.."
"..are good his life is worth while."
"His life is worth while."
Grandsire. Grandsire.
- What is it, Bheem? - He ate my pudding.
He is younger to you, let it be.
Why should I, Sire? What will I eat now?
Didn't you eat my food yesterday? Tell him that.
Grandsire, as it is mother gives him twice the amount of food..
..but he keeps invading the kitchen.. where he must be eating.
He grabs our food in the wink of an eye.
I go to the kitchen to learn cooking.
Besides, I like the fragrance of food, too, Sire.
Ask him to return my pudding.
Bheem, how can he return your pudding?
He's long finished eating it.
All right, I'll get a whole lot of pudding made for you tomorrow.
Is it okay? Fine?
Now go! Your mother must be worried.
If I go with him, he'll beat me a lot.
- Is it? - Of course he loves me a lot, too.
- Is that so? - But at the moment he is a tad angry.
The problem is a serious one.
May I sleep here, Grandsire?
Silly boy! Haven't I told you that I am not your grandsire?
I am your father's uncle. Got it?
Now, child, go!
Tell mother, I'll bring him myself when he is asleep.
Go.
Live long.
Have your studies begun, child?
Not yet, Grandsire.
Again grandsire!
Okay, Sire. - Yes.
No studies as yet.
Elder Father sent for him and..
..Teacher hasn't yet returned from the palace.
So, I thought I would begin studying on my own.
There were some weapons kept there..
..but only the bow and arrow attracted me.
But when I stretched my hand to take it..
..elder brother stopped me saying..
..that without teacher's permission..
..it's not right for me to touch the weapons.
He also said that the weapons would be worshipped..
..before studies begin.
Are weapons god that we should worship them?
No, child. Weapons are not gods.
Then why worship them?
Child, God is worshipped and not the weapons.
We should take god's name before beginning any work, right?
..because whoever is the teacher, Arjun..
..knowledge is God's gift. Got it? - Yes.
Greetings, Crown Prince!
Why do you behave so, Uncle?
I behave so, child..
..because every person should know his position.
Like the planets, every person..
..has a position and a path.
If he leaves his position or changes his path..
..it will be a catastrophe.
You are Hastinapur's crown prince and will be king later.
As the Prime Minister, it's my duty to show you respect.
Kripacharya cannot teach you to accept respects.
Only this maid's son can teach you that.
Okay. The crown prince accepts your greetings.
..and ask for your blessings?
You know more of politics..
..than any other intellectual of this era.
May you live long.
It is this very knowledge of politics which has created a dilemma, child.
- Dilemma, Uncle? - Yes, child.
But you are much too young for all these dilemmas.
But life itself will pose this dilemma to you some day.
That's why I have come to ask you..
..what you are doing here..
..instead of being at guru's school.
That day the king had called the teacher to the palace.
From there, he went to his sister.
So I thought it appropriate to stay here till he returns.
You know that Duryodhan and Bheem don't get along.
I told Bheem that Duryodhan is his brother..
..and he should ignore his mischief.
But, Uncle, you know how Bheem is!
Why don't you say that you have run away from guru's school.
If you cannot accept the guru's school's challenge..
..then how will you face life's challenge?
The king's duty is a tough one, child.
He should not hesitate to sacrifice the individual..
..for the family, the family for the region the region for the nation.
And you? You have run away to escape your brother's tiffs!
If you cannot survive in the guru's school..
..then how will you survive the battlefield?
As the eldest Kuru son..
..your duty's burden is the heaviest, child.
Running away will merely taint your soul.
So, accept the challenge of duty..
..and return to guru's school with your brothers.
It will be as you wish, Uncle.
May you be righteous.
May you live long.
Duryodhan, whom I love more than my life..
..a good player is one whom even the dice obey.
If we need 'five' what is the use of 'twelve'?
Now watch. I need 'six' to oust your pawn.
Now look.
Six! Six!
Which means your pawn is out.
A player must always play to win..
..and must also know what is needed to win.
But, Uncle..
Don't interrupt, child. Listen!
Many years ago..
..Bheeshma had used Vidur to vanquish your father using ethics.
Had it not been so your father would have been Hastinapur's king.
Today, that very Bheeshma is using Vidur..
..to release a new arrow on Yudhishthir's behalf.
That maid's son, Vidur, will prove..
..that Yudhishthir is the eldest Kuru son..
..and that as crown prince he alone should get the throne.
So what if he is the eldest Kuru son?
He is the eldest son of Pandu..
..but you are the eldest royal prince, Duryodhan.
Hence, the throne is yours by birthright.
Never forget this!
Just do what your uncle tells you.
So, even if time wishes..
..it cannot steal Hastinapur's throne from you.
Then what should I do?
The Pandavas represent five fingers.
The five fingers together form a fist.
There is great strength in a fist, child.
We are a hundred brothers, Uncle.
But a hundred fingers do not form a fist, Duryodhan.
I don't even like to look at those forest dwellers.
Even I don't like it, but look we must..
..both you and I.
We will have to cut these five fingers, one by one.
- But not with a knife. - Then?
With a sweet tongue. Duryodhan, trap them with your friendship.
Uncle, that's not possible for me.
It will be possible. Definitely will be.
Take it that you can never beat Yudhishthir in intelligence.
In physical strength, Bheem is your equal.
In gaining affection, Arjun..
..and in virtue and calm, Nakul and Sahadev, have the better of you..
They lack just one strength.
The strength of plotting.
Use this very strength..
..and Hastinapur will be yours.
Bheem loves to eat.
He's a glutton.
Then he will eat even poison.
Start your war from here itself.
But remember..
'Out of season rain is bad.'
'Loving the enemy is bad.'
Eight!
Catch me.
- He's run away.. - Catch me.
Hey, catch me.
Brother Bheem, what are you doing here all alone?
Just sitting.
We are all playing out there and you are all alone here?
I am not in the mood for play.
Want an apple?
Last night Arjun ate my pudding and hid in grandsire's room.
Grandsire said, "Let it be, Bheem, he is younger to you."
"I'll get a whole lot of pudding made for you tomorrow."
In anticipation, I did not eat lunch properly.
Now tell me, is it possible for anyone to play on an empty stomach?
Grandsire must have forgotten being busy with the affairs of the kingdom.
But I was left hungry, wasn't I?
Come to my place.
I know you like pudding..
..so I have kept some aside for you.
But not enough for all five of you.
I have asked Dushasan to stand guard.
In that case, he must have finished half of it by now.
No. Whether he accepts anyone else's writ or not..
..he definitely does as I say.
Shall we leave quietly?
- Enjoy the pudding. - Then we can play with more zest.
Let's go.
Catch me. You didn't catch me.
Look I escaped.
Caught you!
Nakul, now that's a miracle!
Bheem and Duryodhan, arm-in-arm together!
You have explained to brother Bheem, that's why!
Or else they would never be together?
Won't you two eat as well, Brother?
No, Bheem. First, you eat to your heart's content.
We'll eat if it is left over.
I doubt if anything will be left.
Enough! I cannot eat anymore.
I have never known you to refuse food before.
- Right, Dushasan? - Yes, Brother.
I am feeling sleepy. I'll eat more after a nap.
- Bheem! - Bheem!
Arjun, Bheem should have been here by now.
Brother, don't worry. He'll definitely come.
I am worried because I saw him leave with Duryodhan.
Since then, I haven't seen either of them.
That's good!
You, too, wanted brotherly love amongst us all.
Let's go.
Be quick.
If someone comes there will be trouble.
Let's throw him in the river Ganga.
That cuts one finger of the Pandavas.
Let's do it.
Bheem.
Brother Bheem!
You are worrying unnecessarily, Brother.
He must be sleeping somewhere after a meal.
He has never done this before.
I think he must have gone to the palace.
I think so, too.
- Let's go. - Let's go.
Today, you have pleased your uncle, child.
If you continue to listen to your uncle like this..
..then you will go places.
I'm not spending time here for no reason..
..instead of being in my own Gandhar.
Only one ambition has bound me to Hastinapur.
Six.
What did you say?
Bheem hasn't yet returned from guru's school?
Where's Duryodhan?
Queen, he's with his uncle.
Gandhari, why do you always suspect Duryodhan?
The soil that gives rise to the plant is best placed to know its qualities.
Sometimes Duryodhan's nature frightens me.
Whenever he comes to me it is..
..as if a terrible storm follows in his wake.
Control him, son of Arya, or else..
..history will hold us alone responsible.
Gandhari, when history comes to Hastinapur with its questions..
..we'll both be beyond its reach.
I have no time to ponder on history.
Do you at least have the time to wonder..
..why Bheem hasn't yet returned from the guru's school?
Brother, found anything?
It is surprising..
..that a Hastinapur prince should be lost in Hastinapur's forest.
What can these mute trees tell us about Pandu's son's whereabouts?
Whether you agree or not..
..Duryodhan has a hand in Bheem's disappearance.
Brother, speak softly!
Such things should not be said loudly.
- Enough! Let's search for him. - Let's go.
Let's go.
May you live long.
Yudhishthir says that he saw you with Bheem, child.
Yes, Mother. He did come with me. Yesterday, uncle scolded me!
"Aren't you ashamed of fighting with your brothers."
So, first of all, I made up with Bheem.
We played for some time and then he left..
..saying he was going to Yudhishthir.
It was my turn at play..
..but I kept quiet not wanting to make it an issue.
But he didn't go to Yudhishthir.
Mother, I, too, am worried as to where he has gone.
Greetings!
Any news of Bheem?
Soldiers are searching him all around..
..but we haven't yet got any news.
I am worried about Bheem.
It is obvious that you will be worried.
Bheem is like a gust of wind.
Nobody can capture him.
He would've gone far swimming.
He will return swimming.
No.
Vidur, you don't know about the pain of an orphan's mother.
King Pandu's sons can never be orphans..
..as long as Grandsire Bheeshma and king Dhritirashtra are alive, Queen.
Have faith.
Bheem will be safe wherever he is.
Victory to the king of snakes.
Why have you caught this child?
He is no ordinary child, King.
He has destroyed our check post on the border.
This child?
Yes, King.
He was unconscious and afloat.
We mistook him to be a spy and attacked him.
When our soldiers bit him he recovered consciousness.
We stood no chance.
I think somebody had poisoned him..
..which subsided due to the bite of our snakes.
Child, come here.
Who are you, child.
I am Kunti's son, Bheem.
Kunti's son?
It means you've come to your grandparent's house.
Like Ganga's son, Bheeshma is your sire..
..in the same way I am your mother's grandfather.
Kunti is my daughter's daughter.
May you live long.
Child, how is Kunti?
She is depressed after my father's death.
Does she know that you are here?
How will she know? When I myself don't know.
I think Duryodhan and Dushasan themselves..
..mixed poison in the pudding and threw me into river Ganga.
Child, then Kunti must be worried for you.
It's not good that you stay here.
Child, drink it up.
This is elixir.
One bowl contains the strength of ten elephants.
Have more.
Kunti, wipe away your tears.
My heart says that Bheem will come to no harm.
Till today, my heart has never lied to me.
Queen, that's what I've been trying to make her understand since so long.
But it's impossible to console a mother like Kunti about her son.
Let her cry.
Because nobody other than prince Bheem can wipe her tears.
Mother.
Bheem. Bheem, my son.
Where had you been, Bheem?
- Actually Duryodhan fed me pudding.. - Bheem.
I slept after eating it.
When I opened my eyes, I saw I was in the snake world.
The snake king said that he was my mother's grandfather.
Yes, Son. He's my grandfather.
Now forget all these things.
First, go and take blessings from your elder mother. Come, Son.
Sister, Bheem.
Dear, where had you gone?
May you live long.
- May you become powerful. - I've already become powerful.
I drank seven bowls of elixir.
King of snakes told me that one bowl contained the power of ten elephants.
Mother, that means he will eat food meant for 70 elephants from now on.
- What happened? - That glutton has returned.
He returned? But how did he return?
Uncle told me that the antidote for that poison is found..
..with the serpents of the snake world alone.
I don't know all that.
But he is sitting in mother Kunti's chamber and boasting..
..that the king of snakes made him drink elixir.
Now he will expose us.
He can do nothing even by exposing us.
Who will believe him in front of us?
Father.. father will surely side with me.
What about mother?
Mother is like pudding.
Don't talk about pudding again.
Everything happened because of the pudding.
Now I fear facing Bheem.
You stick to me.
He can't fight us alone, can he?
I will break Duryodhan's head.
Talk something else instead of breaking heads.
Arjun, listen to me.
He poisoned me on pretext of the pudding..
..and you want me to go and embrace him?
If you do this how are you different from Duryodhan?
Did you forget the guru's teaching?
Be calm and be like a human being.
Human being neither poisons anybody nor breaks his head.
Please, forgive me, Brother. Duryodhan is our brother, too.
So, do you want me to go and thank him?
Should I tell him that the pudding tasted good..
..when will you feed me again?
No, you won't do this either.
Then tell me, what do I do?
Keep quiet.
This is our family matter.
Other than mother and we five brothers..
..nobody else should know what you went through.
When the family matters leave the home, people talk.
If elder mother comes to know about this then she will feel very bad.
So, do you order us to remain silent?
If you can't remain silent without my order..
..then think this to be my order.
This is my order, too.
Bheem, you should neither fight with Duryodhan nor tell him anything.
Otherwise, I'll tell your grandsire that you don't obey me.
Mother, as you wish.
"Mother is a statue of love."
"These five of them love her more than their life."
"Some betterment lies in.."
"..their mother's respect."