1 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:48,960 'Time stands in the ruins of your life's values..' 2 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:56,240 '..narrating the story of this great war..' 3 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,600 '..which has ended and yet, still to end.' 4 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,400 'Because I had said on the very first day..' 5 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:17,080 '..this war is the fate of every present and future.' 6 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,120 'Which is why I am taking various roles..' 7 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:30,600 '..that of a sage, a teacher and a mother..' 8 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,080 '..while narrating this epic tale to you.' 9 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,560 'This tale is not only the past.' 10 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,760 'It is the present and future.' 11 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:52,240 'Hence, come with me to Hastinapur and..' 12 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,560 '..see what happens after a war like this.' 13 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,400 Vidur! 14 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,000 You have returned after so long! 15 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,560 Look at the tear stained face of your elder brother. 16 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,920 I am sure you have come here to mourn for me. 17 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,440 Should I bless you with a long life? 18 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,200 No, Brother! No! 19 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,000 Then express your sorrow and go away! 20 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,280 Leave me alone with my tears. 21 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,840 Maybe you never got the news that.. 22 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,560 ..my dear son Duryodhan is dead. 23 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,040 Vidur.. 24 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:59,000 Bheem broke his thigh during mace warfare. 25 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,640 Broke his thigh, Vidur. 26 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:08,840 Brother! 27 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,360 Won't you even express your sorrow? 28 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,760 My brother. 29 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,840 Our politics was never worthy of.. 30 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,440 ..expressing sorrow over his death. 31 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,360 My Dushasan was not politics. 32 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,600 My Duryodhan was not politics. 33 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,680 Gandhari's other sons were not politics. 34 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,920 They were my sons, Vidhur! My sons! 35 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,920 They were your sons.. 36 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:15,320 ..but they lived like pawns on the political chessboard. 37 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,840 They marched ahead, and.. 38 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,000 ..were beaten and removed from the chessboard. 39 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:33,840 Don't forget, it was you who staked them. 40 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,040 And you lost! 41 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,800 Victory and defeat are a part of dice. 42 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,280 It is I who is unhappy. 43 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,840 Bonded to them, I walked.. 44 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,280 ..between justice and injustice.. 45 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,840 ..merely watching the game. 46 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,800 Unable to do anything. 47 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,160 Unable to do anything. 48 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:23,120 My hundred sons died during this war.. 49 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,320 ..and you call it a game? 50 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,760 Do you have a book on ethics in place of your heart? 51 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,680 Are you so hard-hearted that.. 52 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,640 ..my tears have no effects on you? 53 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,960 Is this your religion? 54 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,000 Don't talk of religion, brother! 55 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,920 Don't talk of religion. 56 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,920 Religion is not a parrot which will repeat.. 57 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,840 ..whatever you teach it! 58 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,440 You cannot use religion to your convenience.. 59 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,800 ..because religion spreads itself all over the Universe.. 60 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:14,680 ..and beyond it! 61 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,280 Religion means keeping the air pure for breathing. 62 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,000 Religion means keeping the water pure for drinking.. 63 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,760 ..and protecting the trees. 64 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:36,440 To fight against you in this war is also religion. 65 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,280 Hence, bless the Pandavas. 66 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,240 They have faced innumerable hardships.. 67 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,600 ..to protect their religion. 68 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,160 Was I the only evil one? 69 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,160 Is Dhritrashtra evil? 70 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:05,160 His powerful arms cannot carry his sons' corpses. 71 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,040 Had you not strayed from the path of religion.. 72 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,920 ..you would not be mourning for your sons. 73 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,960 In this crucial moment of test you proved to be.. 74 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,440 Brother, you've only proved yourself as a father. 75 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:26,920 Only as a father. 76 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,840 That is your misfortune and Hastinapur's. 77 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,720 Your ambition and filial love.. 78 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,520 ..drove out religion from your court. 79 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:48,640 My brother. 80 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,360 Religion does not mean dividing the kingdom. 81 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,160 But you did exactly that! 82 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,800 Religion does not mean raising walls between hearts. 83 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,000 But you did exactly that! 84 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:15,040 Religion means breaking down walls between hearts. 85 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,000 But you did not do that! 86 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,840 Surrendering to temptation is not religion. 87 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:27,880 My brother. 88 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,280 For you, religion is a bitter truth. 89 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,640 Accept it! Welcome it! 90 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:47,760 You still haven't lost everything.. 91 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,240 O Devotee of bitter words! 92 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:16,840 What is left but the corpses of my loved ones? 93 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,240 You still have your soul. 94 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,920 And God reigns supreme in your soul. 95 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,640 Try to save both of them! 96 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,840 Stand at some crossroad of Hastinapur and scream! 97 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:41,080 O Hastinapur! Forgive me! 98 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:43,120 Forgive me! 99 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,880 Should I ask forgiveness of that Hastinapur.. 100 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,840 ..which did not even mourn with me.. 101 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,320 ..when I lost a hundred sons. 102 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,960 Why should it? You should have mourned for it. 103 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,240 You lost a hundred sons.. 104 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,160 ..but Hastinapur sacrificed innumerable sons. 105 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,200 But the warriors you claim to be your sons.. 106 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,040 ..are also Hastinapur's sons! 107 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,720 They are also Hastinapur's sons! 108 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,880 Will religion take away even my son? 109 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,120 Will it not leave me the right to cry over my sons? 110 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,240 Why not? 111 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,360 But religion is like the river. 112 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,560 ..in that fields, nearby land.. 113 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:59,640 ..and residents which gives water to all.. 114 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,520 ..but none can claim to own it! 115 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,200 It is a father's duty to love his sons.. 116 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,040 ..but religion does not have a family. 117 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,480 You did not think of that! 118 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,280 You placed the flame of ambition in his hand.. 119 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:31,120 ..and told him it was the moon. 120 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Why would he not believe his beloved father? 121 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:39,920 My brother.. 122 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,600 You placed one flame after another.. 123 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,200 ..till his whole hand caught fire. 124 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,080 It was this fire which destroyed him. 125 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,480 My brother.. 126 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:03,400 ..it was your ambition which dragged him to Kurukshetra. 127 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,840 Therefore, my brother.. 128 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:15,440 ..History will hold you responsible for this war. 129 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,640 You are the past.. 130 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:26,920 ..which tried to stop the future with a wall of your sons, corpses. 131 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,960 You speak the bitter truth as usual.. 132 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,200 ..but why does your voice seem moist with tears? 133 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:51,960 My voice seems moist with tears.. 134 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,600 ..because I am crying. 135 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,680 Because I am crying. 136 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,600 Will you listen to a request? 137 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,960 Yes, my brother.. 138 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,840 ..because there is none left by my side. 139 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:20,760 What do you want? 140 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,320 The victorious Pandavas have entered Hastinapur. 141 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,760 They'll come to pay respects. 142 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,840 After you bless them, let's leave for forest. 143 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:50,160 Hastinapur seems to be.. 144 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,320 ..a forest of crying eyes 145 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,240 You are Hastinapur's past. 146 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:07,080 It is your duty to welcome the present.. 147 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:16,000 ..and then lose yourself in the darkness of time. 148 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,400 Therefore, try to forget your unhappiness. 149 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,960 Queen Gandhari and Queen Kunti.. 150 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,920 ..have decided to leave Hastinapur with you. 151 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:43,040 I cannot face them, Vidhur! 152 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,720 I cannot face them, Vidhur! 153 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,680 Face them you must for that is your salvation. 154 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,560 That is your punishment and your repentance. 155 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:05,520 They are two mothers.. 156 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:10,360 ..who stood at either end of Kurukshetra.. 157 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,000 ..with the corpse of their fate. 158 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,760 When you are with them you'll realise.. 159 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:29,840 ..what you did to Hastinapur which was once dear to you. 160 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:39,520 Your being with them will make you realise.. 161 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,640 ..the price Hastinapur paid for your ambitions. 162 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,920 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 163 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,520 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 164 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,920 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 165 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,640 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 166 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,720 Wipe away your tears.. 167 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,400 ..and welcome your victorious sons like a warrior. 168 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,960 Yes, brother. 169 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,720 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 170 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,080 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 171 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:23,480 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 172 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,880 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 173 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,280 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 174 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,880 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 175 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,360 Long live Emperor Yudhishthir! 176 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:32,640 Welcome to this unhappy palace of tears.. 177 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,120 ..Emperor Yudhishthir. 178 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,080 Won't let us pay our respects? 179 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,360 First pay your respects to elder father. 180 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,400 I won't run away! 181 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,200 Welcome, Krishna. 182 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,600 How are you, Mahatma Vidhur? 183 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,120 This question has no meaning in today's Hastinapur. 184 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,240 But you have asked this question. 185 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,240 Maybe it is I who is mistaken for.. 186 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,400 ..you'll never ask a meaningless question. 187 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:16,160 I don't know how I am! 188 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:22,040 My heart is a palace of mourning.. 189 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:25,320 ..where there are no mourners. 190 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:33,760 I think you should be the first to meet elder brother. 191 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,000 As you wish! 192 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,880 Come! Come! 193 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,640 Come one at a time so that I can recognise you. 194 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,680 Krishna! 195 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,920 This broken man welcomes you, O Krishna! 196 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,280 Krishna pays his respects to the king of Hastinapur. 197 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:04,200 I thought you would first.. 198 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:10,840 ..express sorrow for the death of my sons. 199 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,360 I don't believe in formalities, my king! 200 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,480 Those who died had chosen that path. 201 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,160 Besides, expressing sorrow opens old wounds, O king! 202 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,400 Why do you keep calling me the king? 203 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,840 Don't you know I have been defeated in this war? 204 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,160 Yudhishthir is now the king! 205 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,680 You were right when you said.. 206 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:54,640 ..History will hold me responsible for this war. 207 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,640 It'll hold you responsible because you are responsible. 208 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,320 Don't keep calling me the king. 209 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,440 When I was the king.. 210 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,600 ..Grandsire sat on my left. 211 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,800 Then sage Drona and Sage Kripa. 212 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,000 Duryodhan took his place as the crown prince. 213 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,200 My hundred sons graced the court.. 214 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,280 ..like nectar graces the wine jar. 215 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,400 Even if I am king, it is of a vacuum. 216 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,280 I had every right to the throne, Krishna. 217 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,920 After me, my son Duryodhan was the rightful heir. 218 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:03,040 Like a true warrior, after my defeat in war.. 219 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,560 ..I vacated the throne. 220 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:12,720 But that does not mean.. 221 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,120 ..I have no blessing for Yudhishthir. 222 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,200 My respects, elder father. 223 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:28,920 May you live long! 224 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:31,840 May you be famous! 225 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:42,520 Welcome to your palace, O Emperor 226 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,040 No, elder father! You are still the king. 227 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:56,960 Along with your elder father I am also a warrior, Yudhishthir. 228 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,480 Don't insult me by gifting me an empire. 229 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,000 Call your brothers! 230 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,320 Bheem, Arjun, Nakul and Sahadev. 231 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,840 Bheem, come near me! 232 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,040 Don't touch my feet! 233 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,400 Embrace me! 234 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:15,320 Duryodhan! 235 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,000 O my dear Pandu! 236 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,200 Forgive me, Pandu! 237 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,080 I have killed your son Bheem. 238 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,920 No, O king! 239 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,480 I knew how angry you were. 240 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,200 So, I did not let Bheem come close to you 241 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,080 Is my Bheem still alive? 242 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,560 I am waiting for your blessings, elder father. 243 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:39,840 If you are still angry, I'll embrace you! 244 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:45,160 No, my son! Don't say that! 245 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,360 A father who has lost all his sons.. 246 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,240 ..will not dare lose his younger brother's sons. 247 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,520 May I wipe off the blood from your chest? 248 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,160 May you live long! 249 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,600 May you live long! 250 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,400 My respects, elder father! 251 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,560 May you live long! 252 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,160 May you live long! 253 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,840 May you live long! 254 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,920 May you live long! 255 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,240 May you live long! 256 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,560 Sage. 257 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,480 Greetings, O sage. 258 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,400 May fortune favor you! 259 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:07,120 My luck lies shattered in Kurukshetra, O sage! 260 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,520 It does not befit you to be angry. 261 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,360 You refused to bless your son with victory because.. 262 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,760 ..he was straying from truth. 263 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,080 How can you think of cursing the Pandavas? 264 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:37,960 The Gandhari who refused to bless Duryodhan.. 265 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,960 ..was the queen of Hastinapur. 266 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,840 The Gandhari who thinks of cursing the Pandavas.. 267 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,360 ..is a mother who has.. 268 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:03,720 ..lost a hundred sons in one war. 269 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,080 Wipe your tears with the shrouds of.. 270 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,600 ..Abhimanyu and Draupadi's sons. 271 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,840 Don't try to recognize the corpses.. 272 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,160 ..lying in the battlefield in the war between truth and evil! 273 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,320 Every corpse lying on the battlefield is your own! 274 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:31,040 A holy war should be fought according to a code. 275 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,720 Why am I so unhappy at Dushasan's death? 276 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,840 Bheem should not have drunk his blood! 277 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,240 This is not the time for analysis, Gandhari. 278 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,000 Leave the analysis to History! It is good at it! 279 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,240 History never makes mistakes. 280 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,480 Even if you still want to curse them, do so! 281 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,400 They'll consider it a blessing! 282 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:57,000 "With mothers like these.. the honour of the country grows!" 283 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:03,160 "Blessed is this person." 284 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:09,520 "Blessed is motherhood."